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Can I get an OMG? You can get pupusas in West Roxbury

By adamg on Fri, 02/04/2011 - 10:15pm

On the way home from a hunt for salt this evening, I spotted an open space in front of North of the Border Mexican Grill on Washington Street in West Roxbury. I'd never been there, and figured I'd pick up some tacos and quesadillas.

But it turned out this is not your average Mexican place. The place is owned by a Guatemalan guy, and one of the first things I saw on the menu was pupusas. Pupusas. Now, I don't bat an eye at the Venezuelan arepas and empanadas you can get down the street, maybe because that place has been there awhile now, but pupusas? In West Roxbury? Get out! The menu is full of other stuff you wouldn't see at Wapo Taco or even Romano's - even a couple of Colombian dishes and breakfast.

But I went with simple: Pork and cheese pupusas. I'm no pupusa expert, but these were great. The owner - one of the friendliest and chattiest I've ever met - said I'd be back. He was right: I need to try the rellenitos, the camarones al ajillo and all the other things on the menu I've never heard of.

North of the Border: 5272 Washington St. (look for the blue awning, on the same side of Washington as Cristelle's). 617-469-2100.

Neighborhoods: 
West Roxbury
Topics: 
Dining
Free tagging: 
Mexican food
pupusas


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Comments

By J on Fri, 02/04/2011 - 11:08pm.

Dont mean to hijack this Adam, but I've been having trouble with the system that saves how many comments Ive seen over the past week. I don't know if it's the website or just me.

Basically, I check in the morning, and brand new stories might say something like:
12 comments 6 new
Even though it's new, so Ive never clicked that story.

And then in the evening, the exact same story might say
15 comments, 15 new
Even though I had clicked it in the morning.

Im on firefox 3.6.13

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By eeka on Sat, 02/05/2011 - 3:47pm.

It's doing that to me too, and logging me out even more than usual.

Also, can you make it so we can download pupusas?

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By cynical on Sat, 02/05/2011 - 4:15pm.

Same problem for me using Safari. It has been an ongoing issue since maybe a couple of months ago when you (Adam) mentioned something about a problem with counting comments properly. It improved somewhat after that, in that I can SOMETIMES see how many comments are new vs. read, but not always and never entirely resolved. It's more like the poster above described.

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By cynical on Sat, 02/05/2011 - 4:16pm.

... I'm on board with the downloadable pupusa idea.

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By Anonymous on Sat, 02/05/2011 - 4:22pm.

Eat your heart out.

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