Reina's Restaurant — Restaurant in San Francisco

Salpicón is a well-known dish with many Latin American origins like Spanish language itself spoken with their own distinctive accents as well as vocabularies by Mexicans, Columbians, Salvadorans, Guatemalans, Nicaraguans, Hondurans and even Brazilians (você fala brasileiro o portugues 😊) Salvadoreño Salpicón is a dish served cold, with finely chopped beef seasoned with pepper and salt, warm rice, frijoles, salad of lettuce, tomato, cucumber and carrot (or rábano) with handmade tortillas de maíz gruesas y a mano (my favorite 😊). After comparing several locations in the City including popular Balompié Café I am strongly recommending Reina's Restaurant located in Croker Amazon neighborhood (on Mission across street from McDonald's) that was actually referred by an acquaintance who is native of El Salvador in his 70s (“El Carlito Guapo”) whom I met at the famous Stones YMCA. Enjoy it! PS I was there for lunch again last Sunday afternoon the place which is rather small was packed with guests. Having waited more than one hour and a half my food finally came very last after even people who came in after I placed my order not sure because I’m not a regular or look Asian. More importantly, the familiar chopping sounds resembling Chinese cooking method faded out after a few rounds. Nowadays everything seems to be “un tiro al aire”…Try to...

The pupusas are very well served, great size and with plenty of filling. The curtido which is the "salad" that you put on top was very tasty and the salsa as well.

I am giving 4 stars because I have had pupusas elsewhere in the city with have a a better flavor all around, for the same price, but they are open on Wednesday and the rest of the week, which my other go to pupuserias are not.

We didn't try anything else in the menu, but I saw a couple of other people's plates and they looked very well served and tasty.

On a side note they do bring you chips and salsa, which I thought was quite nice! (Just beware as the food itself is...

Absolutely phenomenal food! We ordered camarones a la diabla, pupusas both zucchini and mixed (fried pork, beans, and cheese), and fried potatoes. The dishes came with rice, beans, and coleslaw as well.

EVERYTHING TASTED EXCEPTIONAL, it's ridiculous!! You can tell the chef has really high standard and pays excellent attention to details in balancing the flavors, because they really take the dishes to the next level. On top of that, the portion is super generous.

We were constantly amazed while devouring everything. We're planning to visit again soon. Thank you for the incredible feast, we're truly blessed to experience...