The Best Mexican Restaurants in Texarkana

The Texarkana Gazette's 2026 Readers' Choice Awards, published on October 22, named Loca Luna the winner in Mexican Food, ahead of Zapata Grill and Amigo Juan. The Gazette describes it as a three-restaurant local operation open since 2018 running Tex-Mex and Mexican dishes, and that matches what we found, two Texas-side rooms plus a sister restaurant across the state line.

It is a sit-down restaurant rather than a counter, which is the whole point. Fajitas, enchiladas, seafood and salads carry the menu, and the current special is three quesabirria tacos with rice, refried beans and broth for dipping. House margaritas drop to $3.99 on Thursdays, dine in only, at every location.

The strongest straight-ahead Mexican cooking on the Texas side, and the most locations of any independent here. The Texas Boulevard room carries a 4.6 average across 232 reviews on Restaurantji, the South Lake Drive room 4.7 across 71, and the Richmond Road room 4.5 across 40. Reviewers come back to the al pastor.

The menu is street tacos, birria and molcajetes rather than a combination-plate format, which is what separates it from the Tex-Mex rooms above and below it here. Be aware the family also runs a location at 4300 N State Line Ave on the Arkansas side, so check the address before you drive.

The highest-rated Mexican kitchen on the Texas side by review volume, at 4.6 across 291 reviews on Restaurantji. It is also the only one on this list that opens in the morning, which makes it the breakfast answer as well as a lunch one.

Combination plates run $13.75, including two chicken enchiladas with mole and a beef taco and tostada plate. Diners single out the rolled tacos, the carne asada and the chicken tamale. It is a plain room doing plain food well rather than a night out.

A small New Boston Road operation that KTAL, the local NBC affiliate, grouped with Loca Luna and Tacos Mi Pueblo in its review-data roundup of the highest-rated Mexican restaurants in Texarkana. Restaurantji puts it at 4.7 across 169 reviews, which is the best score on this list from a meaningful sample.

The menu is tacos and combos, soups, grilled plates and a kids' menu. It is a cheap, fast, consistently well-reviewed taqueria, and the reason it is not higher is that we could not verify its hours or address from anything the business publishes itself.

Amigo Juan won the Queso category in the Texarkana Gazette's 2026 Readers' Choice Awards and was a nominee in both Mexican Food and Chips and Salsa, which is three appearances on one ballot. The Gazette places it in Texarkana, Texas, serving traditional Mexican and Tex-Mex including enchiladas, tacos, burritos and fajitas.

We have left the street number off on purpose. One directory puts it at 4301 Galleria Oaks Drive and another at 4301 Morris Lane, two streets in the same cluster off I-30 west, and the restaurant publishes no website of its own to settle it. Everything else checks out, so it earns a place here with that caveat stated rather than a guessed address.

The most traditional menu in this guide and the cheapest good food in it. Sopes, gorditas, tamales, menudo, pozole and tacos, with no Tex-Mex combination plate in sight. KTAL named it alongside Taco Trip and Loca Luna, and it holds 4.7 across 134 reviews on Restaurantji.

It is this far down the list for one reason only, the schedule. Every source we checked agrees it is closed Monday through Friday, so for most of the week it is not an option at all.

The regional chain option, and the only one we have ranked. TaMolly's runs six restaurants across Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana, including Paris and Greenville on the Texas side, so the Texarkana store is a known quantity rather than a local original.

It earns a place because Gazette readers nominated it in both Queso and Chips and Salsa in 2026, and because at 342 reviews it has the largest sample of any Mexican restaurant in town. It sits last because the cooking is standard Tex-Mex and its 4.1 average is the lowest here. If you want reliable and close to the interstate, it works.