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Las Canastillas — restaurante salvadoreño
Newark, NJ

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More than 250 dishes, from breakfast to last call. Salvadoran at heart, with plates from across Latin America and plenty of easy places to start if it's your first visit.

Craving pupusas? Pickup or delivery.

Breakfast

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Breakfast Sandwiches

  • Guanaco Sandwich

    $6.50

    French bread with fried beans, sweet plantain, and cream.

  • The Poor Man’s Sandwich

    $6.50

    French bread with scrambled eggs, fried beans, and cream.

  • The Gringo Sandwich

    $6.50

    French bread with scrambled eggs, ham, and cheese.

  • Ham and Cheese Sandwich

    $7.50

Breakfast

  • Cuscatleco Breakfast

    $12.50

    Eggs cooked to your liking with fried beans, sweet plantain, cream, and cheese, with tortilla or bread.

  • Salvadoran Breakfast

    $15.95

    Revueltos eggs with chorizo, onion, tomato, served with fried beans, sweet plantain, and cream, with tortilla or bread.

  • Traditional Breakfast

    $17.95

    Eggs served on top of 2 pupusas (revueltas, cheese, pork rind, or bean and cheese) covered in ranchero sauce, served with fried beans and sweet plantain.

  • Rancher Breakfast

    $13.95

    Fried eggs with ranchero sauce, served with fried beans, sweet plantain, cream, and cheese, with tortilla or bread.

  • Las Castillas Breakfast

    $13.95

    Scrambled eggs with Loroco flower and mozzarella, served with fried beans, Salvadoran cheese, and sweet plantain, fried beans. Accompanied with tortilla or bread.

  • Catracho Breakfast

    $13.50

    Eggs cooked to your liking with chorizo, served with fried beans, sweet plantain, and cream, with tortilla or bread.

  • Chapín Breakfast

    $13.95

    Eggs cooked to your liking with pork rind, served with avocado, fried beans, and cream, with tortilla or bread.

  • Supreme Breakfast

    $19.95

    Eggs cooked to your liking with grilled steak, cheese, and sweet plantain, with tortilla or bread.

  • American Breakfast

    $11.50

    Eggs cooked to your liking with ham, fries, and bread.

  • Country Breakfast

    $10.95

    Eggs cooked to your liking with beans, fried beans, cream, and cheese, served with tortilla or bread.

  • Plantain with Cream or Beans

    $4.95
  • Baleada

    $7.00

    Add beef, chorizo, or pork rind to your baleada for $4.00 extra.

Appetizers & Sandwiches

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Sándwiches

  • Cheesesteak Sandwich

    $11.50

    Sandwich with broiled steak, American cheese, lettuce, tomato, and cucumber. Accompanied by French fries

  • Chicken Sandwich

    $10.50

    Grilled chicken breast sandwich with lettuce, tomato, and cucumber. Accompanied with French fries.

Appetizers

  • La Jugada Perfecta

    $18.95

    An order of mini pupusas, Salvadoran empanadas, fried cassava and pork rings accompanied by spicy green sauce, spiced cabbage and tomato sauce.

  • Guanaca Platter

    $39.95

    Platter for sharing.

  • La Cabuda

    $19.95

    Chicken wings, chorizo, pork rinds over fried tortillas accompanied by Salvadoran pico de gallo and vinegar onions.

  • Fried Calamari

    $15.95
  • Ceviche Chicharronero

    $16.95

    Fried pork rinds ceviche made in a citric pico de gallo, avocado and served in a cup made of fried tostones.

  • Fried Chicken Tacos

    $9.50

    Served with chimol and Parmesan cheese (3 per order).

  • Shrimp Ceviche

    $18.95

    Shrimp ceviche made with chimol.

  • Black Clam Ceviche

    $29.95

    Salvadoran black clam ceviche with chimol and Worcestershire sauce.

  • Mixed Ceviche

    $33.95

    Mixed cocktail: shrimp and black clams.

