E & L Supermercado

E&L is the type of market that you find in Mexico when grocery shopping. Its big well stocked and has a huge staff of people running around taking care of every detail.
Their produce section is a bit pricey but you can find things that you will need for essential Hispanic cooking. Don’t forget to check out the cheese counter and also the meat counter which is the star of their show.
I like this store because you earn points when you shop here. And FYI Mira, they also carry religious candles and florida water at good prices. In case you are doing a sacrifice for Santeria you can get everything from the tongue to the tail in the frozen meat cooler. yes it’s specifically prepared so you can use it to take care of your spiritual business.
IMHO, E&L is the best grocery store in the Livernois & Vernor area. I’m glad that they are open 7 days because that means I can always get one of their juicy delicious whole chickens which are cooked in the store. This place is delicioso.

E & L is an excellent grocery story. Notice that I didn’t include «ethnic» in my description. Yes, it is cramped, busy, and somewhat chaotic, but I always find everything I need here — and more. And even when the lines look long, they are fun and move quickly.
E & L reminds me of an old school neighborhood grocery, and it seems to serve that function in southwest Detroit. In addition to offering all standard groceries, they have a super-​sized full service butcher counter, bakery, hot take out, and excellent produce departments.
They make homemade baked goods in both US and Mexican varieties. Most of them are showcased just to your right as you enter the store. If you don’t pay attention and miss them, look over your right shoulder, and they should jump out at you. The bolillos (medium, puffy, white bread rolls) are always fresh, along with a wide variety of other bread and sweets.
As you walk in on the left, you’ll find fresh packed meat and fish. They carry a wide range of cuts and parts, tongue, heart, feet, ribs, along with all the traditional ones. If you can’t find what you want, keep looking or ask. We have purchased smoked turkey legs and wings, chicken feet, chitlins … While the packaged selection is excellent, up into the store to your right, the butcher counter is vision to behold. The array of beef, pork, lamb, chicken, etc. is broad. They have marinated meats, ready to take home to cook, and they will cut meat any way you like. Do you see a beautiful pork shoulder? They will cut it for curry, tacos, roasts …
If you keep walking along the glass of the butcher counter, you’ll come to a deli-​style counter. There are cold prepared foods, and you can order hot food for take out. Ask what tastes good. Watch to your right though, as there will often be people waiting in line well into some of the aisles.
Between the butcher and deli counters and the dry grocery aisles, you’ll find a couple of refrigerated cases for miscellaneous dairy products. They have a good selection of liquid yogurt, cheese, and the like. There is more cheese in the refrigerated section at the end of the deli. I am particularly fond of the Mexican farmer cheese that is repacked in house. It is salty and delicious, a perfect treat for the drive home.
The far end of the store contains produce. In addition to standard offerings, their options for Caribbean and Latino fruits and vegetables are vast. There are always excellent avocados, plantains, and mangoes, but we’ve also found jicama, sugarcane, quince, papaya, breadfruit, and so many other treats. In one of the corners, you can usually find «stew packs» with carrots, potatoes, celery, onions, ready to throw in a pot.
The aisles in the middle contain all standard groceries and an excellent selection of Mexican soda (Jarritos, Goya), candy, cookies, seasonings. They also carry a good selection of soap, cleaning products, and cookery.
Whether you shop E & L like a regular or like an adventurer, it is a great place to pick up your essentials or find something new and interesting. Enjoy.

Drove 2 hrs to check this place out and was not dissapointed. The selection in the meat department was great and had some hard to find pre-​packed items as well. We got there just as the bakery items were brought out fresh. The produce was nice and fresh and pretty well priced. The staff is super friendly and courteous. Don’t forget to get some fresh food from the kitchen too, great food and good selection.

Best prices, best selection, less likely to be out of a product. I’m a fan. Prepared food is better than most restaurants in the area.

This place is bodacious on a serious tip. Love it.
I love supermercados my first time in Cali, I stopped at Cardenas in the desert and was like what what? Why don’t we have these types of places back home?
So as soon as I got home started researching found this place as well as honeybees and a few other smaller places in the burbs.
E&L was love at first visit. Not as cool as the Cali type of supermercados but I’ll take it. The meat selection
is great and they have a taqueria which is pretty sweet too. Offering tacos, rice, beans tamales etc. There is good produce as well as an impressive selection of cheeses, salsas, and speciality items of the mexican variety very reasonable as well as a loyalty program and coupons via email.
I wish there were more. like in my neighborhood
I would gladly be their duchess.

Every time I hunt down authentic hard to come by ingredients for filipino dishes, I come here.
Their staff is very helpful and always delighted to serve. I buy all my nasty bits here, from tripe, chitterlings, to pig ears, they have it all in stock. It’s not hard to find them either because their staff knows every nook and cranny of this store. I heard they have a taqueria station as well. It’s not just the nasty bits they sell, their normal meats (as americans would call it) are also very good and priced very well. They even have ready made and marinated meats to take home for the semi home made cooks.
Anyways, this place is amazing. I don’t know what else to say about this place. It’s just a pure delight to shop here.
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This is where I have been coming all my childhood and until I moved to San Diego life. My dad comes here all the time to get all his meats for BBQs. I have never eaten anything else when my dad bbq then E & L Fajitas. My parents also but Mexican Fideo (Vermicelli), rice, beans, conchas supplies. It is very clean and the people are very helpful, The service has been constituent since childhood– good service.

