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!
Phone
386.428.4500
Location
310 Flagler Ave.
New Smyrna Beach
Hours
Monday - Closed
Tue/Wed/Thu 11 am-9 pm
Fri/Sat 11 am-10 pm
Sun 11 am - 9 pm
Menu
FOR TAKE OUT CALL (386) 428-4500
Drinks
We mix more than a dozen different margaritas and keep more than 50 different tequilas on our shelves. We also proudly stock and pour a wide variety of domestic, imported and craft beers.
Margaritas
Tequilas
A Deeply Rooted Family Tradition
Blackie Donnelly, husband of Margie Clancy Donnelly, in Little Rock in the late 1930s
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.
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.
Phone
386.428.4500
Address
301 Flagler Avenue
New Smyrna Beach, Florida
Hours
Tuesday. Wednesday, Thursday 11 am - 9 pm
Friday and Saturday 11 am - 10 pm
Sunday 11 am - 9 pm
Closed Monday