r/mexicanfood on SubMouse

About r/mexicanfood

Community guide

r/mexicanfood is #770 in our SFW Top 1000 (about 1.4 million subscribers). A recent sample averaged 13 posts a day (~50% image, ~20% text, ~20% gallery). Its public rules include: Be nice; Restaurant Posts.

What belongs here

Stay inside the room’s stated scope rather than adjacent off-topic dumps. Match posts to: Be nice; Restaurant Posts.

How it differs from lookalikes

Prefer this room when your post matches its description and rules—not merely a larger sibling community.

Practical pointers

Read the live sidebar/rules before posting; rules can change. Common flairs include: Tex-Mex, Súper Tacos, Postre, Mariscos.

Since Nov 2, 2026, it has gained 0 subscribers (+0.00%). It sits just behind r/RetroFuturism (#770) and ahead of r/LofiHipHop (#772) in our ranking.

What sets r/mexicanfood apart

r/mexicanfood is far more image-driven than most big subreddits: 50% of its recent posts are images, against a median of 22% across the Top 100.

Subscriber growth

Between Oct 29, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026, r/mexicanfood climbed from 1,380,726 to 1,381,356 subscribers (+630, +0.05%). That is about 57 new members per day. The chart shows 3 weekly subscriber counts.

All-time top posts

The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/mexicanfood, from 2024 to 2026, ranked by Reddit.

Made some Tacos [Welshman living in Ireland]u/skitek · Sep 5, 2026 · gallery
Anthony Bourdain on his love and respect for Mexicans and Mexican Cuisineu/ErrorSenior4554 · Feb 16, 2026 · gallery
I flirted too hard and now I’m eating Cacahuates Japonés and Pozole at a baby shower in some random corner of GDL.u/NYerInTex · Mar 8, 2026 · gallery
My local taqueria when I order the "small" $4 bean and cheese burritou/timbermequivers · Mar 12, 2026 · image
Made my boyfriend carnitas, red rice, pinto beans, corn tortillas, salsa verde, and my now new obsession... chocoflanu/softrotten · Jun 9, 2025 · gallery
My kid got invited to her classmates birthday party - turned out to be a full on carne asadau/CreamPyre · Jun 8, 2026 · image
El Chile Dogou/colesterolbienalto · Jul 3, 2026 · video
In-laws making tortillas de maízu/Dreyer55 · Feb 6, 2026 · video
Just opened my first restaurant 26 days ago. This is my burrito mojado.u/LazyAltruist · May 10, 2025 · image
My coworker brought New Mexican green chile enchiladas to work todayu/greencurtain4 · Nov 5, 2026 · image

What r/mexicanfood talks about

Across 70 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 5), the words that come up most are “salsa”, “mexican”, “food”, “tamales” and “con”. Other frequent themes are tacos, carnitas, pozole, recipe, chicken and verde. Recurring phrases include “mexican food”, “más tamales”, “butter chicken” and “salsa verde”. By format, 50% are images, 20% are text posts and 20% are galleries.

salsa 8
mexican 8
food 7
tamales 6
con 5
tacos 5
carnitas 4
pozole 4
recipe 4
chicken 4
verde 3
flautas 3
style 3
los 3
muertos 3
más 3
enchiladas 3
roja 3

Popular post flairs: Tex-Mex (3), Súper Tacos (1), Postre (1), Mariscos (1), Yucateco (1).

Activity and best time to post

r/mexicanfood gets about 13 new posts a day. The public archive holds 29,942 posts and 431,145 comments in total, about 14.4 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Saturday (16 posts) and the quietest was Tuesday (8). Posting peaks around 22:00 UTC and is lowest around 07:00 UTC.

Posts per hour of the day, UTC, Oct 29, 2026 – Nov 4, 2026

Images 50%Text posts 20%Galleries 20%Links 6%Videos 4%

Rules of r/mexicanfood

The moderators of r/mexicanfood list 2 rules. In short:

Be nice
Restaurant Posts

How to join

Open reddit.com/r/mexicanfood and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.

Frequently asked questions

How big is r/mexicanfood?

r/mexicanfood has 1,381,356 subscribers (Nov 9, 2026), which makes it the #771 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 630 members between Oct 29, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026.

How active is r/mexicanfood?

Moderately: r/mexicanfood gets about 13 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 29,942 posts and 431,145 comments. In a sample of 70 recent posts we counted 62 different authors.

When is r/mexicanfood most active?

Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Saturday and the quietest Tuesday, and most posts arrive around 22:00 UTC, with the fewest around 07:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.

What is r/mexicanfood about?

r/mexicanfood is a large Reddit community. Recent post titles often mention salsa, mexican, food, tamales and con. Most posts are images (50%).

Is r/mexicanfood safe for work?

Yes. Reddit does not mark r/mexicanfood as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.

How do I post on r/mexicanfood?

Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/mexicanfood accepts both text and link posts, with images, videos, galleries and polls enabled. It has 2 posted rules, starting with: “Be nice”; “Restaurant Posts”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.

Stats from public data (data updated Nov 9, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026; top posts from Reddit’s public feeds). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/mexicanfood.

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