Pupuseria Irene — Restaurant in Maryland

My husband and I decided to take a chance on eating at Pupuseria Irene’s today because it is super close to where we live. Plus, this was our first time of eating there after having lived in Hyattsville, Maryland for well over 6 years. Anyhow, my husband ordered the steak fajita and I chose a corn tamale, plantains, and a pork and cheese pupusa. My husband was satisfied with his steak fajita. As for me, the corn tamale tasted differently than what I expected and I did not finish it (I should have considered my husband’s suggestion to get the chicken tamale instead). However,the fried plaintains and the pork and cheese pupusa tasted good (the orange reddish sauce that was included with the order...

Placed an order for breakfast and the person who took my order repeat my order back everything was correct but when I picked It up they stated I was Only charged for three item not the four I order because whoever put the order in placed it wrong. They refused to honor their mistake and did not provide me with my fourth item when it was their mistake and not mine. Additional, I don’t frequent their establishment too often because their wait time is usually ridiculous and almost never ready within the pick up time they and servers are usually more rude than not, but I gave them the benefit of a doubt and yet again they failed to be...

We decided to give this pupuseria a try because of its decent reviews, but what we experienced was far from that. To start, consistent with other people have mentioned, it takes a long time to get your food. We waited about 30-40 mins to get a dozen pupusas. Thats too long considering they were not busy when we arrived 20 mins after they opened. Once we got out food there was barely any food inside the pupusas, I could see making a mistake a one or a couple, but most of our order was just dough. Given that there are so many other Salvadoran restaurants in the area, I dont think i’d try this...