My Canton Restaurant

Stopped for few beers around 11 pm. I am a gringo. Service was good. Beer was cold. Very Spanish / Latin but they took good care of me.

Authentic Salvi food. Service was okay. I went for a quick breakfast. They weren't open long when I came in. Got the desayuno típico (typical breakfast) and it tasted just like my abuelitas. No complaints. Had plantains, crema, frijoles, two eggs, and two tortillas. Yum!

Got a chicken tamale for my 3 year old. It had a bone in it. When asked about it the waitress said Spanish people eat it like this. Maybe, I've never tried one with a bone. A heads up would have been helpful. They did not have any salsa. I asked for salsa on the side and said I would pay extra. The waitress didn't say anything and brought us some hot sauce. Not going back and would not recommend.

I've been to My Canton twice and ordered the same thing both times: carne guisada. It's a huge portion of Mexican beef stew served with pinto/pink beans, delicious white rice (cooked in broth?), thick corn tortillas, and a throwaway iceberg salad with bottled ranch dressing. The stew consists of tender chunks of beef, carrots, and potatoes in a lightly spiced, rich gravy that's light on cumin and chili pepper but somehow really flavorful. There's a little bit of tomato in the sauce, yellow bell pepper strips, melty onions (I think they make this in the pressure cooker), and Mexican oregano. To help whet the appetite, a basket of freshly fried tortilla chips with soupy homemade salsa comes out first.The service is well-meaning, but this isn't a place you go to for the atmosphere - think plastic table covers and Spanish-language music videos playing loudly above the bar. In fact, most evenings they blast bachata music, and it's kind of a bar scene with mostly guys. So unless that's your thing, go at lunch. My husband branches out on the menu more, and everything he's had was solid - caldo de res (beef soup) and desayuno tipico (scrambled eggs, plantains, crema, and beans) -- he liked the former better. The pupusas are decent but better at places that specialize in them, like Ercilia's.My advice: don't miss the guisado, which is delicious and hard to find elsewhere.

Just stopped at this cute little bar to try to get a quick drink before a tattoo and was charged 28 dollars for two shots of fireball. ( The cost of a bottle.) A sword could have broken the silence in that room when I was paying . One more issue I had was I felt that I had to be polite due to the extreme smell of urine I wondered if they were caring for an elderly grandparent in the back ( me being a nurse I know the smell of urine without having to try.) avoid this place at all costs - There is a reason I wanted a shot and not a whole bottle or I could have purchased that next door.

We're staying at an airbnb in Adams Morgan, and decided to stop into this place because we were hungry and it smelled good outside. So glad we did! It's the real deal: Mexican/Salvadoran food that tastes like a grandma made it (if my grams were mexican/salvadoran). I had the pollo guisado and the fam had burritos and some other more basic dishes. Yum, yum, YUM! Our waitress struggled a bit with English so the owner came over and helped out. Everyone was friendly and the good was delicious. I'd be there a lot if I lived in the neighborhood.

GREAT PUPUSAS! Such a nice and clean restaurant with great prices and so much to offer! Chicken tacos are VERY GOOD TOO. Love this place.

Delicious Caldo De Res! Como lo hace mi mama! Too bad they were out of tamales bc I'm sure they would have been just as SABROSO!

Got a bean and cheese pupusa, a loroco pupusa, and a chicken tamal to go. Served w/ some very tasty slaw, all for $10. Staff were friendly, food came quickly, and it was delicious and filling. Slaw was crisp and fresh. Pupusas were well-stuffed and nicely browned. Tamal was wrapped in a banana leaf (!!) instead of the corn husks I'm used to, and it contained not shredded chicken like you usually get but rather two nice chunks of succulent chicken leg meat (bone still in). Quite a treat. Will definitely go back. As others have said, the interior is not fancy, but it looked to me like the owners take pride in their establishment.