City Consensus · Detroit
Mexican in Detroit
Community consensus
The consensus is still forming.
Top Tier Editorial has a take on Mexican in Detroit below. The community ranking opens up once a few locals have weighed in.
Top 5 Mexican in Detroit
Detroit's Mexican picks — cross-referenced from Hour Detroit's metro-wide margaritas guide and Best of Detroit 2024 awards, anchored in Mexicantown's Bagley and Vernor corridors.
- #1
Mexican Village Restaurant
Mexicantown
“Hour Detroit's 2024 Best of Detroit Mexican Restaurant winner — Mexicantown's oldest, on Bagley since 1957, the red-and-white hacienda at the heart of the neighborhood.”
- #2
Xochimilco Restaurant
Mexicantown
“Hour Detroit's Mexicantown standby — a three-room Bagley Street institution where the line spills upstairs and the secret-recipe margarita is a local shorthand.”
- #3
Los Galanes Mexican Restaurant
Mexicantown
“Hour Detroit's Bagley Street pick — a family-run Mexicantown mainstay since 1967 with weekend mariachi and a dozen-plus tequilas.”
- #4
Armando's Mexican Restaurant
Mexicantown
“Hour Detroit's late-night Mexicantown pick on Vernor Highway — fajitas into the small hours, a long-time Southwest Detroit staple.”
- #5
El Barzon Restaurante
Southwest Detroit
“Hour Detroit's Junction Road pick — chef Norberto Garita's dual Mexican-and-Italian menu, the city's most ambitious Mexican fine-dining take.”