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La Pupusa Alegre

MY REVIEW: Food was fair and well served. Service is slow.

NAME: JFK
SUBMITTED: 3/25/2009   LAST VISIT WAS: 03-15-09
FREQUENCY: Visited once

MY REVIEW: I like pupusas always are fresh, they cook when you make the order, I love the other plates like stew meat made with fresh tomatoes and really you enjoy all the food here, the people here is very friendly and you feel like to be with the family.

NAME: maria
SUBMITTED: 11/27/2008   LAST VISIT WAS: 10-20.2008
FREQUENCY: Everybody here knows my name...

MY REVIEW: The restaurant was authentic and i loved the friendly service. The service was slow but it didnt bother me because restaurantes like these are meant to be slow. I am however disappoint with the pupusas becaus they seemed a little dry. Im personally use to eating greasey moist pupusas because it is was makes them tast better. Another thing i did not like about the restuarant was that it did not accept credit cards and there were no signs that warned their customers. So my friend had to walk to the nearest store to get to an ATM machine for cash. Over all i would go back to the restaurant because of the friendy service and their authentic style. Also the the other choices in their menus seemed delish !

NAME: UH
SUBMITTED: 10/13/2008   LAST VISIT WAS: 10/11/08
FREQUENCY: Visited once

MY REVIEW: Best Pupusas in town.

A Pupusa is a thick, hand-made corn tortilla stuffed with different ingredients. Usually cheese, beans or pork. The best ones are pupusa revuelta, which are mixed with cheese and pork. They are not those crappy things Taco C*abana advertised a year or so back.

Back to the review...

2 Pupusas ($1.50 each) will feed 1 person. It comes with curtido (a pickled cabbage relish) and tomato sauce. You spread the sauce and then pile the relish on. People usually eat them with their hands, folded up kind of like a taco.

Also good here is the Fish Stew, Yucca, and the Plantains (comes with black beans and cream). Our usual order is an order of Plantains, Yucca, and Pupusas, so I haven't tried much else. The tea is very fresh.

A family of 4 can eat for under $20 and be very full.

Stop at the ATM because this place only takes cash.

NAME: circa 1979
SUBMITTED: 7/10/2008   LAST VISIT WAS: 7/2008
FREQUENCY: Everybody here knows my name...

MY REVIEW: I would say that this restaraunt is definitely authentic and well worth trying. The food is very good and low priced (about $20 for 2 entrees, 2 appetizers, 2 drinks, and including tax). We tried the pupusas, tamales, and two entrees: chicken cooked with onion and tomato and the shredded beef. Both entrees were excellent and included salad and rice. It was a large portion. The pupusa was excellent and the tamale was good but a little bland - it was different than a Mexican tamale and more like food I have had in Venezuela. The meal also included a big bowl of spicy cole slaw and piping hot tortillas made from corn dough.

The service was friendly, but some may consider it to be slow. This is due to cultural differences and should not be considered bad service. In Latin America meals are casual affairs by people who are unhurried. We also tried the Salvadoran beer and a native drink called "hornata" - both were good. We were only in Houston for a quick visit, but if we lived in Houston, we would frequent this restaraunt.

NAME: New Orleans anthropologist
SUBMITTED: 12/22/2007   LAST VISIT WAS: 12/19/07
FREQUENCY: Visited once

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