La Santaneca De La Mission

• Cuisine(s): Salvadoran
  Hours: Sun 8:30am-9pm, Mon-Thu 8:30am-8pm, Fri-Sat 8:30am-10pm
  Price: $ $
  Payment Types: cash
• Attire: Casual
  Features: Kid Friendly, Takeout, Wheelchair Accessible
  Serving: Dinner, Lunch
  Alcohol: None
• Reservations: Not Accepted
  Parking: Street

Description

La Santaneca's pupusas -- griddle-cooked corn or rice cakes stuffed with cheese, beans, or pork -- are good, the curtido (spicy pickled cabbage) particularly piquant. The yuca with chicharron is fried to a golden crackle, and the banana-wrapped tamales de chipilin approach the lightness of a meringue. Drinks at this Mission District Salvadorean restaurant range from toasted-seed horchata to tiste, a Frappuccino-like blend of roasted corn and cacao beans.