🌮 Best Mexican & Tex-Mex in San Francisco
44 mexican & tex-mex spots in San Francisco, scored and ranked for 2026.
🍽️ Open Interactive GuideTop 10 Mexican & Tex-Mex Spots
1
Californios
Chef Val M. Cantu and Carolyn Cantu run this tasting-menu restaurant, which they opened in 2015 in the Mission before relocating to a larger SoMa space in 2021. The multi-course menu reframes Mexican ...
95
2
Café Bolita
Café Bolita brings Mexican cooking to Eighth Street in West Berkeley. The kitchen builds its menu around traditional dishes and house-made staples, the kind of food meant for an unhurried weekend meal...
90
3
Maria Isabel
Maria Isabel opened in Presidio Heights in 2026 from Laura and Sayat Ozyilmaz, the couple behind the Mediterranean restaurant Dalida. The menu reads as elevated California-Mexican, with artichoke tete...
89
4
La Taqueria
Serving the Mission since 1973. No-rice burritos packed tight with carne asada or carnitas, charred on the grill until the tortilla crisps — the format that FiveThirtyEight once called the best burrit...
88
5
La Oaxaqueña
A Mexican restaurant at 2128 Mission Street in San Francisco's Mission District, drawing on the cooking of Oaxaca. The menu covers tacos, burritos, enchiladas, and other standards, with online orderin...
88
6
el Mil Amores
A Mexican restaurant on 21st Street in the Mission District of San Francisco. A neighborhood spot in one of the city's densest Mexican-dining corridors.
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7
Café de Olla
Café de Olla opened in the Mission in 2019, run by an immigrant- and LGBTQ+-owned team turning out Oaxacan street food — tlayudas, memelas, quesadillas, and tamales — out of a small storefront on 19th...
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8
Nopalito
Chef Gonzalo Guzman's James Beard-nominated celebration of his mother's Veracruz kitchen, built on organic masa, house-made chorizo, and ingredients that wouldn't embarrass any taquería in Mexico City...
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9
Taqueria El Paisa
An East Oakland taqueria in the Fruitvale area with picnic tables under a covered patio and a meat assembly line. Tacos come on moist corn tortillas with options like lengua, suadero, and carnitas, pl...
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10
Cenaduria Elvira
Cenaduría Elvira cooks Mexican food on 3rd Street in Old Oakland. A cenaduría is a traditional evening eatery, and the kitchen leans into that home-style supper format with antojitos and regional plat...
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All 44 Mexican & Tex-Mex Spots in San Francisco
Loló
86
Taqueria Cancun
85
Taqueria El Farolito
85
Sunset Cantina
84
Poc-Chuc Restaurant
84
Tommy's Mexican Restaurant
84
Cielito Lindo
84
Gallardo's
84
Otra
84
Buena Vida Cantina
84
Zoë
84
Elena's Mexican Restaurant
83
El Gallo Giro
83
Agave Uptown
82
Tacos Oscar
82
Bombera
82
Papito Hayes
82
Sacred Taco
82
The Little Chihuahua
82
Tacolicious
81
Flores
81
La Palma Mexicatessen
81
Chuy's Fiestas
81
Comal
80
La Torta Gorda
80
Cafe Isabella
80
Tahona Mercado
80
Mayaflor
80
Tropisueño
80
Caramba!
80
Tacubaya
79
Celia's by the Beach
79
Cantina Los Mayas
76
Chug Pub
70
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