Samantha's Pupusas
Samantha's Pupusas
Pork beans and cheese pupusas with curtido and hot sauce
Breakfast grits bowl
breakfast menu
Excellent rating! Very clean
a closeup of a sub sandwich
Carne azada and pupusas and Grilled corn on the cob
Outdoor seating
a display case full of cookies
All the made from scratch baked goodness in the case
outside
Chorizo omelet
Mushroom was delish!
Outside eating area
Couldn't wait to dig in
Breakfast to-go menu
interior
Veggie burrito
Postres y desayuno
Pupusas
Blackberry scone
Menu
Menu
Menu
Marcye M.
Feb 24, 2024
Excellent food. The pupusas are delicious although they are on the small side. I felt that $4 each for their size was a little steep. However I will always support a small business. They have a huge variety of desserts! So much to choose from. I tried the oatmeal chocolate chip peanut butter cookie and it was so good! I wasn't crazy about the regular chocolate chip -!; the brown sugar cookie was delicious but they sprinkle (or pour) white sugar over each cookie and it isn't necessary. We tried a blueberry scone and it was soft and had great blueberry distribution Very clean and the rating shows it! Come check them out!
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Jessica W.
Mar 11, 2023
Yes! Everything I've had here is absolutely amazing, from Salvadoran breakfast to pupusas to dessert! I especially liked the brown sugar cookies last time I was there. The people are friendly and bilingual, so don't be worried you won't know what to order. :) Go for it! :)They have limited seating inside and outside, so it might be a good to-go option too.
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Luis M.
Apr 1, 2024
The food is really good, and the service was too slow. I've never had a problem with them, I've also never ate in the restaurant. I take my food to go,but whenever I'm there the ambiance seems chill.
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Amy S.
Nov 12, 2023
We stopped by on our way to Durham and had a delightful meal at this hole in the wall! The staff were so kind and friendly, and the sopes, pupusas, and pastelitos were delicious. They had a variety of sauces from mild to spicy, and the slaw on the side was refreshing. We also devoured the plantain bread pudding and got some cookies for the road. We will definitely stop here again.
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Hannah E.
Sep 5, 2022
Samantha's 3 for 10 pupusas deal may be the most (non-fast food) food you can get for $10 in the area - I certainly didn't need 3, and probably could have filled up with 1. The issue for me was the fillings - they use SO much cheese that it dwarfs whatever filling you chose. I got black bean, loroco, and zucchini - but honestly couldn't tell the latter two apart because they were both just seas of cheese with green specks in them. Even the black bean was so cheese-saturated that its general color was pretty close to white.Obviously I like cheese or I wouldn't order pupusas, but this was just extreme.Otherwise, they're cooked well, come with two different (both pretty mild) salsas and a healthy serving of curtido, and, as I said, will more than fill you up.I really liked their tamarind agua fresca. Thick, almost cloudy with the fruit fibers, and strongly tart.
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Lauren M.
Jul 11, 2021
Delicious food! While visiting Hillsborough we stopped by for lunch. We ordered inside and they brought our food outside for us. They have a number of tables outside with umbrellas. It's next to a busy road so beware it's very loud. Lots of trucks and motorcycles drove by while we were there.The food was great and very affordable. I had a veggie burrito. I liked how it came with pico and two sauces. The red was was very hot but I really liked it! My husband had Pupusas. He had 3 and was able to pick different ones - Camaron, chorizo chicken and cheese, and Loroco. His favorites were the Camaron and Chorizo ones. Masks are not required and I did not see any staff with masks on. Definitely try this spot if you are in the area!!
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T R.
Aug 20, 2022
Best takeout in town! Very friendly. Wonderful food!Our favorites are the pork, bean and cheese pupusa, shrimp pupusa, chicken quesadilla, and veggie burrito.Don't forget to grab a dessert!
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Joe N.
Nov 9, 2023
Incredibly great lunch. I didn't even know what a pupusa was, but I tried it because it had great reviews -- deservedly so. Friendly staff and the flavors were wonderful. The slaw is great, too!!!
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Nathan T.
Aug 11, 2024
This place was a delicious surprise. My wife and I were staying with family up the street and tried Samantha's out for breakfast. It's an unassuming storefront on a nondescript street corner sort of out in the middle of nowhere. The inside was small and clean. The counters are tall and covered with placards of the special dish for the month, and there are tasty-looking cakes and cookies and scones in the display cases beneath. The staff is friendly and polite. We had the Salvadoran huevos rancheros, which was a huge dish of eggs, salsa, beans, a papusa (like a hearty thick tortilla), and a full wedge of queso fresco (like feta cheese) that looked like a tiny cheesecake. It was delicious and filling. We also had the migas tacos. The eggs were well cooked (not overcooked), and they included potatoes in the migas, which is genius. The tortillas were thick and flavorful and clearly fresh. So we came back for lunch. The second time, we had papusas, which come in threes. I had the mushroom, the jalapeño, and the garlic (I'm vegetarian), and my wife had the pork, the zucchini, and the shrimp. They were served with a simple cole slaw, black beans, and salsas. Their red salsa is very spicy but it's worth the burn: smokey and delicious. The green is also great, less spicy but interesting. They also have a tomato sauce, which tastes like El Pato and brought me right back to my childhood in southern Arizona; IYKYK. Mrs. loved the pork and the zucchini papusas, and the shrimp would have been perfect if it wasn't oversalted; she thinks they maybe forgot to salt the zucchini and double salted the shrimp by mistake. The mushroom papusa was rich and flavorful and paired well with both the red and tomato sauces. The fresh jalapeño tasted just like roasted Hatch green chilis with the red sauce. The garlic was overpowered by the sauces but was fantastic on its own--garlicky and buttery and delicious; it was my favorite. All of them had just the right amount of gooey cheese. The papusas themselves were excellent: slightly crispy on the edges, warm and mealy in the center, hearty without being heavy. We'll absolutely be back. Oh, and we tried some baked goods because c'mon. The coconut macaroon was crispy outside and soft inside and tasted slightly caramelized--wonderful.
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Robert L.
Jun 16, 2024
The food is very good. Ambiance is a little lacking, but the light inside is very good. Service is courteous. I had sopes and my vegan daughter the plaintians, beans and corn. We both liked our food. Of the two sauces served, the salsa verde is much better. The portions of some of the other patrons looked quite large. Portion size seems to vary a great deal between dishes.
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