El Puente De Oro Restaurant

11123 Veirs Mill Rd

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El Tamarindo

1785 Florida Ave NW

Authentic Salvadoran home cooking where the pupusas arrive warm and the horchata tastes like someone's abuela made it; go here if you want real food, not a concept.

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Antojitos Cecibel, Llc

1458 Park Rd NW

Family-run spot on Park Road where the pupusas are thick and properly stuffed, and the horchata tastes like someone's abuela is in the kitchen. Go when you want to eat like a local, not like you're on vacation.

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Atlacatl Restaurant

4701 Columbia Pike

This is where people who grew up eating their abuela's pupusas come to feel at home, and everyone else comes to understand what they've been missing. The kitchen takes its Salvadoran cooking seriously.

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Barrilito Bar and Restaurant

3911 14th St NW

There's something steady about this place—the kind of restaurant where regulars have their stool and the kitchen knows what they want. It's where the work of actual cooking happens, not theater.