La Guanaquita Tienda y Restaurante

I absolutely love this place and often drive across town with coworkers just to get it for lunch. Sopes, pupusas, platanos are a must. Pair it with a coke in a bottle, perfection! I don’t love beans, but everyone I go with says they’re great.
This is not a Mexican restaurant. There are no unlimited chips and salsa or queso or margaritas or giant fountain drinks, but if you want to step outside your American comfort zone, you won’t be disappointed.
$ 10 minimum on a credit card (sometimes a problem because your meal won’t cost you $ 10). The place isn’t the cleanest, and service is usually very slow. Come with good company and watch the telenovelas and you won’t mind the wait. You can order ahead and take it to go in a pinch. English is a second language here :)

Tried the pupusa here. A chicken, chorizo, and a steak. They were bland and very oily, but cheap. I was disappointed.
The flan tasted off, not sure, we didn’t finish it.
Tried the sope, I had never tasted one before today. We had the chicken and also a steak. They were pretty good, and they reheated well.
We tried all the tacos. The chicken meat has no seasoning, the chorizo was excellent, the al Pastor (seasoned steak) was great also.
We dined in. The service was terrible-​we were there after 1 on Black Friday after our flight and there were only 2 other tables in the dining room who already had food in their tables.
When we checked out, they added $ 0.50 to all our tacos and pupusas-​from the listed menu prices. The meal was okay, and I probably would no go there again until I try other Salvadorian restaurants.

The pupusas are great and very cheap, the revueltas are only $ 1.50 each, so if you’re like me and can eat only two and drink ice water, there’s a $ 3 lunch right there! I go here a lot because it’s cheap and I like pupusas. When I’ve gotten the guacamole it has been good too. The pupusas de chorizo are also yummy. They have lots of other options as well, but I always stick with the pupusas. My only complaint would be that many times when I ask the server for something such as extra water, curtido, etc., they forget so I have to track another one down to get it.

My boyfriend is from El Salvador and is completely obsessed with pupusas. La Guanaquita ties him over until his mother makes them again. We love all the varieties of pupusas they offer, make sure to top it with the salsa and curtido that comes with it. Pace yourself! Two pupusas for me and three pupusas for him are juuuuuust right. Yum!
Food: ⁵⁄₅ — we only vouch for las pupusas!
Location: ³⁄₅
Service: ¹⁄₅ — Horrible! For the food alone my rating would be so much higher but the service is completely awful so order it to gooo! Pupusas can be easily reheated on a comal/​griddle/​stove top and actually make them more amazing.

Love this place! They have great pupusas and the plantains with beans & cream are out of this world. I go to this restaurant several times a month. The nice thing about this restaurant is that it has a mix of El Salvadorian and Mexican cuisine. I haven taken several friends there and they all have enjoyed the food they ordered.

Man, it was good to finally find La Guanaquita’s new location last weekend! I’d been a long-​time fan of their 3107 Lafayette Rd location (now occupied by the equally delicious Guatelinda), and I kept hearing about a new LG spot on 38^th Street, but never could find it. The sign is rather small and the new building doesn’t look so much like a restaurant on the outside. Of course, 38^th is a busy street, so it would be easy to miss. All was restored when my wife and I walked in and sat down to another long awaited El Salvadorean meal. In my opinion, they make the best pupusas and sopes in town. Okay, so I initially ordered platana frita (fried plantains and refried beans) and a sope de lengua (sope with beef tongue), two of my favorites. But, hearing my wife talk about pupusas made me want one, too. So, I added that. Same old story. Each item was plentiful in size and bursting with flavor. Sure, my eyes are always bigger than my stomach at this place, but with so much good food there, I find it hard to say no to my usual overindulgence. So, I left, once again, a very gutbustingly happy boy, having been served delicious comfort food by a smiling, friendly waitress who kindly tolerated my ordering in broken Spanish.

Me gustó, las pupusas son bastante parecidas a las salvadoreñas, tal vez al curtido le falta un poco para ser bueno, pero eso es difícil de hacer acá, por el vinagre.

¡Encontré un otro pupusaria!
A mi me gusta muchissimo.
Las pupusas estan muy bien, y el taco chorizzo esta tambien. ¿La flan? Mas o menos. Un poquito ‘slimy’. Pero, me hace feliz saber que Indianapolis teine unas pupusarias muy buenas.
El restaurant tiene tambien una tienda con muchas cosas salvadoreñas y mexicanas, incluso especias.
And of course, it still remains the case that, if you don’t know what a pupusa is, tu eres probablemente un ermitaño.