La Champita Restaurant & Bar — Restaurant in South Gate

La Champita is an example of what salvadorian cuisine should be in the United States. Recipes follow the original salvadorian recipes, no twist nor straying away as other salvadorian restaurants. What is most astonishing about this place is the quality of the dollar menu pupusas, the exquisite of such meal at such a budget friendly value makes this restaurant excell. Pupusas originally aren't meant to be over 4 inches in diameter, the appeal to the Mexican population to oversized pupusas over the years has made pupusas a high value item around 2.50 for a single greasy pupusa. However, this restaurant unique value friendly pupusa at 1 dollar each follows the salvadorian standard of pupusas that aren't oversized like such places like olocuilta( home of pupusas) and local pupuserias across the salvadorian nation. However the only downsides of this restaurant is how the carryout meals are prepared, aluminum foil covering a plastic plate. This place has potential to serve better carry out boxes but it feels as if they are trying to spend less but in reality being more inefficient and unprofessional. Rate guide. Follows Salvadorian cuisine standards: 4.8/5 Place ambience 3.9/5 Quality of foods 4/5 Carryout service 3/5 Delivery: N/A Cleanliness: 4.5/5 Location: 3/5 Telephone orders 3/5

Certainly there's things to improve in customer service and carryout as well as ambience, however the meals itself are astonishing and at a higher level of quality than any local competitors over...

Poor customer service and food. You are better off eating somewhere else than here. The food is bland and overpriced. Customer service even worse. How did they serve a tamal 10 minutes after serving all the other plates including other tables who got there after us. How? We then asked the lady and she said sorry I didn't see it, where our waiter the blonde one was just walking around after she said give the tamale a minute. 10 minutes and nothing? How? We ordered the chicken nuggets with French fries for the kids, disgusting. Pan with pollo bland. A disgrace to Central American food.

We brought this to the manager the one with the glasses, and he didn't seem to care. Don't come here. Never...

This place is nice and cozy, Service is good too, food is so so. I ordered a combo plate with a Pupusa, casamiento and fried plantains, Pupusas are alright and really small (for $3 they are small to me), casamiento I argued with the waitress that the casamiento had marriage problems because it was more rice than beans, I would call it arroz pinto. I had to order something else from the menu to get full, my wife ordered gallina asada, and the gallina had a lot of uncooked mustard which over power the flavor, the rice was really overcooked that almost looked like a rice cake....