El Compadre Grocery

I heard through the grapevine that «there is this place» that has an awesome little counter at the back of the store that sells Salvadorian food. Being hungry, I finally went on a quest to find it based on a vague description of its location. It is a Latino grocery first and foremost I suppose — they have a good selection of food stuffs to include produce, meat, fish & shrimp, and packaged pastries/​baked items. But I went in search of some comida autentica salvadorena.
When you find your way back to the counter they have a picture menu in spanish as well as english. There was a surprising amount of choices. There are platters with beef, chicken, fish, plantains, etc. as well as some soups (beef, tripe). I was torn between the pupusas and tacos. After asking about the chicken and barbacoa tacos the lady indicated I best get the tacos de barbacoa so I followed her advice.
It was a great choice, you get 3 tacos on double corn tortillas full (!) of tasty barbacoa with some fresh cilantro, onion, and tomato sprinkled on top. They were awesome, some of the best barbacoa I’ve had. Did I mention they were full of meat? I could hardly finish all three. They also provide an awesome habenero salsa which has a strong kick balanced by a fruity component — not sure what’s in there but I drenched my tacos in it.
It’s not too hard to find but somewhat out of the way and you won’t necessarily see their sign while driving down Route 7 since that road SUCKS! and is fully of crappy drivers. It is basically across the street and a little bit more west from Panera Bread Co. It’s in it’s own little strip mall section. If you hit Raaga Indian restaurant you’ve gone too far. The barbacoa tacos were $ 7.49 but well worth it I think. Next time I’m going to try the pupusas though, I think they were only like $ 3.