Best Mexican Restaurants in Glasgow, Ranked by Google Rating

This is our answer to the search for the best Mexican restaurants in Glasgow, and it comes with its working shown. We ranked the Mexican venues in our Glasgow listings by their average Google rating, broke ties on the number of Google reviews, and only ranked venues with at least fifty reviews. The figures are the ones our directory held in October 2026. That leaves 7 ranked venues out of the 16 restaurant listings we hold for the city.

We do not award scores of our own, and we have not eaten at every venue below. The value of a list like this is that its rule is public: if you disagree with a position, you can see exactly which number put it there.

The ranking

Venue names link to their page in our directory, with the current address, hours and website.

#	Venue	Address	Google rating	Reviews
1	SíSí Rooftop	15 Candleriggs, Glasgow G1 1TQ	4.6	377
2	Poko Loko	69 Hutcheson St, Glasgow G1 1SH	4.4	234
3	Zambrero Byres Road	333 Byres Rd, Glasgow G12 8UQ	4.4	76
4	Barburrito - Glasgow Queen Street	138 Queen St, Glasgow G1 3BX	4.3	1,581
5	Mexita Express Glasgow	212 Gallowgate, Glasgow G1 5DS	4.3	85
6	Taco Mazama	263 Byres Rd, Glasgow G12 8TL	4.1	530
7	Taco Bell Glasgow Argyle Street	178 Argyle St, Glasgow G2 8BT	3.5	1,553

A few observations before you use it. The table is short because around half of our Glasgow listings either have no Google rating in our data yet or fall below the threshold. The chains are spread through the middle of the order, and the large review counts behind them mean their averages move slowly. At the bottom sits a global fast-food chain; it is there because the rule applies to everyone, not because we think it competes with the rest.

One listing we set aside, and why

Our restaurant directory also holds an entry for Lupe Pinto's at 313 Great Western Rd, Glasgow G4 9HR. On the numbers alone it would head this table. We have left it out because the same address appears in our shop directory as Lupe Pintos Glasgow, a Mexican and American grocery, and the listed daytime hours look like a shop's rather than a restaurant's. Ranking a grocer against restaurants would mislead you, so it is excluded from the ranking and covered in our guide to Mexican ingredients in Glasgow and Edinburgh instead. If you are cooking Mexican food at home in Glasgow, it is one of the first addresses to know.

The top three, in detail

Hours are taken from each venue's listing. Glasgow venues change them around the Christmas party season and for big events, so check before you travel.

SíSí Rooftop

Address: 15 Candleriggs, Glasgow G1 1TQ
Google rating: 4.6 from 377 reviews (as held in our directory, October 2026)
Opening hours (directory listing): Mon–Thu 12:00–midnight · Fri–Sat 12:00–01:00 · Sun 12:00–midnight
Website: sisirooftop.com

On Candleriggs in the Merchant City, the grid of streets east of George Square that holds much of the city centre's evening trade. Note the late weekend closing in the listed hours.

Poko Loko

Address: 69 Hutcheson St, Glasgow G1 1SH
Google rating: 4.4 from 234 reviews (as held in our directory, October 2026)
Opening hours (directory listing): Mon–Thu 12:00–22:00 · Fri–Sat 12:00–midnight · Sun 12:00–22:00
Website: pokoloko.co.uk

Also in the Merchant City, on Hutcheson Street, a short walk from the venue above. If you are deciding between the two on a Friday night, the hours in each listing are worth comparing first.

Zambrero Byres Road

Address: 333 Byres Rd, Glasgow G12 8UQ
Google rating: 4.4 from 76 reviews (as held in our directory, October 2026)
Opening hours (directory listing): Mon–Tue 11:00–21:00 · Wed–Thu 11:00–21:30 · Fri–Sat 11:00–22:00 · Sun 11:00–21:00
Website: zambrero.co.uk

A counter-service branch on Byres Road in the West End, where it sits among the university's cafés and takeaways. Its review count is much smaller than the two above, so its position is the least settled of the three.