  • Garlic Shrimp

    $15.95
  • Chicken Wings

    $10.95
  • Chicken Wings with Fries

    $13.95

The Pupusa Bar

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  • Pork Rind Pupusa

    $4.00

    1 Pupusa filled with pork rind.

  • Cheese Pupusa

    $4.00

    1 Pupusa filled with cheese.

  • Bean Pupusa

    $4.00

    1 Pupusa filled with beans.

  • Revuelta Pupusa

    $4.00

    1 Mixed pupusas (pork rind, beans, and cheese).

  • Pork Rind and Cheese Pupusa

    $4.00

    1 Pupusa filled with pork rind and cheese.

  • Bean and Cheese Pupusa

    $4.00

    1 Pupusa filled with beans and cheese.

  • Loroco and Cheese Pupusa

    $5.00

    1 Pupusa filled with loroco flower and cheese.

  • Pupusa de Ayote con Queso

    $5.00

    1 Pupusa filled with squash and cheese.

  • Pork Rind and Beans Pupusa

    $4.00

    1 Pupusa filled with pork rind and beans.

  • Cheese, Loroco, and Bean Pupusa

    $5.00

    1 Pupusa filled with cheese, loroco flower, and beans.

  • Chicken and Cheese Pupusa

    $5.00

    1 Pupusa filled with chicken and cheese.

  • Jalapeño and Cheese Pupusa

    $5.00

    1 Pupusa filled with jalapeño and cheese.

  • Chipilín and Cheese Pupusa

    $5.00

    1 Pupusa filled with chipilín and cheese.

  • Chorizo and Cheese Pupusa

    $5.00

    1 Pupusa filled with chorizo and cheese.

  • Shrimp and Cheese Pupusa

    $6.50

    1 Pupusa filled with shrimp and cheese.

  • Special Pupusa

    $5.00

    1 Pupusa filled with pork rind, loroco flower, beans, and cheese.

  • Crazy Pupusa

    $10.00

    Crazy pupusa (filled with pork rind, chicken, beans, loroco flower, squash, and cheese).

  • Family Pupusa (Monday to Friday)

    $34.95

    Giant pizza-sized pupusa.

Soups & Salads

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Salads

  • Grilled Chicken Breast Salad

    $14.95
  • Shrimp and Avocado Salad

    $19.00
  • Mixed Salad with Avocado

    $10.00

Soups

  • Beef Soup

    $14.50
  • Chicken Soup

    $14.00
  • Shrimp Soup

    $18.95
  • Seafood Soup

    $26.95
  • Creamy Seafood Soup

    $28.95
  • Cow Foot Soup (Saturday and Sunday)

    $17.95

Entrées & Traditional

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Entrees

  • San Vicente-Style Carnitas

    $17.95

    Beef or pork skewer with onion and green pepper, served with fried beans, Salvadoran cheese, pickled cabbage, and 2 toasted tortillas.

  • Choribistec

    $26.95

    Grilled hen in Corinto, USA style, served with chimol, avocado, and 2 tortillas.

  • Grilled Hen

    $21.95

    Half grilled hen served with rice, salad, toasted tortillas, and a small hen soup.

  • La Oreada Endiablada

    $24.95

    Sun dried salted steak with rice & beans, jalapeño, avocado, Salvadoran pico de gallo, & 2 Tortillas.

  • Cow Foot Soup (Saturday and Sunday)

    $14.50

    Served with 2 tortillas.

Traditional Dishes

  • Pork Cracklings with Fried Tortilla

    $11.95
  • Sweet Corn Tamale with Cream

    $3.50
  • Chicken Tamale

    $4.50
  • Fried or Boiled Cassava with Pork Rind

    $11.95

    Accompanied with vinegar cabbage salad, fresh veggies and lime.

  • Fried or Boiled Cassava with Small Fried Fish

    $12.95
  • Salvadoran Savory Pie

    $3.00

    1 per order.

  • Enchiladas

    $9.50

    Two fried tortillas with shredded chicken, cabbage, boiled egg, and cheese.

  • Cojutepeque Chorizos

    $25.95

    Salvadoran-style chorizos served in a bowl.

  • Crazy Tortilla

    $11.95

    Order of two fried tortillas with fried beans, pork rind, shredded cheese, and avocado.

Seafood, Beef & Chicken

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Seafood

  • Grilled or Garlic Salmon

    $23.50
  • Shrimp

    $19.95

    Choose your favorite preparation: fried, garlic sauce, stewed, breaded, grilled, in cream sauce, or enchilada-style.

  • Basa Fish Fillet

    $17.50

    Choose your favorite preparation: fried, garlic sauce, stewed, onion sauce, or breaded.

  • Red Snapper

    $29.95

    Market price. Choose your favorite preparation: fried, garlic sauce, or stewed.

