This review is based on our first-ever visit to Tukan Restaurant in early June 2018.
Overall, my wife and I were very happy with our visit and we will go back to dine there again sometime soon.
The venue itself is low-key, but reasonably comfortable and the staff are typically Latino: friendly and engaging.
The food was delicious -- and it tasted very much like home-made cuisine that you would taste if visiting a Latino family.
My wife (who is originally from Central America) had several pupusas (traditional Salvadorian patties made using corn dough stuffed with meat and cheese) served warm. These pupusas were fresh, tasty and made just right -- and they were accompanied by the curtido (pickled cabbage) as well as a spice sauce.
I had the Chile Relleno dish -- which was super-filling. Rice, black-bean paste, salad and a whole large pepper stuffed with minced-meat and covered in a very tasty sauce with cooked vegetables. It was a very satisfying meal and the flavours blended very nicely -- nothing was over-powering and all parts of the dish were equally delicious. If you want, you can add more hot-sauce to any part of your dish.
To drink, we had glasses of cold horchata: the typical beverage which uses ground rice as well as nuts and cinammon as flavour.
If you ignore the fact that this restaurant is located in a rather run-down area of Vanier, you are in for a treat: the prices are very reasonable and the authentic Salvadorian food tastes like it was made at home. We recommend this place and we will be back there for dinner soon.