Cristo Rey Bakery

Two of us met for Sunday breakfast. Fresh, hot coffee and a pastry for one of us. I asked for more leche with my coffee Abuelita and was served a small pot of warmed milk. Nice touch. Homemade flour tortillas surrounded my unseasoned scrambled eggs and diced vegetable. So appreciated that I could season to taste my breakfast tacos with their mildly spicy green salsa and black pepper. Inviting pastry display cases brimming with wide variety of homemade goodies. Clean and simple restaurant. Lots of business through their bakery during the hour and half we spent sipping, eating, and talking. Very courteous staff!

They seemed somewhat bewildered by two gringos coming in for late breakfast on a weekday! Excellent coffee and outstanding breakfast tacos-​huevo con chorizo.

My parents live in the area and my mother and I were walking around and this little place caught my eye. I wanted to go check it out and see if they have any fresh baked goods. There is plenty of parking around, and is located right off of a major road (NASA Rd. 1). You can tell the majority of the clientele are hispanic and everyone speaks Spanish, but also pretty good English. There are 2 sections of the restaurant: the bakery side and the tables/tv’s side.
We started picking out delicious looking pastries, turnovers, and cookies with different fillings of pineapple, cherry, strawberry, and more. Then I looked over and saw 3 different juice machines and noticed the famous Horchata. Horchata is a popular drink in Mexico and most of the Central American countries. It is typically made from rice or almonds, but this being an El Salvadorian restaurant/​bakery, it was probably made from morro seeds. It is always served cold, and anyone who doesn’t know what it tastes like, the best way I can describe it is if you have eaten Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal, it tastes like the milk that you drink up after the cereal. Then the very nice lady mentions pupusas. OMG I love pupusas, the classic El Salvadorian food. They are like little gorditas or pancakes, that are usually stuffed with cheeses, beans, shredded pork or chicken, sometimes rice, and/​or vegetables. We definitely got 2 each, and each one is $ 1.90. She brought them out to us and gave us homemade cabbage and homemade mild salsa to eat with them. The lady then talked to us for a little bit and she told us that they have breakfast and lunch everyday there, and they just don’t have a sign up yet out front saying so. One breakfast item she mentioned she takes a flour tortilla and brushes it with cream and puts eggs, beans, fajita meat, and sprinkles cheese on top. She also mentioned she makes good tilapia and fresh fish soups, pork chops, and other homemade items. Apparently on Fridays and Saturdays her most popular item is her chicken soup with vegetables in it. She gets the chicken fresh from the farm, and not frozen from the store! She gave me her business card and said a lot of people can just call in and order pupusas to go if you want to.
We were given the remote and got to watch our shows on their big flat screen tv’s. The tables and eating area were very clean, and you really do feel like you are on vacation in a different country. Everything is fresh, the people are extremely nice, and we will be back soon!