RANKED: The 10 Best Mexican Restaurants in the Lansing Area!

Even though Mexico is more than 1,500 miles away from Lansing, its flavor is represented in a big way all over Michigan's capital city.

You'll find a wide variety of Mexican brick-and-mortar restaurants and food trucks in most every part of town, but the question remains - who's got the best Mexican food in Lansing?

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That question's more loaded than an overstuffed burrito.

How We Ranked the Top 10 Mexican Restaurants in Lansing

With dozens upon dozens of Mexican restaurants and food trucks throughout the area, how do we pick favorites?

Well, to be clear - these are your picks.

We looked in a few different places for ratings, comments and reviews of Mexican restaurants in the Lansing area. We checked Yelp. We consulted Stacker. We even took the opinions of Lansing Foodies into consideration.

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We averaged everything we found, and the results were a mix of surprising and not at all.

Lansing Has Great Mexican Food That's Not From a Mexican Restaurant

One of the big surprises when tabulating the Top 10 Mexican restaurants in Lansing was Piazzano's. (That doesn't sound Mexican at all, does it?)

On a menu that's mostly remarkable for its Italian dishes, pizza and calzones, and burgers, Piazzano's (on North Grand River Avenue in Lansing) also offers a few Mexican dishes including nachos, enchiladas, tacos and burritos. And apparently Lansing thinks enough of them to rate them more highly than most actual Mexican restaurants in town!

Where exactly does Piazzano's rank in the Top 10? Is your favorite place represented?

Take a look below and find out what local residents say is the best Mexican restaurant in Lansing.