Lillian Anaya Quintanilla has been selling her golden-brown, crispy pupusas and banana-leaf-wrapped tamales at farmers markets around the Seattle area for more than 10 years, drawing customers who are willing to wait up to an hour for her food and Salvadoran-style horchata. On March 9, she finally opened her first restaurant, Lily’s Salvadorean Restaurant, in a spacious space at 2940 Southwest Avalon Way in West Seattle, which will have a full bar serving beer, wine, micheladas, palomas, and margaritas when the liquor license gets approved in a couple of weeks.
But before Quintanilla started her food truck at the University District Farmers’ Market in 2011, before she arrived
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