Authentic Salvadorian cuisine…read more Service and atmosphere: The staff were all nice and friendly. They advised us on the food selection and let us sample a soup before we committed to order full portion. The restaurant was clean. Food and drinks: Tradicional cooking methods and flavours in every dish. Good selection of pupusas with various fillings. The pupusas were well cooke, not greasy and evenly filled with cheese. The yucca was fried perfectly, crispy on the outside and soft inside. The soup with tripe was flavoursome and hearty. Ensalada drink was really good too. You can also buy here ready made sweets, cheeses and bottled drinks. Pricing: $$ - definitely worth trying.

Waited over 45 minutes for 4 pupusas whenever they said it would be ready in 15-20 minutes, front…read moredesk lady got an attitude over me asking for my order and proceeded to ignore me

This restaurant is an absolute standout! I tried a variety of pupusas--cheese, cheese and beans,…read moreand chicharrón with cheese--and every single one was cooked to perfection. The flavors were rich and authentic, with just the right balance of crispiness and melt-in-your-mouth goodness. Not only was the food fantastic, but it was also priced very reasonably, making it an incredible value. But what really sets this place apart is the excellent hospitality. The owner took the time to personally greet us and share the inspiring story of how he started the restaurant. It's clear he has a true passion for both food and people, and it made the dining experience that much more special. From the warm welcome to the great food, this place has it all. 10/10, I'll definitely be back whenever I'm in the Pasadena area. Highly recommend to anyone looking for authentic pupusas and a genuinely great dining experience! ¡Este restaurante es absolutamente destacado! Probé una variedad de pupusas (queso, queso y frijoles, y chicharrón con queso) y todas estaban cocinadas a la perfección. Los sabores eran ricos y auténticos, con el equilibrio justo entre lo crujiente y lo delicioso que se derrite en la boca. No solo la comida era fantástica, sino que también tenía un precio muy razonable, lo que la convertía en una relación calidad-precio increíble. Pero lo que realmente distingue a este lugar es la excelente hospitalidad. El propietario se tomó el tiempo para saludarnos personalmente y compartir la inspiradora historia de cómo fundó el restaurante. Está claro que tiene una verdadera pasión tanto por la comida como por las personas, y eso hizo que la experiencia gastronómica fuera mucho más especial. Desde la cálida bienvenida hasta la excelente comida, este lugar lo tiene todo. 10/10, definitivamente regresaré cada vez que esté en el área de Pasadena. ¡Lo recomiendo encarecidamente a cualquiera que busque pupusas auténticas y una experiencia gastronómica realmente excelente!

Pupusas was the best I've ever had. Street tacos were good. Chips and salsa was fresh. The horchata…read morewas the freshest. Owner is a lovely lady. Small quaint little place. Definitely recommend

Food is awesome. Authentic Salvadorian cuisine. The employees are friendly and polite. They have…read morefresh frescos. Had a good overall experience there. I will definitely go back.

Food was ok but menu pricing does not match what they charge you for it's been twice that I have…read moregone for a breakfast plate and a Coke and the waitress claims that the menu is not updated but yet they keep using them. Check what they are charging you before paying.

¡Hola! from Mexican heaven in Houston! You walk in and everyone speaks Spanish inside! Nothing but…read moreuna telenovela and fútbol are playing on the television overhead! You get brought out free chips with...beans and cheese? Whoopsie, you don't need to tell it to Toto, but we're not in Mexico anymore! The flags adorning the inside of Baleadas Express span the entirety of Central and even South America, the primary clue that this is "somewhere over the rainbow" south of Mexico. Indeed, the title "baleadas" should suffice as a clue that you have walked into a slice of Honduras, a "Chiquita" country that in many Americans' minds has "gone bananas!" However, Honduran food undoubtedly does not "monkey around," as its bang for the buck can arguably beat any Mexican joint in the area, leaving me shockingly stuffed and fed not just in body, but mind and soul. I now always walk into a Latin restaurant speaking some degree of Spanish, and as typically, I continued to push unabated through responses in English until the waitress pointed out the menu was also printed in English, and so I waved the white flag of "nada más," reluctantly waving it in front of the tempting array of Honduran banana sodas knowing I would be eating a fairly decently sized dinner in a few hours and also that I was an itinerant between work shifts, having decided to drive out to Hong Kong Market thinking it was not far and that this location had banh mi on Tuesdays - and wrong on both counts. We went back and forth about which baleada I should order, eventually settling on the chicken one at $4.50, and thinking from the teensy as a quinceañera dress price that this was an antojito-sized portion, also a plate of pastelitos, with suggestions to get it done muy rapido so I could return to work on time. But in three regards, I found I got far more than I bargained for, as chips with cheese-topped refried beans came as an appetizer, nearly as smooth as a chocolate mousse and richer than any Mexican brand (and she even offered a refill). Then when the baleada came out, voluminous as Selena Gomez's wardrobe and stuffed even more efficiently than your one permitted carry-on suitcase, I realized I was going to have to make like a competitive eater and bite into this mutant Frisbee of beans, chicken, and cheese. It is like the most enormous breakfast taco ever conceived of, and could serve as a full breakfast at that all by itself, the outside's crispness giving way to smoothly textured beans (again) with lightly spiced chicken a true masterwork of the not-so-bastard taco family. Then out came two glistening deep-fried pastelitos, in their Honduran edition basically like empanadas filled with squash and beef picadillo. While the crisp, reddish purple tomato cabbage slaw underpinning the turnovers, lacking the sourness of curtido but tasting fresher and more like a salad, ended up running onto the plate to soggify their bottom edges, the dough was just thick enough to keep the shape sturdy, the meat moist and the squash melting away into a fatty but comforting interior, steam billowing outward like a train engine as each bite is taken but never quite turning my tongue into a flaming candlewick. They are potentially better than the Argentine empanadas I sampled long ago, and most empanadas on menus here for that matter. As I remarked to the waitress serving me with unflappable smiles and kind-hearted care, such food is perfect for taking my mind off the world outside, itself at that moment turning into a telenovela plotline. And appropriately, once I bumped into the limits of her English comprehension, I switched the conversation into Spanish for several minutes so she could freely give me all the womanly advice she had on her mind. A "gracias" and many promises of prayers and gestures of encouragement and goodwill later, I left this unexpected angel with a huge tip and a promise to return, wishing I could stay longer but feeling the cold, hard call of reality beckon and dreading its loom over my day job. But somehow feeling like I'd get through it to the other side, as I have ever since. And showing that quick, chance encounters are sometimes the most precious and meaningful.

