Lupita

Authentic food, friendly atmosphere. Service was top flight, but we were also among the first to show up for lunch (they had just opened for the day).

Excellent service. Food was divine. Best drinks — ludwika paleta and clasica margarita. Must eat here in London. Decent walk from the tourist locations and businesses. Great pubs nearby for a quick wait. Worth the wait. Highly recommend.

A cool informal Mexican joint alongside Charing Cross Station just off the Strand and on a street corner, Lupita is easy to miss so keep your eyes peeled. Definitely more Mex than Tex Lupita has an air of authenticity serving up fresh, colourful and very tasty Mexican street food. The menu isn’t huge but there are plenty of options for vegetarians. You can check the menu out online and also find the location of their other London branches, Shoreditch and Kensington I think.
Our waiter was excellent and orders were relayed to the kitchen via ipad. Keeping with the electronic theme, each table had a device with a button which called the waiter and another button to request the bill. What a revelation! No hanging around once you’ve finished and want to get on with seeing London. Hurrah! Very convenient location even for those on the south side of the river as its alongside the pedestrian bridge. I’ll be back!
PS On Mondays to Fridays there’s a lunch special. Watch out for Unilocal check-​in offers!

Food is super delicious. The large guacamole is huge. The house-​made hot sauces are really good. Could have more veggie options, though.
It is small so gets packed. Book ahead.

Great food but on our two most recent visits, the food delivery was really slow. We waited about 30 minutes and over 20 minutes, respectively. We also had errors with 2 of 4 food items on our latest visit.
The staff apologized and removed one item from the bill. This good that they acknowledged the error.
I noticed the waiters and cooks arguing quite loudly with one another. The chef seemed to prepare the wrong item a few times.
We will definitely go back, but we will bring some patience next time.

This is the worst disgusting food. I think I just ate threw up tortilla soup. Wth is wrong w food in london

We were visiting London on vacation, strolling along the Thames, when we decided we needed to eat. So we headed up Villiers street and came across Lupita’s. Hey, Mexican food! In London! Sounds great! If only we knew…
We were seated promptly, but then the staff seemed to forget we were there. We pressed the service disc on the table… no response. One more time, then someone came. We placed our order.
Some time passed (maybe 25 minutes), and we’re getting hungry. We asked the server where our food was, and were told it’d be here shortly. The place wasn’t very busy.
More time passed (at least another 10). We asked again. Again, «It’ll be here shortly.»
Finally after a few more minutes, my wife decided we were done waiting and walked out with our son. I gathered the backpack and followed, which prompted a very quick response from the staff. They asked where we were going. I responded that we were tired of waiting, and that it should take around 40 minutes after ordering to get our food. I’m from California and go to a lot of Mexican restaurants, so I know whereof I speak. He told me our order was almost done. I told him that I’d heard that already a couple times and that this type of service was horrible. Quite a few other customers heard me. After that, I headed out after my family.
The only upside of going to Lupita’s? Since we didn’t eat there, we did discover a nice little chain place nearby called Itsu. If it hadn’t been for the horrible experience at Lupita’s, we might never have found them. Itsu was fantastic.

I’ll start out with the positives. The food is flavorful and the options on the menu are pretty good.
However, the service is very poor. Slow, inattentive and they missed several simple things on my order.
Portion size is rather small for the price.
Overall, I was disappointed and might go back if I can’t find better Mexican food in London. For the meantime, I’m on the hunt for that better option.

After two weeks in Italy (basically only consuming pizza, spaghetti, wine and gelato), I needed something different. My dad and I stopped in here because it was open late and looked like a good spot. Unfortunately, the food was pretty mediocre and the portion sizes are very small (but in their defense, our waitress warned us about that and made sure we were still okay with eating there).
I got a vegetable burrito and I liked that there was more than just the normal beans rice lettuce tomato etc. — it had grilled veggies that were still hot. I’m not sure exactly what kinds but it’s much better than a normal vegetarian burrito. My dad got steak tacos and said they were so so.
Basically, if you are really craving Mexican food, this place would give you that fix but it’s not somewhere I would rush back to next time I’m in London.

As a native Texan, this location is on point.
Could easily compare to the best Tex-​Mex. For a diner in a tourist zone, it is above par for the price.
The meats are cooked very traditionally, the flavored are amazing.
Will definitely visit again!!!

A clear step above the chain Mexican offerings generally with the attention to detail to match.
A decent range of authentic dishes on offer from the Taco and Burrito staples to some more home style dishes. All well presented with good multi-​layered tastes.
However… The menu appears to have changed: not only from the traditional hold in your hand to a paper place setting but also with regard to the choice and now it seems limited in comparison. I used to graze on a few small dishes but now the offering seems limited compared to before with things being biased towards the «old favourites».
Saying that, the burrito I had was tasty, had a good amount of marinaded beef in it and left my hunger satisfied.
The guacamole was freshly prepared and slightly verging on the bland.
It’s sad to say that what was previously one of my «secret weapons» is now relegated to will probably not return.
Please go back to basics, pack out that menu again and stop positioning yourself as a tourist centric outlet.

The closest to real Mexican food you can get in London, but it’s obviously not as authentic as in Mexico or California. But they have huitlacoche and nopales so they should get some credit ;)
I’m gonna come back!

