Best food ever!! Great service Great deals I love the hot food! I love the deli Everyone is so nice, they sell out everyday read more

I had a better experience at Honey Bee this time around. I decided to skip the deli counter. This is the place to shop if you're looking for dried chilies! The produce section is well stocked with items that actually look super fresh. Don't leave without grabbing containers of house made salsa and tortilla chips. I buy flour tortillas in bulk and freeze them for later use. They are on a different level than the brands you find in chain grocery stores. They lack that disgusting preservative-heavy flavor that's meant to allow products sit on shelves for months. read more

Honey Bee La Colmena - Dried Mexican chilies, chips and salsa, local Italian loaf and miscellaneous spices. - Mexican Near Me - Detroit, Michigan

Freak'en awesome place, we bought flour and corn tortillas. Cheese enchiladas, carnitas, refried beans all the salsa's and guacamole. Big family dinner going to bean awesome read more

Honey Bee La Colmena - Mexican Near Me - Detroit, Michigan

Just the best! Such a great place to get fresh salsa, pico de gallo, guacamole and that is the beginning! I love their chips, fresh produce, fresh meats and hot foods! The go-to place for all the sauces, tortillas, seasonings, speciality items and hard to find items from Mexico. A super enjoyable place to shop, browse and spot items you don't see at your local grocery chain store. The service is always friendly and the Honey Bee is very clean and well kept! read more

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Worth the trip for yummy Mexican food. I had a carnitas taco, and hubby got 2 beef tacos. We bought pork tamales and chicken enchiladas for later along with fresh guacamole and salsa. Everything was amazing!! read more

Honey Bee La Colmena - Beef flour taco - Mexican Near Me - Detroit, Michigan

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Best chips in town and they are THE tortilla plug, whichever local brand you're loyal to, they've got it. Produce is fresh, extensive meat market. Dry goods - including beans and chilies that you can't find anywhere else. Best avocados in town. Hidden gem of a hot bar with prepared food - switches up daily. Fresh tamales and enchiladas. Love to grab a pan of enchiladas, pop in the oven while I'm putting away groceries from the weekend stock up, and serve for lunch with their house made salsas and pico. read more

Big Shout Out to Honey Bee Market in Southwest detroit. Clean, well organized, great staff, very fresh produce, good meats, reasonable prices anf grest prepared foods. Worth the trip read more

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Beautiful market with excellent produce excellent herbs, fruit and vegetables. It also has excellent prepared foods for sale.

I have been coming here since I was a little girl. The tamales, chorizo, and chips & salsa are my go to purchases. If you need other groceries you can find them here too. Whenever I visit home, Honey Bee is always on my list of stops. Service is friendly too. Oh and the piñata selection is decent. Lol. read more

PROS: Wow! A great selection of most anything Latino. Exceptional produce and sauces. One of the best hot food counters (if not the best) in the area. The store is more symmetrical, more open and easily traversed than other supermercados in the area. Super friendly staff. A dozen hand-made tamales for $12.99 was an outstanding value (for comparison, a Mexican restaurant near my home charges close to $30 for a dozen tamales to go). Decent parking lot. CONS: Located on the other side of the tracks from the Vernor Ave main drag, so it's not really built into the neighborhood. Felt like I was in the outskirts of the action. Much more urban blight surrounding the store. SUMMARY: Great store. Can't go wrong shopping here. The hot food counter and tamales stood out from other stores in the area. read more

Food is great for breakfast stop in the morning on your way to workor schools the chizo wraps are my favorite there because I 'm a breakfast person and believe that breakfast is the most important meal of the day for salival. Service is excellence always A1 employees are helpful and go out their way to assist you if you need something and than we can't leave out the ambience is great bright and pleasant very clean and organized market read more

Some of the people they hire to work the takeout counter... words fail me but they obviously do no training and turnover is high. They have posole, a hominy stew, on Fridays. First hint of a problem was when the woman was fishing around with a ladle for the right balance of hominy and meat. Jeez already, Just scoop it up and put it in the cup, job done. One woman told me she couldn't scoop it from the bottom because giving away too much hominy would, I don't know, come out of her pocket or something. Do you know how cheap hominy is? One guy who was cool told me "she's not my boss." Today was the worst, the girl was putting extra effort into making sure I got nothing but broth, I tried to tell her I wanted some hominy, or lacking that at least a balance and I finally told her to forget it and she continued to bag it and price it and hand it to me. I hadn't seen her there before and I won't see her again as these people select themselves out but if they put any effort into screening the new hires there'd be no problem. read more

