Mendoza's M. Mercado - Seattle

Carlos and Sonia are my favourite and most fun store owners in Seattle area. If you want that mom and pop biz feeling (though they're young entrepreneur) ... come here! If you want tasty food... come here! If you want Mexican dry goods and fresh produce... hurry on! Try their homemade carnitas, menudo, tamales, chicarones... also get the crunchy chapulines for my fellow foodies! Oh, I never leave the store without the queso fresco, either.

Love this place, good selection of ingredients and very tasty prepared food, and totally friendly, helpful service. I drive from West Seattle to come here every ~month or so, it's one of the best Mexican markets I've found in the Seattle area.

This is such a great place! I go there at least twice a week for the amazing food and experience. It feels like I'm back in Mexico. They sell a bunch of imported products like pinatas, molcajetes, and tortilla presses. They have fresh groceries like cilantro, avocados, and cactus. Meat in a butcher case like chorizo, adobado, and al pastor. They have a case of Mexican cookies, 4 homemade salsas, and best of all they have a deli case of homemade food like carnitas, pozole on Saturdays, chicharrones, birria, and something new everyday and it's all amazing! From mole chicken to pork with cactus to a whole head of a cow! It's so good! It's a husband and wife and they're so nice!

(Oct-2020)I went on Saturday when they have birria and barbacoa tacos. The meat was clean and delicious, and I have to be honest, their salsas are the best in the area tasty and spicy (these salsas leave you wishing more). The tacos are a good size and well prepared. I really recommend trying them, If you like something authentic and good quality

I found myself there to pick up a missed UPS package and it turned out to be a happy circumstance. The food at the back counter smelled so good I picked up a couple tamales while there and they turned out to be some of the best I’ve had in a long while. I’m pretty sure I will be coming back for more tamales and to try more from their food counter pretty soon!