Best Mexican Restaurants in Brisbane 2026

Brisbane’s Mexican food scene has quietly become one of the most interesting parts of the city’s dining landscape. What was once a handful of Tex-Mex places with sombreros on the wall has grown into a genuinely varied mix — family-run kitchens turning out mole and tamales, street-food taquerias built around a few perfect tacos, contemporary restaurants pairing regional Mexican cooking with a serious mezcal list, and big, loud cantinas made for a Friday night with fifteen mates.

That variety is exactly why picking the “best” is so subjective. Someone chasing hand-pressed corn tortillas and a slow-braised birria wants something completely different from someone after loaded nachos and a frozen margarita. So rather than ranking anyone, this guide covers the Mexican restaurants in Brisbane worth checking out in 2026 — chosen on reputation, food, atmosphere and what locals consistently recommend.

What Makes a Great Mexican Restaurant?

Before getting into the list, it helps to know what you’re actually looking for. Mexican dining in Brisbane covers a wide spectrum, and the things that make one venue great are not always the things that make another one great.

Authenticity and Mexican-Inspired Flavours

“Authentic” is a slippery word. Mexico is a huge country with distinct regional cooking — Oaxacan mole is nothing like Baja-style fish tacos, and neither has much in common with the Tex-Mex that most Australians grew up on.

In practice, Brisbane’s Mexican restaurants tend to fall into three camps:

• Traditional Mexican cooking — dishes prepared close to how they’d be made in Mexico, with regional sauces, slow-cooked meats and house-made tortillas.
• Modern or contemporary Mexican — traditional techniques and ingredients reworked with a fine-dining sensibility, plated more precisely, often with a strong cocktail program.
• Tex-Mex and Mexican-inspired — the Mexican-American style built on melted cheese, generous portions and familiar favourites like nachos and chimichangas.

None of these is better than the others. They’re just different, and the quality comes down to the same things either way: good ingredients and proper technique. A restaurant that braises its own meat, makes its own salsas and toasts its own chillies will taste better than one that doesn’t, regardless of which camp it sits in.

Fresh Tortillas and Quality Ingredients

The tortilla is the giveaway. A taco built on a fresh corn tortilla, pressed and griddled to order, is a different food from one built on a supermarket wrap. Corn tortillas bring a slightly sweet, toasty flavour and are the traditional choice for tacos and enchiladas. Flour tortillas are softer and more pliable, which is why they suit burritos and quesadillas.

Beyond that, look for:

• Meat that’s been cooked properly — carne asada with a real char, pork shoulder braised until it shreds, chicken that hasn’t been sitting under a heat lamp.
• Salsas made in-house — pico de gallo cut fresh, salsa verde built on tomatillos, a smoky salsa roja with real dried chillies.
• Chillies, herbs and spices used with intent — guajillo, ancho, chipotle and árbol chillies each bring something different, and coriander, lime, cumin and oregano do a lot of heavy lifting.

A Menu With Plenty of Variety

Not every great Mexican restaurant needs a long menu — some of the best taquerias do four things brilliantly. But if you’re feeding a table with different tastes, variety matters. Here’s what you’ll typically find across Brisbane Mexican restaurants:

Dish	What it is	Best for
Tacos	Small soft tortillas with a filling and salsa	Sharing, trying several flavours
Enchiladas	Rolled tortillas baked in a chilli-based sauce	A hearty, saucy main
Burritos	Large flour tortilla wrapped around a full meal	A filling one-hand feed
Quesadillas	Grilled tortilla folded over cheese and fillings	Casual lunches, kids
Tamales	Masa steamed in a corn husk	Something more traditional
Fajitas	Sizzling meat and vegetables served with tortillas	Groups, build-your-own dining
Sides	Elote, refried beans, Mexican rice, guacamole	Rounding out a shared table

Atmosphere and Dining Experience

Atmosphere is half the reason you go out. Brisbane’s Mexican dining scene spans small taquerias with a dozen seats and a mezcal list, sit-down restaurants where you’ll be looked after for two hours, family-friendly venues with generous portions and space for a pram, quiet spots that work for a date night, and big cantinas built for birthdays and work drinks. Deciding which of those you want will narrow the list faster than reading another twenty reviews.

