Taqueria in Islington

Food was stop on FISH Tacos are amazing and my son loved the steak ones. Would come again, served by Rania who was lovely x

Incredible cocktails, tasty food (fish and prawn tacos were delicious), great service - Rania was amazing !!

cease and desist from going here

The brilliant pirate you have as an owner or CEO must understand that the word, "taquería", specifies a kind of food establishment, like, "pub" for the UK. Taqueria is not a proper name for a brand. The Empire had stole too much already, don't do it with Mexican culture as well.

Wonderful food, service from Rania who was very good

Really good food! Service and atmosphere also pretty good.

great cocktails, Rania was wonderful.

The best tacos in London, and Rania took great care of us. I highly recommend it.

Everything was absolutely perfect! The food was delicious, the drinks were tasty and the service was excellent. Carolina was our server and she was so attentive and friendly. Highly recommend!

Wonderful service, Rania was fantastic and patient. The crab tacos were perfect.

Awesome service, Rania took great care of us! Super recommended.

I came in w/ my friends today & Gabriel was very patient with us and also show kindness during our time here. The food was amazing aswell. Definitely recommend.

Loved the tacos ! It was around 10:30 pm when we arrived to have dinner and Rania welcomed us with kindness. Thank you !

Best lunch place for miles around. Rania is an especially brilliant person to be served food from.

The waitresses need to learn what a customer is and how to behave with them. Someone should take time to explain to them that guests PAY MONEY and need to be looked after - not the other way around. Slow and openly rude service, heaps of attitude that leave a bad aftertaste.

Lovely service, the coconut margarita’s on some next level !!!

Nice food and service ! We arrived as a group quite late, we’ve been welcomed by Rania who made us really comfortable all along. We’ve tried news excellent dishes according to her advice. Thank you!

Really good flavours and food, great bar staff and really fast service

Excellent service and tasty tacos. It might seem expensive but the portions are very big and filling! The sea bass ceviche tostada and the chicken mole tacos are exceptionally good.

Really good Tacos!!! Loved the Milanese ones. Gabriel was an amazing host!

From entering the restaurant to paying the bill the service was horrendous, not a single smile was cracked. The food was bang average and barely passable as Mexican with very little flavour. I really would not believe any reviews that say its good because it isn't worth your money! Bad vibes all round.

Good atmosphere, mediocre service but the food BANGED!! The chicken tacos and the plantain were elite. One of the best places in London to go to with great vegetarian options too.

I can’t wait to come back here. Service was lovely and the food was amazing. The plantain tacos did not disappoint and we asked for a mocktail to be turned into a cocktail and the bartender did a great job. They managed to squeeze the two of us in without a reservation but I would recommend booking as it got very busy.

Incredible experience, fisrt tacos of my life,very fresh and tasty. Thanks to Gabriel and is smothoth service.

We were very satisfied. The tacos tasted very good. Ordered 3 different ones, three different flavors. Really delicious 🤤! I only read the reviews afterwards and yes, the portions aren't exactly big. But we would all be full. Prices are typical for London. We would go there again.

Loved everything we ate. Great service from Rania!

Rania was a great hostess. We enjoyed the food and the atmosphere

What a wonderful spot! The food was absolutely delicious, and we were very well looked after by Rania. Thank you very much to the whole team - we’ll be back soon!

I have absolutely fallen in love with this place. The food is delicious!! And the service fantastic! It's my new favourite restaurant on Exmouth Market. Yummy margarita, normal and passion fruit too 😋 I forgot to photograph my main course but this dessert was a tasty treat too.

Exelent food and service. Thank you!

Lovely environment, fire prosecco, fine men! 10/10 highly recommend!!

Went for dinner as a solo traveller and this was a great choice. Rania was my server and they did a great job along with the whole staff, so friendly and attentive. The portions are abit small but I enjoyed my pastor pork quasadilla and carnitas tacos. Would probably recommend getting another plate to be full.

Good atmosphere , delicious food, fantastic cocktails and extensive list of Tequilas! Had a wonderful time there and would highly recommend. Plus Gabriel was a fantastic waiter!

Popped in yesterday with the family. Great service v friendly and helpful. Excellent margaritas and delicious food.

Mariana - top service! Thank you

The Toastadas were awesome, but the tacos left something to be desired. Overall great experience and great service.

Lovely Mexican restaurant. The food was tasty and service great. I will visit again.

Mariana, was our waitress. The first, the best & the last. She was the stuff, legends are made of in terms of service. Unicorn of a waitress.

Excellent botana, thanks Mariana

Mariana was incredible, made us feel welcome and recommended incredible dishes. Without Mariana the experience would not be the same

Always come here, amazing gf options

We had the plantain and soft shell tacos, the plantain was delicious but the crab was quite bland. The portion sizes and even the sides were on the small side. We had the refried beans and corn as sides, which were just okay.

