El Limeño Deli

Typical latino deli. Selection of foods in warming pans. Nothing exceptional, nothing terrible. The carne asada is pretty good, but the horchata tasted a little off. I also think they may have overcharged us, they tend to make up the price on the spot.

What a find! This business looks like a bit of a run down deli from the outside, but do yourself a favor and go in. The selection of prepackaged goods is modest at best, but the prepared hot food is awesome.
By 9:30am the kitchen has churned out fabulous breakfast dishes and is working in lunch ones. Tortillas de aguacate (crispy tortilla with beans, fried egg, and sliced avocado), eggs over easy and scrambled warmed me up. I also dipped into the lunch foods straight away. Rice and beans, plantains, cabbage salad and steamed veggies are all favorites. I will certainly be back to try the fried, baked, and grilled chicken, various soups, beef and veggies, and fish. It all looked so good! Oh also — the coffee was excellent (and I do value a good cup of coffee).
This seems to be family owned or at least family operated. While the steaming trays appeared from the kitchen carried by one woman or another, a few kids bounced around in various states of getting ready for school. It doesn’t make for a quiet morning, but you feel like your part of a big family getting ready for the day.
Two plates (four items total) and a coffee came to $ 8.40. Bargain! Go ahead and treat yourself next time you’re in the Port Jeff area.

They have a number of food options; about fifteen or twenty veggie and meat dishes. The pictures outside suggest hamburgers and chicken sandwiches, but most of this looked like traditional Peruvian or Salvadorean food. I had a really nice tamal here, with beans and cream on the side. I think the total cost was about $ 3. The tamal was tasty, but wasn’t served in the normal corn husk. Rather, it was wrapped in aluminum foil. I think the smaller aluminum foil packets had pupusas — I will be back to check. The plantains looked awesome, but I was too full to eat any.
The restaurant has a few simple tables and chairs, nothing fancy. There was a tv playing soccer when I was in, and a radio playing banda music quietly. In the back of the restaurant there is another room with a pool table; not sure if this is for customers or not. The sign on the door says «and grocery» but it’s not really a grocery — there is a shelf of Peruvian and Salvadoran pan dulce, and another with banana chips and hot sauce.
Don’t bother looking for directions on Google — for some reason, none of the Latino-​owned businesses on this block are listed there or on Unilocal.It’s a block west of the train station on Main (25A).