The Best Mexican Restaurants in Brisbane for 2026

The venues below deliberately cover a range of styles rather than one particular type of Mexican dining. Some are traditional, some are modern, some are unapologetically Tex-Mex — and that’s the point.

Restaurant	Suburb	Style
El Torito Mexican Restaurant	West End	Traditional Mexican
Baja Modern Mexican	Fortitude Valley	Contemporary Mexican
Pepe’s Mexican Restaurant	Newmarket	Tex-Mex / Mexican-inspired
Mama Taco	West End	Modern taqueria
Poca Madre	South Brisbane	Modern Mexican
Cartel del Taco	Hawthorne	Mexican street food
El Planta	South Brisbane	Plant-based Mexican
La Carmela	Petrie Terrace	Mexican cantina
Hecho en Mexico	Milton	Casual Mexican
El Camino Cantina	South Bank	Tex-Mex cantina

El Torito Mexican Restaurant – West End

Address: 146 Boundary Street, West End QLD 4101

El Torito is about as close as Brisbane gets to a neighbourhood Mexican restaurant you’d find in Mexico or Southern California. There’s nothing flashy about the fit-out on Boundary Street, and that’s part of the appeal — the attention has clearly gone into the kitchen rather than the light fittings.

The menu runs deeper than the tacos-and-nachos formula. Alongside tacos and enchiladas you’ll find tostadas, tamales, chimichangas, cochinita and mole, plus a solid margarita list. Diners regularly single out the tamales and the mole as dishes you don’t see done properly all that often around town.

It’s a restaurant that comes up again and again whenever Brisbane locals start arguing about the best Mexican food in Brisbane, and it holds a strong rating across hundreds of reviews. Worth knowing: it’s dinner only, and it’s closed Mondays and Sundays, so plan ahead.

Who it suits: Anyone chasing traditional Mexican flavours over presentation, and diners who’d rather order something they haven’t tried before than default to a burrito.

Baja Modern Mexican – Fortitude Valley

Address: 211 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley QLD 4006

Baja takes a different approach entirely. This is contemporary Mexican dining — traditional flavours and techniques, but plated with restraint and paired with a cocktail list that gets as much attention as the food.

Where a traditional restaurant might give you a plate of enchiladas, Baja works in smaller, sharper dishes: tuna tostadas, aguachile, Baja-style fish tacos, carnitas and brisket tacos. There’s a banquet option if you’d rather hand the decisions to the kitchen. The margaritas and mezcal-based cocktails are a genuine part of the draw rather than an afterthought.

It’s one of the highest-rated Mexican restaurants in Brisbane, and the room reflects that — considered styling, attentive service, and a noise level that still lets you have a conversation.

Ideal for:

• Date nights
• Special occasions and anniversaries
• Contemporary Mexican dining
• Small groups who want to share

Like El Torito, Baja is dinner only and closed at the start of the week, so book ahead — particularly on weekends.

Pepe’s Mexican Restaurant – Newmarket

Address: 184 Enoggera Road, Newmarket QLD 4051

Pepe’s has been a fixture on Brisbane’s northside for years, and its review count — well into the thousands — tells you how many locals have passed through. This is Tex-Mex and Mexican-inspired dining done at volume: big plates, big flavours, and a room with a bit of noise to it.

The menu covers the familiar favourites — tacos, enchiladas, quesadillas, empanadas, sizzling plates and jalapeño poppers — and portions are generous enough that most tables end up asking for a takeaway container. Guacamole made fresh at the table is a nice touch that keeps regulars coming back.

For Newmarket and the surrounding northside suburbs — Wilston, Windsor, Alderley, Ashgrove — it’s the obvious local option. Parking sits behind the building, and there’s a gravel overflow area past the main sign, which is worth knowing on a busy Saturday. Larger groups should book.

