Chiltepe’s pupusas are small enough to sample, but if your stomach demands only one (there’s chorizo, chicken, shrimp and the like), pick the pupusa revuelta, which packs in probably the three most popular options: chicharrones, cheese and beans. Top it with a few tongfuls of curtido, the consummate pupusa condiment of slightly pickled cabbage, and [...]

Chiltepe’s Salvadoran specialties feed North Long Beach

PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES
You can see the torch-like tower for blocks, a monument to the movie-going experience that scrapes the sky with bubblegum-colored stripes. It rises up from the Atlantic Theatre, a pink and white prewar space that, over the decades, has hosted everything from live nude revues to [...]

Pupusería San Sivar’s puffed-up pleasures

PHOTO by RICK POON
Even if you can’t see them, chances are the staff at Pupusería San Sivar can see you. That’s partly because of the two-way mirror that feeds into the kitchen, but it’s mostly just a simple fact of the lunch rush, the staff spread thin by eaters packed in [...]