Latino-Owned Businesses in Nashville to Support in 2026

The most interesting Latino-owned listing in our Nashville directory is not a restaurant. Rocio's Spiritual Botanica is a botanica, a shop selling candles, herbs, and religious and spiritual goods. Botanicas serve a community rather than a market, and they are the kind of business a directory built from restaurant coverage almost never picks up.

The other nine listings are kitchens. This is the shortest of our Nashville identity guides and the one with the widest gap between what is recorded and what exists, so the honest place to start is with what is here, and then with what is not.

Quick answer

1. For candles, herbs, and spiritual goods, Rocio's Spiritual Botanica.
2. For tequila and mezcal, Saint Añejo in The Gulch, with more than 120 labels.
3. For tacos, Pie Town Tacos and La Hacienda Taqueria.
4. For Tex-Mex, Superica.
5. For a sit-down dinner, Solario Cantina and El Fuego Restaurante.
6. For a grill and a tequila list, Las Cazuelas Mexican Grill & Tequila Bar.
7. Also listed: Bakersfield and Las Fajitas.
8. Our Nashville hub carries the full list.

What is a botanica, and why start there?

Rocio's Spiritual Botanica is the only non-restaurant Latino-owned listing we have in Nashville, and it is the one that tells you something a restaurant does not.

A botanica sells candles, herbs, oils, statuary, and religious goods, and it typically serves a specific community's practices rather than a general retail audience. That makes it the sort of business that exists because a community is established enough to sustain it, and the sort that rarely appears in a food-media roundup.

If you are trying to understand Latino Nashville rather than just eat well in it, this is the listing to know about.

Where should I eat?

Saint Añejo in The Gulch is the one paid-tier listing in this category. It serves inspired Mexican cooking and craft margaritas alongside more than 120 tequila and mezcal labels, which makes it as much a bar program as a restaurant. If you care about agave spirits, that list is the reason to go.

Las Cazuelas Mexican Grill & Tequila Bar covers similar ground at a neighborhood scale, pairing a grill with a tequila selection.

For tacos, Pie Town Tacos and La Hacienda Taqueria. For Tex-Mex specifically, which is its own tradition rather than a lesser version of Mexican food, Superica.

Solario Cantina, El Fuego Restaurante, Las Fajitas, and Bakersfield round out the sit-down options.

Who should be on this page next?

This is the page on the site with the most room to grow, and it is worth being specific about where.

By area, Nolensville Pike is the priority. It is Nashville's Latino business corridor, running through the southeast of the city with groceries, bakeries, panaderias, auto shops, insurance offices, clinics, salons, remittance services and restaurants along its length. Antioch is next.

By category, it is everything outside a restaurant: attorneys, accountants, contractors, landscapers, roofers, insurance agents, dentists and clinics.

Published food coverage is where a directory can start, because it is public and quick to verify. Everything else arrives when owners add it. If you run a Latino-owned business in any of those categories, or anywhere along Nolensville Pike, you would be the first one listed. Listings are free to add.

How is ownership determined?

Each listing shows a verification status. Publicly listed means ownership was recorded from a public source such as a chamber directory or the business's own description. Self identified means the owner told us directly. Certified means a third party verified it.

We never infer ownership from a surname, a photo, or the food a restaurant serves. That rule is doing a lot of work on this page: Nashville has a great many Mexican restaurants, and the ones listed here are listed because ownership was recorded from a source, not because of what is on the menu. A Mexican restaurant is not evidence of a Latino owner, and treating it as evidence is how directories fill up with confident errors.

Nashville also has guides to its Black-owned, women-owned, and LGBTQ-owned businesses.

Common mistakes

Reading ten listings as a survey. It is a starting point. Nolensville Pike alone would multiply this page several times over.

Assuming the cuisine tells you the ownership. It does not, in either direction, and this is the page where that mistake is easiest to make.

Treating Tex-Mex as a lesser category. It is its own tradition with its own history, and Superica is listed on those terms.

Treating a tag as a certification. Ownership tags are sourced claims with a status attached. Formal minority-business certification is separate and shown separately.

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