When I saw the sign being painted on the wall across our church saying "El Pago Sausages" I was…read morelike, "Wha?" I honestly thought it was cool hipster graffiti, since it didn't make sense to put up some niche hole in the wall eatery in the area. I was definitely curious though. It was hard to find the right time to have a bite here, since they're only open from 4 to 8, but it happened one night that I was on my way home and I got off the jeep right in front of El Pago, and I thought, "Why the hell not?"
El Pago operates right out of a house, so it's quite the modest, raw "restaurant" with seating for only about a dozen people at the most. It doesn't even a bathroom (I guess you could always walk to the church, if it's open) and I wasn't sure if they had potable tap water, since they were selling drinking water by the bottle. I was also misled into thinking they sold beer because of the bottles on the tables--they don't, but they certainly have no problem with people buying them outside and bringing them in.
Anyhoo, they're all about their homemade sausages, which I ordered and got pretty quick, and they are truly awesome. The skin is crisp and when it yields to your mouth it's just juicy, spicy, salty goodness. They're served in toasted bread with caramelized onions and peppers, which I could probably live off of. They also have squeeze bottles of hot sauce and a tomato sauce that I thought was mustard, but it was a delicious, spiced number that I might just go back for, maybe more than the sausage even (sorry!)
Other than sausages, they serve pulled pork sandwiches and pork belly, and hot chocolate and canned root beer for drinks--and that's it. They might have other items on occasion, but not when I was there, so it's a pretty limited menu. Still, it's a cheap, quick, really good bite if you happen to end up on our side of the boondocks.