Guatemalan Kitchen

Reviews

• Intervale C.

  star star star star star 28 June 2026

  Note: the restaurant recently moved around the corner. Google has it in the wrong location.
  
  Everything we ate was fantastic. Very good pupusas. They come three to an order. The curtido tastes fermented rather than pickled in vinegar. It is very good.
  
  The tamarind drink is excellent. It is not too sweet and has a lot of real tamarind flavor.

• Adam J.

  star star star star star 26 June 2026

  Food was awesome and the price was right, went with a party of 3 and we all enjoyed our meals. The sopes were very crispy and filling, and I didn't try the enchilada but my friend said the green sauce was on point and it came with a ton of food for 8 bucks. Give it a shot, you won't be disappointed. Little strange it's in the same building with a pizza shop, but whatever. good food is good food.

• Donna C.

  star star star star star 25 June 2026

  Me and my family just went here for lunch. Hands down, some of the best food we've ever had!  Simple, fresh, authentic. Everything was cooked to order, literally. They made their own tortillas!  The chips were hot and the guacamole was delicious. I had tostados - bean, salsa and guacamole.  If I wasn't so full, I would have eaten three more!  Hubby had the tongue tacos and said the meat was so tender and delish. The kids shared enchiladas and had the guacamole tostado. I had to get a sampling of tacos to try them so I got the pork, chicken and steak. The filled them with meat and topped them simply with cilantro and onion.  Served with lime and tomatillo sauce that was out of this world.  Simple and brilliant.  Go here!!!

• Matthew B.

  star star star star star_border 24 June 2026

  Solid place. Well executed Guatemalan cuisine- The kind of mayan riff on Mexican.
  The tacos (both pork and steak)  and rice and beans were all outstanding. Very small eating area with three small tables of two.
  
  Well worth your time. Great meal for 2 for 25$. We will be back!

• L K.

  star star star star star_border 20 June 2026

  Only reason I took a star off is they are cash only, and that is a Yelp rule I set for myself. But they really deserve 5 stars, so please take this as a 5-star review! After baby, I'm back on my cucumber salad, steak, and treadmill diet, but I am allowed to cheat one day a week! Guatemalan Kitchen was our choice for non-diet lunch yesterday, and it was a ten-star choice for taste!
  
  Robert P. mentioned the great smells of this food, YES! That was the first thing to hit me! It smelled so good! Amy O. said these were the best ribs she had in her life, so I had to try them! OMFG, Amy, no joke! They're not brown-&-pink BBQ type ribs, they're white, sauceless, boneless (though they missed a little bone in mine, but I didn't care they were that good!), and covered in black char. This char is the "asada," or burnt part (not bark, char). The flavor was one of those enlightening experiences like after a deep meditation, or smoking something you shouldn't, because I finally came to the purest understanding of the word "asada." ASADA means this black gook on my meat, that is food crack, and I cannot stop thinking about it all day afterward, I want to go back and eat more now, now, now! I just want that black stuff on my tongue, so effing delishosaurus! Alton Brown can teach you the chemistry to make the blackened part so good, but all you need to know is the seasoning is phenomenal, and when it gets burnt crisp, it's even better! Like crack better.
  
  My husband got the Parrilladas (steak, sausage, chicken). Chicken was very flavorful, tender and moist, steak was thin but tender, and sausage was good not amazing. Chicken def stole the show on that one. Husband's also came with homemade tortillas. I wanted to try a bite of tortilla because so many had said they are homemade. I was bummed about the flavor on those, pretty bland. I prefer homemade to any alternative, but they could stand to amp up the flave on those.
  
  All two-figure dishes came with rice, macaroni salad (? is this Guatemalan?), and black beans, which was really like black bean soup. The sides are decent, filler foods. It is the meat that really drives you wild. And by two-figure, I mean $11, which was a swindle for this level of taste.
  
  Staff was friendly and helpful. Both times I called there was a little bit of a language barrier, and though I know Spanish, I am intimidated by the many and varied accents of South American countries, so I did not try it. We managed to communicate nonetheless. So have patience and your mouth will be rewarded (as Alton might say).
  
  No postres (desserts) which was disappointing, but there are other places nearby, to switch up your meal and explore, after your amazing Guatemalan food.