Love grabbing sides for dishes. Lunchtime there are a ton of people grabbing hot meals from the deli read more

Great little market right near one of the major bridge crossings. Our team was famished by 1pm so two of us went out in search of sustenance. This place was highly recommended and I saw the sign for tamales outside (always draws me in!) My coworkers and I shared a bag of tamales and everyone was pleased. I think it was a dozen or so for $13..masa had the right texture and thethey steamed easily in the industrial microwave. Will come here again when in the area! There were so many yummy things available in here to eat. read more

If you're craving a delicious breakfast burrito, Honey Bee is the place to go! I always opt for the chorizo burrito, but honestly, all their flavors are fantastic. The burritos are hearty and packed with flavor. Just be sure to get there early--they're popular and sell out quickly! read more

Honey Bee La Colmena - Breakfast Burrito - Mexican Near Me - Detroit, Michigan

Recently moved here. I am Mex-Am and we lived in Chicago for a while. This is where we go for our produce and our Mexican ingredients. Fresh produce, nice selection of tortillas, and the hot food is pretty decent, not epic but good. I like the pozole when available and I will sometimes get the rice and frijoles as well as the guacamole and dress it up a bit when i get it home. Nice selection of Mexican cheeses and dairy. It's not particularly big but its comfortable place to shop and the prices are reasonable. It's clean and well organized and shelves are usually well stocked. Staff is pretty helpful and nice. It is becoming a go to place to shop. read more

clean, well stocked, nice location, parking spaces available, good customer service , brought a giant pig bank - something i didnt realize i needed with all the loose changes hanging around my house read more

Well as you can see I come here for my mangos. I know they serve food here which is great but when you are down here by Southwest Detroit there are too many taco trucks to explore. This grocery store is fast for any food thoughts that you might have. For us it's fast and convenient just around the corner. We like that fact that it's here, we just think it should be open until 9:00 pm. We like it more because the management themselves like what they do. That is providing a good sense of their latest product and provide a very good happy medium. The customers here always feel safe when we come around good feelings here for being in the neighborhood. We love to shop here especially in environment that is not stressful. Which at times it s hard to find in a grocery store. That is all. Chief Bring sense of your best when it comes to setting the example. read more

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I've been a Homey Bee customer for decades, I walk to the store regularly. I have 3 Airbnbs & I send my guests to Honey Bee. I know employees by name & we share stories. Well yesterday that all came to an end when I tried to return a quart of half & half, it had 5 more days until the expiration date & it had curdled. Lindsay was very rude towards me & did not want to give me a refund because I did not have a receipt. Finally she begrudgingly gave me a store credit. That is a horrible way to treat a customer who has been shopping in your store for decades. I never complain or return products & that certainly wasn't the first time I've had milk go bad from Honey Bee read more

Love their tamales. I will drive any length of time just to come here for their tamales. I buy them fresh & frozen.

Great place to shop, very clean, well organized displays ... Love the Salsa, Guac, and other fresh store made foods for when I want a quick meal that is "Delicioso"! Every aisle is loaded with wonderful foods. read more

Maybe the newer of the super-mercados in the area and likely catering to Corktowners more than Mexicantown residents but it was much easier to navigate with a lot less foot traffic on the aisles. The produce was beautiful and the meat selection looked really fresh. Lots of cool and interesting finds around the entire store. read more

This place is amazing. The meat counter is second-to-none, and their chorizo sends me into orbit. Hot sauce and seasoning selection are top notch, as well as staples like rice, tortillas, fruits, and veggies. Aisles are a little cramped, but it's a city grocery store, so that's common. Everything is incredibly clean and well-maintained. Meat counter and cashier workers are top notch. Friendly, helpful, and knowledgeable! This is one of my go-to grocery stores, and I highly recommend it! read more

During a recent trip to Detroit Gad the pleasure of visiting this old favorite. Such a great variety of Latin inspired foods. Has expanded since I left Michigan and I'm happy for them! read more

While Honey Bee is a much needed market/grocery store for this community - the hidden food counter in the back corner is the gem of Honey Bee. their home made chips and salsa are to die for and are a necessity every time i come grab lunch from here. You can't go wrong with their guacamole either. For $5 everyday the back counter (the hidden gem) has a lunch special that is out of this world. Personally, my favorites are Tuesdays and Fridays. read more

