The best Mexican restaurants in Paris | Restaurants | Time Out Paris (2024)

The best Mexican restaurants in Paris | Restaurants | Time Out Paris (1)

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The Paris restaurant scene embraces trendy taquerias and marvellous Mexican dishes

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Paris has embraced trendy Mexican food with open arms, as the ever-expanding range of exciting cafés, taquerias and restaurants serving Mexican dishes attests. Fromfood trucks offering Mexican burgerstobig name Mexican fast food chainstohip co*cktail bars with a Mexican food theme, these are our favourite picks of the moment.

Fresh spices, properly stewed meat, good booze, reasonable prices and a convivial atmosphere were our main criteria.Think we’ve missed a great Mexican restaurant in Paris? Let us know in the comments box below.

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Ouh Là Là
  • Mexican
  • Strasbourg-Saint-Denis
  • price 2 of 4

  • 3 out of 5 stars

  • Recommended

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It was by complete chance that we even came across Ouh Là Là, a cute little café that specialies in gourmet Corsican takes on tacos. They operate a simple menu: three cold tacos, three hot, with the various options changing weekly...

Luz Verde
  • Mexican
  • Saint-Georges
  • price 3 of 4

  • 4 out of 5 stars

  • Recommended

Top notch Mexican food has landed in Pigalle – and there’s not a cheesy sombrero in sight. The cuisine does its own talking at Luz Verde, a stylish taqueria and wine bar in the 9th arrondissem*nt...

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Distrito Francés
  • Mexican
  • Strasbourg-Saint-Denis
  • price 1 of 4

  • 4 out of 5 stars

  • Recommended

At this upmarkettaqueria(taco house), you can choose between various spaces – a large communal table with wooden benches, a side room perfect for tête-à-têtes, or upstairs an azure-painted roomwith sofas for chilling out on...

Zicatela
  • Mexican
  • Faubourg Montmartre
  • price 2 of 4

  • 4 out of 5 stars

  • Recommended

Named after a beach in the Mexican port town of Puerto Escondido (renowned for its surf-friendly waves, glorious sunshine and fine traditional Mexican cooking), Zicatela is a small restaurant serving big, generously piquant dishes, just around the corner from the Folies Bergère in the 9th arrondissem*nt.For an immediate hit of spice, kick things off with a brilliant traditional pozole soup with pork or chicken, chilli, lime and white cacahuazintle sweetcorn (€6)...

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Le Dépanneur Pigalle
  • American
  • Saint-Georges
  • price 2 of 4

  • 4 out of 5 stars

  • Recommended

DR / © Le Dépanneur

All too often, 'Mexican' cuisine abroad is a byword for Americanised fast food. Not so at Le Dépanneur Pigalle. By the time you've taken a seat at one of the elegant wooden tables adorned with cacti, you'll already have forgotten you're in Paris...

Candelaria
  • co*cktail bars
  • Le Marais
  • price 2 of 4

  • 5 out of 5 stars

  • Recommended

Has Paris woken up to the temptations of the taco? Apparently so, thanks to this taqueria, with its almost totally expat clientele (English and American rather than Mexican)...

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El Nopal
  • Mexican
  • Canal Saint-Martin
  • price 2 of 4

  • 4 out of 5 stars

  • Recommended

In Mexico, a nopal is a cactus whose shape bears a passing resemblance to a ping-pong bat. In Paris, it's a snug little restaurant tucked away in the 10th, a hop and a skip from the Canal Saint-Martin...

Café Chilango
  • Mexican
  • Folie-Méricourt
  • price 1 of 4

  • 3 out of 5 stars

  • Recommended

Scrap all clichés that may come to mind when you think of Mexican culture, because you won’t find any sombreros, cacti or ‘lucha libre’ masks at the no-frills Café Chilango. This Mexican bar doesn’t need any bells and whistles to prove its authenticity, as the food does the job just fine...

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Chipotle
  • Mexican
  • Faubourg Montmartre
  • price 2 of 4

  • 3 out of 5 stars

  • Recommended

DR / © Chipotle

When the USA's eminent Mexican fast food chain Chipotle opened a branch in Paris a couple of years ago, locals didn't take to it right away – after all, 'fast food' is a far more toxic term here than Stateside. But don't be put off: this neat little joint actually serves up a thoroughly decent meal...

Cantine California
  • American
  • 1er arrondissem*nt
  • price 1 of 4

  • 4 out of 5 stars

  • Recommended

Perhaps you’d have to be crazy to stand in a queue for 40 minutes of your lunch hour, just to pay €11 for a burger. But, such is the power of the street, the new chic. Feilders’ menu covers burgers and tacos, including a Tex-Mex burger...

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