If you’re looking for traditional Honduran food, Pollo K-Tracho is a hell of a fine place to start.
Open off Western Avenue for about a year, the restaurant has a full menu of Honduran staples like banana leaf-wrapped nacatamales, boiled egg-topped tacos, coconut-tinged conch soup, and various fried meats arranged on beds of tajadas, with as many things made in-house as possible, from its soursop, maracuya, and nance juices to the incredible flour tortillas wrapping your baleadas.
The wee strip mall space, which flies a huge map of Honduras over its vermilion wall, is owned by Carla Ramirez and her parents, mom Calixta from Honduras, and papa Jose, from Nicaragua. The family opened Pollo K-Tracho about a year ago, in an attempt to do for Honduran food what they did for the Nicaraguan eating experience at their restaurant across the street, Sabores Nicaragüenses.
“We were thinking of opening another Nicaraguan restaurant,” Carla tells L.A. TACO. “But I've gone to different Honduran restaurants, and I usually would try them once, and then I wouldn't go back because of the same thing: They would be lacking seasoning or something here or there. So we thought about it. I'm like, ‘Why don't we just open one up?’"