Best Tacos in Tomball, TX: 9 Taquerias, Trucks and Taco Plates

The best tacos in Tomball, TX come from nine places: Taqueria Vilchis, Los Arcos, Cenas Kitchen and Margaritas & Fajitas on Tomball Parkway (Highway 249); Hee Haw’s Tacos & Tequila, Cisco’s Salsa Company and the La Costa del Golfo #2 truck at 403 EATS in Old Town; Las Piñatas Kitchen on Alma Street; and El Chaparro on Kuykendahl Road. If you only have time for one, go to Las Piñatas Kitchen for birria tacos on tortillas pressed by hand every morning.

Here’s the line for your group chat: a Tomball taco day can start with a 6 a.m. breakfast taco on Tomball Parkway and end with a 20-taco wheel on a Sunday night, with a birria truck parked at a food truck park run by a former Tomball mayor in between.

Where does Tomball start and stop?

For this guide, Tomball means the City of Tomball plus the surrounding area with a Tomball mailing address inside four roads: Spring Cypress Road to the south, Hufsmith-Kohrville Road to the west, Holderrieth Road to the north and Kuykendahl Road to the east. That covers Old Town around Main, Market and Commerce streets, the Highway 249 (Tomball Parkway) corridor and FM 2920. Spring, Cypress, Creekside Park and The Woodlands have their own guides, so their taquerias aren’t here. See our Tomball area page for the wider picture.

The quick list

• The early taco: Taqueria Vilchis on Tomball Parkway, typically open at 6am Monday to Friday.
• The birria pick: Birria Tacos at Las Piñatas Kitchen, with consomé and handmade tortillas.
• The taco truck: La Costa del Golfo #2 at 403 EATS, a food truck park on East Main Street.
• The Gulf taco: the Texas redfish taco at Hee Haw’s Tacos & Tequila on Market Street.
• The Baja taco: Baja Bob’s fish or shrimp tacos at Cisco’s Salsa Company on Commerce Street.
• The puffy taco: Tavo’s Puffy Tacos at El Chaparro on Kuykendahl Road.
• The street-taco sampler: five mini tacos (pastor, barbacoa, birria, asada or chicken) at Los Arcos, a Tomball Parkway restaurant since 1995.
• The dining room you’ll photograph: Cenas Kitchen, with a 1,000-pound bull and more than 300 light fixtures.
• The Taco Tuesday deal: Margaritas & Fajitas, which takes 15% off tacos on Tuesdays.

How we chose

Every pick was confirmed open on its own official website (or, for the truck, the official site of the park where it parks) in October 2026, with a Tomball address inside the boundary above and tacos on its current menu. We favored places where tacos are a real reason to go and left out national chains. Places whose official sites we couldn’t reach or read are left out for now.

Hours and prices change, so read every schedule below as “typically” and check the restaurant’s site before you drive.

Old Town Tomball: tacos you can walk between

Old Town Tomball has three taco stops within a few blocks of each other, so you can park once and walk.

Hee Haw’s Tacos & Tequila

102 Market Street · typically 11am to 8pm Monday to Thursday, 11am to 9pm Friday and Saturday; closed Sunday

Hee Haw’s Tacos & Tequila on Market Street in Old Town Tomball is a tacos-and-margaritas spot next door to its sister restaurant, Every-Bellies. Tacos come one at a time on corn or flour tortillas, so you can build a mixed plate.

What to order: the Redfish taco, with Texas redfish, cabbage, jalapeño ranch and lime, plus a Birria taco with Chihuahua cheese. The menu lists single tacos from about $4.50 to $7.

Why it’s here: a Texas redfish taco in the middle of Old Town. Official site

Cisco’s Salsa Company

209 Commerce Street · typically 11am to 9pm Tuesday to Thursday, 11am to 10pm Friday and Saturday, 11am to 8:30pm Sunday; closed Monday

Cisco’s Salsa Company on Commerce Street says it was founded and is family-owned in Southern California since 1971, and its Tomball menu is what the restaurant calls Tejas-influenced Baja style.

What to order: Baja Bob’s Fish or Shrimp Tacos, grilled, with cabbage, pickled onions and creamy Baja sauce. The Rib~eye Street Tacos on homemade corn tortillas are the meat pick.

Insider tip: the menu lets you swap lettuce cups for tortillas, and happy hour typically runs 3pm to 6pm Monday to Friday.

