Guides

The listings on TacoMenus are the restaurants' own menus, and menus assume you already know what a dish is. These guides fill in the rest: what the sections mean, how the regional styles differ, and what to expect from the dishes that show up on menu after menu.

• How to read a Mexican restaurant menu

  How a taquería menu differs from a sit-down one, what the regional labels (Oaxacan, Yucatecan, Baja, Sonoran, Tex-Mex, California Mexican) actually promise, how street tacos are priced and ordered, and how to read the salsa bar.

• Mexican menu glossary

  57 dishes, fillings, salsas and pantry staples explained in a sentence or three each. They are the same entries that appear under "Dishes to know" on every restaurant page whose menu mentions them.

• Dishes and what they cost

  Every restaurant in the directory with a given dish on its menu, in the restaurant's own words, with the typical price across those menus.