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15 Of The Best Mexican Restaurants In Sydney Right Now

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Sydney/Eora likes its Mexican restaurants spicy, vibrant, and packed with tequila and mezcal—whether they're casual taco joints or elevated contemporary takes on Mexico's diverse culture and cuisine.

These are OB真人视讯's picks for the best Mexican restaurants in Sydney right now.

Maiz 

33 Enmore Road, Newtown

Walking into  feels like you’re in a courtyard in Oaxaca or Puebla. It breaks away from the typical taco offerings to serve up Mexican cuisine with a vision of linking authentic food to the Aussie culinary scene.

Head chef and owner Juan Carlos Negrete is dedicated to this mission, describing food as “a language we use to express care to our close ones connecting generations, culture, and traditions. Every plate we create and serve is full of all of this.” Don't skip the much-loved esquites: corn kernels cooked in epazote and coriander broth and topped with chilli mayo, queso, butter, chilli árbol and fresh lime.

Esteban

1 Temperance Lane, Sydney CBD

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Dimly lit, subterranean, and intimate, Esteban is a date night spot, with the theatre of food being just as much a part of the meal as the dishes themselves.

The cosy and candle-lit laneway spot covers loads of flavour-packed, seafood, meat and veggie dishes, but we'd suggest the $105pp chefs menu which ticks off Tasmanian salmon ceviche tacos, seared pork belly with pickled radish, lamb shoulder birria, and tres leches cake.

Rosa

18 Barrenjoey Road, Mona Vale

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A casual, contemporary Mexican restaurant just off the beach, Rosa is a fresh take on Mexican dining by the team behind Palm Beach's popular Dunes in a bright, white, two-storey space that feels pretty Playa del Carmen.

Peruse the menu of margaritas (including an exemplary spicy margarita and vibrant blue Tulum version), before dining on modern takes on Mexican fare including tequila pasta (instead of the typical vodka), half-shell Tasmanian scallops in jalapeño and lime butter and corn salsa, and flaming pineapple bombe Alaska.

La Farmacia

81 Stanley Street, Darlinghurst

La Farmacia is medicinal in the sense that it’s an unpretentious Mexican restaurant that packs a lot of the vibes that you might find on the streets of Guadalajara. “For us, it's about staying true to the methods and ingredients from that region,” says co-owner Anthony MacFarlane. 

Grab a few tacos with fillings like twice-cooked pork belly, pork shoulder al pastor, or flank steak and work your way through the 15 margaritas (with crushed cricket rims!) while vibing to the loud and proud Mexican hip-hop. La Farmacia also does a mean bottomless brunch for $90pp, two-for-one margaritas Tuesday–Thursday, and $4 Taco Tuesday, just FYI. 

Nativo Mexican

Shop 6/45–55 Harris Street, Pyrmont

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It might only have seats for 14 guests, but tiny taqueria Nativo Mexican is serving up some seriously big flavours.

Chef-owner Manuel Diaz is drawing from his Oaxacan roots to serve up a menu of street-style tacos and snacks blending Mexican tradition with some local twists like Tasmanian octopus tacos with chimichurri, confit onions and potato, and guacamole with lemon myrtle oil and corn chips.

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Mira La Vida Mexicana 

Shop 12/1 Gregory Hills Drive, Gledswood Hills

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This is Western Sydney’s go-to place for vibrant Mexican flavours and large portions.  does favourites like birria tacos (with consomme for dipping), loaded burritos, and crazy creations like a menu section packed with Flaming Hot Cheetos, and their ultimate dessert trio combining churros, nachos and ice cream.

Comedor 

182-184 Australia Street, Newtown 

Comedor does a modern take on Mexican cuisine in a stunning historic building in the Inner West. Menu highlights include kingfish tostadas with nduja and pineapple, retired dairy cow steak with mushroom glaze, and Skull Island tiger prawns with tortillas and clam morita sauce. 

Set menus start at $79 per person, and Comedor does a wide variety of Mexican beverages including tequila, mezcal and sotol, with signature cocktails expertly crafted by the skilled bar team.