Below the threshold

These venues are in our Glasgow listings but are not ranked, because they have fewer than fifty Google reviews in our data or because we do not yet hold a rating for them. Several are well known in the city; their absence from the table is a gap in our data, not a comment on their food.

• Burrito Boy, 4 Busby Rd, Carmunnock, Glasgow G76 9BX (4.5 from 17 reviews)
• El Jefe's Finnieston, 1166-1170 Argyle Street, Finnieston, Glasgow G3 8TE (no Google rating in our directory)
• El Santo, 84 Miller Street, Glasgow G1 1DT (no Google rating in our directory)
• Las Iguanas Glasgow, 16-20 West Nile Street, Glasgow G1 2PW (no Google rating in our directory)
• Mezcal Glasgow, 104 Hope Street, Glasgow G2 6PH (no Google rating in our directory)
• Topolabamba Glasgow, 89 St Vincent Street, Glasgow G2 5TF (no Google rating in our directory)
• Topolabamba West End, 116-122 Byres Road, Glasgow G12 8TB (no Google rating in our directory)
• Tortilla Glasgow, Barrhead Road, Silverburn, Glasgow G53 6AG (no Google rating in our directory)

Glasgow by area

Use the addresses to plan rather than the rank alone. Glasgow's Mexican venues fall into four groups.

• The Merchant City and the city centre. Candleriggs, Hutcheson Street, Queen Street, Hope Street, St Vincent Street and West Nile Street hold most of the chains and the evening venues, all within reach of Central and Queen Street stations.
• The West End. Byres Road and Great Western Road carry counter-service venues for the student population, and Finnieston, along Argyle Street, has the bar-led places.
• The East End. The Gallowgate appears in the ranking too, an area most city-centre guides skip.
• The south side and the edges. Silverburn and Carmunnock show up in our listings, reminders that the city label covers a large area.

Our neighbourhood guide to Mexican restaurants in Glasgow walks through each area in more detail.

How much weight to give a star rating

An average rating tells you how satisfied reviewers were. It does not tell you which region of Mexico a kitchen cooks from, how it makes its tortillas or whether you will like its salsa. Bear in mind:

• Volume steadies an average. A score built on over a thousand reviews barely moves; one built on fewer than a hundred can shift noticeably in a few weeks.
• Night-time venues are rated on the night out. Bars with late hours are reviewed for the atmosphere and drinks as much as for the food.
• Counter service is rated on speed. Burrito chains score well when they are quick and consistent, which is a different achievement from cooking a regional menu well.

What to order

Most Glasgow menus revolve around tacos and burritos, with nachos and quesadillas alongside. If you want to judge a kitchen, start with the tortilla. Mexican cuisine was inscribed on UNESCO's intangible heritage list in 2010 with maize, beans and chilli at its core and nixtamalisation, cooking maize with lime, as a central technique. Corn tortillas made from nixtamalised masa taste noticeably different from the factory-made kind, and a kitchen that bothers with them is telling you something.

• Al pastor: pork marinated with chillies and cooked on a vertical spit, the trompo, a method that came to Mexico with the shawarma of Lebanese immigrants.
• Birria: a Jalisco dish of slow-cooked meat, traditionally goat, which in its Tijuana beef form is served as tacos with consommé for dipping. Our quesabirria recipe shows how it is built.
• Burritos: large wheat-flour wraps from the north of Mexico and California, and the format most of the chains in the table are built around.

For the meats and cuts on a taquería menu, see our taquería glossary.

Frequently asked questions

How was the order decided?

By 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. One grocery listing filed as a restaurant was excluded, as explained above.

Why are some popular restaurants missing?

Our directory does not yet hold a Google rating for them, or they have fewer than fifty reviews in our data. They are all listed in the section below the threshold.

Is the West End or the city centre better for Mexican food?

The city centre and Merchant City have more venues; the West End has more counter-service places close to the university. Which suits you depends on whether you want a night out or a quick meal.

Where can I buy tortillas and dried chillies in Glasgow?

Our shop directory lists the grocers we have mapped in the city, and our guide to Mexican ingredients in Glasgow and Edinburgh goes through them.

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