Chula Maria Mexican Grill & Bar

52899 Van Dyke Ave, Shelby
(586) 323-9494

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Fajitas Chillonas - Sizzling Fajitas
Totopos Y Salsa - Chips & Salsa
Fadilla - Fajita Quesadilla
Fresh Dipped Flour Tacos
Camarones Al Mojo de Ajo
Mexican Fried Ice Cream
Chicken Quesadillas
Guacamole and Chips
Chicken Taco Salad
Totopos Y Salsa

Menu

Aperitivos

Camarones Locos
Deliciously seasoned, breaded popcorn shrimp.
Quesadilla Appetizer
A large flour tortilla filled with cheese, lettuce, pico de gallo, and your choice of filling. Then grilled to a light brown and cut in quarters. Served with a side of guacamole.
Avocado Chipotle Salsa
Our exclusive homemade salsa dip. Made with diced avocados, tomatoes, onions, and jalapenos. Topped with our signature Chidobo Mexican spice blend. Served with our homemade chips.
Queso Flameado
Our homemade cheese dip smothered with Mexican chorizo and hot or mild salsa. Served with flour tortillas.
Chicharrones
Our delicious, homemade, smoked pork rinds. Seasoned with our signature Chidobo, all purpose blend of Mexican spices. No preservatives added. Paleo and Adkins friendly.
Vasija de Guacamole - Crock of Guac
Fresh made, topped with diced onion and tomato. Served in a crispy flour shell with our homemade chips.
La Botana
Our homemade corn tortilla chips are smothered with beans cooked with chorizo and melted cheese. Topped with diced onion, tomato, green peppers, sliced avocado and lettuce.
Texas Botana
They say everything is bigger in Texas. Well that's how this one rolls!! All the good things of our regular botana plus more. Topped with steak and chicken fajita strips and a cheese quesadilla.
Los Nachos de Queso
Cheese topped with jalapeno.
Los Nachos el Supremo
Choose your filling then topped with onion, tomato, green pepper, green olives and jalapeno.

Sopas
Menudo
Bowl. A traditional Mexican favorite! Menudo is a seasoned soup with beef tripe and golden hominy; served with corn tortillas, lemon, diced onions, and cilantro.

Ensaladas
Ensalada de Taco
A crispy tortilla bowl stuffed with lettuce. Topped with your choice of filling, cheese, tomato, onion and green olives.
Ensalada de Fajita
Fresh lettuce topped with shredded Cleese, sauteed green pepper and onion and sliced avocado. Served with pico de gallo.

Favoritos Tacos
Mexican Street Taco Dinner
3 grilled corn tortillas filled with a choice of filling, topped with fresh cilantro and onion. Served with a hot or mild salsa verde and lime. Filing choices: chorizo, caritas, carne asada, camarones, barbacoa and pollo asado.
3 Pieces The Mexican Taco Wheel
Topped with fresh cilantro and onion. Comes with fresh lime and a hot or mild salsa verde. All tortillas are freshly dipped corn. Rice and beans are not included Filling choices: chorizo, carnitas, carne asada, camarones, barbacoa, and pollo asado.
6 Pieces The Mexican Taco Wheel
Topped with fresh cilantro and onion. Comes with fresh lime and a hot or mild salsa verde. All tortillas are freshly dipped corn. Rice and beans are not included Filling choices: chorizo, carnitas, carne asada, camarones, barbacoa, and pollo asado.
9 Pieces The Mexican Taco Wheel
Topped with fresh cilantro and onion. Comes with fresh lime and a hot or mild salsa verde. All tortillas are freshly dipped corn. Rice and beans are not included Filling choices: chorizo, carnitas, carne asada, camarones, barbacoa, and pollo asado.
12 Pieces The Mexican Taco Wheel
Topped with fresh cilantro and onion. Comes with fresh lime and a hot or mild salsa verde. All tortillas are freshly dipped corn. Rice and beans are not included Filling choices: chorizo, carnitas, carne asada, camarones, barbacoa, and pollo asado.
Fresh Dipped Flour Tacos
3 soft flour tortillas filled with your choice of filling and dipped in canola oil. They puff up and get crispy golden brown. Topped with lettuce, tomato, and cheese. Filling choices: ground beef, chicken and beans. Other fillings are available for an additional charge.
Tex-Mex Tacos
3 hard or soft corn tortillas or soft flour tortillas, filled with either ground beef, beans or chicken. Topped with lettuce, tomato, and cheese. Other fillings are available for an additional charge.
Vallarta Taco Dinner
3 soft flour or grilled corn tortillas filled with your choice of shrimp or fish. Topped with our avocado chipotle salsa and queso fresco.
Puffy Tacos
2 raw hand-made corn meal tortillas dipped in canola oil, til they puff up and get crispy. Topped with lettuce, tomato, and cheese. Filling choices: ground beef, beans or chicken. Other fillings are available for an additional charge.

Favoritos Burros
Burro de Fajita Dinner
Steak or chicken fajita sauteed with green peppers and onions. Rolled in a tortilla with American cheese, lettuce, and tomatoes. Cut in half and served with guacamole.
Burro Jalisco
Your choice of filling is rolled in a tortilla with American cheese, lettuce, tomato, and avocado slices. Filling choices: chorizo, carnitas, carne asada, barbacoa, or beans.
Burro Especial
A large flour tortilla with your choice of filling and topped with vegetables, lettuce, tomatoes, and onion or homemade chili with beans and cheese.
Steak El Gordo Burro
Crispy flour tortilla filled with Angus beef chunky steak, rice and beans. Topped with homemade chili with beans, cheese, lettuce, tomato, and onion. Rice and beans are inside.

