Baleadas Mama Rosa — Restaurant in Útila

If I could leave 0 stars, I would. Me and my friend got pupusas from this place and they weren’t bad but the cabbage that goes with the pupusas didn’t look too appetizing. I ended up skipping the cabbage and ate the pupusas. My friend on the other hand ate the cabbage. The next day comes and she’s extremely sick. She was running a fever and had intense stomach cramps accompanied by diarrhea. We went to the island clinic and they prescribed her medication that didn’t help. Once she was back in the states, they ran lab results and it turned out she had E. Coli and Shigella bacteria in her gut. She had contracted food borne illness. The last thing she had eaten was mama rosas pupusas, most likely caused from unwashed cabbage. The whole place looked unsanitary but so was almost all the places in Utila so we didn’t think much of it. But honestly skip this place if you’re ever in Utila. My friend almost died because they decided to not wash the cabbage or their hands before dealing with food. So...

Mama Rosa restaurant is definitely a place where you need to stop in Utila. Doris at the « reception » will take your order, a lovely lady.

The food has generous portion and most importantly it is very good. We been there already 3 times in 3 days has the price are also attractive, we will be back for sure before we leave the island because we love it !

Also the service is fast 👌

The specialty of Mama Rosa is beleadas which I recommand to try. We also order the burger and french fries and we were very happy with it. The spicy sauce on the ta le are also excellent.

The tables are placed on sand, so it is possible that you sit in a place with a bit of flies bit nothing...

So far the only place I've found with fresh maracuya juice available all the time. Many other places add water to their juices, but here they don't! Only wish they offered the juice to-go so I could keep some at home.

I love how they make the papusas here, I have never had any like it anywhere else. They're not like El Salvadorean papusas, but are still great! They make them with corn tortilla instead of flour tortilla so that changes the texture.

The baleadas are cooked crunchier if you order them to eat in. But if you order them to-go I think they taste like every other baleada (cheap sustenance, but...