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Santa Rosa Restaurant

3.8 (81 reviews)
InexpensiveMexican
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Moderate noise
Casual
Good for kids
Good for groups

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Chris R.

My favorite place for breakfast tacos when I'm in Corpus Christi. Their tortillas are hand tossed. Everything from breakfast tacos, to pancakes ... they have it all. Wanna pick it up to go in the drive through. Check. Wanna be serenaded by Marachis while you eat ... no problem. Absolutely the best breakfast in Corpus. Next I need to try them for dinner

Christie P.

I've been looking for a Mexican restaurant that sold tripas and I've found it!! Like every Mexican restaurant they give you chips and salsa which were good. Tripas were extra crispy and I even got to add some mollejas to my plate!

Tripa "Gordita" - we do not recommend.
Tiffany Rae T.

Just another Corpus Mexican restaurant. In my opinion, it is a hit or miss. It seems like we are satisfied but underwhelmed every time we eat here. We noticed that the quality of service has gone down some. One of the last few times we went, no one greeted us or assisted our large group to a table. It took them ages to clean it and even longer to get our drinks and place our order. I've seen them more packed before. Usually we aren't picky people and don't have high expectations, are understanding and patient, but there are some things restaurants shouldn't do, like ignore us and then never come back to our section, send out stone cold enchiladas and get upset when they literally have the grease hardened already. This is not to say their food isn't good- most of it is. But if you can find other, better establishments, maybe it's best you go there.

The enchiladas with green sauce was awesome... Completely stuffed with chicken.

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Great Mexican food. The wait staff is quick and efficient. Reasonable prices another plus. Drive thru available.

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This place is amazing! They have great breakfast at a good cost! The staff here is also very sweet and kind I can not wait to come back!

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Honestly Santa Rosa is our go to! They have so many options to choose from! Never disappointed!

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Omg.. this is hole in the wall and the food is soooooo good! They handmade their corn tortillas and they are yummy!

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Great tasting food! Finally a good Mexican restaurant in corpus! Great taste with great service

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Three words...BREAKFAST ALL DAY!! Great food, friendly staff and anyone can afford! Great for a quick meal. Breakfast was BOMB!

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With the name being in Spanish you'd expect true authentic Mexican flavor but no just another white…read morewashed Mexican restaurant. The most authentic flavor item in my lunch was the refried beans that look like poop at first sight. Rice was bland with cumin flavor and the mole was the most disappointing. Might as well have called them regular enchiladas, the flavor was basic taco mix with a tiny taste of mole. Just a thick cumin or comino paste. Enchiladas should be dripping with sauce in the inside. These were dry tortillas that were barely garnished with sauce on top. The chicken inside was very flavorul but dry. Then the 16 oz lemonade was 4$ and it was super sour ! I never leave reviews. But this was truly disappointing.

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Honestly I don't know what's up with all the 1 amd 2 star reviews. I had a wonderful experience in…read morethis restaurant My friends which are corpus locals told me about this place and decided to give it a try. At first I noticed their seating capacity they can easily sit over 100 people in their restaurant. I also noticed alot of large trays flying out the door so alot of take out orders. 2 good signs so far. The decorations were meh... so so but I love the effort some restaurants don't even try Was seated right away and the server was super friendly. I ordered a beer and my friend ordered a Margarita wow they were only a dollar from 5-7pm great deal not sure if they were good but saw a few people ordering My chicken enchiladas were bomb . Stuffed with chicken and the green sauce was good. The rice was also really well seasoned and those beans also had good flavor. Alot of restaurants are struggling and prices are going up everywhere. They can't be that bad their name is legendary in corpus and they even have 2 locations. I do have a different palette than the locals but if I. Ever In town again I will give them another try

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