Guatemayan Yum Yums is a local favorite in Old Town Eureka, offering fresh, Latin American–inspired food made with care, tradition, and bold flavor. Known as a quick and satisfying lunch spot, we’re ideal for dine-in or takeout when you need something fast, filling, and flavorful. Our menu features comforting homestyle dishes, handmade specialties, and hearty stews rooted in Guatemalan tradition. Guatemayan Yum Yums also offers a spacious private room perfect for staff meetings, birthday parties, events, and large group accommodations. In addition to serving the Old Town and downtown area, we provide catering throughout Humboldt County, including Eureka, Arcata, McKinleyville, and Fortuna.
Humboldt “Stinky Joe” Citizen
Shutdown for cockroaches! There is NO excuse for this to occur. Cockroaches are not a random infestation you get out of nowhere, and they do not just randomly sneak into the business to instantly spread. Here’s the truth about roaches: continuously practicing poor health & safety precautions that put people in danger is how roaches breed. Despite resilient features, cockroaches need a particular environment to develop an infestation. These are cold, damp, and untouched areas. Having unsanitary environments on-top of not properly disposing of waste, which includes cardboard (not just food) is how they get inside. Which means, eggs travelled on something delivered inside and there are not measures to ensure that those things are disposed of and kept in the correct areas. If you have lazy business practices, you get cockroaches. Another prime example of why you should stay home and eat! Humboldt kitchens are lazy, and don’t think the other restaurants are much better. An average kitchen in Humboldt is a disgusting cross contaminated mess.
… moreTamara Plota
We had an absolutely excellent meal here! My husband and I ordered two plates of pupusas to try a bunch of flavors – the chicken and cheese was our favorite, but we would definitely order any of them again. We also had the plantain (YUM), elote (delicious, like a warm corn soup) and a strawberry margarita (tasty & fresh, on the rocks). Service was awesome, very quick and kind. The place was totally empty, so we had it to ourselves. Prices were good, and we felt super satisfied/full. Check this place out, it’ll be worth it!
… moreKayla Lyles
Ordered food to go. My husband and I had been wanting to try pupusas and this looked like they had some really good ones. It was our first time visiting California so we were not sure what to expect. The person who greeted us was very friendly, she took our order of three pupusas: cheese, bean and cheese, and beef and cheese. They were all super delicious. They came with pickled vegetables and a sauce. We also ordered the plantain desert to try and it was very good. Going back to the pupusas- you have got to try them, they were big and full of fillings and very delicious, very hot and fresh. I would def come back again.
… moreBlackberry BB
Food is absolutely delicious! The staff is super nice and informational. Highly recommend
… moreEmily Cruz
We loved it
We ordered and split a few items and we were very happy with everything we tried.
I ordered the Garanchas, I’m not usually one for ordering ground beef as a meat option, but everything was very well seasoned and the portion was generous, we all enjoyed them.
We got two tamales, the Chicken Masa and Chuchitos. The Chicken Masa was so fluffy and moist and the Chuchitos was cooked perfectly as well, and for $3.50, you can’t beat it. Then we got a plate of three papusas, one of our favorite foods. We got cheese and jalapenos, pork and cheese, and a plain bean papusa. They were cooked nice and crispy on the outside, not too doughy, not too greasy, perfect masa to filling ratio and the curtido was fresh and crisp with the perfect amount of oregano (a lot ).
We ordered some tres leches to-go, so I’m not sure how it tastes, but it looks beautiful, topped with a strawberry drizzle
I would definitely recommend stopping in and giving it a try whether you’re familiar with Latin American food or not!
… moreWade van Buskirk
On the corner of G and 5th across from Vern’s furniture is this yummy place. There are corner and 5th st entrances and the space had a few rooms with mostly table and chairs, but there were a couple of booths in the way back by the large kitchen with glass topped wall to see what’s cookin. We ate pupusas and garnachas for the first time ever and enjoyed them. We had horchata and Mex coke, which were great. There were no chips or a salsa bar. An orange sauce came with the pupusas, which are sort of like flat tamales. The large green bottled sauce on the table might have been good when it was opened, but it has a old oxidized taste to me. The jalapeno and cheese pupusas were pretty awesome. Both our plates came with a small pile of pickled slices of jalapenos with onions and carrots, so there was adequate heat provided. I missed eating tortilla chips, but it’s not required I suppose. The meat and greens on the garnachas was very good, sort of like little meaty tostada’s but not too crispy, so no crackups. A table was set up on the sidewalk for making pupusas on a walkabout, sweet. We will come back to try more Guatemalan food.
… moreMark Bradt
Amazing food. Freshly made tortillas. Famousa beer in the liter size. Great green salsa on the tables. Not to be missed.
… moreQueen of Cups
When I walked into this restaurant, I got the impression that they had just opened and were still fixing/figuring things out… but I guess that they’ve been open for at least 8 months now. I did like that it was an open kitchen and how clean everything was. The food was mediocre in flavor. The dish I liked the most that I ordered so far was the jalapeño and cheese pupusas. Everything came out hot and fast, too!
… moreDYJ1948
Very nice place with friendly and caring staff. We had the chili relleno and the garnaches with a bean and pork puposas. Overall, the food is very generous with large portions. But my relleno could be warmer and the garnaches shells were a bit too stiff. Also everything needed a bit more flavor and the condiment on each table was a picamas hot sauce that was perfect for my relleno and the garnaches.
… moreRobert Malloy
Ordered on DoorDash. Got a pollo tamale, pork & cheese / jalapeño & cheese pupusas, & garnachas. Tamale somehow tasted like a straight black olive, pupusas were cold, & garnachas were literally soggy from so much salsa. To top it all off, ordered Mexican Cokes and were given Diet Cokes. Disappointing because wife and I were so excited to try a new place.
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