Mexican restaurants
234 Mexican restaurants featured on published best-of lists.
- Abuelita's — South Side, Richmond
- Acamaya — Bywater, New Orleans
- Alma Fonda Fina — LoHi, Denver
- Alta Calidad — Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
- Amá — Kensington, Philadelphia
- Amano — Caldwell
- Amor y Tacos — Cerritos
- Amparo Fondita — Dupont Circle, Washington, DC
- Aqui Es Texcoco — Chula Vista
- Asadero Prime — Ballard, Seattle
- Ayahuasca Cantina — Oak Cliff, Dallas
- Bacanora — Grand Avenue, Phoenix, AZ
- Barbacoa Ramirez — Arleta, Los Angeles
- Belly of the Beast — Spring
- Birria El Rey — Golden Hill, San Diego
- Birria-Landia — Jackson Heights, Queens
- Birrieria Landeros — Duluth, GA
- Birrieria Zaragoza — Archer Heights, Chicago
- Bombera — Dimond District, Oakland
- Calero's Bar and Grill — Northland, Columbus
- Californios — SoMa, San Francisco
- Cariño — Uptown, Chicago
- Carnes Asadas Pancho Lopez — Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles
- Carnitas Michoacán — Beacon Hill, Seattle
- Carnitas Ramirez — Alphabet City, Manhattan
- Carnitas Uruapan Restaurant — Pilsen, Chicago
- Casa Amado Taqueria — Berkley
- Casa de Juliette — Northwest, Las Vegas
- Casa Gish Bac — Pico-Union, Los Angeles
- Casa Playa — The Strip, Las Vegas
- Casa Vega — Sherman Oaks
- Casaema — Heights, Houston
- CHAAK Kitchen — Tustin
- Chalupas Poblanas El Tlecuile — Corona, Queens
- Chavela's — Crown Heights, Brooklyn
- Chilam Balam — Lakeview, Chicago
- Chilte — Grand Avenue, Phoenix, AZ
- Cielo Rojo — Takoma Park
- Clavel — Remington, Baltimore
- Cochiloco — Scott's Addition, Richmond
- Cochinita & co. — East End, Houston
- Cocina Consuelo — Hamilton Heights, New York
- Comadre Panadería — East Austin, Austin
- Comal — Downtown Berkeley, Berkeley
- Conejo — West End, Richmond
- Corazon Cocina — Santa Barbara Public Market, Santa Barbara
- Corima — Chinatown, New York
- Covacha — Upper West Side, New York
- Coyote Café — Downtown, Santa Fe
- Cozobi Fonda Fina — Downtown Boulder, Boulder, CO
- Cuantos Tacos — East Austin, Austin
- Da Seafood Cartel — Aiea
- Damian — Arts District, Los Angeles
- Del Cielo Tamal — Midtown, Tucson
- Delmy's Pupusas — Los Angeles
- Discada — East Cesar Chavez, Austin
- Dolores — Fox Point, Providence
- Duo's Taqueria — East Liberty, Pittsburgh
- Ed Fernandez Restaurant Birriera — Nestor, San Diego
- El Barzon — Southwest Detroit, Detroit
- El Buen Comer — Mission District, San Francisco
- El Cabrito — Burien
- El Caprichoso Hot Dogs — West Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ
- El Carlos Elegante — Design District, Dallas
- El Charro Café — El Presidio, Tucson
- El Chile Toreado — Baca District, Santa Fe
- El Chingón — Passyunk Square, Philadelphia
- El Come Taco — East Dallas, Dallas
- El Guero Canelo — Midtown, Tucson
- El Molino Central — Boyes Hot Springs, Sonoma
- El Nopalito — Encinitas
- El Sur — East Side, Tucson
- El Taco de Mexico — Art District on Santa Fe, Denver
- El TacoTorro — Midtown Global Market, Minneapolis
- El Viejo Central American Kitchen — Downtown Silver Spring, Silver Spring
- Ensenada ATX — East Austin, Austin
- Escondido — Southside, Santa Fe
- Escorpión at Comal 864 — Midtown, Greenville, SC
