The Top 22 Places to Eat Near Pinto Bar

1. MexBest Mejor Wine Bar: Nominados · Premios MexBest

1. MexBest Mejor Restaurante Nuevo: Nominados · Premios MexBest

Three brothers split the kitchen, pastry, and floor between them at this Michelin-starred tasting menu restaurant in San Pedro Garza García, which makes northern Mexican cooking feel like a statement of purpose. Cabrito gets reimagined, mole neolonés shows up in unexpected places, and the cocktail pairings, alcoholic or not, are clearly being taken as seriously as the food. The kind of dinner that makes you feel Monterrey has been underestimated.

1. MexBest Mejor Experiencia de Vino: Ganador · Premios MexBest
2. Michelin Guide 1 Star
3. MexBest Mejor Experiencia de Vino: Nominados · Premios MexBest

1. MexBest Mejor servicio: Nominados · Premios MexBest
2. 50 Best #54 · Latin America's 50 Best Restaurants
3. MB100 Mexico's Best 100 Restaurants

A Michelin-starred fine dining room in San Pedro Garza García that has anchored Monterrey's upscale dining scene for long enough to qualify as an institution. The kitchen blends Mexican cooking with French and Asian influences in a way that sounds like a trend and tastes like a considered point of view. The tasting menu is the move if you want to see the range. Jackets optional, but the room will make you wish you'd worn one.

1. MexBest Best of the Best: Ganador · Premios MexBest
2. Michelin Guide 1 Star
3. MexBest Mejor Trayectoria Empresarial: Nominados · Premios MexBest · Guillermo González Beristáin

1. MexBest Mejor Panadería: Nominados · Premios MexBest

1. MB100 Mexico's Best 100 Restaurants

1. MB100 Mexico's Best 100 Restaurants

1. MB100 The 35 Classic Restauraunts

Adrián Herrera has a big name in Mexican food circles, and this is decidedly not his flashy flagship. It's a laid-back neighborhood fonda where the cooking runs to homey stewed goat and encacahuatadas, the kind of food that doesn't need a pretty plate to make its case. The room is unpretentious, the drinks are good, and nobody's performing anything for anyone. Exactly the sort of lunch spot you'd hope a well-connected local would text you about.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

1. AAA Four Diamonds

Tortillas made from scratch hit your table as tostadas before you've even opened the menu, which sets the tone at this Noreste Mexican restaurant in San Pedro Garza García. The kitchen works over live fire, leaning on local ingredients and traditional recipes, and the Michelin Guide has taken notice. Skirt steak, dry-brined and draped over fresh corn tortillas, arrives with a watercress salad that actually earns its place on the plate.

1. MexBest Casual Dining: Ganador · Premios MexBest
2. MexBest Mejor servicio: Nominados · Premios MexBest
3. MexBest Mejor Restaurante Nuevo: Nominados · Premios MexBest

1. MB100 Mexico's Best 100 Restaurants

1. AAA Four Diamonds

The name comes from Doña Mary herself, who earned the nickname "la gritona" (the yeller) for scolding anyone who holds up the line. This family-run taqueria on Madero earns a Michelin Bib Gourmand for doing the simple thing extremely well: flour or corn tortillas, both made fresh, filled and topped with onion, cilantro, and a choice of salsas. Order at the window, cross the street, pull up a plastic chair, and eat.

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

A family taqueria across from a cemetery, which locals have long called "tacos del muerto" with the cheerful fatalism only a third-generation operation earns. The tortillas, flour or corn, hit the plancha with oil until they blister and crisp at the edges. The fillings run from picadillo with potato and ground beef to pork shank stewed in red chile, with the taco de cabeza, chopped beef head meat, as the signature order for anyone paying attention.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

The original Barrio Antiguo location of this Mexican grill and taqueria has a parrilla you can see from the patio, which sets expectations correctly. Tall ceilings, potted raised beds, and a full bar make it the kind of place where a table of four can spend an evening without really noticing the time. The plates run large, the arrachera tacos come on flour tortillas with a cheese crust, and the mezcal cocktails tend to multiply.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

1. MexBest Casual Dining: Ganador · Premios MexBest
2. MB100 Mexico's Best 100 Restaurants

1. MexBest Mejor Panadería: Nominados · Premios MexBest

1. MB100 The 35 Classic Restauraunts

1. MB100 Mexico's Best 100 Restaurants