Banditos Tacos & Tequila appears to have shuttered in Pentagon City, the latest closure for the D.C.-area chain.
The Mexican restaurant is listed as “temporarily closed” on Google, but the location at 1301 S. Joyce Street was removed from the business’s website sometime in the last 24 hours.
The restaurant did not return a request for comment, and it’s unclear when exactly it stopped operating. The tables remain set up inside, there are liquor bottles behind the bar, and the location was still listed on the Banditos website yesterday (Monday). The listing was gone this morning.
Banditos’ remaining locations are all in Maryland, in Columbia, Towson and White Marsh.
The closure comes the same year that Banditos abruptly shuttered its location near George Mason University’s Fairfax campus in March. Its flagship location in Federal Hill in D.C. closed in 2024, and another one in Maple Lawn shut down in 2025.
It’s the second restaurant in that section of Westpost at National Landing to close its doors this year. Next door, El Mercat Bar de Tapas shut down in September after one year in the location. On the other side, the Irish gastropub Mattie and Eddie’s closed in July 2024, although another restaurant, Ember, has been working to open there for over a year.
Banditos opened in Pentagon City in 2022.