Why it’s here: a California-born Baja taco in a Texas railroad town. Official site

La Costa del Golfo #2 at 403 EATS

403 East Main Street · park typically open 11am to 9pm Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, until 10pm Friday and Saturday, 11am to 8pm Sunday; closed Tuesday

403 EATS on East Main Street calls itself Tomball’s live music venue and food truck park. Its taco truck is La Costa del Golfo #2, which the park describes as a neighborhood Mexican food truck serving tacos, tortas and birria tacos. Here’s the fun part: 403 EATS says one of its owners was the Mayor of Tomball for 15 years.

What to order: quesabirria with a cup of consomé. The truck’s board also lists street tacos, tacos gobernador, birria ramen and elote en vaso.

Good to know: trucks rotate, so check the vendor list on the park’s site before you go. 403 EATS posts $6 margaritas and a kids-eat-free deal on Mondays.

Why it’s here: a taco truck with a fixed address, plus live music. Official site

Alma Street

Alma Street is home to the handmade-tortilla pick.

Las Piñatas Kitchen

1231 Alma Street, Suite A · typically 11am to 9:30pm Monday to Thursday, 11am to 10pm Friday, 9am to 10pm Saturday, 9am to 9pm Sunday

Las Piñatas Kitchen on Alma Street in Tomball is family-owned and cooks from three generations of recipes. Its tortillas are pressed and cooked on the comal every morning, by hand, with no machines.

What to order: the Birria Tacos, three homemade birria tacos with consomé, rice, charro beans, pico de gallo and pickled onions. For something louder, the Taco Diablo is a taco al carbón covered in chile con queso and topped with bacon-wrapped shrimp.

Insider tip: on Sundays after 4pm, Las Piñatas serves a Tacos Wheel of twenty street tacos (about $45 on the menu), and on Friday to Sunday evenings it runs a cenaduría, a traditional late supper of gorditas, sopes, pozole and tamales.

Why it’s here: the handmade-tortilla birria taco to drive up 249 for. If you’re there on a weekend morning, the brunch buffet is in our best brunch in Tomball. Official site

Tomball Parkway (Highway 249)

Four of the nine picks sit on Tomball Parkway, from a 6am taqueria to a 1995 institution.

Taqueria Vilchis

27941 Tomball Parkway · typically 6am to 8pm Monday to Wednesday, 6am to 10pm Thursday and Friday, 7am to 10pm Saturday, 8am to 8pm Sunday

Taqueria Vilchis on Tomball Parkway opens at 6am on weekdays.

What to order: breakfast tacos with your choice of meat, then come back for street tacos.

Why it’s here: the earliest taco stop in Tomball we found. For more morning options, see our best breakfast tacos in Houston. Official site

Los Arcos Mexican Restaurant

28048 Tomball Parkway · typically 11am to 9:30pm Sunday to Thursday, 11am to 10:30pm Friday and Saturday

Los Arcos Mexican Restaurant on Tomball Parkway calls itself a Tomball staple serving Mexican food since 1995, and its dining room of rustic brick and arches fits the name (arcos means arches).

What to order: the Street Tacos, five mini tacos topped with onion and cilantro, with a choice of chicken, pastor, barbacoa, birria or asada. The Quesabirrias come three to an order on corn tortillas with Monterey Jack, guacamole and birria broth.

Why it’s here: five street-taco fillings to mix, from a restaurant with three decades on the Parkway. Official site

Cenas Kitchen

27727 Tomball Parkway · typically 11am to 9pm Sunday to Thursday, 11am to 10pm Friday and Saturday

Cenas Kitchen on Tomball Parkway is a Tex-Mex restaurant from two brothers who started in 2015 with an eight-table spot called Aguirre’s Tex-Mex and opened in Tomball in 2018. Cenas means dinner, and the restaurant says its dining room has more than 300 light fixtures and a 1,000-pound bull sourced in France and forged in Morocco.

What to order: the Street Tacos, five fajita-meat tacos with taco sauce and a grilled jalapeño, or the Pork Tacos, five shredded-pork tacos with habanero onions. Vegetarians get Veggie Tex Mex Tacos on soft flour tortillas.

Insider tip: Cenas hands out a free build-your-own ice cream cone on your way out.

Why it’s here: taco night with a dining room worth showing your friends. Official site

Margaritas & Fajitas Mexican Kitchen

30006 Highway 249, Suite H · typically 11am to 9:30pm Sunday to Wednesday, 11am to 10pm Thursday, 11am to 10:30pm Friday and Saturday

Margaritas & Fajitas Mexican Kitchen on Tomball Parkway is family-owned, and its website says the owner comes from Veracruz, Mexico.

