Best Mexican Restaurants in Belfast, Ranked by Google Rating

If you are searching for the best Mexican restaurants in Belfast, this page gives you an answer you can check. We ranked the Mexican venues in our Belfast listings by their average Google rating, broke ties on the number of Google reviews, and only included venues with at least fifty reviews, so that a handful of enthusiastic friends cannot push a new opening to the top. The figures are the ones our directory held in October 2026. 5 venues meet that standard, out of 13 Mexican venues we list in the city once a duplicate entry is removed.

Nobody from our team has scored these kitchens, and this is not a tasting verdict. A Google average is a crowd measure: it tells you how satisfied the people who bothered to leave a review were. That is useful, but it has blind spots, and we explain the main ones below so that you can read the table with your eyes open.

The ranking

Each name links to the venue's page in our directory, where you will find the address, the opening hours we hold and, where there is one, the website.

#	Venue	Address	Google rating	Reviews
1	Tortilla Belfast	9 Arthur Square, Belfast BT1 4FD	4.6	1,277
2	The Burrito Bar	118 Andersonstown Rd, Belfast BT11 9BX	4.5	201
3	Pica	45 Belmont Rd, Belfast BT4 2AA	4.5	121
4	Bad Boyz Burritos	79 Glen Rd, Andersonstown, Belfast BT11 8AN	4.5	116
5	Cú	635 Lisburn Rd, Belfast BT9 7GT	4.2	203

The first thing to notice is how tight the table is. Almost every venue sits within a few tenths of a star of the others, so the order in the middle of the table is decided by review counts rather than by any wide gap in satisfaction. The second thing is how Belfast's Mexican food is spread across the city: the ranking takes in the city centre, west Belfast, east Belfast and the Lisburn Road in the south, which is unusual for a UK city of this size, where Mexican food tends to cluster in one nightlife district.

One venue, two entries

Our directory holds two entries for the taquería on Belmont Road in east Belfast: Pica and Pica Belfast, both at the same address. We counted it once, under the entry that carries Google figures. The second entry has a fuller description in our directory, which is why it still exists; the two will be merged.

The venues at the top

Hours come from each venue's listing in our directory and change more often than menus do, so check before you set off, especially on Sundays and bank holidays.

Tortilla Belfast

Address: 9 Arthur Square, Belfast BT1 4FD
Google rating: 4.6 from 1,277 reviews (as held in our directory, October 2026)
Opening hours (directory listing): Mon–Sat 11:00–21:00 · Sun 11:00–19:00
Website: tortilla.co.uk

The Belfast branch of a national burrito chain, on Arthur Square in the shopping streets at the heart of the city centre. It sits at the top because its average is the highest in the table and because that average is built on by far the largest number of reviews, which makes it the steadiest figure on this page. A chain branch topping a crowd ranking is common across the UK: people review a predictable lunch generously. Our guide to the Mexican chains in the UK shows where else the brand trades.

The Burrito Bar

Address: 118 Andersonstown Rd, Belfast BT11 9BX
Google rating: 4.5 from 201 reviews (as held in our directory, October 2026)
Opening hours (directory listing): Mon–Sat 11:30–22:00 · Sun 13:00–22:00

On the Andersonstown Road in west Belfast, well away from the city-centre crowds. It shares its rating with the two venues below it and comes second on the tie-break because more people have reviewed it. For anyone living in the west of the city, it is a local option that city-centre guides tend to skip.

Pica

Address: 45 Belmont Rd, Belfast BT4 2AA
Google rating: 4.5 from 121 reviews (as held in our directory, October 2026)
Opening hours (directory listing): Mon–Tue closed · Wed 17:00–21:00 · Thu–Sat 12:00–15:00, 17:00–21:30 · Sun closed
Website: picabelfast.co.uk

On Belmont Road in east Belfast. According to its fuller directory entry it is a taquería that opened in 2025, run by two local chefs, with tacos and small plates. A rating at this level after a relatively short time trading is encouraging, but a younger venue has a smaller pool of reviews, and averages built on a smaller pool move faster.

Bad Boyz Burritos

Address: 79 Glen Rd, Andersonstown, Belfast BT11 8AN
Google rating: 4.5 from 116 reviews (as held in our directory, October 2026)
Opening hours (directory listing): Mon–Sat 12:00–22:00 · Sun closed
Website: badboyzburrito.co.uk

Also in Andersonstown, on the Glen Road. With the Burrito Bar, it makes west Belfast the part of the city most strongly represented in this table, and both are burrito specialists, which tells you a good deal about what the neighbourhood orders.

Below the threshold

These Belfast venues are in our directory but not in the ranking, either because our directory does not yet hold a Google rating for them or because they have fewer than fifty reviews. Several are well known in the city, including the taquerías on the Ormeau Road and Castle Street and the Boojum branches, so treat this as a gap in our data rather than a judgement on the food.

