Jose's Restaurant

I agree with most of what is said in the other reviews... Especially about that ungodly salty velvetta cheese that they use in EVERYTHING. The cheese they use is just AWFUL!!!  It is not authentic Mexican at all. The prices were not good for the portions you got. Not that I could have even eaten another bite of that over salted cheese they use. It tastes awful.  IF THEY GET RIDE OF THE CHEESE, and started using authentic mexican cheese, I would probably try it again.

After finding this restaurant and its fine reviews on Yelp and stopping for lunch on the way through recently, I feel obliged to do my Yelp duty and leave a review.

First let me say that I LOVE hole-in-the-wall Mexican joints. Almost as a rule, they have the best and most authentic Mexican food, prepared expertly, as long as you can forgive a few gristly pieces of meat.

Jose's is a hole-in-the-wall joint, in an old building in a tiny town. But it is not good and it is not authentic.

First the good - I got the combination plate, and the beef was seasoned well, the sauce for the tamale was good and the sauces (in ketchup and mustard bottles) were good.

But, and I cannot emphasize how off-putting this is, the only cheese that was used in every dish (tostada, taco, tamale and even QUESAdilla) was American... possibly even Velveeta. Thick, yellow, melty, stick-to-the-roof-of-your-mouth Velveeta. Imagine cutting open a chicken quesadilla and seeing yellow. Or cutting into a delicious-looking tamale and seeing yellow. It's just not right. And even if it's an accommodation to the local clientele who would rather have Velveeta than authentic, it's just a really really bad choice.

Bottom line, I wish we would've stopped at Big Boy, and we needed to stop and get some cinnamon sticks at Taco Bell on the way out of town just to try to mask the flavor stuck in our mouths.

It may not be the prettiest place in downtown Cedar Springs, Michigan...but if you like authentic...yeah boy! I got the wet burrito with the works...homemade salsa so good you want to drink it! Jalapenos on the side and two hot sauces to choose from...hot and hotter!.

A large burrito floating in a sorta refried bean gravy and stuffed so full of tomatoes...lettuce ...onions...ground beef and refried beans...it hardly had any room on the plate...brings you back to yesteryear when the owners worked and lived there...memories on the wall ...needs some TLC but the restroom was neat and tidy ...what else would you need?...the soda wasn't watered down fountain and the nicest politest lady waited on me...I've been there before...always the same AWESOME!