Best Tacos in West Palm Beach
West Palm Beach, Florida — updated August 21, 2026
Seven taco spots in West Palm Beach, from a South Dixie Highway kitchen with more than 1,000 reviews to late-night trucks on Belvedere and Okeechobee, ranked by how settled their ratings are.
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West Palm Beach spreads its tacos across three very different settings: sit-down kitchens on South Dixie Highway and Georgia Avenue, bar-forward taquerias downtown on Clematis and Olive, and trucks parked on Belvedere and Okeechobee that do not open until the dinner hour. The ratings gap is real, too, with the strongest kitchens sitting near 4.7 across four figures of reviews while the busiest downtown rooms hover around 4.4. Below, the places are ordered by how convincingly the numbers back them up.
1. Cholo Soy Cocina
The most proven taco kitchen in the city on the numbers: 4.7 across 1,089 reviews, which is a rating that has had plenty of chances to slip and has not. The menu is built around tacos and Latin street food, with tacos and yucca fries listed among the signature dishes. It sits in a small storefront at 3715 S Dixie Hwy, suite 1, south of downtown. The restaurant's own site lists 11:30 to 9 every day of the week, so there is no closed night to plan around and no split lunch and dinner service to time.
2. Tacos del Cartel - West Palm Beach
A 4.6 across 967 reviews puts this Clematis Street address just behind Cholo Soy in both score and volume, and it is the most central of the sit-down options at 533 Clematis St. The menu runs to birria tacos sold in threes, asada-topped Cartel fries, esquites, short rib bites and chips and salsa. Sources disagree slightly on opening time, listing either 11 or 11:30 in the morning; OpenTable shows the kitchen running to 9 most nights and 10 on Friday and Saturday. Online ordering is available if the downtown parking situation makes the room a hassle.
3. El Segundo
The highest-rated restaurant on this list at 4.8, though from 294 reviews rather than four figures, so treat it as strongly promising rather than fully settled. The kitchen, run by executive chef Kevin Avellaneda, describes its cooking as Mexican border food crossed with cowboy BBQ, which is a different proposition from the birria-and-asada standard downtown. Its Instagram advertises tacos and $5 margaritas from 4 to 7pm, seven days a week. Listings show a 4pm open Monday through Friday with a noon start on weekends, closing at 10, so this is a dinner destination on Georgia Avenue rather than a lunch stop.
4. Tacos wey561
A truck at 2491 Okeechobee Blvd holding a 4.7 from 69 reviews, a small but consistent sample. The lineup includes quesa birria tacos plus shrimp, brisket and chorizo fillings, and Tuesday is called out as a cheesy taco day. Hours need checking before a trip: the operator's site lists an 11am to 6pm block and a second 7pm to 11pm block Tuesday through Saturday with Monday and Sunday closed, while Yelp shows a straight 11am to 9pm Tuesday run and a noon start on another day. Monday closure is the one point every source agrees on.
5. Rivales Taqueria & Craft Bar
A downtown taqueria at 106 N Olive Ave with 933 reviews behind a 4.4, which reads as a large, honest sample of a place people like without loving. Happy hour runs 4 to 6pm with $4 Mexican beers, $5 sangria, $6 margaritas, $6 Casa Noble shots, $7 prosecco and $8 Tito's. Starters include chips and salsa, pork belly and house nachos. The kitchen opens at 11am Monday through Friday, runs to midnight on Friday, and starts at 10am Saturday. One Yelp reviewer flagged a quesadilla priced at $12 on the menu and $17 on the bill, so it is worth reading the check.
6. El Camino West Palm Beach
The biggest review count in this guide at 1,261, paired with a 4.4, and the clear pick for late tacos: Yelp lists it open from 11am until 2am. It is on the second floor at 700 S Rosemary Ave, suite 232, in the Rosemary Square area, with a menu split into aperitivos, ensaladas, quesadillas, tacos, burritos, fajitas and enchiladas, plus a margarita list. Delivery and online ordering are both available. The rating is lower than the top of this list, but it is the most tested number here, and the after-midnight window is something no other entry offers.
7. #1 - Hop on Tacos - West Palm Beach
A 4.9 rating, but from only 19 reviews, so the evidence is thin and the score could move in either direction as more people order. It is a truck at 901 Belvedere Rd, open 6pm to 11pm Monday through Thursday and until midnight on Friday and Saturday, making it a genuine late option on the south side of downtown. Pork chops appear on the menu at $12.50. Worth a stop if you are already nearby after dinner hours; not yet worth a special trip across town on the strength of fewer than 20 ratings.
What we left off
West Palm Beach Food Tours was dropped. It carries a 5.0 from 190 reviews and runs guided walks through downtown and the historic neighborhoods, but it is a tour operator, not a taco restaurant, and no single taco is attached to it. Anyone wanting a broader survey of the downtown food scene can look it up separately. No chains or closed businesses were removed from the previous version.