• Boojum Botanic Avenue, 67-69 Botanic Avenue, Belfast BT7 1JL (no Google rating in our directory)
• Boojum Lisburn Road, 509-511 Lisburn Road, Belfast BT9 7EZ (no Google rating in our directory)
• Boojum Victoria Square, 4 Victoria Square, Belfast BT1 4QG (no Google rating in our directory)
• La Taqueria Castle Street, 53 Castle Street, Belfast BT1 1GH (no Google rating in our directory)
• La Taqueria Ormeau, 274-276 Ormeau Road, Belfast BT7 2GB (no Google rating in our directory)
• Little Mexican Deli, Dairyfarm Shopping Centre, 205 Stewartstown Road, Belfast BT17 0AW (no Google rating in our directory)
• Peperi.co, 353 Lisburn Rd, Belfast BT9 7EP (2.5 from 31 reviews)
• Taquitos, Donegall Quay, Belfast BT1 3NG (no Google rating in our directory)

The Boojum brand deserves a note of its own. It is a burrito chain that trades across the island of Ireland, and its original Belfast branch is on Botanic Avenue; our directory lists 3 Belfast branches without Google figures, which is the only reason none of them appears in the ranking. If you want a burrito near Queen's University, the Botanic Avenue branch is the obvious stop.

Belfast by area

• City centre. Arthur Square, Castle Street, Victoria Square and Donegall Quay hold the chain branches, the late-opening taquería and the street-food stand near the Lagan. This is where visitors will eat.
• West Belfast. Andersonstown and the Glen Road have two burrito specialists in the ranking and a deli in the Dairyfarm centre further out. It is the strongest area in the table.
• South Belfast. The Lisburn Road, Botanic Avenue and the Ormeau Road run through the student and residential districts around Queen's, with a taquería, a chain branch and a ranked venue on the Lisburn Road.
• East Belfast. Belmont Road has the newest venue in the table.

For a street-by-street walk through the same city with more description of each venue, see our neighbourhood guide to Mexican restaurants in Belfast, and for the short version, where to eat Mexican in Belfast.

Reading a Google rating in Belfast

A rating is a summary of satisfaction, not a measure of how closely a kitchen follows a Mexican regional tradition. A few patterns matter here:

• Burritos dominate. Most of the ranked venues are burrito specialists. The large burrito wrapped in foil is not the everyday food of central Mexico: the burrito comes from the north of the country, and the oversized version British chains sell descends from the Mission-style burrito developed in San Francisco. A high rating tells you the burrito is good, not that the menu is broad.
• Review counts differ hugely. The top venue has many times more reviews than the others. A couple of bad weeks will barely move its average; the same weeks could move a smaller venue's by a tenth of a star.
• Delivery reviews. Tacos travel badly. Venues that do much of their trade through delivery apps can collect ratings that reflect the box more than the kitchen.
• New venues start high. Early reviews often come from regulars and friends. Read the most recent reviews as well as the average.

What to order

When UNESCO inscribed traditional Mexican cuisine on its list of the intangible cultural heritage of humanity in 2010, it put maize, beans and chilli at the centre and named nixtamalisation, cooking maize with lime before grinding it, as a defining technique. That is the single most useful test of a taquería: soft, fragrant corn tortillas made from nixtamalised masa.

• Tacos on corn tortillas, where the venue offers them. If you want to cook the most famous filling at home, our tacos al pastor recipe builds the marinade step by step.
• A burrito, which is what most Belfast menus are built around. Our carne asada burrito recipe shows how the filling should taste before the rice and beans go in.
• Salsa on the side. A good green salsa lifts almost anything; try our green salsa if you want to understand what a taquería's salsa bar is aiming for.

Frequently asked questions

How was this ranking decided?

By average Google rating as held in our directory in October 2026, among Belfast venues with at least fifty reviews, with the number of reviews breaking ties. A duplicate entry was counted once.

Why are the Ormeau Road taquería and the Boojum branches missing?

Our directory does not hold a Google rating for them yet. They are listed in the section below the threshold, and they are in our restaurant directory.

Which part of Belfast has the most Mexican food?

The city centre has the most venues, but the ranked venues are spread across the centre, west, south and east of the city.

Where can I buy Mexican ingredients in Northern Ireland?

Our shop directory lists the grocers we have mapped across the UK, including the online Mexican specialists that deliver to Northern Ireland.

Sources

• Wikipedia, Burrito (northern Mexican origins and the Mission-style burrito of San Francisco): en.wikipedia.org
• Wikipedia, Mission burrito: en.wikipedia.org
• UNESCO, Traditional Mexican cuisine: ancestral, ongoing community culture, the Michoacán paradigm (inscribed 2010): ich.unesco.org