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Food Specials

Twenty tacos. Twenty reasons to be happy. Grab this deal every Tuesday!

Appetizers

Just the way they are made at the rancho: spicy, saucy, and full of flavor. Covered in our homemade buffalo sauce and served with celery and blue cheese.

Spicy

Fried calamari served with our rich in house mayo-chipotle sauce.

Tender shrimp marinated in bright lime juice and mixed with onions and spices for a refreshing coastal classic.

Mexican street-style corn topped with mayo, cheese, chile, and lime.

Mini chicken tacos, mini flautas, fried calamari, and chorizo nachos served with guac, pico, and sour cream.

Crispy, golden rolled tacos filled with tender chicken and melted cheese. Finished with sour cream, fresh lettuce, and guacamole.

Crafted with the freshest Michoacano avocados, jalapeno, onion, and cilantro. Served with golden, crispy tortilla chips and salsa.

Crispy fried mini tacos filled with juicy chicken.

A rich, bubbling skillet of melted cheese topped with jalapenos, mushrooms, and chorizo. Served with warm flour tortillas and pico de gallo.

Three crunchy tortillas topped with refried beans, fresh lettuce, avocado, and a drizzle of crema Mexicana. Choose your topping: Chicken, Vegetarian (mushroom, onion & green pepper), Refried Beans, Steak, Cecina, or Tinga.

Vegetarian

A sampler featuring one huarache, one quesadilla, two chicharron gorditas, and two sopes, served with slow-braised house-made birria.

Thick handmade corn gorditas filled with savory chicharron prensado, served with fresh lettuce, crema, queso fresco, and salsa.

Soups & Salads

Fresh avocado, crisp greens, and vegetables with natural lime.

A refreshing salad packed into a crispy taco shell bowl.

A hearty Mexican soup made with hominy and tender pork, simmered in a rich broth. Comes with 2 tostadas layered with crema Mexicana, refried beans, lettuce, and cheese.

Made with tomato, tortilla strips, cheese, chicken, cubed avocado & chile pasilla.

Rich seafood soup with calamari, shrimp, mussels, octopus, and clams.

Tacos

Fresh homemade corn tortillas topped with your choice of protein.

Steak, mushrooms, jalapenos & onions on warm tortillas.

Flour tortillas filled with al pastor pork and grilled pineapple, served taco-style with onions and cilantro.

Crispy, cheesy tacos filled with juicy slow-braised birria and served with hot consome for dipping.

Crispy beer-battered fish with fresh slaw, pico de gallo, and creamy chipotle sauce.

Three cheesy shrimp tacos cooked with peppers and onions.

Fan Favorites

Sizzling fajitas with one protein of your choice, served with rice, refried beans, crema Mexicana, pico de gallo, guacamole & flour tortillas.

Choose two fajita proteins, served sizzling with peppers and onions, tortillas, rice, beans.

A warm flour quesadilla grilled golden with melted cheese.

Your favorite meat wrapped in a 10-inch flour tortilla, fried crispy with melted cheese. With rice, frijoles refritos, pico de gallo, crema Mexicana, and guacamole.

A warm 10-inch flour tortilla loaded with melted Monterey Jack and cheddar, rice, frijoles refritos, pico de gallo, crema Mexicana, and guacamole. Choice of salsa and protein.

Choose two fillings, rolled in a 10-inch flour tortilla with cheese, topped with salsa, served with rice and beans.

Quesadilla packed with slow-braised birria and melted Oaxaca cheese, served with warm consome.

A long corn-tortilla quesadilla up to 18-24 inches, filled with melted Oaxaca cheese.

Our Famous Cemitas

Puebla's famous sesame-bread sandwich with avocado, Oaxaca cheese, chipotle, jalapenos, and papalo

Pastor-style pork, avocado, and Oaxaca cheese with spicy green sauce and limes.

Spicy

Slow-cooked birria and Oaxaca cheese, served with consome.

Slow-cooked Michoacan carnitas with avocado, Oaxaca cheese, cilantro, and onions.

Thinly sliced salted beef with Oaxaca cheese, jalapeno, and guacamole.

Avocado, grilled ham, breaded sirloin steak, carnitas, Oaxaca cheese, papalo, and chipotle.

Guacamole, sirloin steak, onions, jalapenos, and Oaxaca cheese.

Crispy chicken or steak milanesa with papalo, Oaxaca cheese, avocado, jalapenos, and chipotle.

Entrees

Tender strips of meat or shrimp sauteed with bell peppers, onions, and melted cheese, with warm tortillas.

12 oz Prime skirt steak with rice, frijoles charros, chiles toreados, and nopales, plus guacamole, pico de gallo, and handmade tortillas.

Thin slices of salted pork grilled, with rice, refried beans, corn tortillas, toasted chiles, and nopales.

Crispy corn tortillas in homemade salsa topped with fried eggs, refried beans, crema, cheese and avocado. Choice of salsa and protein.

Roasted poblano pepper in egg batter with tomato salsa, rice, beans, and corn tortillas. Stuffed with cheese, chicken, or steak.

Soft corn tortillas with savory meat, salsa roja, verde, or bandera, crema, melted cheese, lettuce, and avocado.

Corn tortillas filled with meat or veggies, smothered in housemade mole with 21 traditional ingredients. Contains nuts and sesame.

12 oz Prime skirt steak with shrimp in garlic sauce, rice and refried beans.

Chile marinated pork, grilled steak & chorizo with nopales, Oaxaca cheese, pork rinds, rice, frijoles & tortillas.

Chicken in housemade mole sauce of 21 ingredients, with rice, frijoles charros, tortillas, avocado, and crema. Contains nuts & sesame.

12 oz New York strip with fries and house salad.

Grilled chicken, steak, pork chops, shrimp, Mexican sausage, nopales, roasted jalapenos, onions, and mushrooms. With rice, beans, and tortillas.

12 oz NY steak Mexican-style with refried beans, rice, and enmoladas topped with mole.

Seafood

Shrimp cooked in lime juice with cucumber, celery, and chile serranos.

Shrimp sauteed with butter and onions in signature inferno salsa, with white rice and vegetables.

Spicy

Mexican shrimp cocktail in chilled calypso sauce with onions, cilantro, and avocado.

Tilapia filet with French fries, calamari, shrimp, and mussels in butter cream sauce, with white rice and vegetables.

Whole red snapper fried, with apple-mango salad, white rice, and garlic sauce.

Grilled salmon with white rice and sauteed vegetables.

Kids

Sides

Fried sweet plantains.

Tender cactus strips.

Guacamole, pico de gallo, and sour cream.

Desserts

Traditional flan with caramel glaze.

Beverages

Mexican coffee with cinnamon and piloncillo.

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