The Best Mexican Food in France
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The best Mexican food in France, according to the experts: the Michelin Guide and Le Fooding have both weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. Oxte comes out on top, and the good stuff runs deepest in Paris and Lyon.
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Beatriz and Comer hold the next two places. Le Fooding and the Michelin Guide show up on more of this list than any other guide.
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Rank 1. Oxte
Contemporary Mexican
A small, Michelin-starred dining room near the Étoile where a Mexican chef and his wife-and-partner cook French ingredients through a Mexican lens, the kind of pairing that sounds like a festival concept but arrives as something far quieter and more precise. The menu shifts with the seasons, the spicing is vivid, and the mole is the real through-line. Book early; the room is tiny and the word has been out for a while.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
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Rank 2. Beatriz
Mexican
The awards
- Le Fooding Le Fooding: Le Fooding Guide
- Le Fooding Le Fooding Guide
A Tie
Six places have the exact same Score, so they share #2. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #2 Beatriz (this place) 79.016
- #2 Comer 79.016
- #2 Furia 79.016
- #2 La Malicia 79.016
- #2 Santa Rosalia 79.016
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Rank 2. Comer
Mexican
The awards
- Le Fooding Le Fooding: Le Fooding Guide
- Le Fooding Le Fooding Guide
A Tie
Six places have the exact same Score, so they share #2. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #2 Beatriz 79.016
- #2 Comer (this place) 79.016
- #2 Furia 79.016
- #2 La Malicia 79.016
- #2 Santa Rosalia 79.016
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Rank 2. Furia
Natural wine Mexican
The awards
- Le Fooding Le Fooding: Le Fooding Guide
- Le Fooding Le Fooding Guide
A Tie
Six places have the exact same Score, so they share #2. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #2 Beatriz 79.016
- #2 Comer 79.016
- #2 Furia (this place) 79.016
- #2 La Malicia 79.016
- #2 Santa Rosalia 79.016
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Rank 2. La Malicia
Mezcal Mexican
The awards
- Le Fooding Le Fooding: Le Fooding Guide
- Le Fooding Le Fooding Guide
A Tie
Six places have the exact same Score, so they share #2. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #2 Comer 79.016
- #2 Furia 79.016
- #2 La Malicia (this place) 79.016
- #2 Santa Rosalia 79.016
- #2 Taco Mesa 79.016
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Rank 2. Santa Rosalia
Mexican
The awards
- Le Fooding Le Fooding: Le Fooding Guide
- Le Fooding Le Fooding Guide
A Tie
Six places have the exact same Score, so they share #2. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #2 Comer 79.016
- #2 Furia 79.016
- #2 La Malicia 79.016
- #2 Santa Rosalia (this place) 79.016
- #2 Taco Mesa 79.016
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Rank 2. Taco Mesa
Mexican
The awards
- Le Fooding Le Fooding: Le Fooding Guide
- Le Fooding Le Fooding Guide
A Tie
Six places have the exact same Score, so they share #2. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #2 Comer 79.016
- #2 Furia 79.016
- #2 La Malicia 79.016
- #2 Santa Rosalia 79.016
- #2 Taco Mesa (this place) 79.016
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Rank 8. Agave
Mexican
The open kitchen is visible from the pedestrian street before you've even opened the door, which sets the tone: nothing here is hidden or fussy. This casual fusion restaurant in Bourg-en-Bresse is run by a French-Mexican couple, both trained pastry-makers, who cook French ingredients through a Mexican lens, mole, macha salsa, salsa verde and all. The desserts land with particular conviction. A Michelin Bib Gourmand.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
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Rank 9. Alebrije
Mexican
Carla Kirsch trained at the Paul Bocuse Institute and did time at Troisgros before opening this colorful Mexican restaurant in the Croix-Rousse district. Old rafters run overhead, splashed with color, and the menu shifts every month, drawing on seasonal French ingredients filtered through the cooking of her native Veracruz. Chili peppers turn up in the dessert, which tells you something about her sense of humor. Mexican wines, tequilas, and mezcals round out the drinks list.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
A Tie
Four places have the exact same Score, so they share #9. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #9 Alebrije (this place) 68.544
- #9 Le Limonadier 68.544
- #9 Le Mezquité 68.544
- #9 TLALI 68.544
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Rank 9. Le Limonadier
Creative Mexican
Fermentation jars line the shelves of this old La Croix-Rousse café, which doubles as a serious creative restaurant upstairs. The chef, a Mexican transplant who came up through Lyon's fine-dining circuit, runs a deliberately short menu built around flame cooking, organic local vegetables, and biodynamic wines. The combinations are precise without being precious, and the plant-forward cooking has a logic that makes the brevity feel like a feature, not a limitation.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
A Tie
Four places have the exact same Score, so they share #9. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #9 Alebrije 68.544
- #9 Le Limonadier (this place) 68.544
- #9 Le Mezquité 68.544
- #9 TLALI 68.544
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Rank 9. Le Mezquité
Fusion Mexican
Cochinita pibil cooked over mesquite wood sits alongside mole poblano with duck at this fusion restaurant in Le Touquet, where the menu is a direct product of its owners' geography: he's from Valenciennes, she's from Puebla. The result is French regional ingredients run through Mexican methods, sauces, and smoke, with a fondness for the latter that turns up across the menu in ways you won't quite expect.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
A Tie
Four places have the exact same Score, so they share #9. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #9 Alebrije 68.544
- #9 Le Limonadier 68.544
- #9 Le Mezquité (this place) 68.544
- #9 TLALI 68.544
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Rank 9. TLALI
Modern Mexican
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
A Tie
Four places have the exact same Score, so they share #9. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #9 Alebrije 68.544
- #9 Le Limonadier 68.544
- #9 Le Mezquité 68.544
- #9 TLALI (this place) 68.544