Poor quality of food. Appalling Atmosphere. Not real Mexican food. Breaded oysters? Ew. I recommend Sonora Taqueria or tacos CDMX

As a Mexican I recommend this place, very delicious, the food will taste fresh and the atmosphere very rich

Not Mexican food at all. Very expensive, very ugly, and white people trying to appropriate a culture that isn't even theirs. I recommend Sonora Taqueria!

Not good food also cultural appropriation, very disappointing.

Delicious tacos and margaritas and great service!

More expensive than expected Fish and soft shell tempura crab were great Everything else ok

Fantastic Tacos, a quiet Monday night, but plenty of regulars & walk-ins…. Friendly staff, and did I say that the tacos are fantastic..?!!

Rani was a excellent waitress,amazing service.

Excellent michelada, delicious plantain tacos. Good variety of mezcals. Good service.

Very nice! Good food. Good variety and choices. Nice staff. Not spicy enough in my taste. Great agua frescas

Delicious soft tacos - the carnitas and birria tacos were both superb - amid other tasty choices. Service is friendly and the restaurant is airy and bright.

Great food, great atmosphere and ambience just a slight delay in extra dish arriving

The food was incredible and the drinks were just as good. Went to the restaurant over the weekend with my sister. We tried 6 different tacos and multiple margaritas. Will definitely be going back!

I'm so sorry....but the food was really not good. Nice looking place, the staff were fine. I had the birria tacos, grilled pok tacos, kibis yacatecos and a quesadilla. Personally, flet like a waste of money. Do with that information what you will.

The food is genuinely brilliant (except the ceviche - don’t bother), but the service was comically poor. Don’t put a 12.5% service charge on if every member of staff is either stood around idle or spilling something!

Delicious food and excellent service. Highly recommend the corn and cod tacos. Ate here after seeing a show up the road at Sadler’s Wells and it was perfect.

Catherine was amazing! Food was amazing! Love this place.

Really delicious food. Not cheap but a great evening with friends. My favourites were the birria tacos and roadside chicken.

Had a great evening here and the service was awesome! Thank you Gabriel for providing great service x

Food was so good, we will defo have some more. You convinced me to eat again after this. Future meals guaranteed

gabriel was a fantastic server and drinks and food were lovely!

Great service from mariana and good food as ever

Gabriel was amazing as are all the staff. We are a big group but everything was on time and delivered with a smile :)

Enjoyed the (naked) tacos and the vibes. Rania did a great job serving our table. Look forward to coming back!

Mariana was fantastic. Thank you

Favourite place to come get good! Prawn tacos are a must and so are the watermelon margaritas! Also Rania is such a lovely waitress x

I've been there before more than a year ago and had a good experience. This time no. Once upon a time they were doing good food... not anymore. They sell tacos as 'birria tacos' that are just normal soggy tacos with some meat, no cheese, no crispy bits, nothing to do with what birria is... Quesadilla are very poor. And all it's very expensive for the quality/service provided...

Delicious! Wonderful service too.

What a horrible dining experience. Came here last year and it was excellent. This time was disappointing. The food was not good and very expensive. Black bean dip was salty and my chicken quesedilla was so dry I couldn't finish it. I complained but the server didn't know what to do about it. It wasn't removed from the bill. Birria tacos were not Birria tacos - just dry beef and onions on a taco. Margaritas were too sweet. Skip this place. There are many other good mexican places in London.

Fab dinner! Darrell (Big Daz) was class & sang hbd to our pal. Big fans here! Thanks so much for a lovely evening of tacos & margaritas!

As a huge lover of tacos I was overjoyed to see this place near my new office. I went for lunch to get a take away, the staff looked at me very strangely and were not friendly at all. I ordered Birria tacos which were quite pricey but I thought would be worth it- WRONG. The worst Birria tacos I’ve ever had. No crisp shell, no cheese, just heavy sweaty meat. Barely a meal- for £11.50 may I add for 2 tiny tacos, and a tiny dribble of consume which didn’t taste good. I would’ve come back and complained but my lunch break was over and I opened the box back at my office. I want compensation!

