Trends · data through September 2026

Mexican Restaurants & Taquerias in Minnesota

Iceflower tracks 408 stores from 334 Mexican restaurants & taquerias in Minnesota. Taco Libre grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Hamburguesas El Gordo and El Loro.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
334
Tracked stores
408
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked Mexican restaurants & taquerias

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Taco Libre and Hamburguesas El Gordo sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T Taco Libre - +15.0%
2 H Hamburguesas El Gordo ▲2 +9.0%
3 E El Loro - +4.1%
4 L Lago Tacos ▲1 +0.2%
5 G Giliberto's ▲2 +0.2%
6 E El Loro Mexican Restaurant - -2.3%
7 Z Zantigo logo Zantigo ▲1 -4.9%
8 A Acapulco Mexican Restaurant logo Acapulco Mexican Restaurant - -5.9%
9 B Barrio - -7.9%
10 E El Super Taco ▲1 -8.5%
11 E El Tequila Mexican Restaurant - -32.4%
12 T Teresa's Mexican Restaurant ▼7 -93.1%
  • Pedro's Grill & Cantina
  • Acapulco Mexican Restaurant
  • El Loro
  • Taco Libre
  • El Burrito Mercado
  • El Loro Mexican Restaurant
  • Centro
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

408 tracked store locations in Minnesota. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Pedro's Grill & Cantina (1)
  • Acapulco Mexican Restaurant (6)
  • El Loro (7)
  • Taco Libre (5)
  • El Burrito Mercado (2)
  • El Loro Mexican Restaurant (9)
  • Centro (2)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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