Rio Grande Mexican Restaurant - Boulder

Delicious Tex Mex and Margaritas - located just off Boulder's famous Pearl Street Mall! We are open for dine-in service as well as food and margaritas for takeout. Whether you're coming in to unwind and dine with us, to have a drink on our rooftop patio with sweeping views of the Flatirons, bringing food home for the family or just grabbing some margs for a fun night at home, the Boulder Rio is...

Know Before You Go: The margaritas are so masterfully mixed that you can sip two before realizing what's happened. No wonder they have a three-margarita limit.

The margaritas are so masterfully mixed that you can sip two before realizing what's happened. No wonder they have a three-margarita limit.

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You go for the "superlative", "crazy-strong margaritas" at this "vibrant", "festive" local Mexican...

Bartenders at Rio Grande Mexican Restaurant make Boulder's best margaritas—so good, in fact, that there's a three-per-person limit. There's also a great rooftop patio here.

This popular neighborhood restaurant and bar, just south of the Pearl Street Mall, is probably best known for its huge, award-winning margaritas--so potent that the staff enforces a strict limit of three. Frequented by college students and Boulder’s under-30 crowd, the Rio is bustling for reasons beyond its alcoholic concoctions--the loud, social atmosphere and the food, a good variety of...

In Short
The floors are concrete, but elegant chandeliers hang here and there. Tables--often sticky from the last group's margaritas--are hand-painted with Mexican folk designs. This...

Good food and great margaritas keep this Tex-Mex joint hoppin'.