If I could give no stars I would. This is honestly the WORST dining experience my friends and I have ever had. I don’t usually write reviews but this is absolutely necessary. Firstly, I want to start by saying I live close to Taqueria and have ordered from them using Deliveroo regularly over the past couple of years and was a HUGE fan (it’s worth mentioning here the quality of the steak and birria tacos have always been hit and miss but I put this down to the travel time of the food). So when my friends and I were looking for somewhere to go for our annual Christmas meal, we decided to go to Taqueria as we thought if the food is good delivered, it’s going to be amazing if we eat in as the food will be fresh and sent straight to our table. How wrong we were. 🙃 Our waiter was OK, we were a party of 3 so we asked if we could get the tacos in portions of 3 as we wanted to try multiple different ones. He said we could not do this but ‘used to be able to do it’ - seemingly embarrassed and annoyed as he said he gets asked this question often. This was annoying as it meant we had to either massively over-order so we can all try the different tacos, or we order less variations. So we went with 2 portions of steak taco, and 2 portions of milanesa chicken taco along with Calamari and guacamole and dips for start. We had no problems with the starters, they were good and so were our cocktails. The tacos however, were horrendous. I don’t say this lightly. As someone that orders their food regularly, I know the quality it should be and what we were served was nothing like what I have previously experienced from them. The tacos looked like they had been sitting out for quite a while - the steak meat was grey and dry and extremely hard and chewy. The chicken was dry and cold and the grilled cheese on both tacos was burnt to a crisp - absolutely no cheese pull as it was pure crisp and cold. We all had one taco each (the actual tacos themselves were also falling apart) as we had a theatre show to catch but we asked our waiter to get the manager. The waiter told me the manager is not available but then walks away and appears with another man who he said was the manager. The ‘manager’ who told me him name was Juan, was completely unprofessional and inappropriate. When we brought our dissatisfaction to his attention (by letting him know we are a big fan of Taqueria and know the quality we should be receiving and have not had), rather than offering a solution or attempting to resolve the matter, we were met with aggression and a patronising attitude. The manager refused to accommodate our request to change the dish or even offer a reasonable alternative, showing a complete lack of willingness to provide customer satisfaction. Instead of addressing our concerns, Juan dismissed us in a condescending manner and made us feel that our feedback was irrelevant. He also pointed out to me that there is CCTV recording our conversation which made absolutely no sense to me as we were not being aggressive or rude, just trying to come to a fair solution. Despite the poor experience, we were still expected to pay the full bill, which we reluctantly did, as we had no other option. The only concession offered was the removal of the service charge, which, as you may be aware, is optional and should not have been treated as a gesture of goodwill. It was disappointing to leave feeling not only dissatisfied with the food and service but also disrespected by the way we were treated. I feel that Juan’s refusal to take any accountability for the poor service, coupled with their aggressive and patronising behavior, was completely unacceptable. I hope you take this feedback seriously, as this experience has left a lasting negative impression on both myself and my friends.

Lovely food, good atmosphere and Juan was a really efficient and friendly server.

Our waiter Juan was lovely and the food was great

Really nice waiter Juan . Good food and atmosphere!

Good service, delicius cocktails, carolina good server!👍🏾

I really like the food in this place. There’s plenty of things to try and hot sauce on the table in case you want it a bit more spicy.

Delicious food, great atmosphere and lovely service by Mariana

Lush food and Mariana our waitress was lovely!

Lovely fish tacos and service by service by Mariana was great

Thanks Marianna for a great meal! Yummy food and great atmosphere. 🤤

overpriced tacos, if you want good tacos go to sonora

Mariana was lovely, super helpful and polite. Food was superb, the ceviche was amazing. Thank you for a lovely meal.

Marianna is the best server! So polite and friendly and accommodating to everyone

The yummiest Mexican food and the best vibes in Exmouth Market - I love it round here and the fish tacos were stunning! Great value for money in London too!

Delicious tacos and churros, good value. Service was ok but nothing special.

🧀 halloumi aubergine tacos 🍆 the halloumi was really nice (didnt have an overly oily mouth-feel) and the variety of textures provided by the refried beans, pomegranate seeds, halloumi, and eggplant added a lot of interest into the dish. although i wish the portions were larger, the quality of the tacos was great and i would probably come back to try the prawn tacos! 🦐

Food was okay - not the worst Mexican food I’ve had in London, but that’s really quite a low bar.

Esther was amazing such great service and great vibes !

Had a fantastic experience! Esther was our server and she was fantastic. Highly recommend x

Amazing food and service from Esther!

I went for dinner with friends to the taqueria. Unfortunately I did not find it that delicious. The beef taco was not tender and in general the tacos were lacking that “wow” flavour that I would look for in a 4-5 star location.

Great food, fast service and very tasty food

Found this gem while walking from & around King's Cross on the hunt for a good dinner place. Lucky me!!! Walked-in and found a table without any fuss despite of the place being packed ✅️ Ordered a cocktail which was served within 3 mins, literally! Food arrived within a reasonable time -- less than 15 mins...ahmazzzzing!!!!🙌 I highly recommend this place and the sour chile cocktail is a must try 👌 If you're ever on this side of London, try this place out! Rania haa been awesome & super friendly 😉

Really funky environment for some fab, affordable food 🥘

Amazing meal thank you great service and delicious food

Love the whole experience! Food is great, service is attentive and friendly but not over the top, Gabriel was excellent! and the atmosphere is casual and modern.

Went on a sat evening - food and vibe was 👌🏽 Lovely team. Probably the best churros I’ve had 💪🏽