Restaurant Week

[thirsty moore]

There's a good Salvadorean restaurant out in Wheaton called Los Chorros.  
 
 

Originally posted by brennser:
  speaking of restaurants, anyone been to El Tamarindo lately? Its been a few years since I been and was wondering if the grub and margaritas are still good

[Barcelona]

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
  I know I'll probably take shit for being negative, but I was recently part of a party of four who dined there. I thought it was mediocre, and my review was probably the most generous. But I tend to think that most East Coast Mexican/Salvodorean joints are pretty average. We tend to make tastier Mexican at home.
 
   

Originally posted by brennser:
  speaking of restaurants, anyone been to El Tamarindo lately? Its been a few years since I been and was wondering if the grub and margaritas are still good

[/b]

You are right. I have been a lot of times in El Salvador over the last three years and the food there can be great, especially in small towns. Speaking of restaurant and cooking style, I think things tend to get pretty bad when they get into the US. I think it is more related to what the american public demands. A little bit also due to the fresh products you eat there compared to the frozen stuff they give you here.

[lily1]

skip the place brennser...and skip lauriol plaza too....
 
 lauriol plaza must be one of the most overrated places in the city...
 
 

Originally posted by brennser:
  speaking of restaurants, anyone been to El Tamarindo lately? Its been a few years since I been and was wondering if the grub and margaritas are still good

[lily1]

and if you're craving pupusas (the unofficial, or perhaps, official dish of el salvador), irene's pupusas, also in wheaton is the place to go. no other place makes better pupusas. and they are $1.50 each.
 
 
 

Originally posted by thirsty moore:
  There's a good Salvadorean restaurant out in Wheaton called Los Chorros.  
 

[Bags]

re: Lauriol.  Except for their entree salads, which are truly amazing and huge.  But I would never, never wait in line to get into the place.
 
 I"m still a Rio Grande girl.  But I don't know about Salvadorean....there was this amazing place out on Glebe near the corner of Glebe and - Fairfax?  Near the car dealerships.  A hole in the wall that you wouldn't normally notice -- not in a whole strip mall, but just a couple stores.  I'll have to ask my ex.  Oh yeah, that's right, we don't talk anymore.

[lily1]

i'm with you bags, rio grande has the best fajitas in the entire metropolitan area.

[Barcelona]

Originally posted by lily1:
  and if you're craving pupusas (the unofficial, or perhaps, official dish of el salvador), irene's pupusas, also in wheaton is the place to go. no other place makes better pupusas. and they are $1.50 each.
 
 
   

Originally posted by thirsty moore:
  There's a good Salvadorean restaurant out in Wheaton called Los Chorros.  
 

[/b]

Pupusas, that's the official dish. Actually, El Salvador and Honduras are now fighting over the geographical origin of pupusas. Both countries want the recognition as the pupusa maker in order to export them to the US once all or most of Central American countries sign de Central American Free Trade Agreement with the US.

[ggw]

Speaking of Central American food, does anyone know what's up with this Pollo Campero place on Columbia Pike in South Arlington?
 
 It looks like a fast-food joint and it's been open a couple of months, but the crowds are f#cking insane.  Whenever I have driven by, there have literally been lines out the door and around the parking lot.  They have barricades to keep the lines in formation.  We're talking hundreds of people.

[Barcelona]

Originally posted by ggw™:
  Speaking of Central American food, does anyone know what's up with this Pollo Campero place on Columbia Pike in South Arlington?
 
 It looks like a fast-food joint and it's been open a couple of months, but the crowds are f#cking insane.  Whenever I have driven by, there have literally been lines out the door and around the parking lot.  They have barricades to keep the lines in formation.  We're talking hundreds of people.

Pollo Campero, if you ever fly from San Salvador to the US, your chances that the plane smells to chicken are high. All Salvadoreans that come to the US always bring the Pollo Campero box with fried chicken on it. It is the Fast Food chain there. I am not sure if it is Salvadorean or Guatemalan, but I tell you, it is a big thing in El Salvador and it looks like it is a great  present they can bring to Salvadoreans in the US to feel like at home. Very interesting country, not the country you would visit as a touristic place, but people are great. Great place.

[thirsty moore]

I have heard that because men cook the food in latin american restaurants in the US, that the food isn't as good.
 
 I don't know if that's true though.

[Jaguär]

Originally posted by thirsty moore:
  I have heard that because men cook the food in latin american restaurants in the US, that the food isn't as good.
 
 I don't know if that's true though.

That sounds like bullshit. Aren't most of the best chefs men?

[thirsty moore]

I'm not talking about Chez Antoine's.  I'm talking about a normal restaurant.
 
 

Originally posted by Jaguär:
 That sounds like bullshit. Aren't most of the best chefs men?

[markie]

There is a pollo campero in adams morgan, across from the safeway. Its been open a couple of months. I normally get my chicken at Granja..... its not fried.
 
 And I love lauriol plaza. I dont like waiting in line to get in, but I try and go at odd times or when the weather is iffy, then I get straight in. They have the best sloppy salsa and chips in the whole of DC.

[ratioci nation]

Originally posted by mark e smith:
  There is a pollo campero in adams morgan, across from the safeway. Its been open a couple of months. I normally get my chicken at Granja..... its not fried.
 

that one does not seem very busy, or maybe I just have not noticed, the last place there died a quick death

[poorlulu]

Originally posted by pollard:
   

Originally posted by mark e smith:
  There is a pollo campero in adams morgan, across from the safeway. Its been open a couple of months. I normally get my chicken at Granja..... its not fried.
 

that one does not seem very busy, or maybe I just have not noticed, the last place there died a quick death [/b]

no you just haven't noticed...................it is usually extremely busy........