Very first visit this decades old Sw Detroit Mexican restaurant and full grocery store. They have a full Bar and Meat counter for shopping after your meal . The reviews are mixed good n bad, we had a very enjoyable experience. They Famous for the Gorditas, got a Carnitas filled Gordita Marvelous . They bring 4 Salsas and Chips once seated, fantastic all of them. She ordered three Quesabirria Taco's with Consume for dipping absolutely delicious. Low prices only $21 for our meals, going back soon for more. Just one glitch our waitress forgot the 2 each Taco's Campachana and Al Pastor, Oops Alexa glad you didn't charge for them. @larositadetroit #mexicanresturant #gordita #quesabirria #consume #lowprices read more

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The tacos are really good and reasonably priced, except for the TINY guac could be priced lower. I ordered to go but inside there's a little market attached. The staff was friendly overall. Neighborhood a bit questionable at first but we walked over to the park. read more

Overall the food was pretty bad. My family went there and the food we ate made us pretty sick. My Mom was hit the hardest as she still has stomach pain from eating the bland salsa and the disgusting steak. My burrito had way to much salt even though 99.99% of the times we go there it's usually bland and doesn't have that much flavor. read more

Great food, good prices... do not let the neighborhood scare you. You'll have to park and walk ... it's worth it! There's even a small market attached where you can find central and South American essentials & treats. Personally, I enjoy a guava soda to go with enchiladas... but they have everything, even the candies for the kids. I recommend the enchiladas lunch special -- best $5 you'll spend. It fed me for 2 lunches! read more

I have gotten lunch at La Rosita weekly for a few years now. 99% of the time I get the enchiladas lunch special. It's freaking delicious. And, for $4.75 you cannot beat this deal anywhere!! Half the time, I bring home some left-overs. (The key is to fill up on chips...) You get a basket of tortilla chips when you sit down, with three kinds of salsa. The enchiladas are consistently delicious. The servers who know me just say, "The regular?" and I say yes because if it ain't broke, why fix it? I have also had the Pollo Americano (Mexicano?) with the jalapeno peppers. This is also a tasty dish. I took my son here several times and La Rosita became a go-to destination for him too. The interior is not fancy, but I have always found it inviting and relaxing. The staff are always friendly, if sometimes you have to call a server over for a water refill (I drink a lot of water). By the way, half the interior of the building is a grocery store, where you can buy some south-of-the-border food and candies. La Rosita isn't fancy "haute cuisine", but I give it five stars anyway because I just love the food, the people, and the prices are very hard to beat. Often when you go in La Rosita, you'll see a table covered with peppers that are being deseeded, or some cactus being cut up. That gives you an idea that this is a down-home place. I love it. read more

I really thought this place had promise when I first heard of it. It's a bit off the beaten path, open quite late, and the combination of restaurant and market seemed a good idea. The market turns out to be a small cooler or two and a few short shelves tucked into a back corner of the place-- not much, but better than nothing in a pinch I suppose. The dining room is quite spacious, with booths lining two walls and tables elsewhere-- except for right under the multi-TV kiosk suspended from the center of the ceiling. The space is large enough, though, that I thought it would make a good party room if they'd just turn off the annoying TV and push some tables to one side. The problem here is the food-- actually the food and the smoke, though the latter will be resolved by law soon enough. La Rosita is the source of the scariest-looking and weirdest-tasting ceviche tostada I have ever encountered. Probably I'm spoiled by the Acapulco truck and LaTerraza's shrimp-rich renditions. The La Rosita version was silver-and-black striped, presumably from the skin of whichever unfortunate fish was sacrificed to make it. Needless to say, a high proportion of fish skin does something very bizarre and unappetizing to the texture of ceviche. The pollo taco I also ordered wasn't much better, with the chicken covered in some unidentifiable whitish substance. At least the onion and cilantro were present and accounted for. Unfortuantely there don't seem to be many trash barrels on the street right around there. read more

Whoa! This place is awful! And I read the reviews on here and they were wrong! To the review said don't let the neighborhood scare you-beware as we were there some guy was getting beat up across the street and there was blood all over. The service in this place is terrible they had to bring out a translator, I asked the girl if they had something and she had no idea what it was and I explained to her again and she said yes so I ordered the menudo and it had no hominy in it it was terrible. The salsa is bland taste very tomatoey... The enchilada sauce was rancid.. and the corn tortillas tasted like Play-Doh. They had the audacity to just go ahead and add the tip in.. believe me I would not have left that tip and that should be illegal. You leave it too for the value of the service not to make up for the wages that the employer is not paying the server. And it is also a store and nothing in the store had prices on it so that's where they get you. It looked pretty dirty back near the meat, I would not buy any meat from that place. I'm only giving it one star so I can post my review but I would not give it any stars. I'm tempted to call the health department on them. read more

This hole in the wall place is soooo great! Delicious authentic Mexican food! Also they have a shop where you can buy all kinds of snacks and knacks. The fajitas are a must with guac! read more

La Rosita - Mexican Near Me - Detroit, Michigan

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This is an excellent authentic Mexican restaurant. Do not let the neighborhood scare you. Go here

Excellent lunch menu fresh and delicious very satisfied with my meal however the service was a bit slow. Friday at 12 pm for lunch was delicious but slow. However the meal was worth the wait I loved it! 4/5 stars. read more

