Best Tacos in Bellaire, TX: 8 Verified Picks Inside the City

The best tacos in Bellaire, Texas are the Tacos Birria de Res at Candente in Bellaire Town Center, the Taco Tuesday specials at Blood Bros. BBQ on Bellaire Boulevard, and the homemade-tortilla breakfast tacos at Betsy's in Evelyn's Park. Five more spots inside the city round out this list, including a family Tex-Mex kitchen on Cedar Street and a kosher restaurant serving birria tacos. Every pick was confirmed open on its own official website or ordering page in November 2026.

Here's the twist: Bellaire doesn't have a classic taqueria inside its city limits. The taquerias and taco trucks most people picture when they say "Bellaire" sit on the Houston side of the line. What the city does have is better than you'd guess: a breakfast taco shop inside a yellow house in a park, a barbecue joint with a MICHELIN Bib Gourmand that turns Tuesdays over to tacos, and a kosher kitchen whose birria comes with vegan cheese.

For the wider picture, see our Bellaire area guide, the best restaurants in Bellaire and our citywide best tacos in Houston.

What counts as Bellaire?

For this guide, Bellaire means the City of Bellaire, Texas: the separate city, founded in 1908 and incorporated in 1918 according to the city's own FAQ, that Houston surrounds just southwest of the 610 Loop. Every pick lists a Bellaire, TX 77401 address on its official website or ordering page.

That rule leaves out a lot of places people loosely call Bellaire. The long Chinatown stretch of Bellaire Boulevard west of the city, with its taquerias and trucks, is in Houston. So are Gulfton to the north and Meyerland to the south. Watch Bissonnet Street in particular: it runs along Bellaire's northern edge, so one side of the street can be Bellaire and the other Houston.

How we chose

Each pick had to pass three tests: a street address inside the City of Bellaire, tacos on the current menu, and current hours, menu or online ordering on the restaurant's own site or ordering page. We favored places where the taco is something you'd order on purpose, not a side note.

We found no taco truck we could confirm parked inside Bellaire city limits on an official page, so this list is all restaurants. If trucks are what you're after, our taco trucks in Houston guide covers verified trucks around the city.

Hours and prices change, so treat everything below as "typically" and check each restaurant's site before you go.

The quick list

• Best birria: Candente's Tacos Birria de Res, served with bone marrow.
• Best breakfast tacos: Betsy's at Evelyn's Park, on homemade flour or corn tortillas until noon.
• Best Tuesday: Blood Bros. BBQ's Taco Tuesday specials.
• Classic Tex-Mex plate: Casa Dominguez on Cedar Street.
• Kosher: CASA Bar & Grill's birria tacos on house-made corn tortillas.
• Sit-down with a beer: The '401 Table and Tap's Tejas Tacos.
• Burger-joint breakfast taco: Lankford's, with a self-pour Texas beer wall.
• Quick counter stop: Dandelion Cafe's breakfast tacos.

The picks

Candente

Bellaire Town Center, 5101 Bellaire Blvd, Suite 165 · Tex-Mex grill · typically open daily

What's the best taco in Bellaire? Our vote goes to the Tacos Birria de Res at Candente: short rib and beef shank, smoked and then braised, with griddled Oaxaca cheese, beef consommé for dipping, salsa macha and a piece of bone marrow. The Bellaire restaurant is the second location of the Montrose original, and its official site lists it as typically open 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. every day, with weekend brunch from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

If birria isn't your thing, the menu also has ground-beef Crispy Tacos and chicken or beef fajita Tacos al Carbón.

Insider tip: Candente's menu lists a Tuesday fajita special (a large for the price of a medium) and half-price nachos on Mondays, plus happy hour weekdays from 3 to 6 p.m.

Best for: a proper sit-down taco dinner with margaritas.

Betsy's at Evelyn's Park

Evelyn's Park, 4400 Bellaire Blvd · all-day park cafe · open daily

Betsy's runs a breakfast taco shop out of the Yellow House at the southwest corner of Evelyn's Park. Its menu lists homemade flour or corn tortillas, breakfast tacos served every day until noon, and a box of six for the table. Numbered combos run from bacon, egg and cheddar to brisket, egg and cheese, plus a black bean, egg and avocado taco on corn. You can also build your own from a list of mix-ins.

Later in the day, the menu switches to a Taco Basket (beef, chicken or crispy beef, with black beans) and lightly battered snapper Fish Tacos. Betsy's is typically open from 8 a.m. on weekdays and 9 a.m. on weekends.

Insider tip: Betsy's is run by the Adair family's restaurant group, the people behind Los Tios, and the frozen margarita on the menu carries the Los Tios name.

Best for: a breakfast taco box, a coffee and a playground morning with kids.

Blood Bros. BBQ

5425 Bellaire Blvd · barbecue · closed Mondays

Blood Bros. BBQ is a barbecue joint first, with MICHELIN Guide Bib Gourmands in 2024, 2025 and 2026, according to its site. Its Instagram posts, shown on its official site, say Tuesdays are for tacos, with rotating taco specials at lunch.

The three childhood friends from Alief behind it started in 2013 and opened in Bellaire in 2018. The restaurant typically opens at 11 a.m. Tuesday through Sunday and serves until it sells out or 3 p.m., with evening service Wednesday through Saturday from 5 to 9 p.m.

Insider tip: Taco Tuesday is lunch only, and the pits sell out. Go early.

Best for: barbecue lovers who want a taco twist.

