Platanito Latin Cuisine advertises they're owned by a U.S. Marine Corps Veteran so they had been…read moreour radar for awhile to check out. Veterans are an extraordinarily rare 6% of the population who Served for those who couldn't Serve in the U.S. Armed Forces, and Served for those who wouldn't Serve in the U.S. Armed Forces.
Greedflation has not struck here.
Platanito Latin Cuisine service staff answered all our questions graciously which made a good first impression.
We did The Take-Out of a variety of their Gourmet Pupusas. We made sure before we left that what we ordered is what we got. It was. Everything tasted fresh.
Did what they're in business to do
Has average prices; adequate food, okay customer service, okay wait time.
Food here is definitely um, ummm, good Latin Cuisine, with what I think is authentic Salvadoran. They also offer authentic Mexican and combination dishes of Salvadoran and Mexican. The owner wisely made that choice to broaden their customer base.
Their sweet fried plantains drizzled with crema salvadoreña was a pleasant savory surprise.
Starting in the 1980s, early waves of poor Salvadoran immigrants began arriving in the United States, fueled in part by the civil war that was raging in El Salvador. Due to speaking Spanish, some Salvadoran immigrants started their restaurant career at a Mexican restaurant.
If you're familiar with Salvadoran cuisine, then you probably already know that several dishes sometimes resemble those of authentic Mexican cuisine. However, sometimes resemble are the keywords there.
Salvadoran food is a delicious and unique cuisine that is a mix of Central America indigenous, Spanish and North America Mexican flavors. Popular Salvadoran dishes include pupusas, which are corn tortillas filled with cheese, beans and pork, and served with curtido, a spicy cabbage slaw.
Other traditional Salvadoran dishes include yuca con chicharron, which is fried yucca root served with pork rinds and cilantro sauce. Salvadoran cuisine is hearty and delicious, with a unique blend of flavors that can't be found anywhere else. El Salvador's cuisine is based on corn and beans. Topped with cheese, beans, chicaharrones, loroco, squash, garlic, and other toppings, pupusas are a favorite. With fillings of spiced meat, dried fruits and sweet corn, Salvadoran tamales are corn dough pockets wrapped in banana leaves and steamed. Nittamalized corn, rather than corn flour, is used to make pupusas; so pupusas have a distinct nutty flavor.
El Salvador's native red silk bean (frijol de seda) has a unique flavor and is used in many popular dishes. Salvadoran Beans are small, dark-colored beans that are usually creamy in texture and have a mild, earthy aroma. Salvadoran refried beans are an essential part of Salvadoran cuisine. The beans are cooked and mashed together with onions, garlic, and spices to create a flavorful and hearty dish. The beans are then fried in a pan with a combination of lard and oil, giving it a unique and deep flavor.
This business:
Charged us the menu prices posted
Provided what they advertise
No one here offered to commit fraud to reward us, pay us or compensate us for posting 5 star reviews of this business.
Has a Military Veterans Discount
I rate 'em 3 stars. According to Yelp ratings' definitions, that's "Ok". That to me is an acceptable rating of something that does day in and day out what it is there to do. It's NOT a negative review because doing day in and day out what it is there to do is NOT an easy thing to accomplish. They earned another star for a total of 4 stars for their Military Veterans Discount.
Why Does Restaurant Food Taste So Good? Especially restaurant refried beans.
Restaurants typically add a lot of extra fat, such as bacon fat, bacon grease, butter, or other types of fat, to give their food that extra mouthwatering flavor.
Make food not war.
Dyk that throughout the 1980s, the United States provided the wealthy-corporate-landowner oligarchy-backed Salvadoran military with $1 million a day; a total of $6 billion dollars. Those funds helped the oligarchy-backed Salvadoran military to eliminate the insurgency by the poor and any perceived supporters of the poor. The civil war in El Salvador lasted for twelve years, from 1980 to 1992. Don't blame the poor leaving their war-ravaged oligarch-controlled country seeking a better life. Blame the wealthy-corporate-landowner-oligarchs that created the war and the poor.
P.S. Don't message me because in spite of my several complaints to yelp, for years now I am unable to open up any messages in yelp to me :-(