La Poblanita

I'm not sure when this tiny Mexican grocery opened but I noticed it a few months back and was determined to stop in. Glad I did. In a town with little going on in the food category save a sketchy downtown mom & pop joint serving exceptionally uninspiring chow and your typical sports bar-set-em-up bad swill joints across the road a ways, De Soto is a proverbial food desert (take Steve's Meat Market out of that equation though, an exceptional stop).This little grocery is bringing your typical dry goods, Jarritos, Mexican cokes, canned goods, ground and whole spices, facilities for phoning dinero home to family south of the border and a lot of other things you'd expect, including a few fresh vegetables in the back. But on Saturday... fresh tamales, some of the best I've had in ages. Show me where you can get these elsewhere this good because I chase this stuff all time. Not to be found this moist, this bursting with flavorful pork and falling apart, savory goodness. Score!!!Now I don't know who is making these tamales but they were in a styrofoam container and bags of 6 inside of freezer bags, still warm as in right out of the oven. Holy guacamole, tasty plus.I adore little joints like this. The young lady working the front counter said her family used to run a Mexican restaurant so apparently whoever is running this knows what they're doing.Came home with some ground chilis (spices) which make your every day chili so much more interesting, and big jug of Mango Jarritos, the perfect complement to the tamales. And with that, I'm now off to eat 2-3 more of these delicious little packages. Great place, check it out! Better yet, make a trip to Steve's Meat Market down the road on a Saturday and stop in here for a package or two of those tamales.If you come: in a small strip mall next to a gas station, convenience store a couple of minutes off the main De Soto exit on the West side with Lexington Ave. being the main highway that bypasses the town. Don't be looking for a web site or Facebook page, none that I can find.