La Esperanza Restaurant & Bakery

22832 S Western Ave, Torrance
(310) 626-6578

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Burrito Mojado Con Salsa Verde
Enchiladas Guatemaltecas
Churrasco Guatemalteco
Guatemalan Tamales
Desayuno Ranchero
Plato De Pupusas
Tres Leches Cake
Caldo De Res
Chilaquiles
Pupusa Plate

Menu

Featured items
Pupusas
A salvadorian specialty large corn tortillas stuffed with cheese and other ingredients. Mix and match your ingredients in any combination (up to 1 ingredient $0.50 after each added ingredient)
Plato de Pupusas
Two pupusas accompanied with rice and beans up to 1 ingredient (cheese alreday included). *Shrimp is not included
Tamal Mexicano
Mexican style spicy tamales. Your choice of chicken green sauce, pork with red sauce or jalapeno and cheese.
Tamal de Elote
Sweet corn tamales with grains of corn inside the dough.
Burrito Mojado
Wet burrito.
Pan con Frijoles
French roll stuffed with beans and cheese.

Appetizers
Steak Fries
Cheddar cheese sauce, tomato, onion, cilantro, avocado slices, cotija cheese, and Central American cheese.
8 Garnachas
Mini fried corn tortillas topped with guatemalan slaw, ground beef, guatemalan sauce, and fresh cheese. Served with a side of hot sauce.
Pan con Frijoles
French roll stuffed with beans and cheese.
Enchilada Guatemalteca
Corn Toastada topped with lettuce, cabbage, pacaya, beets, and carrots cooked in a beet sauce. Topped with ground beef, a flow of guatemalan tomato sauce, cheese, and slice of hard boiled egg.
Chicken Fries
Cheddar cheese sauce, tomato, onion, cilantro, avocado slices, cotija cheese, and Central American cheese.
Tostadas
Fried corn tortillas topped with 1 of your favorite topping. Guatemalan salsa, black beans, and guatemalan.
Shuco
A guatemalan style hot dog sandwich, grilled hot dog slices sitting on a bed of steamed cabbage, and guatemalan.

Sides
Platanos
Beans 16oz
Rice 16oz.
Crema 4oz
Spicy red salsa (2oz)
spicy red salsa
Pan
one small bolillo
Curtido 16oz
French Fries
Yuca Sancochada O Frita
Cassava.
Queso Fresco (2pcs)
2 pieces.
Casamiento
Tortillas
Jalapeño (2)
2 pieces.
spicy green sauce (2oz)
green sauce
Ensalada Rusa
Avocado Slices
Side de Huevos
Guacamole 16oz

Soups
1/2 Caldo de Gallina
hot soup with mixed veggies and hen giblets with hen feet. Served with 3 tortillas.
Caldo de Gallina
Central Americanhen soup. Comes with a bowl of chicken broth soup with mixed veggies and a separate plate with marinated grilled hen, garden salad, and ice. Served with 3 tortillas.
Caldo de Res
Guatemalan style beef stew. Mixed with beef yuca (cassava) cabbage mixed veggies and corn. Served with 3 tortillas.

Salads
Ensalada La Esperanza
Salad mixture of carrots, cucumbers, tomatoes, radish, crisp iceberg, and leaf lettuce. Boiled eggs, siced avocados topped with grilled chicken breast.
Ensalada de Aguacate
Salad mixture of carrots, cucumbers, tomatoes, radish, crisp iceberg, and leaf lettuce. Boiled eggs topped with sliced avocados.
Ensalada de La Casa
Salad mixture of carrots, cucumbers, tomatoes, radish, crisp iceberg, and leaf lettuce.

Side de Carne
Chicharron (Pork Chunks)
Salvadorian Chorizo
Carne
Steak
Adobada (Marinated Pork)
Pollo (Chicken)

Tamales
Tamal Mexicano
Mexican style spicy tamales. Your choice of chicken green sauce, pork with red sauce or jalapeno and cheese.
Chuchitos
Com based guatemalan style tamales, topped with flavor of guatemalan style salsa and cotija cheese. Your choice of chicken or pork.
Tamal de Elote
Sweet corn tamales with grains of corn inside the dough.
Tamal Guatemalteco
Guatemalan style tamales. Wrapped in a banana leaf. Your choice of chicken or pork. Served with bread roll.
Tamal de Chipilin
Small x 3 chipilin tamale.

Meats
Carne Asada
Guatemalan style season and grilled 8 oz flat meat select. Come with guatemalan style rice and beans, sauteed green onions, jalapeno, fried potato, chirmol guatemalan chunky tomato sauce, guacamole, and 3 tortillas per person.
Churrasco Guatemalteco
Guatemalan style meat platter. Served with slices of grilled chicken, grilled steak, pork marinated in adobo sauce, and salvadorian chorizo. Served with larger proportioned rice, beans, chirmol, guacamole, green onion, jalapenos, and fried potato. Come with guatemalan style rice and beans, sauteed green onions, jalapeno, fried potato, chirmol guatemalan chunky tomato sauce, guacamole and 3 tortillas per person.
Carne Adobada
8 oz pork grilled and marinated in adobo sauce. Come with guatemalan style rice and beans, sauteed gree onions, jalapeno, fried potato, chirmol guatemalan chunky tomato sauce, guacamole and 3 tortillas per person.

Mexican Food
Tacos
Burrito Mojado
Wet burrito.
Quesadilla Grande
Steak, chicken or pastor.
3 Tacos con Arroz Frijoles
Served with rice and beans.
Torta
Burrito Regular
Sopes
4 Flautas con Arroz y Frijoles
Chicken flautas. Served with rice, beans, and salad.
Shrimp Taco
Baja style topped with cabbage, tomato, onion, cilantro, and sour cream.
Chicken Fajitas
Served with rice, beans, and salad.
Steak Fajitas
Served with rice, beans, and salads.
Combo Fajitas
Shrimp, steak, and chicken. Served with rice, beans, and salads.
Shrimp Fajitas
Served with rice, beans, and salads.