Beef

  • Guanaco-Style Steak

    $23.95

    Salvadoran-style grilled steak with rice, fried beans, and cheese.

  • Steak with Egg

    $24.95

    Grilled steak with fried eggs, rice, and fries.

  • Skirt Steak

    $32.95
  • Steak in Tomato Sauce

    $22.95

    Grilled steak cooked in tomato sauce.

  • Steak with Sautéed Onions and Peppers

    $22.95

    Steak with sautéed peppers and onions.

  • Grilled Broiled Steak

    $21.95
  • Sautéed Pork Loin

    $20.95

    Diced beef loin sautéed with peppers, onion, and fries.

  • T-Bone Steak

    $34.50
  • Flour Tortilla Churrasco

    $20.95

    Guatemalan-style burrito served with a vegetable vinaigrette salad.

  • Churrasquito

    $20.95

    Beef served over tortillas, covered in sauce, with pickled cabbage and avocado.

  • Fried Pork Chop

    $15.95
  • Grilled Pork Loin

    $15.95

Chicken

  • Grilled Chicken Breast

    $18.50

    Choose your preferred preparation: breaded, with onions, in cream sauce, with tomato sauce, or garlic sauce.

  • Breaded Chicken Breast Strips with Fries

    $16.95
  • Chicken Breast in White Wine Sauce

    $18.95
  • Chicken Breast Cooked Your Way

    $18.95

    Choose how you’d like your Chicken Breast cooked: Sautéed, in Garlic Sauce, in Cream sauce, or Breaded

  • Chicken Breast in Cream Sauce

    $18.95

Combinations

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  • Grilled Steak and Chorizo

    $24.95
  • Grilled Steak and Grilled Chicken Breast

    $27.95
  • Grilled Steak and Grilled Shrimp

    $31.95
  • Pork Loin and Roasted Chorizo

    $19.95
  • Grilled Steak, Chicken Breast, and Chorizo

    $35.95
  • Shrimp and Breaded Fish Fillet

    $28.50
  • Chicken Breast and Shrimp in White Wine Sauce

    $27.95
  • Chicken Breast and Shrimp in French Sauce

    $28.95

Salvi-Méx

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  • Guacamole with Chips

    $12.95
  • Salvadoran-Style Guacamole

    $16.95

    Salvadoran- style guacamole! Made with onion, cilantro, and chopped hard-boiled eggs mixed into guacamole. Served with fried beans.

  • Soft Chicken Tacos with Chimol

    $10.95

    3 per order.

  • Soft Beef Tacos with Chimol

    $11.95

    3 per order.

  • Soft Shrimp Tacos with Chimol

    $16.50

    3 per order.

  • Pupusa Tacos

    $18.95

    2 per order. Two beef tacos made with bean and cheese pupusas, served with chimol and jalapeño peppers.

  • Tacos de Carnitas

    $10.95

    Grilled pork seasoned to perfection! Accompanied by onion, cilantro and avocado

  • Tacos Mita y Mita

    $10.95

    3 per order. Half Carnitas meat, half Pork Rinds!! How cool! Accompanied with chopped onion and cilantro

  • El Machete

    $20.95

    Carnitas and Pork rinds all in a freshly made flour tortilla wrap with avocado, grilled onions, cilantro and melted cheese. Also comes with a jalapeño cream sauce

  • Quesadillas Salvi-Mex

    $14.95

    You can ask for your quesadillas to be made with chicken, carnitas, chorizo! $2 extra for beef.

Kids Menu

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  • Beef Bites with Fries

    $10.95
  • Chicken Breast Strips with Fries

    $9.95

    Orden pequeña.

  • Salchipapas

    $8.50
  • Choripapas

    $9.50
  • Chicken Nuggets with Fries

    $8.50

Desserts & Bakery

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Desserts

  • Plantain Empanada

    $5.00

    Plantain empanada filled with sweet cream.

  • Corn Atol (16 Oz)

    $8.00

    Thick and creamy corn drink.

  • Tres Leches

    $6.00
  • Flan

    $6.00
  • Tiramisú

    $6.00
  • Banana Pudding

    $5.00

    Salvadoran bread and banana pudding.