Who it suits: Families, groups, birthdays, and anyone who wants a Mexican meal without driving into the city.

Mama Taco – West End

Address: 4/59 Hardgrave Road, West End QLD 4101

Mama Taco is smaller and more intimate than most of the venues on this list, tucked into the Hardgrave Road end of West End rather than the busier Boundary Street strip. The approach is contemporary — a tight taco-led menu, careful sourcing, and a bar that takes mezcal seriously.

The tacos are the reason to go. Prawn and eggplant versions both get singled out regularly, and the eggplant is one of the few vegetarian tacos in Brisbane that people order by choice rather than by default. Chicken tamales, cheese empanadas and a mezcal flight round out a menu built for grazing rather than one big main.

It sits at the pricier end of casual Mexican dining in Brisbane, which puts it more in “treat” territory than “Tuesday night” territory for most people. The service reputation is a big part of why it keeps coming up in Brisbane food conversations.

Who it suits: Couples, small groups, and anyone who wants excellent tacos and a proper drinks list without a formal dining room.

Between Mama Taco and El Torito sitting a few streets apart, West End has a strong claim as Brisbane’s best suburb for Mexican food.

Poca Madre – South Brisbane

Address: Shop 15/14 Little Stanley Street, Brisbane City QLD 4101

Poca Madre occupies a corner site on Little Stanley Street at South Bank, with a desert-toned fit-out, hand-painted murals and a standalone margarita bar. It’s modern Mexican with a lot of personality — bold flavours, an open kitchen, and a room that can handle a big crowd.

The menu is built around sharing: botanas and small plates to start, then tacos, larger comidas and banquet options. Standouts include the wagyu birria, braised beef cheek and battered snapper tacos, and there’s a chicken tinga enchilada baked in corn tortilla with red enchilada sauce, tomatillo rice and queso fresco for anyone after something saucier. Bottomless taco and brunch sittings run regularly.

What separates it from the smaller taquerias is scale and setting. You can walk in for a casual lunch after a South Bank wander, or book it for a birthday with twenty people. It’s open seven days, which makes it one of the more reliable options in the area.

Cartel del Taco – Hawthorne

Address: 290 Hawthorne Road, Hawthorne QLD 4171

Cartel del Taco is Mexican street food done with a bit of swagger. The focus is squarely on tacos — al pastor, pibil, and a rotating chef’s special that’s frequently a slow-cooked beef cheek — backed by a cocktail list that gets as much praise as the food.

The Hawthorne venue built a following partly through social media, and it’s common to see it full on a weeknight. The kitchen also runs occasional all-you-can-eat birria taco nights, which aren’t on a fixed schedule, so their socials are the place to check.

The group has since expanded with a second venue in New Farm on Merthyr Road, giving inner-north diners an option too.

Who it suits: East Brisbane diners in Hawthorne, Bulimba, Balmoral, Morningside and Cannon Hill who don’t want to cross the river, and anyone who’d rather order six tacos than one main.

El Planta – South Brisbane

Address: 58 Hope Street, South Brisbane QLD 4101

El Planta is worth knowing about for one specific reason: it’s Brisbane’s dedicated plant-based Mexican restaurant, and it’s built its reputation on technique rather than on meat substitutes. Everything is made in house, and the corn tortillas are hand-pressed and cooked to order — genuinely a rarity in this city.

The menu changes regularly and leans on vegetables rather than fake meat: cauliflower tacos, hearts-of-palm ceviche, corn ribs and a rotating list of house salsas. There’s a “feed me” banquet if you’d rather let the kitchen decide. The margaritas have their own following.

Sitting just off Fish Lane, it’s a short walk from QPAC, the Convention Centre and South Bank, which makes it a strong pre-theatre option.

Who it suits: Vegetarian and vegan diners, obviously — but also anyone curious about Mexican cooking beyond the standard Tex-Mex template. It’s a small venue and it books out, so reserve a table.