Primera ves y realmente estoy muy descontenta con la comida. Compré $37 de comida para 4 personas…read more 3 baleadas grades y un plato de desayuno. la tortillas nose si es porque estaba crudas oh que pero se pegó al papel blanco en que las sirvieron. Compre 3 y así estaban las tres. el plato de tajadas de guineos verdes eran como churros, las tajadas extra tostadas , disque guineo fresco rallado y frito, es la forma en que haces las " tajadas verdes "ahí. Nose podían comer con los frijoles por lo tostadas que estaban. Hice un reclamo pero "dicen que así es como ellos las sirven." Aparte de eso bueno el servicio fue bueno, la mesera muy honesta. El ambiente limpio y de familia por el día. First time here and I was overwhelmed this is not an original hondurean place . I bought $37 worth of food the fed 4 people . The banana was very crispy ,like potato chips, not like the original green bananas to eat with cream . The baleadas were folded like tacos and it stick to the paper they serve it with , which make me think that maybe the flour was not fully cooked . I tried to complain but they said that's how is serve . Services was good prior to the complaint. The ambiance was clean and family oriented during the day.

My sister and my favorite spot. The owner is so sweet as well as all of the waitresses we've had…read more The food is always so fresh and comes out so quick. We have literally never had a bad experience here. I'm very surprised they aren't full all the time.

From the owner: Welcome to Taquería y Refresquería Julio’s! Here you can find the most delicious Mexican and…read moreSalvadoran dishes, we are happy to serve you and make you feel at home.

(I think this entry has the wrong house numbering, but the street is correct - 3902 S Shaver St.)…read more I always like to shop for produce and some Mexican groceries at this "chain" of markets found all around Houston. And while I had barely 15 minutes to spend here before going back to work, I figured I'd try to squeeze in some tacos. First of all, you know it's an authentic Mexican taqueria when each taco is built from TWO corn tortillas, as well as when there is a salsa and condiment bar next to the scale. At $2.19, the tacos are a pretty reasonable price with that in mind, and fortunately also with the quality in mind, as the lengua and barbacoa are meltingly tender and converted me to a tongue aficionado, even if my predominant use of English along with my fundamental Spanish knowledge seemed as if it earned me all the tender, meaty pieces of the tongue rather than the flappy white ends that might very well be more "authentic." As long as it tastes good, I don't really mind. One might be concerned when the tacos are wrapped up in foil and then in a bag, to be paid for at the front register along with groceries (as I also bought a bargain wheel of La Vaquita Queso Fresco for some impending chilaquiles), but they stayed together perfectly fine and didn't leak anywhere. The tables are nothing particularly fancy but, at a taco market, never need to be. The interior is basically a supermarket but much smaller, with plenty of meat selections at the butcher shop that seems to give this place its subtitled name. There is even house-made Salvadoran curtido alongside the bevy of salsas, but unfortunately this batch was on its last legs, to expire within five more days, and looked it too - and thus I wouldn't even dare purchase it. I will be around this area a couple of times a month for work and would absolutely return here for lunch break to try a variety of tasty tacos! Not Yet French says "Une vraie taqueria mexicaine ! Cinq étoiles !"

They are ok with everything else but the taqueria serve you so little for a price of a restaurant…read morereally little portions of rice and beans like come on that's cheap to make and you have to mesure that like ok this is the first time and last one I eat here.