18-07-2025
REVIEW: Tin Can Kitchen launches summer 'Al Pastor' menu
The 'Al Pastor' menu at Tin Can Kitchen in Newport features a variety of dishes packed with "bold" flavour.
The range includes an Al Pastor Burger, Al Pastor Dirty Fries, Al Pastor Burrito, and an Al Pastor Pizza.
All the dishes are inspired by Latin street food and feature smoky, slow-cooked pork in a rich adobo sauce, pineapple, and lime.
The Al Pastor burger (Image: Tin Can Kitchen)
The burger, made with a Welsh beef patty, is topped with the Al Pastor pork, pineapple and lime salsa, and Honduran crema.
A pot of homemade queso is served on the side for dipping.
The Al Pastor Burrito is a "proper handheld feast", packed with spicy adobo pork, Mexican rice, pineapple salsa, and other fixings.
The Al Pastor burrito (Image: NQ)
The Al Pastor Dirty Fries are piled high with melted cheese, the smoky Al Pastor pork, pineapple salsa, and more of the Honduran crema.
The Al Pastor dirty fries (Image: NQ)
The standout item on the menu, however, is the Al Pastor Pizza.
A "summer flavour bomb", it features the slow-cooked pork, homemade marinara, melted mozzarella, and a zesty pineapple lime salsa on the signature house-made dough.
The Al Pastor pizza (Image: NQ)
The pizza is also served with queso and Honduran crema for dipping.
The team at the Argus had the chance to try the new summer menu and were left impressed.
First up on the menu was the Al Pastor burger, a beef patty topped with Al Pastor pork, pineapple, lime salsa and Honduran crema.
While some people may seem sceptical about pineapple on a burger, for us it just brought the delicious juiciness of the pork and pineapple to the fore of the dish, and gave us something uniquely tasty.
The Al Pastor menu (Image: NQ) The same could be said for the Al Pastor burrito, which we even had cut in two because it was so loaded full of Mexican rice and the spicy adobo pork which gave it a real kick as an aftertaste - you certainly won't forget what you just ate with this monster.
The dirty fries with piled high with melted cheese, smoky Al Pastor pork, pineapple salsa, and that dreamy Honduran crema are always a popular highlight with us here at the Argus, and these were a right delight.
There was a perfect mix of slightly sweet pork and the pineapple salsa, juxtaposed brilliantly with the Honduran crema.
Which part of the Al Pastor menu will be your favourite? (Image: NQ)
However, by far our favourite element of the new menu is the Al Pastor pizza, topped with slow cooked pork in a rich adobo sauce with a zesty pineapple lime salsa and small chunks of pineapple.
While there is an ongoing debate about whether pineapple belongs on pizza, in this case, it absolutely does, providing that extra sweetness to one of the most delicious pizzas we have ever tasted."
The menu is available for a limited time only.
