Wichita has just added another restaurant serving Salvadoran pupusas
One of Wichita’s oldest and best-known Salvadoran restaurants got a nearby competitor over the weekend.
On Saturday, a new restaurant called Pupuseria El Torogoz opened in the space at 2061 S. Seneca previously occupied by Snip N’ Clip. That’s less than a half a mile away from Restaurante Usuluteco, which has operated at 2265 S. Seneca since 2015. For a decade before that, it was at 1714 E. Northern.
The new restaurant is owned by Abigail Perez, a native of El Salvador who moved to Wichita about six years ago. Her son and helper in the restaurant, Victor Platero, said that Perez would make pupusas — which are traditional Salvadoran corn cakes stuffed with various fillings — and sell them around her neighborhood.
“Everyone kept pushing her to open up a business because they were so good,” he said.
Pupuseria El Torogoz, which is named after the state bird of El Salvador, serves pupusas with several different fillings, including pork with beans and cheese, cheese and jalapenos, and chicken. It also serves tamales and is open for breakfast, when it serves platanos fritos — sweet plantains fried in oil — and other traditional dishes.
The new restaurant does not serve alcohol. It offers both dine-in and carryout, and there’s also some seating on a front patio. Its hours are 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Tuesdays through Sundays.
Wichita’s Salvadoran restaurant roster just keeps growing. In addition to Restaurante Usuluteco, the city also is home to San Salvador Cafe at 5518 W. Central, Antojitos Guanamex at 1425 E. Central, and Puerto El Triunfo, which took over Usuluteco’s old space at 1714 E. Northern.
This story was originally published September 19, 2022 at 12:00 PM.
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