Across the Pond and around the corner.

We all know I love food that isn't from our own country. Ok, we'll be honest, I like all food, which is why I'm more than happy to share my love of it with you.

This weeks installment on this old hou..s... Wrong show again, sorry! Onto a better start: So I needed a beer, and Rabbit needed comfort food. So we go to where nobody knows my name, but there are way too many beers, and an English Breakfast: Crown and Anchor Pub. Now at this point I'm not 100% sure this is only in Vegas, but honestly? For the Vegas Natives, I think everyone has gone here at least once.

Be warned this place is normally fairly busy so service can be a bit slow, and hectic. But it's worth it. In a room that's dimly lit with beer signs around the room (It is a lovely day for a Guinness, I might add), on a slightly wobbly table (because I seem to always get that table), your food will make you want to bow to the Queen and slap a republican.

I order my beer (a Black and Tan, so really two beers), Rabbit gets her coke/pepsi/normal thing, and we set about reading the menu. I got the Yorkshire Pudding, because I'm used to getting it and it being like a small pot pie, Rabbit got some Mozzarella Sticks, because that's how she rolls, for starts.
Ok the pudding here is it's own dish of meat-loving-goo and a big ass chunk of bread, and a glob of peanut butter/honey mix that all goes together and makes me gyrate my hips at the scary Gun Store employees that were in the same room with us.

For Dinner, I had a British Burger (Stilton cheese makes the difference here), and Rabbit had a Pastie. Now I hadn't had stilton cheese before, turns out it's kind of like bleu cheese, good thing I enjoy that. A Pastie is meat and veggie in a flaky dough bun thing.
And awesome burger and a gread flaky pot pie type thing. At least in my not-so-humble-I'll-punch-a-baby opinion

The food here is always awesome, they have random specials. music, darts, it's an English Pub in Vegas. Go eat there.
Now.

Las Pupusas

O...M...G. Being the curious rabbit I am, I asked a group of my coworkers if they knew anything about pupusas. I, being from the Midwest, know little-to-nothing about Latin American cuisine and so, I ask those who have more experience than me. I got a suggestion from my friend, Junior who is married to a Salvadorian lady, that pupusas were extraordinary and yum-tastic. Trying to describe them is rather lacking, but I'll give it a try. Envision flour puffy tortillas, stuffed with meat, cheese, herbs and spices and some sort of magic ingredient that makes you want to hump them... they are then fried in the deep fryer for a few minutes (until they're hot, not like they're chicken wings or something) and slapped onto the plate.. kinda like savory tortilla dough nuts.... kinda.

He was not mistaken in the slightest and he recommended a little place here in town, simply called Las Pupusas. The one he sent us to was WAY out in new North Las Vegas, on West Craig road, but they do have other locations (Flamingo and Eastern as well as one near Valley View and Desert Inn). At any rate, it was a great adventure out into never-never land for the pupusas.

Kobold ordered three of the "combination" pupusas (which, I may add, are only $1.50 each. W00t!) which include pork, spices/herbs, cheese and loveliness. They're pretty big on their own, but you know we're fatties so we ordered more. We also had sweet corn tamales (4 of them, served with beans and sour cream for dipping) and chicken enchiladas which were huge, delicious and served with beans, rice and all the fixings. Everything here was absolutely delicious and, dare I say it, didn't make my tummy do flip-flops. Even better!

The food was quick, prepared on-the-spot (you can see into the kitchen - this is big points for me because you KNOW it's clean and you can watch your food being made. Rad.) and came in huge portions. It's reasonably priced and good enough for us to think about trying out other pupusa locations so we can judge them up against this place.

Long story short? I love my co worker and will honor his suggestions any time!