- Este — Cherrywood, Austin
- Evil Cooks — El Sereno, Los Angeles
- Fernando's Mexican & Brazilian Cuisine — Broad Ripple, Indianapolis
- Fish Guts — Barrio Logan, San Diego
- Flora — Midtown, Houston
- Flores — Cow Hollow, San Francisco
- Fonda San Miguel — Allandale, Austin
- Frontera Grill — River North, Chicago
- GG's Barbacoa Café — Argentine, Kansas City, KS
- Gordo's Cantina — Bushwick, Brooklyn
- Guelaguetza — Harvard Heights, Los Angeles
- Guero — Kerns, Portland, OR
- Hellbender — Ridgewood, Queens
- Holbox — Historic South-Central, Los Angeles
- Huarachis Taqueria — Downtown, Phoenix, AZ
- Irma's Restaurant — Downtown, Houston
- Javelina — Cully, Portland, OR
- Julieta Taco Shop — Old Northside, Indianapolis
- Ki'ikibáa — Madison South, Portland, OR
- Kie-Gol-Lanee — Uptown, Chicago
- Komal — Historic South-Central, Los Angeles
- La Baja — Ambler
- La Casa del Tamal — Post District, Salt Lake City
- La Chaparrita Taqueria — Little Village, Chicago
- La Dama Mexican Kitchen — Walker's Point, Milwaukee
- La Diabla Pozole y Mezcal — Five Points, Denver
- La Fonda — East English Village, Detroit
- La Jefa — Rittenhouse, Philadelphia
- La Palapa del Parian — Southwest Detroit, Detroit
- La Perla Cocina Mexicana — Pacific Beach, San Diego
- La Santa Barbacha — Cherrywood, Austin
- La Taqueria — Mission District, San Francisco
- La Taqueria Guadalupana — Summer Avenue, Memphis
- La Tiendita — Ellisville
- La Tingeria — Falls Church
- La Vaca Birria — Mission District, San Francisco
- Las 15 Salsas — Sunnyslope, Phoenix, AZ
- Las Carnitas Uruapan — Pilsen, Chicago
- Las Puertas — West Side, Buffalo
- Las Tortugas Deli Mexicana — Germantown
- Lilia Comedor — South Waterfront, Portland, OR
- Lito's Burritos — Uptown, Minneapolis
- Locos Street Tacos & Burrito — Puritas, Cleveland
- LOLA 55 — East Village, San Diego
- Lola Gaspar — Artists Village, Santa Ana
- Loreto — Los Angeles
- Los Carnalitos — Hayward
- Los Félix — Coconut Grove, Miami
- Los Hernandez Tamales — Union Gap
- Los Sabrosos Al Horno — Cudahy
- Luchador Taco & More — Whittier, Denver
- Luna Mexican Kitchen — Rose Garden, San Jose
- Macheen — Boyle Heights, Los Angeles
- Maciel's Tortas & Tacos — Downtown, Memphis
- Macizo Restaurant — Indianapolis
- Madroño Restaurant — Fontainebleau, Miami
- Maiz De La Vida — The Gulch, Nashville
- Mala Pata — North Hills, Raleigh
- Malegria Latin Cafe — Grand Avenue Arts District, Phoenix, AZ
- Malinche Audiobar — LoHi, Denver
- Marisco Boys — Midtown Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ
- Mariscos Chihuahua — South Tucson, Tucson
- Mariscos Jalisco — Pomona
- Mariscos Playa Hermosa — Garfield, Phoenix, AZ
- Mary & Tito's Cafe — North Valley, Albuquerque
- Maximo — West University, West University Place
- Mayan Café — NuLu, Louisville
- Mercado La Paloma — Historic South-Central, Los Angeles
- Mercado Sin Nombre — East Austin, Austin
- Merendero Estela — Lents, Portland, OR
- Mesa Agrícola — Escondido
- Mexta — Downtown, Austin
- Mezcaleria Alma — Lower Highland, Denver
- Mezquite — Pearl District, San Antonio
- Mi Tocaya Antojería — Logan Square, Chicago
- Mijo Modern Mexican Restaurant — Southwest, Las Vegas
