Best Street Tacos Mexico City according to My Mexican Friends

I am making a list of the best Street Tacos Mexico City according to My Mexican Friends. Also some of the taqueria I got information on Reddit.

There are actually a lot of recommended taco places, so I will list all the places I went and categorize rest of the places by neighbourhood.

Table of Contents

El Vilsito

It is not close to any of the neighbourhood I recommended neighbourhood to stay, so you will probably need an uber to get to El Vilsito.

But if you are staying a little longer in Mexico City I want to highly recommend this place.

It is a taqueria that has been converted from an auto repair shop.

The portions are big and the best part was the vibe.

It made me realize why I came to Mexico city.

Even though you need an Uber to get here, we had no problem. We stayed in Roma district and it took about 15 minutes to get to El Vilsito.

Tacos El Güero

If there is one restaurant that I had to go, it would be La Polar cause so many of my friends told me to go to La Polar .

But every time we went everything was sold out (We tried twice) and was cleaning to close down.

So the second time we went, we were too hungry and ended up at Tacos El Güero.

It was absolutely amazing.

Below is the menu.

Because this was also not on the recommended list from my friends, we weren’t sure what to order.

But someone on the line helped us, and this is the dishes we ordered.

Suadero Taco
Campechanos Taco
Bistec Con Queso
Quesadilla

Suadero Taco was the best among all the Taqueria we went in Mexico City.

How to order at Tacos El Güero? You order on the left side. They will give you a ticket and wait for your name to be called.

Coyoacan Market

I know Coyoacan market is not the best street tacos in Mexico City.

But after shopping at Coyoacan market, you will be hungry for sure.

so without any research, we went the busiest taco shop called Antojitos Sandy was the busiest.

It was great, but I think it was more catered for tourists.

The food was still good.

But after reading some Reddit posts El Jardín del Pulpo and quesadillas Lucha (famous for cheese quesadillas and brisket taco) are famous.

Los Cocuyos

Los Cocuyos gone famous cause of Anthony Bourdain made an episode about it.

I know I see a lot on Reddit that this isn’t the best and there are others that are better. But so what?! We just want the experience (I still made a list below on the alternative).

They specialise in more unusual parts of cows like tongue, cheek or eye muscle.

It was really good, and wouldn’t have known it was specialty meat if my friend didn’t tell me.

Taco Joints by Mexico City Neighbourhoods

Zocalo Centre

El Rey del Pavo : famous for turkey taco
Tacos El Huequito : famous for taco Al pastor
Los Cocuyos : Anthony Bourdain made it the most famous taqueria in Mexico City
Taquería El Torito : People who like to brag will say Tqueria El Torito is better than Los Cocuyos
Los Especiales : Cheap. Long Line. Famous among Asians cause of intestine taco
Taqueria Arandas : Apparently the most famous in Zocalo centre, so has a long line as well.

Juarez

El Pescadito : famous for fried fish taco
La Polar : famous for Birria taco. my friends and I couldn’t go cause everytime we went, it was sold out.
Tacos El Güero : If you can’t go to La Polar, try Tacos El Guero.
Tacos “El Capote Azul” : famous among Koreans cause it was known to have galbi-jjim style tacos

Roma

Cariñito Tacos : because it is a hip town, they have fusion tacos like pork belly taco with hoisin sauce
San Taco : was really close to our hotel, so we went like three times
Tacos Los Alexis : It is the ultimate fusion taco restaurant popular among local genz
Taqueria “Los Amigos” : Apparently they do the best Al Pastor in Roma