La Carmela – Petrie Terrace

Address: 25 Caxton Street, Petrie Terrace QLD 4000

La Carmela sits in a heritage-listed building on Caxton Street, spread across a main bar, a beer garden lined with Mexican street art, and a function room. It’s a cantina in the proper sense — food, drinks and noise, in roughly equal measure.

The kitchen has built a real reputation for its birria tacos: slow-cooked marinated beef with queso fresco and a side of consommé for dipping. Beyond that you’ll find Cali-style burritos, loaded nachos, quesadillas, taquitos, street corn, empanadas and churros, plus banquet options for larger tables.

The Caxton Street location does a lot of work here. It’s walking distance from Suncorp Stadium, the Barracks and the western edge of the CBD, which makes it an easy pre-game or pre-concert booking. Live music and events run regularly.

Who it suits: Groups, pre-event dinners, birthdays, and anyone who wants their Mexican meal with a bit of atmosphere around it. Note the trading days — it’s closed Mondays and Wednesdays.

Hecho en Mexico – Milton

Address: T11/32 Park Road, Milton QLD 4064

Hecho en Mexico sits in the Park Road precinct in Milton, one of Brisbane’s better-known dining strips. It’s a casual, straightforward Mexican restaurant serving the dishes most people come looking for — tacos, enchiladas, chimichangas, burritos and a decent cocktail list.

It’s smaller and newer than some of the names on this list, but it holds a strong rating and gets consistent praise for service and speed. Being open from late morning seven days a week makes it one of the more flexible options in the guide.

Who it suits: Diners in Milton, Toowong, Auchenflower, Paddington and Brisbane’s inner west who want a casual Mexican meal without heading into the CBD. It also works well for a weekday lunch, which not many Mexican restaurants in Brisbane offer.

El Camino Cantina – South Bank

Address: All Gas Building, 153 Stanley Street, South Brisbane QLD 4101

El Camino Cantina is the loudest venue on this list, and it makes no apology for it. This is Tex-Mex on a big scale — neon, tequila, oversized margaritas, free sombreros and portions designed for people who came hungry.

The food does what it sets out to do: loaded nachos, burritos, taco trios, brisket, fried chicken and plenty of melted cheese. It’s not trying to compete with the smaller, more traditional Mexican restaurants elsewhere in Brisbane, and comparing them isn’t especially useful. If you want hand-pressed tortillas and a mezcal list, go to West End. If you want a table of ten, a margarita tower and a room with some energy in it, this is the one.

There’s a second, larger venue at Shop 2/45 King Street in Bowen Hills, which is often the easier booking for big groups and sits close to the Royal International Convention Centre and the Valley.

Who it suits: Work functions, birthdays, big group dinners, family meals with teenagers, and pre- or post-event eating around South Bank.

Different Types of Mexican Restaurants in Brisbane

It’s worth being clear that these venues aren’t offering the same experience in different postcodes. Knowing which category you’re walking into saves a lot of disappointment.

Traditional Mexican Restaurants

These focus on regional Mexican dishes, traditional preparation and ingredients you won’t find in a supermarket Mexican kit — dried chillies, masa, tomatillos, queso fresco. Expect slow-cooked meats, proper sauces and a menu that assumes you know what a tostada is. El Torito is the clearest example in Brisbane.

Modern Mexican Restaurants

Contemporary Mexican restaurants take those same foundations and rework them — tighter plating, seasonal produce, and drinks lists built around agave spirits. The cooking is still Mexican; the presentation and pacing are closer to modern Australian dining. Baja Modern Mexican and Poca Madre both sit here.

Mexican Taquerias and Street Food

Smaller menus, faster service, tacos front and centre. The trade-off is fewer options; the payoff is that the kitchen only has to do a handful of things and does them well. Cartel del Taco and Mama Taco are Brisbane’s strongest examples, with El Planta doing the same thing on a plant-based menu.