- Milpa Mexican Cafe — Southwest, Las Vegas
- Mirra — Bucktown, Chicago
- Mixtli — Southtown, San Antonio
- Molino Chido — Aurora
- Nixta Taqueria — East Austin, Austin
- Nixtaco — Roseville
- Ocotillo — West End, Portland, ME
- Olmo — Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn
- Oro by Nixta — Northeast, Minneapolis
- Oxomoco — Greenpoint, Brooklyn
- Oyamel — Penn Quarter, Washington, DC
- Palm & Pine — French Quarter, New Orleans
- Pancita — Ravenna, Seattle
- Papalo Taqueria — Downtown, Houston
- Paprika ATX — North Lamar, Austin
- Pascual — H Street corridor, Washington, DC
- Pata Negra Mezcaleria — Brookwood, Atlanta
- Peña’s Bakery — Havenscourt, Oakland
- Playa — Mill Valley
- Poncho's Tlayudas — West Adams, Los Angeles
- Popoca — Old Oakland, Oakland
- Puesto — La Jolla
- Purépecha — Deep Ellum, Dallas
- Quiote — Petaluma
- Rancho de Chimayo Restaurante — Chimayo
- Resident Taqueria — Lake Highlands, Dallas
- Rocio's Mexican Kitchen — Bell Gardens
- Rollie's Mexican Patio — South Tucson, Tucson
- Sanchez Taqueria y Panaderia — Tigard
- Sazón — Downtown, Santa Fe
- Sobre Masa — Bushwick, Brooklyn
- Sobremesa — San Carlos, San Diego
- Sol de Mexico — Belmont Cragin, Chicago
- Sonoratown — Downtown, Los Angeles
- South Philly Barbacoa — Bella Vista, Philadelphia
- Streetlight Taco — South Tampa, Tampa
- Suerte — East Austin, Austin
- Super Cocina — City Heights, San Diego
- Ta'Carbon — West Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ
- Taco Mix — East Harlem, New York
- Taco Taxi — Lake Street, Minneapolis
- Tacos Chiwas — Mesa
- Tacos El Gordo — The Strip, Las Vegas
- Tacos El Metro — Northwest Dallas, Dallas
- Tacos Los Cholos — Huntington Park
- Tacos Oscar — Temescal, Oakland
- Tacos Veganos — Arcadia, Phoenix, AZ
- Tamaleria Nuevo Leon — Southwest Detroit, Detroit
- Tamales Lupita — East Harlem, New York
- Taqueria Cancun — Mission, San Francisco
- Taqueria Chingon — Bucktown, Chicago
- Taqueria El Bronco — Cherokee Street, St. Louis
- Taqueria El Chato — Greenpoint, Brooklyn
- Taquería Frontera — Los Angeles
- Taqueria Habanero — Columbia Heights, Washington, DC
- Taquería Jalisco — East Boston, Boston
- Taquería La Oaxaqueña — Jonesboro
- Taqueria Muñoz — South Asheville, Asheville
- Taqueria Sabor Mixteco — Wheaton, Silver Spring
- Taquiza — Miami Beach
- Tatemó — Northwest Houston, Houston
- Tequila's and La Jefa — Rittenhouse, Philadelphia
- Testal Mexican Kitchen — Downtown Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ
- The Shed — Downtown, Santa Fe
- Tia Sophia's — Downtown, Santa Fe
- Topolobampo — River North, Chicago
- Tortas Frontera — O'Hare International Airport, Chicago
- Valle — Downtown, Oceanside
- Vecina — Arcadia, Phoenix, AZ
- Vecino — Midtown, Detroit
- Vera's Backyard Bar-B-Que — Southmost, Brownsville
- Veracruz All Natural — East Austin, Austin
- Veracruz Fonda & Bar — North Loop, Austin
- Villa's Tacos — Highland Park, Los Angeles
- Xiquita Restaurante y Bar — Uptown, Denver
- Xochi — Downtown, Houston
- Yo También Cantina — Inner Sunset, San Francisco
- Yoli Tortilleria — Westside, Kansas City, MO
- Yuca's — Los Feliz, Los Angeles
- Zaranda — Downtown, Houston
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