Pupuseria El Paraiso

The owner is the sweetest lady, very personable. The food was fantastic. We ordered the pupusas, sopa, tamales de pollo and pollo milanesa. Will be returning to experience the breakfast!

Best place I have ever had chicken tamales and the most awesome milanesa!! I highly recommend this place:)

What better way than to celebrate independence day for (Salvadorans) & Hispanic heritage month than to support a local new place! I may be biased because I grew up with home-cooked salvi food but I am so incredibly happy to have something like this in Jacksonville! We lack this so much and I'm excited to have Pupuseria El Paraiso. Although they only serve a few things on certain days, I thought they had a great selection of things. I'm hoping to see more traditional holiday foods and drinks. Hoping they'll bring back the traditional horchata (they only had the Mexican version today) as well as the shrimp cocktail. My family and I tried their pupusas, steak tacos, Carne asada, yuca meal, Quesadilla (Salvadoran Sweet Cheese Cake), and Empanadas de Leche o Frijol (Plantain Pastry Stuffed with Milk Custard or Fried Beans). All tasted like home! I loved that the pupusas especially do not taste like they've been frozen but more made to order. Their tacos are also more traditional but tasty (note that they're smaller than what others are used to and come with just onions, cilantro, meat, and sauce 🤌🏽).

The service was wonderful, attentive, and informative. Location is great, especially during the week and those who work around the area. Parking is easily accessible, too.

Ambiance was super cute - decorated with Salvadoran decor that I haven't seen since I was a kiddo. Loved seeing the different attire the servers had as they represented the culture well! Overall, super pumped for this restaurant and can't wait to be back to try more things!

So happy this place has finally opened !! We got the special and a bunch of pupusa’s to try and it was so good ! Made fresh and made fast! Can’t wait to try the tamales!

I have been waiting for this place to open and to my delightful surprise I stopped by the plaza to run an errand at a different shop and saw it was open. The pupusas were the best I’ve had. Hands down 🙌🏼 Run, don’t walk!