Tex-Mex Restaurants

Larger portions, more cheese, and the Mexican-American flavours most Australians grew up with — nachos, chimichangas, sizzling fajita plates and frozen margaritas. Reliable, familiar and well suited to groups and families. Pepe’s and El Camino Cantina lead this category.

Where to Find Mexican Food Around Brisbane

If you’re searching for Mexican food near me, geography usually matters more than anything else. Here’s how the city breaks down.

Best Mexican Restaurants in Brisbane CBD

The CBD and its immediate surrounds are well covered. Poca Madre on Little Stanley Street is the standout for a proper sit-down meal, and Comuna Cantina on Creek Street is a serviceable option right in the middle of the city for a work lunch or after-work drinks. Central Mexican restaurants are convenient for office workers, people staying in city hotels, and anyone heading to a show or an event afterwards — you’re rarely more than a short walk from a train, bus or ferry.

Best Mexican Restaurants in West End

West End is arguably the strongest single suburb for Mexican dining in Brisbane. El Torito on Boundary Street covers the traditional end, and Mama Taco on Hardgrave Road covers the modern taqueria end, which means you can eat two very different Mexican meals within a few hundred metres. The suburb’s general food culture — small venues, independent operators, a decent late-night crowd — suits Mexican cooking well.

Best Mexican Restaurants in Fortitude Valley

Baja Modern Mexican on Brunswick Street is the main draw in the Valley, and it’s a strong enough reason to make the trip on its own. The area works well for a longer night out, given how much sits within walking distance once dinner is done. Cartel del Taco’s New Farm venue is a short drive away if the Valley is booked out.

Best Mexican Restaurants on Brisbane’s Northside

Pepe’s at Newmarket is the anchor for the northside, and it’s been that way for a long time. It covers Newmarket, Wilston, Windsor, Grange, Alderley and Ashgrove without anyone having to cross the river. Hecho en Mexico at Milton is sometimes lumped in with the northside, but it’s more accurately a western suburbs option — still an easy run for anyone in Toowong or Paddington.

Best Mexican Restaurants on Brisbane’s Eastside

Cartel del Taco on Hawthorne Road handles the east. It’s convenient for Hawthorne, Bulimba, Balmoral, Norman Park, Morningside and Cannon Hill, and the New Farm venue picks up the inner north across the river. East Brisbane is otherwise thin on dedicated Mexican dining, which is part of why the Hawthorne site gets so busy.

What Mexican Dishes Should You Try in Brisbane?

If you’ve been ordering the same thing every visit, here’s what’s worth branching out to.

Tacos

The default entry point, and the dish most Brisbane Mexican restaurants are judged on. Common fillings include:

• Carne asada — grilled, marinated beef, usually with onion, coriander and lime
• Chicken — often marinated and chargrilled, or shredded in a tinga-style tomato and chipotle sauce
• Fish — battered or grilled, Baja-style, with cabbage and a creamy sauce
• Birria — slow-braised beef, rich and deeply savoury
• Vegetarian — cauliflower, mushroom, eggplant and jackfruit all show up on Brisbane menus

Order three or four different ones and share them across the table.

Enchiladas

Enchiladas are corn tortillas rolled around a filling — most often chicken or beef — then baked in a chilli-based sauce and topped with cheese and cream. The sauce does the heavy lifting: a red enchilada sauce built on dried chillies, a green tomatillo sauce, or a mole with its layered chocolate and chilli depth. They’re one of the more comforting Mexican dishes and one of the easiest to recreate at home.

Burritos

The difference between a burrito and a taco comes down to size and structure. A taco is a small, open tortilla with a filling on top. A burrito is a large flour tortilla wrapped fully around a complete meal — meat, rice, beans, cheese, salsa, sometimes chips. One is for sharing; the other is a meal on its own.

Quesadillas

A tortilla folded over melted cheese and grilled, usually with meat or vegetables added. Simple, quick, and reliably good — which is why they’re the safe order for kids and the easiest Mexican dish to make at home on a weeknight.

