Best Mexican Restaurant in Ocean City
Handmade tortillas. Fresh-juice margaritas.
Handmade tortillas. Fresh-juice margaritas.
Family run since 2008
Hand-pressed tortillas, fresh-juice margaritas, and Tex-Mex made fresh daily.
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Tortillas pressed on the plancha, chile sauces built in house, and guacamole blended in small batches by Don Dario, the abuelo of the Mother's Cantina crew.
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Pickup and delivery straight from our kitchen on Philadelphia Avenue. Order online and it is ready when you are.
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Appetizers, tacos, fajitas, tortas and the happy hour lineup. We are open Wednesday through Sunday, in season and out.
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Neely and Ryan James opened Mother's Cantina in 2008. Winner of Coastal Style's Best of Maryland's Coast for Mexican restaurant, tacos, family business and caterer.
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Happy 2–6 every day we are open. Fresh-squeezed house margaritas, cold drafts and the full happy hour taco lineup.
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in my top 3 mexican places ever, maybe the top. flounder tacos were the best I've had, good cheap margaritas, family had enchiladas, fajitas and shrimp tacos, all fantastic. if you want the best mexican on the island and good, cheap margaritas, come in for happy hour. Edit: went a second time the next day, they ... knocked it out of the park again. almost the exact same orders, were as good if not better. Read More
Mother’s Cantina in Ocean City is legit. The birria tacos are some of the best I’ve had — tender, flavorful meat, good consommé for dipping, and tortillas with that perfect crisp. The quesadillas are just as good: cheesy, well-filled, and hot off the griddle. Frozen piña coladas were very delicious too. Strong, ... smooth, and perfect for a beach day. Fun, upbeat vibe with solid service even when it’s busy. If you want real flavor and a good drink, this is the spot. Get the birria. Read More
genuinely the best tacos I’ve ever eaten in my life, the most juiciest chicken, the most loaded tacos, and for the best price like seven dollars for the happy hour two tacos was so filling and so good. You must come here if you go to Ocean City Maryland. I’m not joking when I say it’s the best tacos I’ve ever had.
Our regulars come back for the Maryland crab quesadilla, layered with sweet lump crab, smoked gouda and a dash of Old Bay. After that it is a toss-up between the house enchiladas, the meat-free portabella fajita, a bowl of kickin' crab chowder and the queso-smothered double decker taco.
Mother's Cantina is a Mexican restaurant in Ocean City cooking scratch Tex-Mex on house-pressed tortillas. Build your own tacos, share a platter of fajitas off the plancha, or go vegetarian with chipotle portabella, sauteed spinach or black and pinto bean fillings.
We serve lunch and dinner at 2810 Philadelphia Ave, with happy hour 2–6 every day we are open. You can place an online order for takeout, or book us for catering when you are feeding a crowd.
You will find us on 28th Street in North End Ocean City, so the 28th Street area is our home block. We also feed plenty of guests from Midtown Ocean City, West Ocean City and Ocean Pines.
2810 Philadelphia Ave, North End Ocean City. Open Wednesday through Sunday.