Casa Dominguez

5213 Cedar St · family Tex-Mex · open daily

Casa Dominguez is Bellaire's neighborhood Tex-Mex kitchen, a few steps off Bellaire Boulevard on Cedar Street. Order the Tacos al Carbon (three on flour tortillas) or the Baylor Special, three soft fajita tacos. The menu's charm is in its names: plates are named for regulars, a local judge and Houston teams, from Stubby's Special to Astros, Rockets and Rice Owls combos.

Casa Dominguez is typically open 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., and until 10 p.m. on Fridays.

Best for: a Tex-Mex combination plate with family.

CASA Bar & Grill

5711 Bissonnet St · kosher restaurant and bar · closed Friday and Saturday

CASA Bar & Grill describes itself as a kosher restaurant and bar and posts its kosher certificate on its official site. Its lunch menu lists Birria Tacos with braised beef, au jus and house-made corn tortillas. Because kosher meat restaurants don't serve dairy, the cheese on those tacos is vegan. There are also Tuna Tartar Tacos on crispy wonton shells.

CASA's site typically lists lunch Monday through Thursday from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. and dinner Sunday through Thursday from 5 to 10 p.m.

Best for: kosher diners, and anyone curious how birria works without dairy.

The '401 Table and Tap

6700 Ferris St, Suite 150 · American restaurant and bar · open daily

The '401 shares its name with the end of Bellaire's 77401 ZIP code, and its menu lists homemade avocado tortillas. Order the Tejas Tacos, three spicy beef tenderloin or spicy shrimp tacos on corn or flour tortillas with spicy pickled veggies, or the vegetarian Crispy Eggplant Tacos on those avocado tortillas. Weekend brunch adds Breakfast Tacos.

The '401 is typically open from 11 a.m. on weekdays and 10 a.m. on weekends, until 9 or 10 p.m.

Insider tip: the restaurant advertises Kids Eat Free Mondays.

Best for: tacos and a beer with a group that wants options.

Lankford's Bellaire

5208 Bissonnet St · burgers and breakfast · open daily

Lankford's is a Houston family business that began as Lankford Grocery & Market in 1937, and its Bellaire menu lists a Breakfast Taco of scrambled eggs and potatoes with your choice of meat. Lankford's typically opens at 9 a.m. on weekends and 11 a.m. on weekdays.

Insider tip: Lankford's has a self-pour wall of Texas craft beers. If you're here for burgers too, see our best burgers in Bellaire.

Best for: a cheap breakfast taco before a weekend errand run.

Dandelion Cafe

5405 Bellaire Blvd · counter-service cafe

Dandelion Cafe is a made-from-scratch counter cafe next door to Blood Bros. Its online ordering menu lists two breakfast tacos: egg and cheese with your choice of meat, or spinach, potato, egg and cheese. Its Houston Restaurant Weeks listing says they come on a flour-and-corn blend tortilla and are served all day. Hours weren't listed on a page we could check, so confirm before you go.

Best for: a quick vegetarian breakfast taco.

Just over the line

A few taco names people associate with Bellaire are in Houston. Tacos La Bala, which its own site says started in 1994 out of a food trailer, is on the Houston side of Bellaire Boulevard. Further west, the Chinatown stretch is covered in our Houston Chinatown guide. For breakfast tacos across the city, see our best breakfast tacos in Houston.

Save this: a Bellaire taco day

Bellaire is compact enough to eat your way across it in one day. Here's the route we'd use, best on a Tuesday:

1. Before noon: a breakfast taco box at Betsy's, then a lap of Evelyn's Park.
2. Lunch: Taco Tuesday at Blood Bros. BBQ. Get there early.
3. Afternoon: walk it off around Bellaire's parks (see things to do in Bellaire).
4. Dinner: Tacos Birria de Res at Candente, where the large-for-medium fajita special also runs on Tuesdays.

The checklist:

• Breakfast tacos at Betsy's stop at noon.
• Blood Bros. tacos are a Tuesday lunch special, and the pits close when they sell out.
• CASA Bar & Grill has no Friday or Saturday hours.
• Bissonnet addresses can be Bellaire or Houston, so check the ZIP.
• Verify hours on each official site the day you go.

Last verified: November 2026.

Frequently asked questions

Where can I get tacos in Bellaire, TX?

Inside the City of Bellaire, good options include Candente and Casa Dominguez for Tex-Mex, Betsy's at Evelyn's Park for breakfast tacos, and Blood Bros. BBQ for Taco Tuesday specials. CASA Bar & Grill, The '401 Table and Tap, Lankford's and Dandelion Cafe also serve tacos.

Are there taquerias in Bellaire, Texas?

Not within the city limits, as far as we could confirm on official sites. The taquerias and taco trucks people often call Bellaire are on Bellaire Boulevard and in Gulfton, which are in Houston.

Where are the best breakfast tacos in Bellaire?

Betsy's at Evelyn's Park, 4400 Bellaire Blvd, serves breakfast tacos on homemade flour or corn tortillas every day until noon. Lankford's, Dandelion Cafe and The '401 (weekend brunch) also serve them.

Is there a kosher taco restaurant in Bellaire?

Yes. CASA Bar & Grill at 5711 Bissonnet St describes itself as kosher and posts its kosher certificate on its site, and its lunch menu includes birria tacos on house-made corn tortillas. It has no Friday or Saturday hours.

Does Blood Bros. BBQ have Taco Tuesday?

Yes. Blood Bros. BBQ's Instagram posts, shown on its official site, say Tuesdays are for tacos, with rotating taco specials at lunch. Go early, because the restaurant closes when it sells out.