8 editor picks in Austin.
Austin's Mexican dining reaches well beyond Tex-Mex into the regional kitchens of Oaxaca, the Yucatan and the coast. Fonda San Miguel on North Loop is the interior-Mexican pioneer, El Naranjo on South Lamar is Iliana de la Vega's James Beard-winning regional kitchen, and Este on Manor Road brings a seafood-driven coastal Mexican menu to an East Austin bungalow.
8 mexican places in Austin we have eaten in, sorted by editor score. All cuisines in Austin · Mexican across every city.
Order The tuna tostada with avocado and serrano salsa; it has been on the menu since opening.
Este in Austin is Fermin Nunez's seafood-driven Manor Road bungalow, charcoal-cooked coastal Mexican food and ceviches in the old Eastside Cafe space.
Order The cochinita pibil from the Sunday hacienda brunch buffet, plus a bowl of pozole.
Fonda San Miguel in Austin is Tom Gilliland's 1975 interior-Mexican dining room on North Loop, a pioneer of regional Oaxacan and Yucatecan cooking.
Order The mole negro de Oaxaca; de la Vega trained at the source in Oaxaca City and rebuilt it in Austin.
El Naranjo in Austin is Iliana de la Vega's James Beard-winning regional Mexican kitchen on South Lamar, serving Oaxacan moles and coastal ceviches.
Order Wood-grilled fajitas and a frozen margarita; the tortillas are pressed in-house each morning.
Joann's Fine Foods in Austin is the Bunkhouse Group's Tex-Mex diner at the Austin Motel on South Congress, a palapa-bar patio of fajitas, queso and frozen.
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Order Huevos rancheros plate with refried beans and a side flour tortilla.
Cisco's in Austin is Rudy Cisneros's East 6th Tex-Mex breakfast counter since 1948, the room that ran the city's politician breakfasts and helped make huevos.
Order The mole negro de Oaxaca; de la Vega trained at the source in Oaxaca City.
El Naranjo in Austin is Iliana de la Vega's James Beard-winning Oaxacan dining room on South Lamar, a family kitchen of regional moles, ceviches.