Favoritos Enchiladas
Enmoladas - Mole Style Enchilada
Choice of filling and we add homemade tropical mole sauce inside and out, topped with queso fresco.
Rancheras - Village Style Enchilada
Choice of filling, topped with a mild red sauce, lettuce, tomato, onion, and queso fresco.
Nortenas - Northern Style Enchilada
Choose your filling, topped with either a mild red sauce or a hot or mild salsa verde.

Mas Favorites
Homemade Tamale in the Husk
Filling choices: pork, chicken, beans or beans, and jalapeno.
Tamales Nuevo Leon Style
Melted cheese and a mild salsa verde on top. Filling choices: pork, chicken, beans or beans, and jalapeno.
Tostadas Mexicanas
2 flat corn tortillas topped with beans and your choice of filling followed with lettuce, tomato, cheese, and avocado slices. Filling choices: beans, ground beef, and chicken. Other fillings are available for an additional charge.
Chihuahua Chimichanga
A large flour tortilla filled with ground beef, beans, or chicken. Crispy fried and topped with light cheese. Garnished with a little lettuce and tomato. Served with a side of mild red sauce for topping. Other fillings are available for an additional charge.
Fadilla - Fajita Quesadilla
A large flour tortilla filled with cheese, your filling, and sauteed onion and green peppers cut in quarters and served with a side of guacamole.
Quesadilla and Soup
A large flour tortilla filled with cheese, your choice of filling, lettuce, and pico de gallo. Cut in quarters and served with guacamole. Served with a cup of soup.
Flautas
3 flour tortillas filled with either Angus beef, chunky steak or chicken, rolled up and crispy fried. Served with guacamole.
Sopes
2 small fried corn masa bowls filled with beans and your choice of filling. Topped with lettuce, tomatoes, and queso fresco.

Plant Based Plates

Tacos Mas Alla Dinner
Beyond tacos. Grilled corn tortillas, filled with beyond meat. Topped with fresh cilantro, and onions. Served with fresh lime and a hot or mild salsa verde.
Flautas Fantasticas
3 flour tortillas filled with beyond meat, and crispy fried to a golden brown. Served with a side of guacamole.
Simple Ensalada Taco Salad
Crispy tortilla bowl filled with lettuce. Topped with beyond meat, tomato, onion and green olives. Comes with a choice of dressing.

Combinaciones
Don Pancho Combo
1 chile relleno, and 2 enchiladas filled with ground beef, beans, or chicken, and topped with a mild red sauce, or hot or mild salsa verde. Other fillings are available for an additional charge.
Dona Maria Combo
Our homemade chile relleno, filled with ground beef and 2 homemade pork tamales topped with a hot or mild salsa verde.
Rio Bravo Combo
1 enchilada, 1 soft taco, and 1 little burrito. Filled with either ground beef, chicken, or beans. The burrito is topped with lettuce, tomatoes and onion. Other fillings are available for an additional charge.
Monterrey Combo
1 beef hard taco, 1 chicken enchilada, 1 beef and bean tostada.

Especialidades de la Casa
Sizzling Fajitas Especial
Served with lettuce, cheese, pico de gallo and guacamole.
Bistek a la Tampiquena Especial
The real Tampiquena, just like they make it in Tampico, Mexico. Handcarved. Savory and tasty Angus beef fajita steak or topped with camarones locos.
Camarones Borrachos Especial
Created here, inspired by Mexico. Large gulf white shrimp sauteed with green peppers and onion then doused with a hot or mild salsa made with Hennessey VSOP cognac you will love the flavor!
Camarones al Mojo de Ajo Especial
Garlic shrimp. Gulf white shrimp sauteed in garlic and butter.
Regular Milanesa Mexicana Especial
A deep fried, breaded, tender chicken breast plain breaded with an avocado salad on the same plate.
Milanesa Mexicana Ranchero Style Especial
A deep fried, breaded, tender chicken breast no salad but with a mild red salsa and melted cheese on top.
Pollo en Mole Especial
Chicken in mole. 2 char-broiled chicken breasts topped with our homemade tropical mole sauce. Inspired by Puerto Vallarta, our homemade mole is a tropical creation; sweet and spicy-soooo good!
Chile Relleno Especial
Stuffed peppers. 2 poblano peppers stuffed with your choice of filling. Topped with mild salsa ranchera and cheese. Filling choices: camarones, carnitas, chorizo, barbacoa, ground beef, chicken or cheese.

Huevos y Mas
Huevos Con Chorizo
3 large eggs scrambled with Mexican pork sausage.

American
The Big Loco Burger
2/4 lb. all-beef patties grilled and topped with cheese, bacon, lettuce, tomato, onion and mayo.

Bebidas
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Recent Reviews

Above average Mexican restaurant. Chips come with mild and/or hot sauce. They serve traditional food at reasonable prices. Nothing stood out bad or good. The meats were seasoned and the vegetables were fresh. Our party was satisfied, and we will probably come back.
June 2026
So I have been to this location multiple times and feel like leaving a review after all the times I been here. This place is above average not the best but not bad.Service is definitely dependent on the time I go because it seems like when it is busy the service goes down but that is expected. I almost always go on a Wednesday to take advantage of there Chicken Fajitas special. Food quality is best I can say is okay to good. Chips are as I can say are as fresh as you can get....
May 2026
Chula María is, without a doubt, the best place to enjoy authentic Mexican food. I visited with my partner, and we were served by Noé, the owner who made us feel right at home. The margaritas are spectacular, with an exquisite flavor. The daily special was delicious; as a vegetarian, it was a relief to see that they had options for me. I ordered the *Tacos del Rancho*—the best I’ve ever tasted. Everything was impeccable, and the Latin music ensured we had an incredible time....
May 2026

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Chula Maria Mexican Grill & Bar

52899 Van Dyke Ave, Shelby, MI 48316
(586) 323-9494