Sarita's Pupuseria ★ 4.7
Sarita's Pupuseria inside Grand Central Market, Los Angeles griddles Salvadoran pupusas to order from the same family-run counter since 2003. Cash and card.
OrderSalvadoran pupusa with curtido
A thick masa cake stuffed with cheese, beans or chicharron, griddled until crisp, eaten with curtido and tomato salsa. LA holds the largest Salvadoran community in the US.
The Salvadoran pupusa is a thick masa cake (pupusa) stuffed before griddling with cheese, refried beans, chicharron (ground pork) or loroco flower, served with pickled cabbage (curtido) and a thin tomato salsa. Los Angeles is home to the largest Salvadoran population outside El Salvador, concentrated along Pico and Vermont in Westlake and Pico-Union, where Salvadoran women started selling pupusas from kitchens and storefronts in the 1980s during the civil war diaspora. Sarita's Pupuseria inside Mercado La Paloma has been making them since 2003 and remains the city benchmark.
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