Honey Bee La Colmena - Mexican Near Me - Detroit, Michigan

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Bad customer service, the milk I bought was expired, Dead wasps everywhere bushes were poorly taken care of very over grown Overall hated it, drove 3 hours from Canada to Detroit for The honeybee, wasted my time -Norma read more

This gem is only 12 miles from my house. We are so lucky to have an authentic Mexican Grocery in our town. The people that work here are all wonderful people. It is my favorite store to shop at. read more

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Wonderful store to find authentic Mexican food. Was also able to find utensils to make Mexican dishes. The staff was very friendly and will definitely be back. read more

I LOVE the B. I've been a lifelong customer for roughly forty years. Their lunch specials and hot food section is superb. The grocery store itself is kept immaculately clean. Produce is always fresh and organized. Great selection everywhere. Good customer service all around. Today was the exception for good service. Wednesday. July 26th. 630PM. I asked the produce guy for corn with husk on. He told me he couldn't do it and to come back tomorrow and ask. WTF, mate?! Every other time, I got my corn no problem. I used to work there, I know how bothersome pausing stacking tomatoes and going in back to grab some corn can be. But it's called customer service. Drove out of my way to their rivals to get my corn. But now I have happy little grillable corn, which is nice. I created a Yelp account simply to call out the lazy produce guy. I wanted to also give attention to how great the B really is for balance. All food pics are mine, made with ingredients from the B. ‍‍‍ read more

Outstanding selection of fresh vegetables and meat, as well as packaged ingredients/condiments for Latin cooking. I only stopped in to look for some dried chili varieties that I have a hard time finding even at some Mexican markets. I found them, in the midst of many, many others. Then I turned around and saw I'd only been looking at the small bags! So many peppers to simmer, so little time.. Very easy to find with abundant on site-parking. Was tempted to try the take-out window but I came a little early for lunch. Picked up some housemade guac and salsa instead and both were excellent. Salsa veggie bites were very crisp. I'll be looking for an excuse to return. read more

Great place for Latin American specialty groceries! This is my go-to when I need tomatillos, nopal, epazote, etc. They also have great fresh and frozen tamales (my favorite are the cheese and jalapeño ones). I will say that the prices are a little higher so this isn't my standard place for weekly supplies. read more

Amazing place!! Like Cantoros in plymouth for italian but Mexican food. Hot take out lunches available. Tons of detroit police eat here. That should tell you how good it is! Extremely clean and organized! read more

They have places like this in Texas.I lived there 10 years Honey Bee is as good or better in my book.

A Detroit institution, it's part of our city shopping trifecta (+Eastern Market and WF) but you could easily do all your shopping there. At this point my body is at least 20% Honey Bee guac and 20% Honey Bee green sauce. read more

The bacon breakfast burritos are very good they have green and red sauce both of them very good. I like the green the best for $1.99 and .50cents for the sauce close to work. read more

As if we didn't already love this place enough...Today I was in with my little cousins (to pick up the delicious premade enchiladas for the easiest dinner ever). One of them accidentally hit a tray, which tumbled to the ground and broke up onto the floor. I brought it up to the counter to pay for ($25...not a small amount!) and was told not to worry about it. I definitely expected to pay for it since it was entirely our fault, so I couldn't believe the customer service today. Thank you, Honey Bee! We will continue to be loyal customers :) Best chips, best guacamole, best enchiladas and tamales. We are so lucky to have this spot in our neighborhood! read more

This is my go to for ALL things Hispanic. The produce and meats are always fresh and the spice selection is incredible (not just the expansive selection of Goya products)! After shopping I always have to buy 4 or 5 dozen freshly made Tamales. My family usually finishes off 2 before we even get home they are THAT good. Definitely the place to shop if you're planning on making something authentic and delicious! read more

I enjoy browsing the aisles and discovering the premade dishes here. They oftentimes have guacamole or salsa with corn chips by the produce area. They sell cactus and every ingredient you could possibly need for whatever Latin inspired dish you are craving. They have a meat counter as well as a large section of cheese. This is a one stop shop for taco/fajita, burrito night at home or for a party. They have a decent dairy cooler on the back end of the store and have quite a few cash registers for their busy days. read more

Great place to buy groceries for Latin cooking. Their house made guacamole is excellent and their chips are as well. The produce has always been good quality and they have a very good selection. I stopped in earlier today and had some of their prepared food for lunch. They had the Steak a la Mexicana which came with tortillas, beans, and rice. The food was excellent and the service was great as always. read more

Yummy brfast burritos and salsa. Love fresh spices by weight and great options more than grocery stores.