Welcome to Esperanza Chicken & Grill. We are a family-owned restaurant with a mission to bring delicious, reasonably-priced, fresh food to the community. We promise our customers a satisfying experience with our extensive menu and excellent customer service. Esperanza Chicken (by Silvestre)
Address and Contact Information
Address: 8849 Branch Ave, Clinton, MD 20735
Phone: (240) 348-7617
Website: https://www.esperanzachicken.com/
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Reviews
As a Salvadorian, I’m personally offended. This is not just bad food — this is a national embarrassment. My little brother, who burns cereal, could make better pupusas than this . The audacity to charge seventy dollars for something that belongs in the trash can is wild. SEVENTY. I could’ve gone to literally any street stand and gotten something a thousand times better for less than ten bucks. Instead, I got pain, disappointment, and a plate of sadness.
At this point, I’m praying I don’t get food poisoning because that’s probably the only flavor they added. I bit into one and thought my taste buds just gave up on life. The cheese was dry, the beans were crusty, and the oil tasted older than me. My family took one look at the plate and just sighed — we all knew it was over before it started.
DISGUSTING. DISGRACE. A full-blown insult to Salvadorian food culture. Whoever approved this needs to sit down and rethink their choices. Never again.
The staff was polite and helpful.
First off — CACA. ABSOLUTE TRASH. Whoever cooked these things must’ve been blindfolded, wearing oven mitts, and doing it as a dare. Because there’s no way any sane person looked at these dry, lifeless, wrinkled pancakes and said, “yeah, that’s a pupusa.” Bro, my eraser has more flavor than this. My dog sniffed one, sneezed, and walked away in silence.
The texture? Cardboard. The cheese? Nonexistent. The beans? Looked like they were left out since last Christmas. The “revueltas” had no revuelta — just sadness and a faint hint of regret. And don’t even get me started on the cabbage — my lawn after a drought looks fresher than that pile of wilted, soggy grass they tried to pass off as curtido .
We spent SEVENTY DOLLARS for what? For something that belongs in a dumpster behind a gas station? I could’ve eaten a shoe and it would’ve been more satisfying. The pupusa was so dry that I had to drink water every bite just to survive. It was like chewing dust. My tongue literally filed for early retirement.
And the smell — oh my god, the smell. It had the energy of sadness, regret, and a burnt tortilla all in one. I opened the box, and it smelled like they cooked it next to an open tire fire. You could taste the disappointment of every customer before me.
As a proud Salvadorian, I nearly cried. This isn’t just bad — this is offensive. Whoever made these pupusas clearly skipped every recipe, every YouTube tutorial, and every ounce of cultural pride. I wouldn’t serve this to my worst enemy. My little cousin made pupusas with Play-Doh once and they looked better than this mess.
Even the presentation was tragic. They came out looking like someone sat on them, stepped on them, and then decided to serve them cold just to add insult to injury. The cheese was leaking sadness, the beans were clumpy, and the oil looked like it came straight out of a 1998 deep fryer. I had to double-check the bag to make sure this wasn’t a prank.
We all sat there in silence after one bite. Not even anger at first — just pure confusion. Then came the rage. Because how dare someone charge real money for this abomination. Bro, I wouldn’t even feed this to pigeons. They deserve better.
Honestly, this experience made me question everything. My taste buds, my culture, my life choices. It was that bad. I’m still recovering emotionally.
To whoever made these — please, retire. Immediately. For the safety of humanity and the reputation of Salvadorians everywhere.
DISGUSTING. DISGRACEFUL. DEPRESSING.
Zero stars. Negative flavor. 10/10 would not recommend unless you’re trying to punish yourself.