Best Mexican Restaurants in Birmingham, Ranked by Google Rating

Searching for the best Mexican restaurants in Birmingham? Here they are in the only order we can defend: by average Google rating, with the number of Google reviews as the tie-breaker, counting only venues with at least fifty reviews. The figures are those held in our directory in October 2026. Of the 14 Mexican venues filed under Birmingham, 7 clear that threshold.

We have not scored these restaurants ourselves, and we would rather show you a transparent rule than an opinion dressed up as one. If a position looks wrong to you, the numbers behind it are in the table.

Birmingham's Mexican venues, in order

Each name links to the venue's page in our directory, with address, hours and website.

#	Venue	Address	Google rating	Reviews
1	El Ázteca @ The Loft 1000 Trades	16 Frederick St, Birmingham B1 3HE	4.9	178
2	Fuego 1987: Alfred Works	13 Gibb St, Deritend, Birmingham B9 4DJ	4.8	124
3	Zambrero Birmingham Colmore Row	31 Colmore Row, Birmingham B3 2BS	4.6	164
4	Tortilla Birmingham Victoria Square	82 New St, Birmingham B2 4BA	4.4	639
5	Casa De Burito (Sutton Coldfield)	428 Birmingham Rd, Wylde Green, Birmingham, Sutton Coldfield B72 1YJ	4.1	196
6	Go Mex	733 Ring Rd S, Birmingham B15 2TT	3.8	56
7	Casa De Burito (Great Barr)	26 Birmingham Rd, Great Barr, Birmingham B43 6NR	3.5	168

The two venues at the top are independents outside the main shopping streets, one in the Jewellery Quarter and one in Digbeth. Below them come the city-centre chains, with large review pools that keep their averages steady. The bottom of the table has two branches of the same local burrito business on either side of the north of the city, a useful reminder that two sites under one name can be rated very differently.

The top three in detail

Hours below come from each listing. Digbeth and the Jewellery Quarter both host events and markets that change trading patterns, so check before you set out.

El Ázteca @ The Loft 1000 Trades

Address: 16 Frederick St, Birmingham B1 3HE
Google rating: 4.9 from 178 reviews (as held in our directory, October 2026)
Opening hours (directory listing): Mon closed · Tue–Fri 17:00–22:00 · Sat 12:30–22:00 · Sun closed
Website: live.tebi.co

On Frederick Street in the Jewellery Quarter, inside a venue whose name in our directory points to a residency at a bar. Kitchens run as residencies inside pubs and bars are common in Birmingham, and they are worth following on their own channels, because they move.

Fuego 1987: Alfred Works

Address: 13 Gibb St, Deritend, Birmingham B9 4DJ
Google rating: 4.8 from 124 reviews (as held in our directory, October 2026)
Opening hours (directory listing): Mon–Wed 11:00–21:30 · Thu–Sat 11:00–22:00 · Sun 11:00–21:30

In Deritend, the Digbeth side of the city centre, on Gibb Street, home to the Custard Factory. Digbeth's warehouses and arches host a lot of the city's street-food trade, and this listing is part of it.

Zambrero Birmingham Colmore Row

Address: 31 Colmore Row, Birmingham B3 2BS
Google rating: 4.6 from 164 reviews (as held in our directory, October 2026)
Opening hours (directory listing): Mon–Fri 11:00–22:00 · Sat 12:00–21:00 · Sun 11:00–21:00
Website: zambrero.co.uk

A counter-service branch on Colmore Row in the business district near St Philip's Cathedral. Our directory holds a second Zambrero in the Bullring without a rating, so the two will not always appear together.

The listings below the cut-off

These Birmingham venues are in our directory but not in the ranking, either because they have fewer than fifty Google reviews in our data or because we do not yet hold a rating for them. Several are sit-down restaurants in the Mailbox, Brindleyplace and on Temple Street, so this is a gap in our data, not a verdict.

