Hermosa Bakery & Pupuseria
Because Gloria’s doesn’t have a lock on Salvadorean food. Because there’s a surprisingly robust Salvadorean community in the northern territories. And because to know pupusas is to like pupusas: Hermosa Bakery & Pupuseria, all the way up on Parker Road in Plano, family-run (Leoncio & Maribel Campos) open a year, selling sweet breads, millojas (puff pastry w/ meringue), pastelito de carne (meat pies w/ pork and chicken), and finally pupusas, those little stuffed pancakes filled w/ pork, cheese, or the flower-like lorroco.
930 W. Parker Rd. #420 (at Alma), 972-398-6672
posted by TG @ 9:00 AM
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27 Comments:
Do they have ice cream or espresso drinks? Haha
¡Ya sé a donde voy para comér el almuerzo!
finally, something worth driving to plano for.
i'm a pupusa fan, too. the quality of the marinated slaw (curtido or curdito?) that comes with them is important. did you sample hermosa's? i gather it is practically in your backyard.
seems like everyone is discovering lorroco these days. i first found it in a salvadorean place in garland a year or so ago. the fact that it's a flower is alluring, but didn't think it had much flavor. most of what we can get here is probably frozen
have you seen this week's guide reviews and have you heard of a BONE-IN filet mignon or strip? apparently they have both at Chamberlain's
Re: Guidelive. Dotty's review is Standard (he he), I still like Chamberlain's, and I loved David Holben's chicken fried lobster I had at Del Frisco's last night.
What was the place up at Preston Ctr, it was a Phil Romano concept I believe, that did that fried-lobster thing? A few years ago. I did not care for it. But lobster is so over-rated.
I'VE EATEN A PAPOOSE OR TWO. I JUST LOVE INDIAN FOOD.
the deep-fried lobster with cheese at arc-en-ceil in garland and caravel in richardson is yummy. and inexpensive.
i googled the bone-in filet mignon and found several steakhouses that offer it. apparently a new trend. the bone is sort on a L-shape, covering one side and part of another.
guess the twisted mongrel didn't go to korea after all...or maybe they refused to clone him!
probably they wouldn't even have him for dinner
always glad to see a new salvadorean place, but no reason to cast aspersoins on gloria's. havent been to one of them in awhile, but when they first started, the curtido was made with fermented pineapple peels. that might be a hard thing for a chain to keep up, but is their super, excellent flan still super and unmatched?
Gloria's isn't all that. I mean, I go on tuesdays, which is gay night, and there's always all these homos around. Does. not. make. Tom. happy.
Plus, If you've ever been to Salvadoria, as I have, you'll know Gloria's is just watered-down tex-mex with some banana leaves thrown in.
get off it tom. gloria's is a real success story for gloria and jose fuentes, salvadorean refugees who went thru lots of lean years before they were discovered. glad to see other people follow them, but it doesn't take away from what they accomplished. remember, they served us pupusas when we didn't know how to eat them (which some people still don't).
dean: is david holben really at del frisco's? seems such a waste.
Good for LaLa and Juan, but I don't eat out of pity and don't praise for novelty. I was born fairly middle-class but tugged on my Donald J Pliners and became a movie star - the greatest ever. It wasn't very hard.
Yes Charlotte, he is. I think it's been about 6 months or so since he left Culpepper.
If I may venture an opinion: Gloria's made me sick last year (and maybe you know what kind of sick I'm talking about - not just a tummy-ache) and I haven't gone back since. I don't see any sense in eating somewhere that makes you sick.
peanut gallery: you are being too vague. how sick? food poisoning sick? from what? and does your getting ill once turn a 20-year-old business into "somewhere that makes you sick"?
Speaking of getting sick, if you look at the food inspection scores, most of the low scoring, or failing grade places are crappy little asian and mexican places.
i've seen some restaurant kitchen, particularly asian, that might keep me from returning -- if the food wasn't so good. you just need to build up your resistance, which you can't do on a white bread-starbucks diet
Hey Tom... if you hang out in Rome, you are going to bump into Italians.
Try the Gloria's in Addison, where you'll bump into bimbos just like Katie, or the one in Oak Cliff (that's Cliff, Tom, not Lawn) where you'll bump into bimbos like Penelope.
Take your skivvies beyond loop 12.
Those look yummy (following the cookbooks 101 link). I need to find out if we have any Salvadorean places round here.
capt., i'm a big fan of that 101 cookbooks site - she always does interesting things and has a nice writing style. has won blog awards, too
I tried Hermosa Bakery recently and I was impressed. Their menu includes fried plantain bananas with crema, the native Salv. Tamales, bistec, and more. They have a cool plate, Usulutan especial (named after the owners place of birth) that includes 2 pupusas (on which you can select from 4 types of pupusas), fried plantains with their crema, and a tamale. It all was really good, including the curtido. The Horchata was the best that I have ever had, ever, on this side of the border at least. To top it off, their FLAN was AWESOME. I will return, often, not just because of the food, but for their pan dulce. The have a really good variety of bread, Salvadorean and Mexican. Nothing against Gloria's, but they have steered off in to the Tex-Mex from their original concept. That is what made them big. I strongly recommend Hermosa Bakery & Pupuseria.
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