La Michoacana

This is one of my hidden gems for good olé home cooked meals at super cheap, cheap prices .
Wide assortment of dishes prepared fresh and ready for you to devour. Pay at cashier first then order your food.
Grocery store/​fresh produce/​meat market

Actually not a bad place to get your various meats and sausages for a cookout. Pre-​marinated fajita skirt steak is a MUST!
I love this place too as you can get great tortas and other lunch time foods. Also is a great place for picking up more hard to find latin foods (horchata mix, fresh tortillas, pan dulce).
The bakery provides a decent selection of Mexican sweet breads (not the organ meat but actual bread… google it and you’ll know what I mean)
Prices are decent but I wish they’d put the pre-​marinated fajita meat on special more often.
A great neighborhood place to get all you will need to your next backyard cookout.

Great meat. I bought the skirt to cook a mexican style arrachera and the quality of the meat was excellent.

do: go get flank steaks for fajitas
own a grill before you decide this
browse the fruit section. it’s pretty good.
don’t: get high on your dads old opiates from ‘nam, listen to the dazzling
killmen super loud on your headhones and expect your 9^th
grade spanish to get you anywhere. much less the person that
drives you there.

Before moving to the DFW area, I had never been to a Michoacana before and really did not know what to expect on my first trip. I have a friend that lives in this area, and whenever we did Sunday bar-​b-​qs we would go to LM to buy fajita meat. The meat counter is quite extensive and comes with preseasoned and tenderized beef and chicken fajita meat along with a multitude of other «treats.» If you so desire you can buy chicken feet, cow tongues, tripas, and all kinds of other organ meats. Most people are grossed out by this, but when cooked well these are actually some of the tastiest parts of an animal. LM also sells a small selection of fruits and veggies you don’t typically find in major grocery chains, and often at pretty cheap prices. The selection of imported beers is pretty extensive and very reasonably priced.
My favorite part about LM is the fact that they have a small diner within the store which serves up tasty platters. You can get menudo, but only on the weekends. I have had better at other places, but theirs is still pretty decent. The portions are pretty large for the price you pay, and the food is absolutely heavenly. Don’t expect to find the healthiest meal here though, usually the food is dripping with grease… but makes it oh so tasty! So far I have had the carne asada, pastor, menudo, and the gorditas. The gorditas are by far my absolute favorite as they are stuffed with just the right amount of meat and fixins as to not burst open when you take your first bite. The aguas frescas are also very good. They usually have three to four flavors on hand such as horchata (a cinamony rice milk drink), melon (cantoloupe), and jamaica (a hibiscus flower drink)…all are super refreshing on a hot day. They also usually have a stand outside where you can purchase helotes served with traditional toppings such as mayo, lime, chile powder, and a little bit of cheese.
The only downside to the place is that it may be a little difficult if you don’t know Spanish. Intead of actually ordering at the counter, you have to tell the cashier your order, prepay, and then take your receipt to the cook who will make your meal. So you can’t always just point to a number or something, you have to actually be able to tell these people what you want. Usually they know a little bit of english and typically understand what you are asking for. I have never had an issue here in the past.