Best Mexican Restaurants in Madrid

Ticuí is Puntarena's younger sibling, on Calle de Cedaceros in Cortes, Centro, and it's listed in the Michelin Guide with a Repsol Recomendado entry. It opened in January 2023. Its name comes from a Náhuatl word for beginnings, and the pitch is a contemporary, intimate homage to everyday Mexican cooking built for sharing, with tortillas made by hand on a comal in the dining room every morning. The kitchen leans Pacific Mexican and ingredient-led while staying rooted in tradition, working fresh fish, soft-shell crab and pulpo, alongside a cocktail programme treated as a real part of the experience rather than an afterthought. It runs dinner every night and adds lunch on weekends, with booking through Restoo, and the room reads upper-middle on price.

“Las tortillas de maíz las elaboran ellos mismos, en un comal tradicional que hay en la sala”— MICHELIN Guide

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Barracuda MX is chef Roberto Ruiz's restaurant near Puerta de Alcalá in Jerónimos, Retiro, open since 2021 and built around Pacific Mexican coastal cooking, the stretch running from Sonora and Sinaloa down through Nayarit, Jalisco and Baja California. Homemade tortillas from fresh-nixtamalized corn are made daily. Ruiz arrived in Madrid in 2005 and founded Punto MX in 2012, which he presents as the first Mexican restaurant in Europe to earn a Michelin star; that restaurant later closed, and he now calls Barracuda his most personal project. The menu runs from a guacamole with chipotle-marinated king prawns to a dobladita de changurro, a Baja California crab specialty, pork trotters in a light escabeche, and shrimp tacos al pastor. It's listed in the Michelin Guide and holds a Repsol Sol. Weekday set lunch runs €39, with group menus from €70.

“apuesta por la cocina más ignota del país, la que se centra en los pescados y mariscos”— MICHELIN Guide

Puntarena cooks Mexican Pacific-coast seafood inside the Casa de México en España, on Calle Alberto Aguilera in Arapiles, Chamberí. It opened in October 2018. It's listed in the Michelin Guide, with an entry in the Guía Repsol. The kitchen bills itself as a refuge of the Mexican coast, cooking that celebrates the sea, running from ceviches and artisanal tacos to signatures like Pulpo Enamorado and pescado a la talla, fish finished traditional-style with some fusion. The room is modern and warm with a terrace, and the bar keeps its own hours and its own booking link, running later than the dining room. It's open daily for lunch and dinner, mid-range on price, with a wheelchair-accessible entrance, restroom and seating.

“los pescados suelen ser los grandes protagonistas de sus elaboraciones, normalmente adaptadas al paladar europeo”— MICHELIN Guide

El Bajío is the first European outpost of a Mexico City restaurant group founded by chef Carmen 'Titita' Ramírez Degollado, on the corner of Calle Castelló and Juan Bravo in Salamanca, where it moved from Chamberí in 2025. It first opened in Chamberí at the end of 2023. The original opened in Mexico City in 1972 and the group now runs 19 restaurants in Mexico. It holds a Michelin Selected listing and a Repsol Recomendado entry. The dimly lit room sets Mexican craftwork and colour against a sober backdrop, with a terrace out front. The menu runs from pork belly crackling and green aguachile to panuchos yucatecos, dorada in green pepián, huarache with sirloin, green enchiladas and free-range chicken in the house mole. Terrace service runs continuously from noon to midnight daily, and weekends add a Mexican breakfast from 10am.

“Todo bajo la atenta supervisión de las "mayoras", verdaderas guardianas de los sabores tradicionales”— MICHELIN Guide

Hijo del Maíz is a Mexican antojería on Calle Mauricio Ravel in the Castilla quarter of Chamartín, near the top of Paseo de la Castellana, with a grill-focused sibling, Hijo del Maíz Parrilla, elsewhere in the city. The cooking stays in antojería territory, tacos and antojitos, the informal, snack-led side of Mexican food, rather than a full sit-down carta. It's open Wednesday to Saturday for lunch and dinner, plus Sunday lunch, closed Monday and Tuesday, and sits mid-range on price, in the €26 to €50 band.

“vende sus tortillas de maíz a chefs como (por ejemplo) Dabiz Muñoz”— Madrid Secreto

Mawey is a Mexican taco bar on Calle de Olid in Trafalgar, just north of Gran Vía, run by chefs with backgrounds in Michelin-starred kitchens, according to Madrid Secreto. Chefs Fernando Carrasco and Julián Barros started the Mawey brand in Madrid in 2017. The kitchen works modern, creative tacos and small plates: homemade guacamole with totopos, a yellow ceviche of fish and shrimp with passion fruit tiger's milk, cochinita pibil enchiladas with baja-med sauce, and red chilaquiles with a fried egg. Cocktails are part of the offer, including margaritas on 1800 tequila and mezcalitas on 400 Conejos mezcal. It's open every day, 13:00 to 16:00 and 20:00 to midnight per its own site, and there's a second Mawey on Gran Vía run as a separate venue.

