Best Tacos in Santa Fe
Santa Fe, New Mexico — updated August 22, 2026
Seven Santa Fe kitchens for tacos, from a food truck on Airport Road to long-running New Mexican dining rooms with thousands of reviews behind them.
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Santa Fe is a red-and-green chile town first, which means tacos here get split between dedicated taqueria operations on the south side and the New Mexican dining rooms downtown that have been feeding the same crowds for decades. The ratings below range from a food truck with a couple hundred reviews to a Guadalupe Street institution with more than 8,500. Both kinds of evidence are useful, and it is worth knowing which one you are trusting.
1. Tres Colores
The strongest combination of rating and volume on this list: 4.7 across 907 reviews, which is enough traffic that the score is settled rather than promising. It sits downtown at 101 W Marcy St, walking distance from the Plaza and the museums along that stretch, so it absorbs both visitor and office-lunch traffic. That location also means parking is street or garage, and midday tends to be the busiest window. Hours are not listed in our source material, so check the restaurant's site before making a special trip.
2. Compas Tacos (Food Truck)
The most literal answer to the question. Compas is a taco truck on Airport Road, on the south side well away from the Plaza tourist grid, holding a 4.7 average. The caveat is scale: 244 reviews is a real sample but a smaller one than the sit-down restaurants here, so treat the rating as strong evidence rather than settled fact. Trucks also keep their own hours and can move, so confirm on their site the day you go. Worth the drive out Airport Road if you want tacos specifically rather than tacos as one line on a New Mexican menu.
3. Alicia's Tortilleria
A tortilleria on Rufina Circle in the industrial pocket off Siler, rated 4.6 from 582 reviews. The name explains the appeal: a place that makes tortillas as its own business is a reasonable bet for what goes around the filling, which is where a lot of taco plates fall apart. It is a south-side location with no Plaza foot traffic, so the review count comes almost entirely from people going out of their way. Facebook is the main channel for hours and updates.
4. Sazón
Sazón runs 4.6 across 1,246 reviews from 221 Shelby St, a quiet downtown block just off the Plaza. That is a well-established score at a location that draws a dressier, dinner-oriented crowd than the taquerias further south. If you are building an evening downtown rather than grabbing lunch, this is the entry on the list that fits it. Reservations are handled through the restaurant's own site, and given the size of the room and the downtown setting, booking ahead for weekend nights is the safer approach.
5. La Choza Restaurant
La Choza holds 4.6 from 3,761 reviews, a very large sample for a restaurant tucked on Alarid Street off Cerrillos. The rating has been tested by that volume and has held, which puts it in the proven column. The trade-off is that this is a New Mexican restaurant with a broad menu, not a taco specialist, so tacos share the page with everything else. Expect a wait at peak lunch and dinner hours; the location is residential-adjacent and the parking lot fills before the dining room does.
6. The Pantry
More than 5,400 reviews at 4.6 makes The Pantry one of the most heavily reviewed restaurants in Santa Fe, and it sits on Cerrillos Road, the city's main commercial artery. It is best known as an all-day New Mexican diner, so tacos are one option among many rather than the reason the place exists. Include it if you want reliability and a full menu over specialization. Weekend mornings are the crush; a weekday visit is the calmer version of the same food.
7. Tomasita's Santa Fe New Mexican Restaurant
The largest sample here by a wide margin, 8,529 reviews, at the lowest rating on the list, 4.5. That is not a knock: at that volume a 4.5 is a very stable number and reflects years of consistent output at 500 S Guadalupe St, near the Railyard. It is a large, busy New Mexican restaurant that tourists and locals both use, and it fills fast at dinner. Go early or expect to wait. As with the others on this half of the list, tacos are part of a wider New Mexican menu.
What we left off
The Nuevo Mexicano Heritage Arts Museum on Camino Lejo turned up in our source data but is a museum, not a taqueria, so it does not belong in a tacos guide. No chains or closed businesses were removed from the previous version.