La Piñata

120 N B St, San Mateo - 94401
139 reviews
Salvadoran Latin American Mexican
(650) 344-5722

Placed an order online and went to pick up. It was father's day and they were BUSY. Our order wasn't quite ready yet but it was shortly after. The food was delicious, fresh and hot. The pupusas were a hit and the beans and rice we also got were also delicious.There's lots of street parking nearby but someone double parked behind us while they were waiting for their food (they left the keys in the car and the car running and then just disappeared!). Other than that, everything was incredible.

Managed to get there just as they needed to make a new batch of pupusas, so I had to wait a while. I meanwhile saw them work with online orders, and it was overall smooth, except the one dude that was somehow angry at his order not feeling heavy enough or something. But yea, great pupusas, worth the wait, interesting clientele, and their Atol de Elote is delish. Give them a try!

Love their pupusas, which they make fresh to order, especially when they let the cheese seep out and get extra crispy. I'd love to try other things.

Service was awful, pupusas were too greasy and cheese had no taste, they give you cheap napkins to use and the salsa was watery. This was my experience you can go see for yourself but if I’m asked is this places good I’ll say it’s awful

Guatemalan Pupusas - straightforward menu and reasonably priced. You can order online. They have corn and flour pupusa options. The only thing that could use improvement is the system of picking up online orders and clarity of where the line is.

Poor service, so so salvadorean food. They take a long time to process the order, and sometimes forget to fulfill the order. They don’t even apologize for the bad servir.

We order one seafood soup, one menudo soup, 2 cheese and Loroco, 2 zucchini and cheese, 2 empanadas. One mix juice (orange And carrot) and one tamarindo water. Also 2 slides of Maria Luisa. We only eat the soup at the restaurant and we ending order 2 more pupusas to try them at home. The seafood soup only had 2 shrimps, 2 pieces of fish and had a good amount of the freezer seafood mix that you can buy at any grocery. The taste of the liquid was ok. The 2 shrimp were fresh however the fish was old. My husband basically only ate the 2 shrimp plus the liquid since the seafood mix was cut too small and he did not like it since has a lot of fake crabmeat. The menudo soup taste was ok. Very few pieces of tripa. The cabbage need more cook since was too hard. We haven't try anything else so I will change the rate once we do. So far not willing to come back to this place.

Food quality has gone down and the prices are made up, I order a couple things and when I got to the register the lady charged me almost twice the price than what is stated in their menu, is not the same anymore

Great for a fast bite to eat.

The pupusas are thin, they need more filling