Trends · data through September 2026

Mexican Restaurants & Taquerias in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX

Iceflower tracks 1,628 stores from 1,273 Mexican restaurants & taquerias in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX. Mexican Sugar grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Cristina's Fine Mexican Restaurant and La Hechizera Tortas.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
1,273
Tracked stores
1,628
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked Mexican restaurants & taquerias

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Mexican Sugar and Cristina's Fine Mexican Restaurant sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 M Mexican Sugar ▲2 +19.2%
2 C Cristina's Fine Mexican Restaurant logo Cristina's Fine Mexican Restaurant ▲2 +16.5%
3 L La Hechizera Tortas ▲1 +12.6%
4 E El Chico logo El Chico ▲1 +11.9%
5 S Salsa Limón logo Salsa Limón ▲1 +11.8%
6 D Don Taco ▲5 +10.3%
7 M Mi Dia From Scratch logo Mi Dia From Scratch - +8.1%
8 B Blue Goose Cantina logo Blue Goose Cantina ▲1 +6.3%
9 L Lupe Tortilla logo Lupe Tortilla ▼1 +5.2%
10 M Mariscos La Marea ▲1 +4.8%
11 C Cuquita's Restaurant ▼1 +4.3%
12 M Miguelito's Mexican Restaurant - +4.2%
13 E El Paisa Cocina Mexicana ▲1 +3.6%
14 P Pappasito's Cantina - +3.5%
15 T Taqueria El Arquito - +2.4%
  • Mi Cocina
  • Chuy's
  • Pappasito's Cantina
  • Blue Goose Cantina
  • Vidorra
  • El Fenix
  • Cristina's Fine Mexican Restaurant
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

1,628 tracked store locations in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Mi Cocina (13)
  • Chuy's (16)
  • Pappasito's Cantina (6)
  • Blue Goose Cantina (7)
  • Vidorra (3)
  • El Fenix (11)
  • Cristina's Fine Mexican Restaurant (12)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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