“su taco de cochinita pibil con pierna de cerdo asada, marinada con achiote y zumo de naranja”— Madrid Secreto

Mami Tacos is a Mexican taquería and birrería on Calle de San Andrés, in the Universidad quarter of Malasaña. The kitchen is built around tacos and birria, the slow-cooked beef shank stew, served with its own broth for dipping alongside a Small Quesabirria and a birria-topped ramen dish called Birriamen. The carta also runs to a Taco Papi with suadero, a Taco La Gordi with adobo-marinated pork belly, and totopos loaded with birria or guacamole. It's casual and wallet-friendly, banded around €10 to €20 per person, and open daily into the evening, later on Friday and Saturday. Macarfi rates the food 7.0 out of 10.

“La birria es un guiso tradicional típico del estado de Jalisco que ha llegado a Madrid de la mano de Mami Tacos”— Madrid Secreto

Tepic cooks Mexican food on Calle de Ayala in Recoletos, on the Salamanca side of the centre, with its menu and hours published in Spanish and English. It opened in Chueca in 2008. Guacamole and an octopus tostada are two of the dishes it's known for, according to Madrid Secreto, on a menu that opens with shrimp aguachile and a shrimp cocktail, then runs through quesadillas, chicken tinga tostadas and panuchos yucatecos. Tacos come on corn or flour tortillas, whichever you ask for, including tacos gobernador. It's open every day, late Monday to Saturday and lunch only on Sunday, in the €26 to €50 band, and there's a 10% charge for terrace service, per its own menu page.

“alejado de estereotipos y clichés, pero con el espíritu de ofrecer auténtica cocina mexicana tradicional”— Madrid Secreto

Entre suspiro y suspiro is a Mexican restaurant on Calle Caños del Peral in Palacio, the historic western edge of central Madrid near the Palacio Real. It opened in 1993 on Plaza de la Marina Española. It tells its own story as a family one, grandparents who crossed the sea and a family tree transplanted back to bear new fruit, serving Mexican cooking with what it calls a family soul. Between the plates sits a collection of around 1,500 tequilas and mezcals. The kitchen runs from vegetarian and Baja California tacos to octopus tacos and tacos al pastor, plus cuitlacoche quesadillas and dishes like pescado a la talla and manchamanteles. It holds a Repsol Recomendado entry. Closed Mondays and Tuesdays, it runs lunch and dinner Wednesday to Saturday and lunch only on Sunday.

Solito is a Mexican taquería on Calle de la Pasa in La Latina, Centro, holding a Repsol Solete in the Guía Repsol. The kitchen is built around tacos, with vegetarian options and a cocktail list alongside, and there's a terrace for outdoor tables. Prices run mid-range, in the €26 to €50 band, and it's flagged as working well for families. It opens for lunch and dinner every day except Wednesday.

Taquería Lupita is the Justicia branch of La Lupita, a modern Mexican cantina group running in Madrid since 2014 and now spanning four houses across the city; this one, on Calle Conde de Xiquena, is the group's bar-forward 'afterwork' cantina. It holds the Sello Copil, a mark of authentic Mexican cooking awarded by the Fundación Casa de México en España. The kitchen builds on nixtamalised corn milled on stone rather than industrial tortillas, wood-fire cooking, a mole made from 26 ingredients, and margaritas built on Cascahuín tequila from a family distillery in Jalisco. It's good for groups and dog-friendly, with a cocktail programme.

Mexkhal is the work of Óscar Figueroa, who grew up in Puebla and set out to bring what he calls Mexico's authentic flavours, and its soul, to Madrid. The restaurant, in the Cuatro Caminos area of Tetuán, leans on Puebla's traditions, down to the talavera colours in the room, and frames its food as more than tacos: a way into Mexico's mestizo, indigenous-and-Spanish culture. The cooking is Poblano Mexican, with signatures including chiles en nogada, a dish tied to Mexico's festivities, and mole poblano, a sauce built from centuries of tradition. There's a cocktail list, vegetarian options and room for groups and families. It's open daily for lunch and dinner, Sundays lunch only, in the €20 to €30 band.

Tacoctelería puts a Mexican taquería and a cocktail bar under one roof on Calle Valverde, in Malasaña. The name says it: tacos plus coctelería, what the venue brands 'mixología mexa.' The kitchen runs nachos, charred corn on the cob, cochinita pibil croquettes, enchiladas mineras, chilaquiles and a run of tacos, quesadillas and burritos, with vegetarian and vegan options across most of the menu, including a vegan al pastor quesadilla. It's a busy, sociable spot, good for groups and families and dog-friendly, open across lunch, dinner and late, with online booking up to an hour ahead.

Cutzamala has cooked regional Mexican food inside Mercado de Antón Martín, in Lavapiés, since 2014. It leans into moles and slow-cooked guisos that don't often turn up outside Mexico, prepared slowly with proper produce rather than shortcuts. The room is casual and rustic, market-stall in feel, with vegetarian options on the menu. It's open Monday to Friday, 13:00 to 22:00, with split hours on Saturday and closed Sunday, in the €26 to €50 band. Time Out Madrid rated it 4 out of 5.

Tatemado is a Mexican restaurant on Plaza de la Cebada, in the Palacio barrio of Centro. Its name is a Nahuatl word for a pre-Hispanic technique: charring ingredients directly on the embers until the skin blisters and the flavours concentrate, and that live-fire method is the idea the kitchen is built on. It's flagged as good for groups and families and vegetarian-friendly, with a cocktail list alongside the food. It's open every day except Tuesday, for lunch and dinner, later until 02:00 on Friday and Saturday and to 23:00 on Sunday. It doesn't hold a Michelin or Guía Repsol distinction.