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Mexican Restaurants
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Asada Mexican Grill / St. Clair West
Asada Mexican Grill opened a couple weeks ago amongst a jumble of St. Clair storefronts. It's a new quick eatery from husband and wife team, Austin and Klaudia Morgan who...
Burrito Bandidos (Annex) / Annex
Burrito Bandidos arrival in the Annex is sure to bring a smile to the face of many a U of T student. But with Big Fat Burrito setting up shop...
Como en Casa / Yonge & Wellesley
Como En Casa is a Mexican restaurant located close to the Wellesley TTC subway station. They serve what could arguably be the city's finest adobo chicken (at under $7!) and...
Dos Amigos / Annex
Much like Italian food, Mexican is a cuisine that has been commercialized and turned to trash, worldwide, by fast food chains and supermarket freezer-aisles. When I see the stuff out there...
El Sol / Danforth
I've been to El Sol twice - for the first and the last time. Walking in on a Wednesday night around 8pm, we find the restaurant almost empty. With bad...
El Taquito / Weston-Mount Dennis
El Taquito is a Mexican restaurant with a terribly confusing logo. Is that a potato driving a car? In any case, the menu is much more straightforward. Beef, chicken, or...
El Trompo / Kensington Market
El Trompo in Kensington Market, with its west-facing patio, is one of my favourite places to be on a sunny afternoon in Toronto. This spot, serving up delicious and simple...
Frida / Eglinton West
Frida Restaurant & Bar melds the soul of classic Mexico City cooking with a refined, contemporary fine-dining touch. Chef and owner Jose Hadad has been fulfilling his culinary enthusiasm since...
Grand Electric / Parkdale
Grand Electric has Torontonians flocking to Parkdale to sample the powerful Mexican flavours, absorb the pulsating rhythms and imbibe in brown-hued liquor. The brainchild of former Black Hoof'ians, Chef de...
King's Tacos / St. Clair West
King's Tacos has replaced the short-lived Guacamole Mexican Bistro....
Kitch / Bloorcourt
Kitch isn't the type of place that's easy to assign a genre to. Upon entry, it looks inescapably like bar. Scrolling through the menu of Mexican-inspired offerings, on the other...
La Burrita / Koreatown
La Burrita recently opened its doors on the outskirts of Little Korea, its northern Mexican cuisine replacing the previous tenant's Ethiopian offerings. One of a few Mexican restaurants along this...
La Carnita / Little Italy
La Carnita has permanently "popped up" in the former location of Briscola near the corner of College and Palmerston. The restaurant unites the talents of Andrew Richmond, a designer turned...
La Hacienda / West Queen West
La Hacienda serves up big plates of Tex Mex on Queen West. It's certainly plated its share of nacho orders throughout its 22-year run. Classic round yellow chips and high-quality...
La Mexicana / Yonge & Bloor
La Mexicana is a fairly typical Toronto Mexican restaurant located across from the Toronto Reference Library near Yonge and Bloor....
La Revolucion / Junction
La Revolucion, at the corner of Keele and Dundas, is the sole contender for Mexican restaurants in The Junction, but it is worthy of competition. Owner and operator, Indira opened...
La Tortilleria / Kensington Market
La Tortilleria is Toronto's first place that makes fresh corn tortillas every day. Not quite as good as what you'll find in Mexico, but still better than the frozen or...
Maizal Quesadilla Cafe / Liberty Village
Maizal Quesadilla Café, is the newest addition to Liberty Village, bringing the neighbourhood a refreshing dose of Mexican flavour just in time for summer. The address on Jefferson, south of...
Margarita's Fiesta Room / Baldwin Village
Margarita's Fiesta Room in Baldwin Village mixes up a variety of margaritas and Tex-Mex food like guacamole and fajitas. ...
Mariachi's / Yonge & Eglinton
It is really hard to find great Mexican food in this city. Tex-mex. Sure. But there is no true authentic cuisine from this northern Latin American country...
Mexican Salsas Grill / Kensington Market
Mexican Salsas Grill is a new joint promising authentic Mexican fare in the heart of Kensington Market. And while I like Tex Mex as much as the next person...
Mexico Lindo / Bayview and Leaside
Mexico Lindo is a serviceable Mexican restaurant on South Bayview. Don't expect anything too authentic here as the kitchen tends to favour cuisine from the Tex-Mex side of the Mexican...
Mexitaco / Bloorcourt
This is part 1 in a series where I attempt to discover Toronto's best burritos. Mexitaco occupies an awkward spot in Toronto's burrito landscape. The taqueria, located on a corner lot...
Milagro (Yonge St.) / Yonge & Lawrence
Milagro can show you the upsides to Mexican culture, countering all that negative press the country's been getting. Inspired by cantinas there, where you can get authentic Mexican cuisine (ie....
Milagro on Queen / West Queen West
Milagro near Queen and Euclid is the third location in the burgeoning Mexican cantina's empire. For authentic Mexican food (not Tex-Mex) in Toronto it's tough to find a better place...
Pachuco / Danforth
Pachuco is a Danforth restaurant specializing in traditional Mexican food with a modern twist. The "modmex" menu features a lengthy list of tasty items, including gourmet guacamoles and taquitos, all...
Paco's Kitchen / Etobicoke
Paco's Kitchen is a Mexican restaurant offering Enchiladas, Quesadillas, and other authentic Mexican fare....
Pancho Y Emiliano / Kensington Market
Pancho Y Emiliano is the most recent entrant into the crowded Mexican restaurant scene in Kensington. With a Mexican chef and named after two Mexican revolutionary heroes (Villa and Zapata,...
Playa Cabana / Annex
Playa Cabana sits on a quiet residential stretch of Dupont Street just east of Davenport, and is one of the more recent arrivals to the Mexican restaurant scene in Toronto....
Playa Cabana Cantina / Junction
Playa Cabana Cantina, the younger, cooler cousin of the the original location opened recently in the Junction and in some sense is a far cry from its family member. While...
Rebozos (College St.) / Little Italy
Rebozos (College St.) opened its doors just a few short weeks ago, although I first met owner Indalecio Marroquin during his short-lived tenancy at 214 Augusta. The petite Kensington Market stall...
Rebozos Mexican Foods / Other
Look no further than the icy heart of this past Valentine's Day blizzard as to why our citizenry seem so nearly pathological about 'authentically' correct ethnic food. This peculiar, culinary...
Seven Lives / Kensington Market
Seven Lives opened up in the recently renovated space at 214 Augusta just 2 weeks ago and there's already a line-up. Having popped up at the Toronto Underground Food Market...
Tenoch / St. Clair West
Tenoch serves up authentic and tasty Mexican food to the St. Clair West neighborhood. Traditional items like Chicken Molé Tamales ($4) and Tortas (starting at $10) come in large portions...
Tortilla Flats / Queen West
Tortilla Flats has been serving Tex-Mex for 20 years. Famous for their $2.99 Margarita Thursdays....
Utopia Cafe / Little Italy
My perfect summer-time afternoon goes something like this: 1. A table at Utopia's cozy back patio. 2. A pitcher of sangria. 3. Giant burritos that satisfy all my friends - carnivore and herbivore...
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