Dina, the head cook (and pupusa connoisseur), owned El Rinconcito Salvadoreño in Koreatown for 20 years with her mother. After a long business journey, they decided it was time to close its doors in 2012.
Dina began to travel more frequently to El Salvador and fell in love with her native country again. She noticed the pupusa was constantly being reinvented with different flavors unheard of back in Los Angeles (garlic, pepperoni, hawaiian to name a few).
She started experimenting with these recipes on her family & friends and they fell in love. This is where she began to fall back in love with cooking and her business mind started up again.