Birria

Birria has gone from a regional Mexican specialty to one of the most in-demand dishes on Brisbane menus. It’s meat — traditionally goat, most often beef here — braised slowly in a chilli and spice broth until it shreds. Birria tacos take that meat, fold it into a tortilla dipped in the cooking fat, griddle it until crisp, and serve it with a cup of consommé for dipping. La Carmela and Poca Madre are both known for their versions.

Tamales

One of the oldest dishes in Mexican cooking: masa dough, filled with meat, chilli or cheese, wrapped in a corn husk and steamed. They’re labour-intensive, which is why fewer Brisbane restaurants bother. El Torito and Mama Taco are among the places you’ll find them.

How to Choose the Right Mexican Restaurant in Brisbane

Think About the Type of Mexican Food You Want

Start here and everything else falls into place. Traditional cooking, contemporary plating, Tex-Mex comfort food or street-food tacos — these are four different nights out. Deciding which one you’re in the mood for will cut the list down immediately.

Consider the Occasion

• Casual dinner: Hecho en Mexico, Cartel del Taco
• Date night: Baja Modern Mexican, Mama Taco
• Family meal: Pepe’s, El Camino Cantina
• Birthday or group dinner: La Carmela, El Camino Cantina, Poca Madre
• Pre-event dining: La Carmela for Suncorp Stadium, El Planta or Poca Madre for QPAC and South Bank
• Something different: El Planta, El Torito

Check the Current Menu

Several of these venues change their menus regularly — El Planta rotates weekly, and others run seasonal dishes and limited-time specials. Bottomless taco nights, all-you-can-eat birria and banquet deals come and go. If you’re going specifically for one dish, ring ahead or check their socials rather than turning up hopeful.

Consider Location and Parking

Brisbane’s Mexican restaurants are spread across the CBD, West End, Newmarket, Fortitude Valley, South Brisbane, Hawthorne, Petrie Terrace and Milton. Parking varies enormously between them. South Bank and the CBD mean paid parking or public transport. West End can be tight on a weekend evening. Newmarket has off-street parking behind the venue. Caxton Street is best avoided by car entirely on a game day.

Mexican Food vs Making It at Home

There’s nothing quite like sitting down in a good Mexican restaurant — someone else does the pressing, braising and pouring, and you just eat. That’s worth doing regularly.

But Mexican-inspired food is also one of the most rewarding things to cook at home, and not just because it’s cheaper. Cooking it yourself gives you:

• Control over the ingredients — you choose the meat, and you know exactly where it came from
• Control over the spice — dial the chilli up for you and down for the kids, in the same meal
• Family-sized portions — no splitting a taco three ways
• Easy customisation — swap fillings, sides and sauces to suit whoever’s at the table
• A genuinely quick weeknight meal — tacos and quesadillas are on the table in under half an hour

The catch is that Mexican cooking rewards good ingredients more than most cuisines. The sauce and the spices matter, but the meat is what carries the dish. Start with a good cut and the rest of it is straightforward.

Looking for Quality Free-Range Chicken in Brisbane?

Chicken is the most versatile protein in Mexican cooking, which is why it turns up in almost every dish on a Brisbane menu. Shredded, grilled, marinated, braised in tinga sauce or pulled through a mole — it takes on flavour easily and works across the whole spread:

• Tacos
• Enchiladas
• Burritos
• Quesadillas
• Fajitas
• Salads and rice bowls

Get the chicken right and the rest of the meal follows.

Why Choose Free-Range Chicken?

Free-range chicken comes from birds raised with outdoor access rather than in fully enclosed sheds. For a lot of Brisbane households, that’s a sourcing and welfare decision as much as anything — you know more about how the bird was raised and where it came from.

There’s also a practical cooking argument. Free-range birds are typically raised at a slower rate, and cooks often find the meat has a firmer texture and holds up better to marinating, grilling and slow cooking — all techniques that Mexican-inspired cooking leans on heavily. When your enchilada filling is going to be shredded and baked in sauce for half an hour, starting with better chicken makes a real difference to the finished dish.

