La Tienda Mexican San Jose is one of Whitewater’s authentic Hispanic stores/restaurants that the town has to offer. The store is located at 148 W. Main St. Customers can shop, as well as eat inside the restaurant located within the store. Some of the dishes offered are tacos, burritos, enchiladas and more. This shop has everything to offer when looking for an authentic Hispanic experience right here in Wisconsin. 

The current crew of the shop has been in the La Tienda Mexican San Jose business for three years.

“Business has been very good,” Jefferson Oniel Montenegro Flores said.

Flores is one of the workers of the establishment that handles all of the day-to-day operations the shop has to offer. One of the main missions of La Tienda Mexican San Jose is to spread the word to other people in the Wisconsin area.

“First God, make it better and spread them to other places here in Wisconsin,” Flores said. 

The business takes pride in serving the community and wishes to make Whitewater a better place through cultural enrichment. Providing high quality Hispanic foods can bring people together for fellowship. 

“Thanks to this business we can survive, and we want to serve people with love,” Daniel De Jesus Flores said. “We have many more Central American clients from Nicaragua.”

From the food offered in the restaurant portion of the store to the take-home groceries, this is as authentic as it gets.

Walking around the store, there is fresh produce available for purchase, as well as other authentic Hispanic items placed all over the store. These small family owned shops in Whitewater help keep the community thriving with economical opportunity.

Small businesses like these help people from different cultures from outside of the United States of America stay together to help maintain a piece of their home and tradition in the United States of America, but can also expand Midwestern palettes to become more attune to Hispanic flavors.