Bakery

  • Peperecha

    $2.00
  • Galleta

    $2.00
  • Herradura

    $3.00
  • Marquesote

    $7.00
  • Milhojas

    $6.00
  • Novia

    $2.00
  • Oreja

    $2.00
  • Pastelito de Leche

    $2.00
  • Pastelito de Piña

    $2.00
  • Peineta

    $3.00
  • Pichardín

    $1.50
  • Quesadilla Entera

    $7.00
  • Quesadilla Personal

    $2.00
  • Salpor de Almidón

    $1.50
  • Salpor de Arroz

    $1.50
  • Semita Alta Entera

    $12.00
  • Semita Alta Porción

    $3.00
  • Semita Pacha de Piña

    $3.00
  • Viejita

    $1.50

Drinks & Cocktails

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Vodka

  • Absolut

  • Cîroc

  • Grey Goose

  • New Amsterdam

Whisky

  • Buchanan's 12

  • Jack Daniel's

  • Chivas Regal

  • Dewar's

  • Glenfiddich 12 Años

  • Johnnie Walker Black Label

  • Jameson

  • Johnnie Walker Red Label

Tequila

  • 1800 Reposado

  • Casamigos Blanco

  • Casamigos Mezcal Joven

  • Casamigos Reposado

  • Don Julio 1942

  • Don Julio Añejo

  • Don Julio Blanco

  • Don Julio Reposado

  • El Jimador

  • Jose Cuervo Especial

  • Patron Añejo

  • Patron Reposado

  • Patron Silver

  • Patsch Blanco

Rum

  • Bacardí Mojito

  • Bacardí Limón

  • Bacardí Superior

  • Bacardí Gold

  • Zacapa

  • Centenario Añejo

  • Brugal Añejo

  • Cachaça 51

  • Capitán Morgan

  • Malibu Coconut Rum

Coffee

  • Regular Coffee

    The price depends on the size.

  • Espresso

    $2.50
  • Espresso with Milk

    $3.50
  • Cappuccino

    $4.00

Drinks

  • Water

    $2.00
  • Cashew Fruit

    $4.00
  • Salvadoran Horchata

    $5.00

    Contains peanuts.

  • Fruit Salad

    $4.00

    A juice that contains pineapple juice, chopped apples and mixed fruit.

  • Tamarind

    $4.00
  • Passion Fruit

    $5.00
  • Chan

    $5.00

    Salvadoran strawberry juice with chia seeds. Seasonal

  • Hibiscus

    $4.00

    Seasonal.

  • Canned Soda

    $2.00
  • Bottled Soda

    $3.50
  • Snapple

    $3.50
  • Horchata Pitcher

    $20.00

    Contains peanuts.

  • Tea

    $2.50

    Choose the tea of your liking: chamomile green, ginger.

  • Regular Hot Chocolate

    $3.00
  • Organic Salvadoran Hot Chocolate

    $4.00

    Hot chocolate imported from El Salvador.

  • Orange Juice

    $7.00
  • Lemonade

    $6.00
  • Smoothies

    $6.00

    Strawberry, blackberry, banana, passion fruit, mango, mamey, papaya

  • Chicha Morada

    $3.25
  • Frozen Arrayán

    $7.00

Cocktails

  • Margarita

    $14.00

    House tequila, triple sec syrup, simple syrup, and lime; choose your preferred flavor: strawberry, lime, passion fruit, mango, or tamarind.

  • Súper Margarita

    $19.95

    Triple sec tequila, lime, simple syrup, blue curaçao, and a Coronita.

  • Margarita Premium

    $29.95

    Tequila, Grand Marnier liqueur, simple syrup, and blue curaçao inside a bottle of Patrón.

  • Margarita Patrona

    $28.95

    Patron tequila, triple sec syrup, simple syrup, lime, and a mini bottle of Patrón.

  • Mojito Cubano

    $13.00

    Choose your favorite flavor: coconut, lemon, strawberry, mango, passion fruit, or tamarind.

  • Piña Colada

    $13.00

    Rum, pineapple juice, and coconut.

  • Tequila Sunrise

    $13.00

    Tequila, orange juice, and grenadine syrup.

  • Sex on the Beach

    $15.95

    Vodka, cucumber schnapps, blue curaçao, orange juice, and cranberry juice.

  • Cuba Libre

    $13.00

    Rum with Coca-Cola.

  • Long Island Iced Tea

    $16.95

    Rum, vodka, tequila, ginger beer, triple sec syrup, mezcal, and Coca-Cola syrup.

  • Huracán Salvadoreño

    $13.00

    Rum, orange juice, pineapple juice, and grenadine syrup.

