Santa Ana Restaurants

In one corner of Parque Libertad I saw an ice-cream café and headed there. At the entrance there were several drunken men though so I continued a bit further along the road and came to El Sin Rival, another ice-cream café. At El Sin Rival they have sorbets in different flavours and they are all homemade with natural ingredients.
For a cup with two flavours I paid 1 dollar (June 2009).

In 1953 señor Emiliano Rivera Landaverde started to sell ice-cream with the flavours blackberry and sweet milk from a street cart. It has now developed into several El Sin Rival ice-cream cafés.

Opening hours are between 10 - 21 on Mondays - Fridays and between 9 - 21 on Saturdays - Sundays.

When I drink coffee I normally only drink black coffee. I don’t like to have milk or other things in my coffee. But since my last visit to Italy I have started to drink cappuccino too. At the café The Coffee Cup in Metrocentro in Santa Ana they have a big variety of cold and hot coffee drinks. I decided to try a cappuccino with vanilla flavour and to my surprise I found it yummy. The smallest size of the drink was 2.80 dollars (June 2009).

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I had brought snacks from Santa Ana for the volcano hike, but if you don’t have enough to eat there is a small place by the parking lot at the National Park where you can buy more. They sell drinks, bisquits, crisps, cakes and food. In the back of the house there is a woman selling pupusas and I bought one before the hike. It was not as good as the ones I had eaten the previous day and it was more expensive, 1 dollar for one pupusa (June 2009), or was it 50 cent.

Coming back from the hike there were quite some time left before the bus came and I started to get hungry. First I bought some more snacks, but then I saw the police men had ordered food so I bought a soup. The soup was good value, it was big, tasted good and was 1 dollar. They also had a chicken meal.

Pupusas are typical El Salvadorian food and it can be bought at food stalls all around the country. They are thick tortillas stuffed with minced pork meat, beans, cheese or vegetables. You tell the sales woman which filling you want and she takes a piece of dough, form the tortilla with the filling and put it on the stove. So it is nice and warm when you get it. With the pupusas a tomato sauce and pickled vegetables are served.

The woman on the photo has a food stall just up the road from Casa Frolaz in Santa Ana. I bought two pupusas, one with pork meat and one with cabbage, and they both tasted very good. I brought them back to Casa Frolaz to eat there and got the tomato sauce and pickled vegetables in small plastic bags. The two pupusas were 0.70 dollars (June 2009).

Metrocentro is a big shopping mall in the south part of the city and as most big shopping malls it has a big food court with many fast food restaurants like McDonald’s, Burger King, KFC, Subway, Pizza Hut and Campo Pollo. I don’t normally like these kind of places but this day I wanted to have a hamburger with fries. I chose to eat at Burger King and had a BBQ Stactic, French fries and a sprite, and it was 3.49 dollars (June 2009).