Salvadorian Specialties
Pupusas
A salvadorian specialty large corn tortillas stuffed with cheese and other ingredients. Mix and match your ingredients in any combination (up to 1 ingredient $0.50 after each added ingredient)
Plato de Pupusas
Two pupusas accompanied with rice and beans up to 1 ingredient (cheese alreday included). *Shrimp is not included
Pupusa Revuelta
Pupusa Revuelta: Mixed chicharron, beans, and cheese.
Empanadas de Leche o Frijol
Plantain pies filled with your choice of sweet milk cream or sweet bean dip.
Pastelitos de Carne
Golden and crispy empandas stuffed with ground beef in a vegetables mix.
Vegetarian
Pupusa with Spinach, zucchini, onion, tomato, and cheese.
Yuca con Chicharron
Cassaca served over a bed of famous curtido slaw. Topped with chicharron (pork and chunks). Served wioth cucumbers tomatoes and watercress leaves.
Pupusa Pollo Con Vegetables
Veggie chicken spinach, zucchini, tomato, chicken, and cheese.
Pupusa de Camaron
Pupusa Shrimp and cheese.

Classic Plates
Pollo en Crema
Seasoned chicken breast cooked with bell peppers, onion, and tomato covered completely with a thick pool of central American cream. Comes with rice and 3 tortillas. Served with guatemalan style rice, beans, and 3 tortillas.
Hilachas
Shredded beef with chopped potatoes drowned in a pool of guatemalan style sauce. Served with a chipilin tamale and guatemalan style rice, beans, and 3 tortillas.
Pepian
Accompanied with chayote, carrots, potato, and string beans drowned in a pool of thick guatemalan style salsa. Made of pepitas, tomato, and sesame seeds. Served with rice and a chipilin tamale and guatemalan style rice, beans, and 3 tortillas.

Breakfast Mains
Chilaquiles
Mexican style sliced chips cooked with your choice of green or red salsa. Accompanied with 2 eggs any style, rice, beans, and salvadorian chorizo (longaniza). Comes with fried plantains fresh cheese, Central American sour cream, salvadorain chorizo (longaniza), your choice of beans or casamiento (rice and bean mix) and your choice of bread or tortillas.
Tipico Salvadoreno
Fried plantains accompanied with Central American sour cream and guatemalan black beans. Comes with fried plantains fresh cheese, Central American sour cream, salvadorain chorizo (longaniza), your choice of beans or casamiento (rice and bean mix)
Desayuno Chapin
2 eggs any style. Comes with fried plantains fresh cheese, Central American sour cream, salvadorain chorizo (longaniza), your choice of beans or casamiento (rice and bean mix) and your choice of bread or tortillas.
Esperanza Breakfast
6 oz steak and 2 eggs any style with side of guatemalan ranchera sauce. Comes with fried plantains fresh cheese, Central American sour cream, salvadorain chorizo (longaniza), your choice of beans or casamiento (rice and bean mix) and your choice of bread or tortillas.
Huevos Divorciados
2 eggs topped with green sauce and red sauce, divided equally in the middle. Comes with fried plantains fresh cheese, Central American sour cream, salvadorain chorizo (longaniza), your choice of beans or casamiento (rice and bean mix) and your choice of bread or tortillas.
Desayuno Ranchero
2 eggs topped with guatemalan ranchera sauce. Comes with fried plantains fresh cheese, Central American sour cream, salvadorain chorizo (longaniza), your choice of beans or casamiento (rice and bean mix) and your choice of bread or tortillas.

Cold Drinks
Horchata Salvadoreña 16oz
Salvadorian Style
Fresco de Ensalada 16oz
Mixed exotic salvadorian fruits.
Soda
Fontain drink: Coke, Diet Coke, Sprite, Fanta.
Jugos Naturales 16oz.
Orange, Carrot, Vampiro (Beets, Carrot, Orange and Celery), Green (Spinach, Celery, Cactus, Pineapple, Orange, green Apple and Kiwi)
Jamaica 16oz
Tamarindo 16oz
Apple Juice
Licuado
Milk shake.
Kolashampan
Tiky
Orange Juice From Concentrate
From concentrated
Arnold Plamer
Iced Tea
Tropical Iced Tea

Desserts
Tres Leche Cake
Flan Napolitano
Choco Flan
Cheesecake

Hot Drinks
Champurrado
Mexican thick hot chocolate beverage.
Atol de Elote
Hot corn beverage.
Cafe de Olla
Chocolate Caliente
Homemade hot chocolate.
Te Caliente
Hot tea.
Capuccino
Leche Caliente
Warm milk.
Coffee

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Recent Reviews

First time here. Drove from Anaheim due to word of mouth that food was very good. They did not disappoint. We tried Guatemalan and the Salvidorian dishes and all was great. We also did not head back home without stopping first to buy different pastries from their bakery. We'll definitely make a trip back here again soon.
August 2025
The cakes we purchased, tres leche and chocolate cake were delicious. Took them to a 4th of July party and they were gone in minutes. Everyone was raving about the cakes not being super sweet.
July 2025
Tried La Esperanza Guatemalan and Salvadoran cuisine. Tried the Pepian beef stew, garnachas (mini tostadas topped with ground beef) and empanadas filled with meat and spices. Really good flavors, hearty portions, and friendly service. The tortilla appetizers came out hot and delicious with the black bean dip.
July 2025

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La Esperanza Restaurant & Bakery

22832 S Western Ave, Torrance, CA 90501
(310) 626-6578