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    Mercadito Latino

    4.6 (16 reviews)
    ModerateMexican, Salvadoran
    Closed 11:30 am - 8:45 pm

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    Sopa des Tortilla at Mercadito Latino

    Mercadito Latino is a small family owned restaurant. Since it's a small family restaurant, it's never well-staffed, hence, the service is relatively slow. Even though the restaurant feels like it's a hole in the wall, I keep on going back because they serve the BEST Latino food in the City! The food is nothing but excellent! I can honestly tell you that Mercadito is significantly much better than La Fiesta Cafecito if you're debating between the two places. If you are looking for an authentic restaurant, this is the place! Here are my food recommendations: 1) Sopa de Tortilla (Tortilla Soup) 2) Tacos des Res (Beef Taco) - My Go-to for entree 3) Pupusas - my Significant Other's Go-to for entree 4) Corn Tamale (appetizer) 5) Quesadilla des Res - They serve the BEST quesadilla ever! Only if I can eat 10 meals in one seating, I would order everything off the whole menu! Overcall, this restaurant is highly recommended! Attire: casual

    Oh my wow. So good.

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    Great people, great food selection, and prices. Portions could have been a little but more but it was fine. Thank you!!

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    11 years ago

    Very tasty and I got my order fairly fast. If I lived in the city I would definitely take Spanish lessons here. Absolutely will return.

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    La Fiesta Cafecito & Restaurant

    La Fiesta Cafecito & Restaurant

    3.7(18 reviews)
    9.7 km
    $$

    This gem in the South End is a must try! I can eat their Pupusas every day! Reasonable prices and…read morethe portions are huge.

    I dined at the old Ellice Avenue location years ago; the only memory that remained was that service…read morewas brutally slow. Everyone in the restaurant that night was waiting and waiting and waiting. Anyhow, fast forward in time, I decided it was time to give this place a second chance. Although this time, I can say that the food service was really prompt! I can't say I am a fan of the suburban location in a giant strip mall as the restaurant has lost some of it's charm from the downtown location. It's a small narrow room that's painted in yellow, blue and some neutral tones - very warm and inviting. We were greeted very warmly by one of the servers there who later on gave us suggestions on what to order and cracked a few jokes with us. This family run restaurant definitely shines with their Latin charms. As for the food, I felt that many of the items lacked the flavour that one expects from Latin food. This is an El Salvadoran place, not Mexican but there are many dishes that are similar to Mexican food. There's a lot of stuff on the menu but it seems to mention the same items in various forms so your best bet are the combination platters. I had Combination Platter #2 which comes with a soup or salad to start, a chicken burrito, two pupusas (pork & cheese and bean & cheese), and a beef enchilada with a side of salsa. I chose the soup to start, even though they say it's "home-made soup of the day", it's always the same soup - a chicken soup with tortilla chips. The soup was a warm and flavourful chicken broth with rice, chicken, green onions and tortilla chips. It had a hint of heat but I could barely detect it. The chicken burrito tasted quite bland. It was filled with home-style rice, chicken breast, & mozzarella cheese. It tasted like plain white rice was stuffed in there with unseasoned chicken. I used a lot of the spicy tabasco tasting sauce on it. The salsa that came with the platter is more on the watery side, not the salsa that one expects but maybe El Salvadoran salsa is suppose to be like that? I didn't find the salsa to be very spicy or flavourful. The pupusas, El Salvadoran specialty, are round tortilla shells that tastes more like a flat-bread with fillings like bean and cheese and pork and cheese (El Salvadoran cheese called "queso"). I found the pupusas quite filling, the overriding flavour was probably the queso cheese, which reminded me of melted mozzarella. The beef enchilada was probably one of the better items in the platter as it offered more flavour. A small fried tortilla disc topped with ground beef, beans, slice of boiled egg, and cheese. I am a fan of the corn tamal that my dining partner had in his combination platter - I enjoyed the sweetness of the corn in this dish. Many of the platters average $16 and you'll likely end up doggy bagging the generous portions. I really wanted to like this place because Winnipeg definitely lacks good Latin food but this place really didn't provide the strong Latin flavours I was looking for so I left a bit disappointed.

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    La Fiesta Cafecito & Restaurant - Combination Platter #2 - clockwise starting from the left: pupusas, chicken burrito, beef enchilada and salsa

    Combination Platter #2 - clockwise starting from the left: pupusas, chicken burrito, beef enchilada and salsa

    La Fiesta Cafecito & Restaurant - Combination Platter #3 - starting from the bottom up, chicken burrito, chicken tamal, corn tamal, beef enchilada, pupusa.

    Combination Platter #3 - starting from the bottom up, chicken burrito, chicken tamal, corn tamal, beef enchilada, pupusa.

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