Tex-Mex restaurants in St. Louis

Salina's Mexican Café

20 Clarkson-Wilson Centre, Chesterfield, MO 63017

One of the few Arizona-style Mexican restaurants outside the state of Arizona, Salina's owes its culinary heritage (twelve years and running) to co-owner and Copper... More »
Chava's

925 Geyer Ave., St. Louis, MO 63104

This Mexican restaurant rose from the ruins of perennial Soulard dive Mike & Min's, but it wasn't a bad trade-off at all. Chava's menu keeps things short and to the... More »
Chipotle Mexican Grill-Drew Station

1676 Clarkson Road, Chesterfield, MO 63017

There are chains you loathe, chains you can tolerate and chains you secretly love. Then there's Chipotle, which you should put on a pedestal and offer... More »
Arcelia's

1928 S. 12th St., St Louis, MO 63104

Call it Arcelia�??s version 3.0. The original Arcelia�??s closed in 2010 after a twenty-year run, first in Soulard, later anchoring the northeast corner of Lafayette Park. The... More »

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Recent Critic Reviews

Ian Froeb writes for Riverfront Times on Arcelia's

I shouldn't like Vida Mexican Kitchen y Cantina. Starting with that name: the empty, abstract noun (Life!), the condescending y. It's in a shopping mall. It's a chain, with the same parent company (Charlotte-based Bar Management Group) as its Saint Louis Galleria...
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Ian Froeb writes for Riverfront Times on Laredo on Lafayette Square

Whichever enchilada filling you choose, the highlight is the sauce: a brick-red, smoky and mildly spicy chipotle brew.

The torta at Laredo on Lafayette Square might be the tidiest version of this classic Mexican sandwich that you ever encounter. Pick it up with your hands — with one...
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Ian Froeb writes for Riverfront Times on Rosalita's Cantina

Over the four and a half years that I've been reviewing restaurants in St. Louis, no single category has caused me more exhilaration and frustration alike than Mexican and Tex-Mex cuisine. There is true cause for excitement: a burgeoning subculture of hole-in-the-wall taquerias on Cherokee Street and near the airport that serve traditional street food and, on the other end of the...
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