Beach-Inspired Tex Mex
A 40-Year New Smyrna Beach Tradition
Fresh, Inventive, Fun
At Clancy's Cantina, in the heart of the vibrant Flagler Avenue district of New Smyrna Beach, our family serves fresh, authentic Tex-Mex — just as we have for three generations.
After more than 30 years in Florida, coastal flavors now blend with the rich, rustic dishes of our south Texas roots. Sizzling skirt steak fajitas perfectly juxtapose ahi poke tacos served with shredded cabbage and fresh sliced avocado.
We take as much pride in our food — house-made salsa from a family recipe, guacamole from fresh Hass avocados, fresh-made, vegan, and gluten-free enchilada sauce, verde sauce, black beans, pinto beans, and rice — as we do in our warm, friendly service.
Please join us!
Mezcalitas
José Cuervo Tradicional Reposado, Cointreau, jalapeños, cilantro, agave, lime & soda
Birria Nachos
Chili-braised beef, white queso, chihuahua cheese, cilantro, red onions, cilantro sour cream
Poke Bowl
Coconut Rice, tuna poke, pico, guacamole, black bean & corn salsa, chipotle aioli
Combo Fajitas
Sizzling Skirt Steak & Chicken, peppers, onions, refried beans, rice, pico, warm flour tortillas
Mahi Tacos
Fresh Mahi, shredded cabbage, mango salsa, key lime sour cream
Irish Roots + Texas Flavors + Florida Style
Birria Nachos
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Shrimp-Stuffed Jalapenos
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Fresh-Made Guacamole
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Chicken Tortilla Soup
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Fajita Salad
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Birria Nachos // Shrimp-Stuffed Jalapenos // Fresh-Made Guacamole // Chicken Tortilla Soup // Fajita Salad //
Chipotle Shrimp Tacos
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Chile Rellenos
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Mahi Verde
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Carnitas
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Poke Tacos
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Smash Burger Sliders
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Shrimp-Stuffed Skirt Steak
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Chipotle Shrimp Tacos // Chile Rellenos // Mahi Verde // Carnitas // Poke Tacos // Smash Burger Sliders // Shrimp-Stuffed Skirt Steak //
Mexican Flan
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Key Lime Pie
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Fried Ice Cream
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Sopapillas
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Mexican Flan // Key Lime Pie // Fried Ice Cream // Sopapillas //
Specials + NewS
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Our Margaritas are the Taco the Town
Stop by for one of our unique craft margaritas, mezcalitas, housemade sangria, or specialty cocktails ranging from Flagler’s best Rum Runner to our Oaxacan Old-Fashioned featuring Costa Reposado tequila and Siete Misterios mezcal.
Dano's Jalapeno Skinny Margarita
Cointreau, lime juice, pineapple juice, fresh jalapeños, agave
Try Our Sister Restaurant
Right behind the Cantina is our sister restaurant, Café Verde, offering eclectic, global cuisine that emphasizes innovative fusions and fresh, locally sourced ingredients. The menu is highlighted by innovative specialties like BLT scallop tacos, quinoa cucumber salad, lamb gyros, Korean bibimbap, and lemon turmeric mahi, plus an intriguing menu of craft cocktails.
A New Smyrna Beach Tradition Since 1983
A New Smyrna Beach tradition for more than three decades, Clancy's Cantina first opened in the late spring of 1983 in a small storefront in the Indian River Shopping Center on 3rd Avenue. It was the dream of Bill Clancy — who had already retired from a career in the Air Force and then a second career with Lockheed — and his wife Marianne.
The restaurant quickly became a local favorite and in late 1984 moved to a larger space in the same shopping center. With larger seating capacity came a full liquor license, and the Clancy's margarita was born.
In 2010, Clancy's — now owned by two of Bill and Marianne's 10 children, twins Matt and Margaret — moved into a former neighborhood grocery on Flagler Avenue. With bright, streetfront seating, a covered outdoor patio, and the same famous margaritas, Clancy's soon become an anchor in the vibrant beachside shopping, dining and tourist district.
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The Cantina's roots, though, go deeper than that — back to 1920s Texas, where Bill Clancy's mother, Margie Clancy Donnelly, began cooking her own style of Texas-influenced Mexican food to help pay the bills while her husband, Robert Clancy, a wildcat oilman, was away at the oilfields.
After Robert's death, Margie married Blackie Donnelly, a former Texas Ranger, and the two moved in 1935 to Little Rock, Arkansas, where they opened Mexico Chiquito using the recipes Margie had developed during her years in southern Texas. The restaurant is still in business today and still known, just like Clancy's Cantina, for Margie's special chile con queso, legitimately believed to be the origin of the Tex-Mex queso dips now found on the menu of virtually every Mexican restaurant in America.
Hold Your Next Event at the Cantina
We love hosting birthdays, rehearsal dinners, parties, reunions, club meetings, etc. Our partially private event space is festive, comfortable, and perfectly sized for groups of 20 to 90. Special menus are available, but our DIY taco bar is a perennial favorite. Give us a call and let’s start planning!
Vibe Check
Clancy’s is situated right in the middle of picturesque and historic Flagler Avenue, five wonderfully walkable blocks of galleries, boutiques, surf shops, restaurants, and bars stretching from the Intracoastal Waterway at one end to the Atlantic Ocean at the other. Lined with moss-draped oaks and rustling palms and often dusted with a layer of beach sand, the Avenue recalls an earlier, slower-paced Florida that we love to share with friends and guests.