San Francisco offers a veritable cornucopia of places to see and experience that include many dining options (Oriental, Asian, European, Latin American, Middle Eastern, etc.) throughout this city by the bay. On a recent return visit to the city my wife and I decided to seek out the lesser known dining venues focusing on Central American fare. Following the trusted advice of family members we decided to focus on the Mission District (Located in east-central San Francisco). We started our journey from the top of Daly City and ending up at the Embarcadero (about 9 miles driving distance) staying on Mission Street from beginning to end. After crossing over Cesar Chavez Street, the neighborhoods, shops, and general appearance of business buildings, apartments, and residential homes began to take on a different appearance as well as the locals, signaling we were in the Mission District. Local (primarily Latin American and Mexican) restaurants are practically on both sides of every block along with the ubiquitous liquor stores, low end nightclubs, neighborhood clothing stores, fast food chains, grocery stores, and clusters of people and students waiting the catch public transportation. We decided to try a Nicaraguan restaurant called ‘Las Tinajas’. Local ratings for this establishment were good and aside from the lack of available parking (took several trips around the block until we found a spot) it was easy to find. Entering this cafeteria style restaurant we found ourselves at the tail end of a long line. The clientele was predominantly Hispanic (as one would expect) as were the ladies behind the serving line taking food and drink orders. The menus were in plain view, posted on the walls with the Nicaraguan dish names (and an English translation to the right). Brushing off my conversational Spanish, we ordered ‘Nacatamales’ (Nicaraguan tamales – unique and nothing in common with the Mexican version) and drinks (Horchata – jicaro seed and milk and Granadilla – Passion Fr

The most expensive microwave food I ever had, I'm from Nicaragua took my husband and his friend to Las Tinajas thinking I was going to impress them, and what happen we all got sick, all our was re warm in the microwave, I talk to one of the server and ask her why was everything cold and she told me that they cook everything early in the morning for the day. And the lady behind the counter act she is doing you a favor by you eating there. I wish we had a more decent Nicaraguan restaurant in SFO