The Toad and the Frog might sound like the name of a British pub butthat is not case in Antigua Guatemala. ¨El Sapo y la Rana¨ is a small dinning room on Santa Lucia street, and even it might not seem anything special, it really is.
Walking in Antigua one day, I turned my head to this small dinning room and saw a lady making a 14¨ tortilla, so out of curiosity I stopped and ask her what she was doing? She told me she was making a Pupusa, which is a tortilla filled with melted cheese and different ingredients with a cabbage salad on the top. My surprise was not the pupusa itself, but the size she was making it so I decided to sit and try one.
After I sit the lady lend me the menu so I could choose the 3 ingredients I wanted and imagine my surprise when I saw that I actually asked for the medium size pupusa. Yes, they have them even bigger, a 18 inches pupusa and you can put 4 different ingredients, so I could not resist temptation and changed my order.
They have some other things in the Menu, but after I saw and tried my first Pupusa I never looked to the menu again but to see which ingredients I will put in there. The medium one cost Q20 and the big one Q30, and it worth every single cent. They also made a delicious salvadorian Horchata, perfect to join your giant pupusa.
El Sapo y la Rana is on the north side of Santa Lucia Street, right next to the hotel Pasabien II. They also made a delicious salvadorian Horchata so do’nt miss is neither.
One of Antigua’s best kept secrets.
Comment by Rudy at Aug 29th, 2008 9:16 am ↑
Pampa, good review. Here are the photos you’re missing though:
http://antiguadailyphoto.com/2006/07/10/guatemalan-cuisine-mayan-pizza-or-giant-pupusa/
Comment by Rudy at Aug 29th, 2008 9:18 am ↑
Oh, here is another review of the place with more photos:
http://www.rudygiron.com/biblioteca/2006/07/06/pupusas-gigantes-en-la-antigua/
Comment by ronald at Sep 24th, 2008 3:09 pm ↑
I was in Antigua last week on business and remembered this article, so I decided to give it a try!
Man, do I now have a place to eat in Antigua from now on!
Cheap, delicious, fast, what else could I ever want?
I decided to try the 14in pupusa because in Guate we have a saying: “tener más grande el ojo que el estómago” = “to have the eye bigger that your stomach” (ordering more that you’re going to eat or something like that), but that I know better, next time I’m ordering an 18 incher!
Two thumbs up in the Ron scale for cheap places to eat (my kind of place!)