Pupuseria San Sivar

I’m Salvi & I know a good pupuseria when I try one. I only do TWO Salvadorian restaurants. San Sivar is one of them. Can’t go wrong! I Highly recommend this place.

Good food for a reasonable price! I personally would get the pupusas every time along with another flavorful plate to try something new. I had the salpicon a with fresh tortillas and my sister had the plate of yucca & chicaron. They were all delicious!!!

Had the best experience there customer service was and food was fantastic!!! Can’t wait to go back!

Came here for lunch with my coworker, who’s El Salvadoran, he told me about this «hole in the wall spot that has great food.» So I said ok let’s try it out. Turns out he was right! I had their chicken leg and thigh combo with rice and soup. It was all delicious. I recommend this place to everyone!

Second visit to this TINY but GREAT little restaurant. Shared several dishes which were all REALLY YUMMY! Salvadoran tamales with moist «fluffy» masa with flavorful pork filling. Pollo con cebollo (?). Braised chicken with onions. Chicken skin was crisp, so perhaps it was flash fried then topped with onion sauce (?) Anyway, it was moist & flavor packed. Served with rice and black bean purée. Both really good as well. Couldn’t forget the PUPUSAS! 8 – 9 (?) different types. We shared: pork, chicken & cheese, zucchini & cheese, & cheese & loroco (herby Salvadoran flower bud). My personal favs were the pork & loroco. My aunt liked the zucchini.
We were the only non-​Hispanics in the place. Which is my sign that it’s authentic and good.
Will definitely visit again when in the Newport Bch & Harbor Blvd area.

Love this hidden pupuseria! My boyfriend took me here a few weeks ago and I’ve been craving their pupusas ever since! I got a pork and cheese as well as a bean and cheese. Two is enough to fill me up, but they have so many varieties I know it’ll be hard to limit yourself! It’s very fresh and comes out super hot! Smother it with some spicy salsa and picked coleslaw and you’re good to go! I personally love spicy food! Like the spicy food that gets you sweating and your heart pounding kinda spicy! So I really like their spicy salsa. I think it complements the pupusas very well because it also has great flavor, not just spiciness. Beware with this one though, small drips advised! Use sparingly! I also like eating the pickled coleslaw with each bite. Gives a bit of freshness that cuts the spicy flavor of the salsa. Yummm. Now I’ve definitely talked myself into getting a pupusa this week!

Back in May 7 2016 I tried the fish with rice and beans and a side of plaintains. And I had a chicken pupusa. I love that they have authentic Central American food and will make this a regular stop when I travel to the area.

Purrrrty good pupusas! I ordered the pork and flower and cheese pupusas which filled me up for lunch. I liked that you could see the owner walking around, serving food, and talking with customers. Gave the place a homey feel. Brush up on your Spanish, this place is a no gringo zone.

A friend recommended this place to me.
We’ve been there three times now and always leave as happy customers!
It’s a small restaurant, has a family vibe to it because there’s usually families with young kids there. Server is nice, but she could probably use a hand given how it’s just herself.
Food is great! Pupusas with their cabbage slaw thing is fantastic. The slaw cuts through the cheese and adds nice texture to the Pupusas. I like the mixed, my 1.5 year old loves the cheese and squash. Also a fan of the chicken and cheese.
Beef soup is really tasty too! Great mix of veggies. Reminds of a Korean style beef bone soup. Base is rich and satisfying.

I really wanted to like this place. But the food was very mediocre. The service was also very meh. I will go forward in my quest to find some great Salvadorian food. I know its out there somewhere…

I’ve been trying to find a good place to get pupusas in OC and I think I found it! This place is goooood. I got a revueltas and loroco pupusas. I liked both but that revueltas one was my favorite between the two. Their curtido and salsa is delicious. Highly recommend this place.

Pupusa Heaven!
My favorites are the bean & cheese or bean and pork.
Our waitress was very welcoming & nice. Gracias

Delicious pupusas made here! Do I know authentic from not authentic? Nope! But I know these were delicious! Service is a little bit slow and they got one of my pupusas wrong but they remade it on the spot. Being vegetarian, options are slightly limited, I had the Queso con Loroco and the Calabacitas y Queso (Loroco flower and Squash w/​cheese.) Topped with cabbage and hot sauce, these are amazing! 2 are more than enough for lunch, I could’ve probably downed 3 but I would’ve regretted it later.