  • Bahama Mama

    $16.95

    White rum, coconut rum, grenadine syrup, orange juice, and pineapple juice.

  • Cosmopolitan

    $16.95

    Absolut Citron, triple sec syrup, and cranberry juice.

  • Paradise

    $15.95

    Grenadine, Malibu, pineapple juice, and blue curaçao.

  • Orgasmo

    $16.95

    Amaretto, Tia Maria, and Baileys.

  • Martini de Manzana

    $15.95

    Vodka, house syrup, blackberry, simple syrup, and lemon.

  • Martini de Fresa

    $15.95

    Vodka, strawberries, lemon, and simple syrup.

  • Michelada

    $8.00

    Your choice of beer with Clamato, sauces, lime juice, hot sauce, and salt.

  • House Red Sangria Glass Cup

    $8.00
  • Pitcher of House Red Sangria

    $28.95
  • White Glass

    $9.00
  • Red Glass

    $9.00
  • Beers

    $5.00
  • Domestic Beers

    $5.00
  • La Bala

    $14.00

    Vodka, lime juice with Kolashampan.

  • La Tenchis Tamarindo

    $16.95

    Tequila, tamarind juice, lime, panela syrup, and Tajín.

  • Surf City Spritz

    $13.00

    White tequila, soda water, lemon juice, salt, and a lemon slice.

  • Moscow Mule

    $14.00

    Vodka Tito’s, lemon juice, ginger beer, spearmint, and mint.

  • Coco Loco

    $15.95

    White rum, vodka, tequila, coconut cream, and shredded coconut.

  • Rumchata

    $12.00

    Salvadoran horchata, rum, condensed milk.

  • Spicy Margarita

    $15.00

    Tequila, jalapeño, triple sec, lime, and simple syrup.

  • Cantarito de Ilobasco

    $26.95

    PAINTED CLAY CUP INCLUDED WITH PURCHASE! Enjoy this iconic drink made in a clay mug that is hand painted and imported from the city of Ilobasco, El Salvador. This drink is made with tequila, lime juice, grapefruit soda and the flavor of your choice. With chamoy and tajin on the border of cup and a slice of lime and orange on top.

  • La Patroncita

    $22.95

    The Margarita Patrona has a little sister! Enjoy this Margarita with the flavor of your choice! (Tamarind, Passion Fruit, Strawberry, Mango, Lime)

  • La Tóxica de Arrayan

    $16.95

    Tequila, arrayan extract, lime, and Tajín with an orange slice.

  • Mangoneada con Piquete

    $15.95

    A mango popsicle bathed in tequila, chamoy, perrins sauce, tajin, lime, salt and shaved toasted pumpkin seeds

  • Vino Rosado de la Casa

    $9.00

Coffee Cocktails

  • Coffee Cocktail

    $14.95

    Make your coffee cocktail your way either fresh coffee, whipped cream and you can choose from any of the following liquors: Sambuca, Jameson, Amaretto Disaronno, Baileys, Frangelico, Kahlua, Fireball, or Liqour 43

  • Espresso Martini

    $16.95

    Expresso with Vodka, Tia Maria and syrup.

Chef Specials

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  • Seafood Mix

    $45.95

    Stewed Seafood dish! Contains: Lobster, calamari, clams, mussels, scallops

  • Red Snapper Stuffed with Shrimp in Garlic Sauce

    $40.95

    Market price.

  • Premium Surf and Turf

    $41.95

    Skirt steak topped with shrimp.

  • Skirt Steak Fajitas

    $24.95

Weekly Specials

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  • Monday

    $14.50

    Red Bean soup with bone in pork, rice and 1 tortilla

  • Martes

    $14.50

    Grilled Chicken Breast with chaufa rice, green salad, and the soup of the day.

  • Miercoles

    $14.50

    Pork chop with black rice, Salvadoran pico de gallo, and one tortilla

  • Jueves

    $14.50

    Stewed chicken with yellow rice, cabbage salad and soup of the day.

  • Viernes

    $14.50

    Baked Pernil with boiled cassava, black rice and soup of the day

Happy Hour & Events

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  • Margarita Martes

    Martes de 5 pm a 8 pm a mitad de precio. Pupusas 2 por $5

  • Mojito Miercoles

    Miércoles de 5 pm a 8 pm a mitad de precio. Chicharrones con Tortilla por $8.95

  • Cervezas Domesticas

    $4.00

    Cada cerveza $4 durante las horas felices.

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