Don Jose’s

Good authentic Mexican food at a reasonable price. The fire department loves it that’s always a good sign!

This place has amazing Mexican food! Jose is very nice and always smiling and ready to help you! If your looking for excellent food, service, and a all around good place to eat this is the place you want!!! Family owned and operated. Tell them Chris from Peoria Kia sent you! You won’t regret it!

I went there because of the reviews and I have to say I am totally disappointed I asked the guy behind the counter what the special is or what he recommends and he said Mexican food he was no help in selecting my dinner. The chicken enchiladas the sauce tasted like chicken gravy the rice was like Uncle Bens box rice and the fajitas were as bland as his advice.

This Mexican food restaurant is a gem! My cousin that lives near us recommended it to us years ago, why we did try it until recently is beyond me because we were missing out! The food is cooked to order. My husband loves having their breakfast burrito for dinner. I enjoy the quaint dinning area and how the owner remembers not only our order, but who we are and some little facts about us. We will be customers for life!

Awesome authentic Mexican. Jose is a true gentleman, the food is the best!

One of the best Mexican meals I’ve had in the Valley. Really flavorful rice and beans and enchiladas. Looking forward to trying other items on the menu.

After five visits, we are convinced that Don Jose’s has the best value in Mexican food in the Sun City area. Today we enjoyed a taco salad with pork, cheese & onion enchiladas, and rice. All were hot, delicious, and with ample portions. Free salsa bar with good selection of seasonings.
Wide selection of regular and adult beverages.
The owner is usually present to ensure quality food and service.
We’ll continue to come back.
Sincerely,
Karen & Art Huseonica, Sun City, AZ

Food was perfect can’t say enough about the service. Dealt directly with owner. Great people.

This place needs some Unilocal love! I think they get jipped cause none of these old folks in Sun City use smart phones. Definitely a top Mexican restaurant in Phoenix. Great food, good salsa and cheap.

Really great food for an even greater price! Food came out quick and was delicious! Cute restaurant that’s as authentic as it gets :) manager was super friendly as well! He had a ghost chili/​Trinidad scorpion pepper extract that was a sort of challenge, and one toothpick tip dipped in it had me in intense pain but I won a bet with my friends! Was pretty neat and do the challenge at your own discretion :) definitely gonna come back again! Would recommend!

Took off a star for using styrofoam and plastic. Authentic Mexican soda and food. Salsa bar is free, up charge for chips. This is a good, inexpensive place to stop if you happen to be in the area.

Great Place! The owner is super friendly and the food is always fresh! Try their chorizo!

Jose is a great guy and he and his wife serve up some delicious homemade authentic Mexican. You won’t be sorry you ate here!

Been to Don José 10 times. Super good food. Love their beans, chimichanga and chips. On orders to go call and food is ready in 7 minutes. Great prices. Not a fancy place so I’d order to go if you can.

Normal Mexican fast food — Compare to filibertos. I ordered the polo asado burrito, I felt the burrito was on the small side. Price was decent. Large drink and burrito for $ 7.39

Five stars for the delicious food. Less for the interior but we don’t really care about that when we are enjoying our food so much. Their flour tortillas are the best ever (and I’ve made my own tho not as tasty as these), We had tacos, tostadas, beans, and enchiladas and all were very good. Don Jose’s is one of the best values with great flavors. Kudos to the chef!

This place is amazing! Truly a diamond in the rough. If you are in the lower Surprise/​Sun City area and have a hankering for great Mexican food, you NEED to stop by. Try the shrimp and steak burrito (I think it’s called Tierra y Mar). You will not regret coming here. The rice and beans are some of the best I’ve ever had as well and the owner is SO pleasant.

BAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRFFFFFFFF!!!
This place does not deserve a review. But seems how someone reported me and had my original barf review removed here goes.
The inside is tacky. There are ads on the tables, a dirty fish tank in the corner, and junk all over the walls.
I ordered adovada and my wife ordered a taco and enchilada. The adovada came with two huge tortillas that were pasty and gross. The adovada had a decent flavor but was not fresh, reheated, and stale. The beans were runny and not worthy of consumption and the rice was plain as day. All three of the salsas were disgusting. The chips were stale and tasted like old cooking oil.
My wife said her food was disgusting and asked why would anyone serve this to another person. She also said Unilocal did us dirty again with the four star reviews average. Looks like a lot of them are fake to me. But Unilocal has no way to properly filter them out of their system.
My wife also asked why have three salsas if none of them are any good. I said zero salsas are better than 3 horrible ones. I don’t know what is going on in sun city. We were only out here on business and this place came up on her phone, but this is maybe one of the worst Mexican food I have ever had in my life and I have had a LOT of bad ones. Even the horchata was disgusting and it came out of a machine!
This place should be shut down and Don Jose should get into another line of work. No idea how this place is in business. It is pure taste bud and intestinal torture. He should serve this slop at GITMO and would get more info out of the terrorists than waterboarding ever could.
Something tells me this glowing review won’t make ROTD but it’s how I feel after regretfully eating here.
BAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRFFFFFFFFFFFF!!!

Non chain real Mexican food in Sun City? Wait, what?
Is this fancy pants? No.
Is this blow your mind creativity/​complex flavors? No.
Is this a place that puts décor/​ambiance above the customer service and food? No
What this place does have is:
Good quality home made food.
An owner who not only cares about his customers but works with what they are in the mood for.
Has daily specials.
Has a fast turn around.
Has a salsa bar.
Is a family run, family feel good food in a crappy location. Prices are more than reasonable. Know that your busy time will be lunch hour and then the 4:30 — 6:00pm Sun City dinner dining timeframe.
Say hi to Jose’. He’s the real deal.

This place would have 5 stars from me if it weren’t for the tacky interior design. I can’t do half stars so this place will get my 4…
I was visiting my father-​in-​law over the weekend for his birthday. We stopped by Don Jose’s before starting our day. I was recommended the chorizo and the chile relleno burritos. The chile relleno sounded really good, and was going to go with that until I saw the lengua burritos. I LOVE lengua. Could not pass up the opportunity so I went with the lengua burrito (which defaultly *is this a word?*) comes with onions and cilantro.
I ordered the lengua burrito with sour cream and guacmole in it. It was SOOOO DELICIOUS. I’m salivating right now thinking about how good this burrito was. The burrito was a pretty nice size. Bigger than a ½ lb burrito from Taco Bell, but smaller than ones at Chipotle. The flavor. The texture. The combination… It was heavenly, and filling. The lengua was cooked perfectly.
The service here at Don Jose’s was very attentive. I believe the owners is the man himself and his wife. They have about 4 sauce selections to choose from. There was a dark red, a regular tomato/​pico de gallo salsa, green salsa, and I forgot what else. I loved all of them but I’m a huge fan of the green. The burrito could go without the sauce, but I’m a well known sauce bandit so it was pretty saucey.
With the order, we ordered a California Burrito, Chorizo Burrito, 2 Ham and Egg Breakfast Burrito, and a Sausage and Egg Breakfast Burrito. I took a bite out of the Chorizo Burrito, it was pretty good. Greasy like how a chorizo really is, but the burrito packs a (heavy) flavor punch.
When I come back to Arizona to visit again, I will definitely have to make a stop to Don Jose’s. Not sure if I will go with a new burrito though… Lengua has been on my mind since then.