• El Chivato, 93 Moseley St, Deritend, Birmingham B12 0RT (3.0 from 14 reviews)
• Las Iguanas Birmingham, 39-40 Temple Street, Somerset House, Birmingham B2 5DP (no Google rating in our directory)
• Mucho Picante Birmingham A38, 229 Tyburn Rd, Birmingham B24 8NB (4.6 from 14 reviews)
• Perios Brindleyplace, The Waters Edge, 14T Brindley Pl, Birmingham B1 2HL (no Google rating in our directory)
• The Mayan, The Mailbox, 170 Wharfside St, Birmingham B1 1RL (no Google rating in our directory)
• Tortilla Birmingham, Mk 12 Grand Central, Stephenson Place, Birmingham B2 4BQ (no Google rating in our directory)
• Zambrero Bullring, Unit 526 Central Street, Birmingham B5 4BU (no Google rating in our directory)

Birmingham by area

The addresses group naturally into five areas, which is a more useful way to plan an evening than the rank alone.

• The city core. New Street, Colmore Row, Temple Street, the Bullring and Grand Central hold the chains and fast-casual counters, all close to New Street station.
• The canalside. The Mailbox and Brindleyplace have the sit-down and bar-led venues on the canal network west of the centre.
• The Jewellery Quarter. North-west of the centre, with bars and small kitchens and its own station.
• Digbeth and Deritend. East of the Bullring, the old industrial quarter with street-food venues and late events.
• The suburbs. Sutton Coldfield, Great Barr, Erdington and Edgbaston's ring road all appear in our listings, mostly takeaway-led venues serving their own neighbourhoods.

For a wider view of the region beyond the city, read our guide to Mexican restaurants in Birmingham and the West Midlands.

Reading a Google rating sensibly

A star average is a record of how satisfied reviewers were, and nothing more. It does not tell you which region of Mexico a kitchen cooks from, whether it makes its own salsas or how it sources its tortillas. In a city like Birmingham, where independents often trade from bars, market arches and food halls rather than their own premises, several things can bend the number either way, and it is worth keeping them in mind before you cross the city on the strength of a tenth of a star.

• Small pools swing. A score from a hundred-odd reviews is informative, but a few bad nights can move it. Read the most recent reviews too.
• Chains average out. City-centre chain branches are reviewed by large numbers of people and score for consistency.
• Residencies move. A kitchen inside a bar may change venue, and its Google listing can lag behind. Check its own pages before you go.
• Takeaway reviews judge travel. In the suburbs, where many venues are takeaway-led, ratings partly reflect how well food survives delivery.

What to order in Birmingham

Birmingham's Mexican menus are dominated by burritos, tacos and loaded sharing plates. To judge a kitchen, look at its tortillas. When UNESCO inscribed traditional Mexican cuisine on its intangible heritage list in 2010, it put maize, beans and chilli at the centre and named nixtamalisation, cooking maize with lime, among the defining techniques. Corn tortillas pressed from nixtamalised masa are the sign of a kitchen doing that groundwork.

• Tinga: shredded chicken or beef in a chipotle and tomato sauce, a common taco and tostada filling. Our chicken tinga recipe makes a batch for the week.
• Al pastor: pork marinated with chillies and cooked on a vertical spit, the trompo, descended from the shawarma that Lebanese immigrants brought to Mexico.
• Birria: slow-cooked meat from Jalisco, traditionally goat; the Tijuana beef version is served as tacos with a cup of consommé for dipping.

The taquería glossary explains the rest of the menu, and our survey of UK taquerías shows how Birmingham compares with other cities.

Frequently asked questions

What decides the order?

Average Google rating as held in our directory in October 2026, with the number of reviews breaking ties, among venues with at least fifty reviews.

Does the list include Sutton Coldfield?

Yes, where venues there are filed under Birmingham in our directory. The addresses show exactly where each one is.

Why is a restaurant in the Mailbox not ranked?

Our directory does not yet hold a Google rating for it. It appears in the section below the cut-off.

Where can I buy Mexican ingredients in Birmingham?

Our shop directory lists the grocers we have mapped, and every venue in this guide is in the restaurant directory.

Sources

• UNESCO, Traditional Mexican cuisine: ancestral, ongoing community culture, the Michoacán paradigm (inscribed 2010): ich.unesco.org
• Wikipedia, Al pastor (Lebanese shawarma, Puebla, the trompo): en.wikipedia.org
• Wikipedia, Birria (origin in Jalisco, Tijuana-style beef birria, quesabirria): en.wikipedia.org