South of Miami: Mexican Food in Homestead, Hialeah, Miami Beach and Fort Lauderdale

Twenty-five real Mexican restaurants and grocery stores across four South Florida cities, including a Miami Beach spot rated 4.9 and a four-location supermarket chain in Hialeah.

Miami and Orlando each have their own guide in our directory. This one covers four cities around them that don't — Fort Lauderdale to the north, Miami Beach on the barrier island, Hialeah just northwest of the city, and Homestead at the southern edge of Miami-Dade County near the Everglades. Together our data shows 25 listings across these four: 14 restaurants and 11 stores.

Miami Beach: the highest rating in this entire batch of guides

Address	Name	Rating
1361 Washington Ave	Esquina Mexicana	4.9 (11,034 reviews)
1884 Bay Rd	Tequiztlán Mexican Restaurant and Tequila Bar	4.6 (1,037 reviews)
1111 Collins Ave	Naked Taco	No rating on file
1220 16th St	Bodega Taqueria y Tequila South Beach	No rating on file
7450 Ocean Terrace	Taquiza	No rating on file

Esquina Mexicana's 4.9-star rating across 11,034 reviews is the single highest score we've recorded across every city guide in this current batch — Chicago, Los Angeles, Atlanta and the rest included. Only 2 of Miami Beach's 5 restaurants carry a rating in our data; the other three show no score on file.

Fort Lauderdale: four restaurants, none rated

Address	Name	Type
1313 E Las Olas Blvd	Rocco's Tacos & Tequila Bar	Cantina
401 N Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd	El Vez	Mexicano
4354 N Federal Hwy	Quvo Tacos & Craft Beer	Taquería
6206 N Federal Hwy	Epazote	Mexicano

Two of the four — Quvo Tacos & Craft Beer and Epazote — sit on North Federal Highway, a mile and a half apart. None of Fort Lauderdale's four restaurants carries a Google rating in our current pull, and our directory has no Mexican grocery stores on file for the city at all.

Hialeah: one chain, four locations

Hialeah is where the chain-density story in this piece really shows up. Of the city's five grocery listings, four are the same banner:

Address	Name
495 W 29th St	Presidente Supermarket #27
1060 W 29th St	Presidente Supermarket #14
1550 W 84th St	Presidente Supermarket #2
3750 W 18th Ave	Presidente Supermarket #61

That's 80% of Hialeah's grocery listings under one name, including two locations on West 29th Street alone. The fifth store, La Barata Supermarket on West 16th Avenue, carries the highest rating in Hialeah at 4.8 stars, though with no review count on file. Hialeah's two restaurants, Taqueria Herencia Mexicana (4.2 stars, 540 reviews) and Taco Shop Hialeah (4.3 stars, 1,149 reviews), are both classified as taquerías — notably, Taqueria Herencia Mexicana shares its exact street address, 1550 W 84th St, with Presidente Supermarket #2, suggesting they sit in the same retail plaza.

Homestead: North Krome Avenue and South Dixie Highway

Address	Name	Type
27 N Krome Ave	Casita Tejas Mexican Restaurant	Restaurant — tex_mex
702 N Krome Ave	La Quebradita Mexican Grill	Restaurant — mexicano
624 English Ave	La Pasadita	Restaurant — taquería
24420 S Dixie Hwy	Redland Market Village	Store — mercado
27861 S Dixie Hwy	La Mexicana Market	Store — tienda mexicana
15260 SW 280th St Unit 108	Mas Por Menos Supermarket	Store — supermercado
29351 SW 152nd Ave	La Ranchera Meat Market #4	Store — tienda mexicana
29609 SW 162nd Ave	La Morenita Supermarket	Store — tienda mexicana
407 Park Pl	Mexico Market	Store — tienda mexicana

North Krome Avenue, Homestead's main commercial street, carries two of the three restaurants. All three Homestead restaurants carry ratings — 4.3, 4.3 and 4.5 — with La Quebradita Mexican Grill's 2,633 reviews the highest volume of the three.

The numbers across all four cities

Of the 14 restaurants across Fort Lauderdale, Miami Beach, Hialeah and Homestead, only 7 carry a Google rating — exactly half. Among those 7, the average is 4.44, pulled up by Esquina Mexicana's outlier 4.9. Fort Lauderdale is the weak point in the data: zero of its four restaurants, and none of its (nonexistent, in our directory) grocery stores, carry a rating.

Fort Lauderdale: no ratings, but a full set of websites

Fort Lauderdale is a useful reminder that a missing rating doesn't mean a missing business: all four of its restaurants — Rocco's Tacos & Tequila Bar, El Vez, Quvo Tacos & Craft Beer and Epazote — have a website on file, despite none of the four carrying a Google rating. The same split shows up in Hialeah's grocery stores, where all four Presidente Supermarket locations share the chain's website while the independent La Barata Supermarket has none, and in Homestead, where 3 of 6 stores (Redland Market Village, La Ranchera Meat Market #4, Mexico Market) have a site and the other 3 don't.