La Guanaquita

Salvadoran · Kitchener

Up the stairs.

The restaurant isn't the door you're looking at. It's the one above it — second floor, 273 King West, and the pupusas come off the griddle with the grill marks still on them.

Call 519-576-4322 What to order

Start here, every time

The cheese pupusa first

Cheese pupusa

The one review after review names. Pressed by hand, cooked on the griddle, served with curtido and salsa — and hot enough that you should wait ten seconds.

Pupusas, the rest of them

Same masa, same griddle, different fillings. Order two, then order a third; everyone does.

Salvadoran & Mexican plates

The kitchen runs both. Ask what's on today — this is a room where asking gets you a real answer.

Hands shaping and cooking rounds of masa on a hot griddle.

A plate of rice, beans and fried plantains.

Stand-in photos · the real ones get shot upstairs

The thing everybody gets wrong

Easy to miss.
Hard to forget.

273 King Street West, above another restaurant. There's no patio, no big sign, no reason for a stranger to look up. Which is exactly why the people upstairs on a Friday night are the ones who were told about it.

Now you've been told.

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What the room's reputation looks like

269 reviews.
84% of them five stars.

The fresh pupusas, with the grill marks on them, are so tasty.Paraphrased from Google reviews

Real Salvadoran food — homemade, fresh, and the prices make sense for what arrives.Paraphrased from Tripadvisor

Quick, friendly service. It's upstairs, above another restaurant, so watch for it.Paraphrased from Yelp

Plan around this

Nothing happens here before 3pm

MondayClosed

Tuesday – Thursday3pm – 9pm

Friday & Saturday3pm – 10pm

Sunday3pm – 8pm

Dinner restaurant, dinner hours. Friday and Saturday are the late ones.

Find the stairs

273 King St W
2nd floor

Call 519-576-4322 Directions