What to order: the Dirty Tacos, three flour tortillas smothered in guajillo sauce and filled with chicken, beans, rice and chile con queso. The Tacos Al Pastor are cooked with pineapple on top, and the Birria Tacos come on corn tortillas with broth for dipping.

Insider tip: Taco Tuesday here means 15% off tacos, dine-in or takeout.

Why it’s here: the best Taco Tuesday deal we found in Tomball. Official site

Kuykendahl Road

Kuykendahl Road has Tomball’s puffy taco.

El Chaparro Mexican Bar & Grill

24914 Kuykendahl Road, Suite F · typically 11am to 9pm Monday and Tuesday, 11am to 9:30pm Wednesday and Thursday, 11am to 10:30pm Friday, 10:30am to 10:30pm Saturday, 10:30am to 9pm Sunday

El Chaparro Mexican Bar & Grill on Kuykendahl Road is a family-owned restaurant that says it has served the North Houston area since 2009, with sister locations in Spring and The Woodlands. It sits on the eastern edge of our Tomball boundary.

What to order: Tavo’s Puffy Tacos, corn tortillas deep-fried until they puff up, then folded and filled with ground beef or shredded chicken. The Tacos Mexicanos come three to an order on homemade corn tortillas with fajita meat, chorizo, onion, cilantro and avocado.

Why it’s here: the only puffy taco we found in Tomball. Official site

Save this: a Tomball taco day

Screenshot this route. It covers Tomball’s tacos from sunrise to Sunday night.

1. Breakfast, weekdays from 6am: breakfast tacos at Taqueria Vilchis on Tomball Parkway.
2. Lunch: a redfish taco and a birria taco at Hee Haw’s on Market Street (closed Sunday).
3. Afternoon: walk Old Town, then pick ideas from our things to do in Tomball.
4. Happy hour, weekdays 3pm to 6pm: Baja fish tacos at Cisco’s on Commerce Street.
5. Dinner: quesabirria from La Costa del Golfo #2 at 403 EATS, with live music on Friday nights.
6. Sunday night instead: the 20-taco Tacos Wheel at Las Piñatas Kitchen after 4pm.

Checklist for the drive:

• Cisco’s is typically closed on Mondays; 403 EATS is closed on Tuesdays; Hee Haw’s is closed on Sundays.
• Food trucks rotate at 403 EATS, so check the vendor list before you go.
• Taco Tuesday: 15% off tacos at Margaritas & Fajitas.

Is Tomball worth the drive for tacos?

Yes, if you make a day of it. Tomball is a short drive up Highway 249 from northwest Houston, and Old Town packs tacos, barbecue and boutiques into a few walkable blocks. For sit-down Tex-Mex, read our best Mexican restaurants in Tomball, and for smoked meat, our best barbecue in Tomball.

More tacos nearby

• Just east, Spring has its own best tacos in Spring guide.
• To the south, see the best tacos in Cypress.
• For the whole city, read our best tacos in Houston and best taco trucks in Houston.

Last verified: October 2026.

Frequently asked questions

What are the best tacos in Tomball, TX?

For birria tacos on handmade tortillas, go to Las Piñatas Kitchen at 1231 Alma Street in Tomball. For an early taco, Taqueria Vilchis at 27941 Tomball Parkway typically opens at 6am on weekdays.

Is there a taco truck in Tomball?

Yes. La Costa del Golfo #2 is the Mexican food truck listed at 403 EATS, a food truck park at 403 East Main Street in Old Town Tomball, serving tacos, tortas and birria tacos. Trucks rotate, so check the park’s vendor list before you go.

Where can I get breakfast tacos early in Tomball?

Taqueria Vilchis at 27941 Tomball Parkway typically opens at 6am Monday to Friday, 7am Saturday and 8am Sunday, and serves breakfast tacos with your choice of meat.

Where can I get birria tacos in Tomball?

Las Piñatas Kitchen on Alma Street, Los Arcos and Margaritas & Fajitas on Tomball Parkway, Hee Haw’s on Market Street and the La Costa del Golfo #2 truck at 403 EATS all list birria tacos or quesabirria on their menus.

Does any Tomball restaurant have a Taco Tuesday deal?

Yes. Margaritas & Fajitas Mexican Kitchen at 30006 Highway 249 takes 15% off tacos on Tuesdays, for dine-in and takeout.

Where can I get puffy tacos in Tomball?

El Chaparro Mexican Bar & Grill at 24914 Kuykendahl Road serves Tavo’s Puffy Tacos: corn tortillas deep-fried until they puff, folded and filled with ground beef or shredded chicken.