Photo by Stephanie Breijo
Hot dogs may be the cover star of our "Cheap Eats" feature, but inside, there's much more to be found — more than 70 dining deals and daily specials, in fact. One of these is the $1.50 pupusa you'll find at Shelly's Food - Comida Latina, an authentic Latin restaurant hidden in a Henrico strip mall. On Wednesdays, these griddled masa-dough disks are only $1 apiece, filled with pork, cheese, beans or some combination thereof, and topped with a special salsa and Salvadoran slaw. Here, we visit with co-owner and cook Araceli "Shelly" Lagunes to learn a bit more about her process, and the art of the pupusa.
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