El Granito de Oro — Restaurant in Virginia

This place is literally and figuratively a "hole-in-the-wall" gem of a restaurant.

First, let me set the scene.

It's 7am, my mom and I just got off the plane and we really want some soup. Almost every place we wanted to go was closed as it was still early. When I looked up "soup" on Google maps, El Granito de Oro was open and super close. So we went.

Initially, we weren't sure they were open because when we walked in, we didn't see anyone. But I could hear a constant "pat, pat" sound coming from the kitchen. Low and behold, a lady was in the back, making fresh, handmade tortillas! She didn't even have the handpress some of my friends' moms used. Nope! She was doing it all by hand.

We initially had trouble ordering due to the language barrier, but we were able to order 2 soups: chicken and beef (short rib).

Both soups came with 2 tortillas. The chicken came on the side rather than in the soup. We thoroughly enjoyed this breakfast. While it wasn't anything fancy, the portions were large and it was delicious. Just like you would expect at...

As a first time customer, I preordered and showed up to pick my order. I ordered the cheese and bean/cheese pupusas. They were a good size for the price. I like a little char on them but not burned with a little cheese falling out, delish.

If you are looking for perfect round pupusas that are more corn than filling this is not your place. You are better off going down the street to Anita’s, where there’s no flavor.

The lady here cooks all by hand. I also ordered the empanadas de platano and they were larger than what I have been getting at other restaurants. I got two steak tacos to try my luck and didnt get any salsa to go with it so I used the pupusas salsa. Thus the 4/5 star review. I will be returning and looking forward to...

Very good food. Call ahead of time and your order will be ready once you arrive.

I am only giving 3 stars because they are on GrubHub and their menu on GrubHub is very limited to like 3 or 4 items. Also when I ordered from GrubHub my order was completely messed up. I spent $50 and ended up getting completely wrong meals that probably cost $25 in total. The GrubHub driver told me he knew my order was wrong but the ladies at the resturant didn't understand a word be was saying and probably don't know how GrubHub operates. I suggest you remove your restaurant from GrubHub if you don't know...