El Gustito Pupuseria y Restaurant

High quality pupusas and service. I came here with a party of 6 and the wait for our food was very reasonable and the servers were all very kind. I highly recommend the pupusas and yucca frita!

Very good place to eat papusas. They are made fresh when you order them so they are hot n tasty. I was hungry so I ordered more than what I needed but made some good leftovers

Excellent pupusas! Not greasy and not over or understuffed. I had the spinach, pork, and the loca option. The cabbage garnish was excellent too. Def. Will return!

Delicious, big portions with healthy amounts of vegetables and everything was very fresh. Horchata was really good, Pupusas were good. We will come again!

I love the pupusas they are so delicious and filled with cheese 🧀 and their fried yuca is amazing, definitely recommend

Family friendly. Food of the southern Gods!

Excellent food, friendly service, and great prices make El Gustito well worth a visit. The pupusas are delicious. The variety of fried plantain dishes make for tasty eating as well. The dining room isn’t large, but the location is especially accessible for take out. That said, it isn’t easy to see from the road. You’re more likely to notice HyVee and Hobby Lobby, which flank it on the sides.

Very fast and friendly service! The pupusas and slaw were very good!

Their corn drink, Atol de elote, is way too good!

Absolutely terrific place on the Coralville strip. Authentic El Salvadorian food, with the main focus being pupusas, which are like flat pancake-like breads filled with cheese and other fillings. Took my son for a dine-in lunch a few weeks ago and then tonight again for a take away dinner because he has not stopped talking about it since we went the first time. Pupusas are amazing - the cheese is perfectly melted and where it has escaped the bread it fries up nice and crispy. Chicken and pork and other meat fillings are super tasty but the spinach and jalapeño pupusas are also delicious. Horchata and other drinks are tasty including some bottled sodas from El Salvador that i have not seen in the States before. Extremely inexpensive and quite delicious. One to two pupusas is enough to satisfy one person - the first time i got two and a tamal and it was a bit too much food. Next time i may branch out and try their various other meals but it will be hard to pass on the pupusas.

I think we have now tried every pupusa they offer! It's our "we want a little something different" go-to place

My kids love their food, is all I need.
Gracias por su servicio ✌

Great food if your into Salvadoran type of food. Great dishes and selections for prices that are great. People are friendly and helpful, very patient as well. You can dine in, take out but not sure about delivery. I always come to order my food and take home extremely hot. Pupusas, tamales and other dishes they sell. I really like it. Coming back soon. Gracias/ Thank you El Gustito.

Have enjoyed take out three times! Loved the tamales. The chicken and also corn tamals.
Food comes fresh and VERY hot! Large portions and have enjoyed the sides/sauces. Cheese pupusa was also very tasty.

Fantastic pupusas at fair prices. Amazing horchata!!

Although I admittedly have never tried pupusas before, these were delicious, as were the carne asada, horchata, and atole. El Gustito's portions were affordable and filling. The restaurant is unassuming and located in a strip mall, but aren't strip malls where all the best global food is found??

Excellent pupusas and plantains! Terrific service and sparkling clean dining room. Perhaps because there was some event in downtown Iowa City, we were the only ones in the restaurant on a Saturday night in June. This place deserves more traffic! You won’t be sorry! And it’s a bargain too!

We were in town for our son’s birthday and decided to give it a shot! WOW! Great authentic food and delicious! Clean environment and very friendly. Would for sure come again!

Went and got 3 chicken and cheese pupusas, so good!!!! Cashier dude was so nice, food was fresh and hot, as always, so happy with them!!!! Will definitely recommend them to anyone who is looking for different food to try!!

I am from El Salvador originally, and having a place that makes food from my Country In the Cedar Rapids-Iowa city area is a blessing.
The food was great it gave me that nostalgia feel from my country's food. The costumer service was great and I cant wait to go back