Guatemayan Yum Yums — Restaurant in Eureka

On the corner of G and 5th across from Vern's furniture is this yummy place. There are corner and 5th st entrances and the space had a few rooms with mostly table and chairs, but there were a couple of booths in the way back by the large kitchen with glass topped wall to see what's cookin. We ate pupusas and garnachas for the first time ever and enjoyed them. We had horchata and Mex coke, which were great. There were no chips or a salsa bar. An orange sauce came with the pupusas, which are sort of like flat tamales. The large green bottled sauce on the table might have been good when it was opened, but it has a old oxidized taste to me. The jalapeno and cheese pupusas were pretty awesome. Both our plates came with a small pile of pickled slices of jalapenos with onions and carrots, so there was adequate heat provided. I missed eating tortilla chips, but it's not required I suppose. The meat and greens on the garnachas was very good, sort of like little meaty tostada's but not too crispy, so no crackups. A table was set up on the sidewalk for making pupusas on a walkabout, sweet. We will come back to try more...

The food was great, fantastic, excellent flavors. I had pupusas and the Guatemalan fries. Loved the green hot sauce they had at the table, haven't had anything like this stuff before. The vibe of the restaurant was just opened. It felt like things were sort of haphazardly arranged. Random stuff in the corner in front of the door that looks like it should be the primary entrance. It was also a little dirty, not concerningly so, but again it felt like they opened recently and were still cleaning up the place, but they've been open for over a year. I found the menu a little confusing, a lot of things are not described, it just gives you the name of the food, and it's Guatemalan food that I've never heard of before, so I have no clue what it is or if I might like it. I also feel like the layout and overall formatting could use some work. They were also out of coke and pepsi products, and horchata. They also do not have an ADA compliant door handle to the restroom. Overall I think you should eat here, it's great food, I just mention these things in case they are paying attention to reviews...

We loved it We ordered and split a few items and we were very happy with everything we tried. I ordered the Garanchas, I'm not usually one for ordering ground beef as a meat option, but everything was very well seasoned and the portion was generous, we all enjoyed them. We got two tamales, the Chicken Masa and Chuchitos. The Chicken Masa was so fluffy and moist and the Chuchitos was cooked perfectly as well, and for $3.50, you can't beat it. Then we got a plate of three papusas, one of our favorite foods. We got cheese and jalapenos, pork and cheese, and a plain bean papusa. They were cooked nice and crispy on the outside, not too doughy, not too greasy, perfect masa to filling ratio and the curtido was fresh and crisp with the perfect amount of oregano (a lot 😁). We ordered some tres leches to-go, so I'm not sure how it tastes, but it looks beautiful, topped with a strawberry drizzle 🤤 I would definitely recommend stopping in and giving it a try whether you're familiar with Latin American...