I was BLOWN away today. On the corner of Cotton and Lower Buckeye Road is a dirt lot. On weekends it's typically populated by a guy selling plants, a fruit cart, and sometimes an Indian fry-bread truck. Today there was a food truck called "Gran Victorias" pupusas.
If you've never had a pupusa, it's a street food item from El Salvador. It's corn masa, filled with your choice of beans, cheese, pork chicharrones (fried pork belly), and several others. That is deep fried and served with a cold "relish" of sorts which is actually pickled shredded cabbage, onion, bell pepper, cilantro, and more. The round pupusa (it looks like a corn masa's frisbee) is served piping hot with this cool relish and a perfect, slightly-spicy red sauce. If youve never had a pupusa, it's unlike any Mexican food. It's truly a unique Central American delicacy that combines European Spanish cuisine with native indigenous cooking and a caribeña influence. Pupusas- good ones- are amazing.
This truck had the best pupusas I've ever had in my life. And I was born in Central America so I've tasted a pupusa or two... thousand. These are nothing short of incredible. They were SO good, I drove back just to tell the "abuela" (grandma) who made them they were the best I'd ever tasted.
All they have are pupusas so the menu's easy. The tough part is which filling. I recommend the chicharrón which has beans and cheese in it along with the slightly crispy pork. They're served hotter than a $12 pistol, greasy, fresh as can be, and filled with amzingness. They're mouthwatering.
It's a tiny food truck/trailer. Only there on saturdays between about 10 and 3-ish. All Homemade. The trailer is very clean and the two ladies running it are personable, helpful, and smiling.
If you can't wait till Saturday, they have a brick-and-mortar restaurant on Thunderbird Rd in El Mirage (also called "Victorias").
Wow. Just amazing.
I don't work for or with them. I just love good food and want to spread the love. corner of Cotton and Lower Buckeye. Northwest corner. Dirt lot. Cash or card. Messy to eat. You'll thank me later. read more