Explore the Chicken Range at A Place 2 Meat

A Place 2 Meat is a Brisbane butcher at Newmarket Village — the same suburb as Pepe’s, as it happens — run by master butcher Barry Herman. It’s a halal butcher, the meat is hormone-free and hand-cut on site, and there’s click and collect plus delivery if getting into the shop is difficult.

The chicken range covers most of what Mexican-inspired cooking asks for:

Cut	Best used for
Free range chicken breast	Grilled and sliced for tacos, fajitas and salads
Free range chicken thighs	Shredded for enchiladas, burritos and tinga
Chicken thighs (boneless)	Fast weeknight fajitas and quesadillas
Free range chicken drumsticks	Marinated and baked with Mexican spices
Free range chicken wings	Chipotle or adobo-style wings for a shared table
Chicken kebabs	Quick grilling with a lime and chilli marinade

Whatever you’re planning to cook, it’s worth browsing the full range before you settle on a recipe — sometimes the cut decides the dish rather than the other way around.

Try Free Range Chicken Enchiladas from A Place 2 Meat

Not every night allows for slow-braising a filling and rolling tortillas one by one. For those nights, A Place 2 Meat’s Free Range Chicken Enchiladas do most of the work for you.

They’re made with free-range chicken, wrapped in soft corn tortillas and finished in a flavourful sauce, with no artificial preservatives, fillers or additives. They come ready to heat, and you can order them as a single piece or in a four-pack depending on whether you’re feeding yourself or the family.

Corn tortillas are the traditional choice for enchiladas, and they hold their structure well through reheating rather than turning to paste under the sauce. If you have specific dietary requirements, have a chat with the team in store about ingredients before you order.

An Easy Option for Weeknight Meals

Ready-to-heat enchiladas earn their place in the freezer for a few reasons:

• Family dinners on nights when nobody has the energy to cook from scratch
• Quick lunches that reheat properly and don’t fall apart
• Easy entertaining — put them out with a few sides and you’ve got a spread
• Mexican-inspired meals without pressing tortillas or building a sauce from dried chillies

What to Serve With Chicken Enchiladas

Enchiladas are rich, so the sides should bring freshness and texture. A good spread includes:

• Guacamole — mashed avocado, lime, coriander, a little finely diced onion
• Salsa — pico de gallo for freshness, or a smoky salsa roja for heat
• Mexican-style rice — tomato, garlic and stock, cooked until fluffy
• Beans — refried or black beans, either as a side or a filler
• Salad — shredded cabbage or cos with lime and coriander cuts through the sauce
• Sour cream — a spoonful on top, plus jalapeños if the table wants heat

Add a squeeze of lime over everything just before serving. It sounds minor; it isn’t.

Prefer to Cook From Scratch?

If you’d rather build the whole thing yourself, the free-range chicken range is the place to start. Poach and shred a couple of breasts for a classic chicken enchilada, marinate thighs in adobo for tacos, or grill kebabs with lime and chilli for a fajita spread. The same chicken works across almost every Mexican-inspired recipe you’re likely to try — which makes it an easy thing to keep on hand.

Bringing Brisbane’s Best Mexican Food Home

Brisbane’s Mexican restaurants are worth working through properly — the traditional kitchens in West End, the modern rooms in the Valley and South Bank, the taquerias in Hawthorne, and the big Tex-Mex cantinas when there’s a crowd to feed. Book a few, try something you haven’t ordered before, and see which style you actually prefer.

Then bring it home. Whether you’re making enchiladas from scratch on a Sunday or heating up a tray of them on a Wednesday, it starts with good chicken.

Shop the free-range chicken range online at A Place 2 Meat, grab a batch of Free Range Chicken Enchiladas while you’re there, and choose click and collect from Newmarket Village or have it delivered. A hormone-free, hand-cut range from a butcher who’s been doing this a long time — and a lot closer than a booking in West End.

 

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