Antojitos Emanuel — Restaurant in Ridgeland

First time here so we wanted to try a little bit of everything. We asked the lady at the front, and she recommended the beef tamale from Guatemala, beef and cheese pupusas from El Salvador, ground beef enchilada and tripe soup from Honduras.... so I ordered one of each 😅

I've had pupusas before, but the ones I've had were slightly more doughy, kind of like a thicker flour tortilla dough. This one tasted like it was pressed with corn masa. Filling was delicious, nicely seasoned ground beef and onions, the cheese oozed out of the side pockets, so it was slightly burnt fried cheese, so good!! 😆

Tamale was twice the size of any tamale I've ever had, and super meaty. There were chunks of slow cooked beef stuffed into a light corn masa. It was bone-in beef, which I didn't expect, but a nice surprise, beef came right off, that's how tender it was. I'm used to tamales with less meat, and mostly masa, which I'm also not complaining about, if the masa is good, I can go with less filling.

I love my tripe, and menudo, so of course I had to get this soup! Very flavorful, and once I added the spicy salsa, it was even better! Their soup came with house made corn tortillas, and Spanish rice. I also really enjoyed the chunks of tripe, cassava, potato, Corn, plantains, and cabbage in the soup.

First time having Honduran enchiladas, it's quite different than what I'm used to. Flavors were great, but I highly recommend eating this there, as it doesn't carry well due to it getting soggy.

There were many firsts for me tonight with dishes that I was familiar with, but from different regions, and I absolutely enjoyed trying them! Yall they also have molé which I haven't found here, so I'm excited to come back and try. The lady was very knowledgeable, and the staff was awesome and friendly. Place is also spacious, and would be good...

I don't know what to say it was a wonderful experience. Not that I enjoyed everything but that I got to taste new and exciting flavorful food that stuck to its original intent. As a former chef I must say we bastardize food too much for American taste when it's an ethnic cuisine. They do not and I am happy BRAVO! Also the service was exemplary. The food was beautifully prepared it's good simple flavorful fantastic food. The pupusas was so light but packed with flavor. The chuchitos tamale someone like tamales here but so wonderful it was dense but if one of our tamales had that much masa inside of it it would have been doughy and not to my liking it all but this was wonderful and flavorful and lots of taste. Kudos to this restaurant it is a welcome addition to the Metro Jackson scene and I will be...

OMG!! THIS PLACE IS freaking awesome so good I order two entrée and I ate both of them whole lol. Love the Christian music playing and happy atmosphere. The waiters are very helpful at explaining the menu. The fried chicken Honduras style 😍 wow 👌. So if you are wondering if this place is good I lie not. It's great the different juices and specialty drinks where amazing I mean it. I write a lot of reviews on restaurants all over the world and jackson and everywhere I know good food. This is better than good that's why they have a 4.9. The person that gave them less than a 5 are not important lol. Please...