One word: pupusas! Okay, so this was the first pupusa I’ve ever had, but for the price and the taste, this place can’t be beat!
1.Cheese pupusa delicious. I spread the complimentary orange sauce all over it.
2. The sweet corn tamale with cream is delicious. I didn’t care for the cream, but, again, I spread the orange sauce liberally on it and ate it all (between two sittings because I had to take it to go because it was too much for one sitting for me).
Very nice server too.

Why Change from 2 to 1 cuz I was told the spicy sauce that is serve with the tacos is recycle! What’s wrong whit the owner that’s unhealthy, what if some one licks the spoon? GERMGS GERMS
Use a different type of container that way you don’t exposed your customers to unhealthy food
The reason for the 2 stars is because the new guy waitress he is so rude I ask to talk with the owner and he bring me one of the ladys from the kitchen wtf. Also is too pricey and very small place
Other than that the food is ok

Came here yesterday right when they opened. Weird to see a little viet girl top of the morning, but w.e. I wanted pupusas and this place made it bomb afff. Also got the chicken tamale which was super good!
Service was amazing, the lady gave me recommendations and she was super happy to help. Almost like a caring mom vibe, super cute! I got it to go, and that hot sauce she gave me was FIRE.
It was so bomb! Made the chicken/​pork & cheese pupusas sooooo gooooood. Love love will for sure come back! 10 mins wait for food.
*I’ve actually been here once before but didn’t order anything because it was crazy packed. It was a 30 min wait for pupusas, so this time I went and actually ate the food oooooo mama it was good and worth the 10 min wait.

Really delicious food and good vegetarian options. They use corn oil — no lard here.
For $ 12 we got 2 bean and cheese pupusas, 2 sweet corn tamales, and an order of plain plantains. The pupusas (with pickled cabbage — so good!!) were the star, here, but all of the items we ordered were great and altogether made a really nice and inexpensive meal. Will definitely be back.
ORDER TO GO if you don’t like waiting/​crowded places.

Pupusas are simply fantastic at this place. I have never been to El Salvador but I believe the other posters when they state these are authentic. You can get either flour or corn — the flour is the tastier option but then again my GF godmother said the corn one tasted so yummy she was initially suspicious there was some wheat flour mixed in.
I had the shrimp and cheese — which was amazingly delicious. The dough was fried just right and it didn’t taste fishy at all– cheese was very fresh and stretched out nicely in strings that you have to cut with your knife. Included is a jug of mild sauce and a little bowl of piping hot. Also a lightly pickled cabbage salad that goes really well with the sauces and pupusa. Godmother had the cheese and then we were still hungry so we split a bean and a cheese one– both were good but the corn pupusa not quite as scrumptious as the flour. We also got an elote tamale that was just ok– came with the crema on the side and you add in picante from the little bowl.
The décor of the place is quite modest– there are some faded posters of El Salvador scenes on the walls and the TV was playing Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern in Spanish. It’s in a little strip mall right next to the Triangle. So cheap! Whole bill was less than $ 15!

Well I can rest a little easier tonight that I found a spot to appease my pupusa cravings!
Their pupusas are made fresh (as they should be) and aren’t too fat or skinny. Flavor was great and the curtido was delicious and had a nice bite to it. The sauce was tasty as well. At a little over $ 2 each, you can buy a bunch!
They have other items on their menu such as grilled quail, a variety of soups and seafood. Furthermore, the breakfast options look delicious (mmmmm salvadoran breakfasts…). However, I think I will just be back for the pupusas.
Also, mad props to the woman who took my order. I was half way to my bus stop when she chased me down to inform me there was a mistake and I probably had the wrong order. She quickly corrected this mistake and I was back on my way. Good hustle!

No joke this place is definitely busy all the time. We ordered before we even sat down and that’s because they knew the table we were going to get. It felt weird standing next to the table while people were still there. But the manager told us to stand there cause there really wasn’t any space otherwise.
We ordered two pupusas and a steak dish n it was good. We enjoyed ourselves.
Will come again if in the area.