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| - So on the advice of Michelle's review, my friend Brian (my lunchtime buddy) and I ventured over here for lunch the other day. I won't go into too much detail, but I will say that it was good. Not amazing, but good. However, I have never had El Salvadorian food before, so maybe I needed to be broken in.
I started with the mango iced tea which tasted a little like dirt, not horrible, but had a dirt flavor to it if that makes any sense. I saw the guys next to me get these bright neon yellow drinks with chunks floating in them and decided I must try it. It turned out it was the ensalada drink, which I thought meant "salad" but maybe that's my American translation. Apparently it means "delicious fruit salad" drink. I ate the chunks out of it, trying to figure out what each one was. I was thinking it was something exotic, so I made Bri try it, turns out it was apple. Oops. So it has apple, pineapple and carrot chunks, maybe not exotic, but still delicious.
The little shooter of soup is good. Its like a chicken noodle without the noodle with potatoes thrown in for good measure. I got the appetizer combo that Michelle got, it was plenty of food for a meal. I don't know what was what, but I like the flat tortilla looking thing with the cheese the best...it was either a pupusa or a posteles, but it was good! The tamale was different than the typical, it was not wrapped in a corn husk but what looked like a palm frond, but I could be wrong. Heck, I couldn't even identify an apple that day! It also had shredded chicken, potatoes and carrots in it. Very tasty. They also serve this soupy tomatoey salsa that is very mild. That, combined with the slaw they serve as a garnish really adds some taste to most of the items. They also give you 1 "tortilla" per person. Its their version of a tortilla, but much different than the Mexican version. This is much smaller, and thicker, almost like a pita, gordita or fry bread. My friend got some sort of chicken dish with a large amount of what looked like sour cream underneath it. Unfortunately for him, he hates sour cream, but some rearranging of the plate and some dousing in tomatoey salsa and he was good to go.
I tried to order the "quesadilla" dessert thing that Michelle mentioned because I truly wanted to know what the bastard child of cheesecake and cake would taste like, plus the name was intriguing...but they were out. They were also out of their carne asada, which looked good. Other people had some.
It was busy when we were there, but the service was good and everyone was really friendly. There was even a very large table of about 15 people in there celebrating a birthday and everyone (OK, well me and my friend and the servers) sang to them.
I think I want to go back now and try the chile relleno and some more of the "tortilla" wrapped cheesy meaty deliciousness.
UPDATE -
I wonder if that's a record for an update (10 minutes)!
I just noticed in the beginning I said I won't go into too much detail, then proceeded to go into perfect detail. I guess its impossible for me not to be long-winded. Oh well...you finished reading, now do you feel like you wasted 5 minutes of your life? :)
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