I love this store. Their deli features fresh authentic Spanish foods. The prices can’t be beat anywhere. They feature a spice section with prices that are less expensive than the chain-​grocery stores. I bought 6 Ounces of Marjoram for $ 2.00. The store is clean. The workers are friendly and helpful. They offer a diverse choice of meat-​bundles too.

Great meat counter and everything you would want Mexican at great prices. I would give it 5 stars if they had a better diary section. Small yogurt selection (for kids?!) Good Mexican cheeses but thats about it. Meh milk selections. Shopping in the city is still it and miss for me.

«Livin La Comida Loca!»
What a great little gem of a place.
I couldn’t be more thrilled today-​having driven down on a lil’ foodie adventure to check this place out.
This place is every bit worth the drive and shopping experience, if you are in to Latin grocery markets, carnecerias, and food stalls… this is your place.
I was transported back home to SoCal the moment the doors opened up. «AHHHHHhhhhh!»
If you visit, make your way to the meat section at the far end of the counter– just past the marinated meat candy. ask for the taco special– ($ 1.50 per taco). I had 2 Carne Asada, and 1 chicken. Both are great. I think I liked the Asada a bit more. «Muy Sabroso!»
If you like all things Mexicano, and are tired of knock off greasy «below average» tacos places in Detroit… then give this place a shot. Make sure to bring extra napkins with you, so you can endulge in a little parking lot dinning in the front seat of your auto.
«Bòn Apetit-​O»
P.S … And try the tamales that are wrapped in foil under the heat lamp. Ask for fresh ones… one word sums it up…“Heavenly”.

Great supermarket. We have been driving down here from the suburbs for years now for their great meat prices. We tried their hot food yesterday and it was some of the best Tamales I have every had. Awesome. The market is very clean. It is mainly meats but they also have most supermarket items as well. They sell a lot of meat and cut to order as well.

Best tacos in southwest detroit. The price can’t be beat. There chips are made in house and are warm when you buy them. Avocados are 69 cents and ripe. Highly recommended.

Whilst I prefer the Honeybee Market to E&L, I must admit the the new store they built a few years ago is really quite nice.
They have the big meat counter, the huge tables of tortillas, nice produce selection and pretty much everything you want or need that is Mexican food related. I go here for meat. I like the fajita mix and varieties of marinated chicken. It’s skirt steaks galore and I love it.
They also make food during lunch hours and they cook in lard. Gracias!

I love walking into the middle of the baked goods sections. The prices were unbelievable and I bought a bunch of things, though I haven’t tried them all yet. What I have tried is good, but not up to the level of a fresh bakery. I am saving the guava turnovers for last though and hoping to love them.
Huge meat selection, though that doesn’t interest me. They don’t have the fancy products you see at Honey Bee but this place is less expensive. Produce selection is great. I was excited to see breadfruit.
Overall a nice experience.

I would LOVE to live closer to E&L, just so I could do all of my grocery shopping there! They have all kinds of delicious Hispanic foods– things that you just can’t find outside of Mexicantown. The pre-​made foods (like the botanas and nachos) are also fantastic.

My bro-​in-​law, Matt P., pretty much summed it up when he said «buy everything».
The Ben’s Fajitas (raw, marinated, get at the meat counter) are fantastic, and better than any restaurant in Detroit.
I always get those, house-​made chips and salsa, and citrus there. Last week, one of the guys in the produce department showed me the proper way to cut a lime to yield the most juice. Seriously, he took out his pocket knife and showed me. Nice.
Make sure you sign up for the points reward program!

This place has an excellent selction of meats. The prices are great and you can find itmes here you cannot find at normal grocery.

What can I say, it’s a 5 star market.
I mean, this place puts it down. The marinated fajita meat was to die for. I bought tortilla chips that were still warm in the bag, that’s flipping awesome! Do you even understand that. Oh warm flour tortilla shells, still warm from baking. ZOMG!!! There is an industrial wrapping machine there wrapping the animal they just opened a can of whoop ass on. How is this stuff so fresh!
Buy everything.

Many people have said this before me, but this is a great market whether or not your looking for Mexican goods.
They have really nice meats, a nice, very large produce section, and you’ll find more tortillas here than just about anywhere else.
My favorites are in the meat section though. I can’t find these anywhere near where I live. Al pastor, marinated carne asada, many different types of flavored chicken.
This has become a required stop on any journey I take into Detroit’s Mexican Town.

It is a blessing and a curse to work down the street from E&L Supermercado. The blessing is being that I can walk down the street to get 3 quesadillas for $ 2.99. Which is a great deal! The curse being that I am tempted to get quesadillas or tacos from the prepared foods counter everday for lunch. If you call ahead to the kitchen your order will be ready when you walk in the door. It would be nice to have an online order placing system though since my co-​workers and I spend a good amount of our time online.
My co-​workers and I have become such frequent visitors to E&L that one of the cashiers (Deanna) knows all of us by name and asks when a person is missing.