Having lived in Los Angeles for 15 years, I realize I’m spoiled when it comes to Mexican.
I so wanted to LOVE Lupita, which had been recommended to me by several people, but in the end it was only okay. While lightyears better than, say, Wahaca (doesn’t take much, really), it’s still a far cry from the Mexican-​Mexican food I so much crave in London.
The table-​side guacamole is good, but obscenely expensive, and the rest of the food is a bit underwhelming and similarly priced.
Much as I wanted to love you, Lupita, I don’t think I will be back.

Lupita is a cute Mexican chain around London. The central one by Embankment is right by the tube and well structured, offering a bar and seating on two floors. The drinks, food and service were all fantastic — I highly recommend their passion fruit margarita!

when i was living in London area (2012 – 2013) this was my go to place. Whether it was meeting with friends, a night on the town, or relatives visiting… this is a very versatile restaurant. I’m in love with their mango margaritas, totopos aracherra, and ive tried tons of their tacos (even the nopales (cactus)). It’s all amazing, and at least the items i listed= gluten free. The staff is very knowledgeable about gluten sensitivities and the menu’s desserts are listed as gluten free (at least the chocolate cake and flan). When i was last there they had a pecan desert tart that was gf and amazing.
The staff is super friendly (even when busy) and the owner is very very nice.
Oh yeah and they have super hilarious picture on how to properly enjoy the food (cartoon style)!

I’ve been here a number of times since it’s so close to the office and a good — let’s not eat at our desk option. Funny each time I check into this place I get excited to see the Unilocal check in offer — which is the same as their usual lunch special.
I have to admit the first time I ate here, I was a bit like — what is this? and of course then realised my world of Mexican food has mainly been Tex Mex. I was just a little confused to see the little tacos when I“m used to the taco bell kinda taco sizes.
I’ve tried most of the things on the menu and surely the guacamole is definitely worth getting — since they make it fresh for you. The pork tacos are really good — the burritos can get a bit too cheesy for me. For a lighter lunch, the soup and salad option is great.

Upon leaving the States I thought I wouldn’t have good Mexican food again until I returned. After all even Chipotle which I thought would be a godsend of comfort isn’t quite the same here. My tastebuds were feeling ever so bored without spicy foods to tantalise them. Thankfully a friend recommended Lupita.
The restaurant features an open kitchen so you can watch the chefs at work. I sat around on a bar stool and noticed that homemade salsa had been placed at each seat. I had an order of the guacamole with chips and the tinga de pollo tacos.
The guacamole portion felt rather small for the price but was full of flavour and all the right amounts of lime, onion and tomato. I personally prefer my corn chips as light as a feather so these ones were a bit dense and hard for me but nonetheless still tasty. The chips were a homemade and a good sized portion.
As for the tacos? Pretty perfect! The meat was tender with quite a bit of heat paired with smokey chipotle sauce and a creamy avocado wedge.
I also ordered a horchata which is a sweetened cinnamon rice milk. Thankfully they made it traditionally without dairy as many restaurants tend to cheat. It was a tad too sweet and I wished it was a little more cinnamon-​y but I still enjoyed it. Will definitely be coming back here to satisfy my Mexican cravings.

The service is amazing, the guac is good. the drinks are good. Its a solid place. But I keep ordering the stuff I don’t like for some reason. All I remember is the stuff I want to avoid, but then that gets switched in my mind with the taco I want and then its no one’s fault but my own.
The horchata has cinnamon put on top which is like kissing a tree with every sip and has little flavour or sweetness. No bueno. But the Jamaica drink was amazing and just right.
The hubs enjoyed his food, and ate most of mine as well which is a good sign.

I had quite a lot from here, I’m just trying to recollect the names. I should have written the review earlier. I remember the food was good. There were drinks too.
The place is high tech. You have buzzers on your table for calling the waiter, for cancelling, for requesting the bill.
There is lot of seating space. Not just the floor you see from outside. There is more underneath.
I went with a group, was pretty drunk I guess, took lots of pictures and had great fun buzzing the waitress. They were kind enough not to throw us out.

It was OK but not sure I would return.
The tortilla chips were hard and not fresh as I was expecting and the portion a little mean. Guac was meh.
My carnitas burrito (filling: pork, rice, cheese) was weirdly dense. Had to work at it with a knife and fork and was a tad greasy. Not that big and just came on a plate with no accompaniments (sides have to be purchased extra) and for the price, I wish I had just gone to Chipotle up the road. I suppose it’s a style thing. Maybe the food here is more Mexican style, based on my one visit to Mexico City, as opposed to Tex– Mex or Cal-​Mex which I prefer.

After just arriving in London we checked in our hotel and went for a walk to enjoy that beautiful sunny day. We wanted some snack to take to the park and thought passed in front of this mexican which seemed a nice option for that day, it was indeed!
Pretty close to the Victoria embankment park, we enjoyed our opened tortillas with their delish spicy sauces there, bought few drinks on the store next door which the waitress said would be much cheaper than buying there!
I had a vegetarian opened tortilla with frijoles, avocados, onions and cream cheese, my partner had opened tuna and avocado tortillas! Both were really nice, huge portions considering that we just wanted a snack.