Sonora

Shop 1/37-41 Bayswater Road, Potts Point

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Sonora is all about big flavours in dishes like pork mojo tacos with sauerkraut and quatro epices, scallop ceviche with fennel puree, chilli oil and lime ash, and duck carnitas served with hibiscus, hazelnut crumbs, jalapeno chipotle and wheat tortillas.

If you come for the weekend bottomless deal, expect a non-stop fiesta of wildly flavoursome wheat tacos washed down with endless margs for $89. We recommend sitting out in the shady courtyard—a margarita just hits different outdoors.

Muchacha

3/142 Pitt Road, North Curl Curl

Over in the Northern Beaches (and 100% worth the trip across the bridge if you're not local),  is a firm favourite for Mexican and a bit of a best-kept secret up north.

Following the Cali-style approach to Mexican eats and with a cutesy kitsch aesthetic that feels like home, Muchacha offers generation portions at friendly prices alongside a suite of margaritas.

Tacos Tacos Tacos 

46 Llankelly Place, Potts Point 

Tacos Tacos Tacos is all about expertly crafted tacos in a setting that feels just like a Mexico City laneway. There’s just five or six tacos on the menu, like the slow-cooked brisket topped with salsa morita, and the adventurous cabeza taco made with tender pig’s head topped with a seven-chili salsa spread. 

Vegetarians can enjoy the cactus, frijoles, and avocado taco, and most dishes are served on gluten-free corn tortillas, so this pint-sized Mexican eatery caters to various dietary needs.

Nu'u By Nativo

29 Glebe Point Road, Glebe

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A second venue by the team behind Nativo, Nu’u is a two-storey Mexican restaurant and mezcal bar that's more dedicated to the vibrant, festive soul of Oaxaca—which is also the home of mezcal.

Here, chef-owner Manuel Diaz's menu of Oaxacan and southern Mexican flavours uses techniques including metate (grinding on traditional stone), and slow cooking in green clay pots, while also integrating native Australian ingredients.

Diana Farrera (as Australia’s only certified mezcologist) has crafted a drinks offering that boasts a huge selection of artisanal mezcals exclusively available at Nu’u, and spotlights the sustainable and ethical practices required to protect the traditional mezcal production process, with a cocktail list named after inspirational women from Oaxaca’s history and folklore.

Baja Cantina

43-45 Glebe Point Road, Glebe

Painted the perfect shade of tequila sunrise tangerine,  is hard to miss.

If your idea of Mexican restaurant looks like a bright and buzzing atmosphere, Californian-style Mexican eats, icy cold jugs of sangria, and a long list of tequilas and mezcals to match, you've come to the right place. There's also a roomy beer garden—perfect for balmy summer nights. 

Bad Hombres

40 Reservoir Street, Surry Hills

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Vegan Mexican food makes sense—salsas and herbs do the heavy lifting for flavour, and veggies cook down to hearty taco fillings just as well as lamb shoulder.

Plant-based Mexican restaurant  does the vegan thing well, with snacks and larger share plates like Baja jackfruit and miso eggplant tacos and cured watermelon stepping in for tuna in satisfying tostadas with cabbage, chipotle mayo and sesame seeds.

Chula

Shop 7/33 Bayswater Road, Potts Point 

Rising from the ashes of Barrio Chino, Chula is a funky and fun Mexican restaurant that's loved just as much for its cocktails as its food.

They don’t make any claims to authenticity and put a modern spin on traditional dishes, with highlights like tuna sashimi tostadas, spiced soft shell crab tacos, and a churro ice cream sandwich. The bottomless brunch—which we reckon is one of the best in Sydney—has become extremely popular, and with ceviche, barbecue corn, four zingy tacos to choose from AND dessert plus bottomless margaritas, wines and beers for $99, it’s not hard to see why.

Vandal Taqueria

403 King Street, Newtown

“Vandal is not Mexican,” executive chef Peter Varvaressos explains to us. “It’s more of an homage to the Latino food trucks of Los Angeles.” The walls are plastered in street art to capture that urban setting, and  plays with flavours in the style of those LA street vendors.

By taking “the ideals of Mexican cuisine—freshness, spice, rich flavours—and mixing them with complimentary flavours and cooking techniques from their homeland,” Vandal aims to create “magical, fun food.” Oh, and this Mexican restaurant is entirely vegan.

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