Michigan’s Best Local Eats: Saginaw’s Cruz Thru cooks up award-winning tamales

SAGINAW, MI — Saginaw’s Cruz Through Mexican Kitchen is now open and serving its award-winning tamales on Genesee.

The brand new restaurant, positioned at 2525 E. Genesee Ave., opened in Might and celebrated its grand opening in late June.

“We’ve two hottest gadgets, and that may be the menudo and the tamales,” stated Raquel Rocha, who owns the brand new location together with her cousin Michael Cruz. “We do common, gentle and sizzling (pork tamales), and so they all go immediately.”

The menudo is Rocha’s favourite, and clients like it, too.

“We get lots of good response on our menudo, after which our diced beef burrito is a finest vendor,” she stated.

Michael Cruz, alongside along with his father, Santos Cruz, owns Cruz Kitchen, a market with greater than a century of historical past on Saginaw’s East Aspect. Cruz Kitchen will proceed to function at 1200 Martha St.

Rocha stated Cruz Through had acquired an outpouring of assist because it opened.

“We’re getting lots of assist from the Saginaw group, so we’ve been blessed,” she stated.

Discover Cruz Through Mexican Kitchen on Fb for extra data.

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