Excellent horchata here, good food with extensive menu, small general store too I usually get the tacos here which are pretty good (also it's maybe the only place that serves fairly hot salsa verde) - though you'll also find great birria, tortas, and gorditas. The menu is huge - lots to work through. The place is very roomy and the walls are all lined with booth-seating which I like, not to mention a ton of windows, which gives this place a bright environment compared to most cavernous restaurants around vernor. It has a very home-like feel to it, in a way that other comfy hole-in-the-wall restaurants don't. It would be easy to bring large parties here too. Being in company of more than 6 can get really hard in southwest, but not here. (They might also cater too, as I've seen them carrying out to a van large tin trays of rice and meats - but you should double-check). There's a small general store area in front of the register where you can get snacks and other pantry items, meats, hot food) They have some of the best horchata in town here. It's as good as Sr. Lopez, which beats all others. They do up micheladas in really big glass mugs too. I think there's a full bar. Service is always above par. (and they get just a few bonus points for having a keep-you-guessing tv display... sometimes it's Latin American futbol league, sometimes it's SpongeBob SquarePants) read more

La Rosita - a view of a restaurant from the street - Mexican Near Me - Detroit, Michigan

Great food ,cooked to perfection, I have been at this place few times everyone I left the place with a smile on my face ,great job guys.

This combination Mexican restaurant and grocery leaves a lot to be desired on both counts. I guess if you are on foot and live close this may be an option but there is much better Mexican food in taco trucks close by and better groceries in the neighborhood. The only strong feature of this place is a decent looking fresh meat counter with cuts found in Mexican cooking. read more

Went as a large group. Handled us well. I liked the horchata. And my shrimp fajitas were sizzling hot and tasty. No disappointments... I'd go again. read more

La Rosita - a man sitting at a table in a restaurant - Mexican Near Me - Detroit, Michigan

Just had La Rosita's steak tacos for the first time, they were excellent. Love that they have 99 cent tacos on Tuesdays. We will return.

This place is good & authentic. I had 3 tacos, lengua & carnitas, delicious & rather large. The salsa was great with good heat. Also sampled a tostada & enchilada both tasty. Refried bean & rice also good. Guac was just ok, but the michelada was the best ever. read more

La Rosita is a taqueria and super(?)market that does an excellent job at both. The restaurant opened five years ago in a building that was a Polish restaurant fifteen years previously, but whose owner (if local history can be believed) met with tragedy. They've fixed up the place very nicely, with a very open and spacious seating area in 2/3rd of the building and a market and meat counter in the remaining portion. (Great chorizo and other meats, if you're looking for it.) Very comfortable decor. The menu is large and diverse, with a large selection of different meats and preparations - in addition to the ordinary stuff, you can get chicken tinga, beef lengua, and most notably the birria (goat meat) that Detroit's Mexican restaurants are famous for in a number of different dishes. They've got tacos, tortas, burritos, botanas, gorditas (not the Taco Bell variety), breakfast dishes, some really excellent soups, and all sorts of entrees. Their chile rellenos, in particular, are the only Michigan examples of the genre to receive approval from my California-raised wife. I've had around half the menu and have loved almost all of it. (Lengua has been hit or miss - but that might be my mood. It's not fair to blame them for my failure to fully appreciate menudo - just couldn't eat very much of that kind of honeycomb, you know?) Though I recommend it, I will admit it's not the best Mexican restaurant in Detroit - some preparations are a little too oily, presentation isn't a strong suit, and while their chips and salsa are really good, they're not quite good as Senor Lopez, the (IMO) #1 place around here. But they're in the top 5-10% in the metro area and very seldom disappoint. Make sure to have their horchata or jamaica drinks - an excellent addition to any meal. They've got a reasonably large fenced parking area across Springwells. read more

Having spent the past 3 weeks in the Dearborn area on business a group of us ventured out one day to find something new. We decided to just leave it to chance and ended up down on McGraw st. We were almost about to turn around when we spotted La Rosita! The exterior looked a little rough ...but we decided to take a chance anyway. Man, am I glad we did!! So much so that we have all gone back for more 4 days in a row!!! Besides the fact that the restaurant is also a local area market, our first clue that we had stumbled upon a hidden gem was the complementary trio of salsas and bowl of lime slices that came with the tortilla chips. The Verde and fresh salsas were mild and flavorful and the Roja was a couple of notches higher on the heat scale. All were homemade and fantastic! Speaking of fantastic, the first thing you will notice in the upper lefthand corner of the menu are the soft tacos. Most are only $1.25 each with the exception of the Campechanos (grilled steak and sausage with cheese!) which were $1.50 each. Onions and cilantro are added for free upon request. We've sampled almost everything on the menu (and one or two items that weren't!-the Carnitas dinner was excellent!). My personal favorite was the Guisado de Puerco which comes in a red sauce but I recomment that you have them prepare it with half red and the other half with the green tomatillo sauce. For a foodie like me this place is Nirvana! ...and I travel, a LOT! So, if your ready to leave your comfort zone behind, and taste some real, "like mama use to make", mexican food, this is the place! However, if you prefer your sandwichs on plain white bread with the crusts trimmed off, this place may not be your cup of tea. read more

Good food, good service, good prices, excellent salsas, cold beer. A good, solid choice for Mexican food.

The arrachera steak is the best in southwest. The waitresses are always great and I like being able to pick up some essentials from the small market inside. read more