La Mexicana Bakery

The best tamales I had in decades. Better than my grandmother’s and aunts. Usually restaurant tamales aren’t good but these are moist, meaty and have a really good masa mixture. I can’t wait to visit Grand Island again. I’ll have these to look forward to every time hopefully.

Mmmmm love coming here to satisfy my taco cravings. I’m from Santa Ana, CA plus I’m mexican so I’m a mexican food snob. This place is pretty great. Haven’t tried the other things on the menu but the tacos are delicious! I really wish they had horchata.

There restaurant has great food and the market has great Hispanic bread ex for one of the lady’s there that was a little mean this place is great

I had to write a quick review this place… I found it just like every other Unilocaler did, and I too was skeptical bc the lack of reviews like one of the other Unilocalers wrote.
Let me just tell you, this place is the REAL DEAL! It’s as authentic as being in Mexico! I had a few different things (see pics) and ALL WAS SLAMMING!!! After eating in the restaurant I went over to the bakery side where as soon as you walk in you’re slapped in the face with a killer aroma of baked goods… Needless to say I grabbed some sort of Mexican pastry there and it was good as well. If I am ever in this neck of the woods again I’ll stop by here for sure!

(The first part is about the restaurant that’s attached to the bakery.)
So I walk in one day, take a look at the menu, and decide that I want the Camarones a la Diablo (literally «Devil’s Shrimp). I order it, and she tells me I can’t have it because it’s too hot for me.
Now I’m thinking she’s saying that it’s too hot for take-​out because it’d burn my hands as I walked back to my office, but turns out she’s saying it’s too spicy. After I assure her over and over again that it’d be okay, she shakes her head and finally starts making my order.
I didn’t say this, but I’m thinking: Girl, have you seen Asian people eat spicy food?
So anyway, while she’s cooking, I head over to the bakery/​store section to buy some spices and baked goods. They’ve got a pretty solid selection. But then again, so does every Mexican store in town. The one thing that sets La Mexicana apart is that they have good in-​house tortillas (which you can also buy in various stores around town).
Now I know you’re all just anxious to hear about how my food turned out. It was wonderfully delicious and not at all as spicy as I’d expected. In Western gastronomy, it’d probably be categorized under «extra spicy,» but in true Asian restaurants, it’d be «medium spicy.»
Anyhow, I’ll be back. And she better not give me the «it’s too spicy for you» speech again.
:)

Every time I go in here I always get Al Pastor tacos. I don’t live in GI so I’ve only been here a handful of times. But I will say that everything else that I’ve seen people order it looks so good. They also offer a chips and salsa bar so you make your own salsa. It’s a ways off the interstate but well worth it.

This is a bakery that I probably should go into but I’m too busy with my knucklehead stuff. In the mean time I gotta Unilocal about their fabulous tortillas.
In the olden days GI had its own brewery, ice house, 2d largest horse trading market in the nation, largest sugar beet factory outta GW in Colorado, yada yada yada. But this place is a tortilla factory and like all the other stuff right under your nose you don’t realize it.
I was at the Hy-​Vee and they had a big tortilla sale. Who knew making tacos was a big Super Bowl thing? I haven’t made mexican food at home since I was a kid and it was the whole Ortega mess.
I made a breakfast burrito for myself, like I seen on the Travel Network, and OMG the tortillas were like incredible fresh floury heaven-​sent white angels…
I’m talking about tortilla Heaven, I don’t know if you can get em in your town but these are fresh goddamn tortillas
NB I uploaded a photo in case you want to locate in a store, as well as the «factory» which I think looks kinda cool for an old downtown