El Salvador Restaurants

If you have a chance to go to 'A lo Nuestro' restaurant in the Zona Rosa is an excellent place to try varied salvadorean food or excellent creations of the chef inspired by traditional salvadorean ingredients. It's an expensive restaurant, but if you can afford it's really worth it. For pupusas any good 'pupuseria' found anywhere will do the trick.The best pupusas are in pupuseria Abrego, pupuseria El Manguito, pupuseria Tania and pupuseria El Tejano they are all in 'El Pupusodromo de OLOCUILTA' 30 minutes from San Salvador (less if you travel by car but if you want to use the public transportation there is a good service offered by the A1 microbuses take La Hollywood (near the National Palace) that´s a good one and don´t forget to ask about Koky Naves because he is a good guide who can show you the best pupuserias and our beautiful country or just ask for me ). Otherwise many restaurants offer excellent seafood and meat dishes. Oh, if you want taste the best typical dishes in El Salvador go to Olocuilta and ask for the most exquisite exotic food at “JUEGOS EXCLUSIVOS owned by Lito Rivas, an excellent cook” a pool house where you can enjoy food such as Garrobo, Iguana, Cotusa, Turtle´s eggs, Big shrimps, fried red beans, Armadillo, Ceviches (these can either be seafood, conch meat, shrimp, fish, mixed etc. remember that it's raw seafood meat marinated in lemon juice, but they are delicious, tourists like these ceviches a lot) Sopa de mariscada (sea food soup), Sopa de Gallina india (hen soup -broth- with vegetables and generally served with tortillas, very exquisite and a meal in itself and of course beers of different brands with very reasonably prices or you can go to LOS ANTOJITOS a well known place where very delicious mexican food is served but if you're in San Salvador the choices are varied and will depend on you budget, I dare you to compare prices but the most important thing, compare the flavor I bet you´ll never forget Olocuilta. Downtown joints are usually good and cheap just make sure not to eat raw vegetables and always carry your own bottle of water.

Any typical dish in El Salvador will be a good bet. Here are a few names in case you see them on the menu: 1.Gallo en chicha (a type of 'coq au vin') 2.Sopa de frijol negro o rojo (black or red beans soup) 3.Sopa de mariscada (sea food soup) 4.Tamales (several varieties) 5.Ceviches (these can either be seafood, fish, mixed etc. remember that it's raw fish marinated in lime juice) 6. Plato típico (will generally be a grilled steak with rice and beans, fried plantain,papa rellena(a stuffed potato with cheese) avocado and cheese.) 7. Platanos rellenos (plantains stuffed with minced meat, baked and grilled with white cheese and sour cream) 8. Chiles rellenos (stuffed peppers with meat or cheese, very, very good) 9. Sopa de Gallina india (hen soup -broth- with vegetables and generally served with tortillas, very delicious and a meal in itself.) 10. Pan con pavo or pan con chumpe (a turkey sandwich with a delicious ground spice sauce), 11. Nuegados en miel (little fried balls made of cook yucca with honey)12 sopa de patas.
Unique Qualities: Restaurants in La Libertad will offer a wide variety of very fresh seafood and fish. Don't hesitate to try the oysters or the mixed seafood 'coctel', they are very good and at very reasonably price. In addition to the fresh seafood all of these restaurants offer great views of the Pacific Ocean. On the road from La Libertad to the Sunzal beach is the Cafe Sunzal - a very good restaurant ($$$), beautiful settings and wonderful views, you can watch the surfers from this place.

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