Banditos Mexican restaurant appears to have closed in Pentagon City

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Published November 10, 2026 at 11:45AM

The front of Banditos Tacos & Tequila is seen on Nov. 10, 2026. (Staff photo by Nolan Stout)

The closed Banditos Tacos & Tequila sits between two empty storefronts at Westpost at National Landing in Pentagon City on Nov. 10, 2026. (Staff photo by Nolan Stout)

Liquor bottles sit behind the bar at the Banditos Tacos & Tequila in Pentagon City on Nov. 10, 2026. (Staff photo by Nolan Stout)

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.

Nolan Stout is a reporter with ARLNow and FFXNow. Originally from North Carolina, he graduated from High Point University and has been in journalism for more than a decade. He previously covered local and state government at the Daily News-Record in Harrisonburg, Va., The Daily Progress in Charlottesville, Va., and InsideNoVa in Prince William County, Va. His journey also included a stint as a credentialed member of the press corps covering the White House for Courthouse News Service.