Dinner Menu

Appetizers
Soups & Salads
Seafood
Beef
Mom's Cuisine
Desserts
Extras
Beverages
Kids Menu

 

Appetizers

 

Sope
$3.75

Small hand stretched corn flour dough topped with beans, fresh cheese, onions, lettuce & your choice of bistec (beef), Mexican sausage (longaniza), zucchini or mushrooms. 1 per order.

Jalapeños Maria Luisa (Maria Luisa Gallardo de Sandoval 1950)
$7.50

Breaded Jalapeño peppers filled with shredded chicken served over a bed of
tomato sauce.

Crepa de Camarón
$8.95

Thin crepe filled with shrimp, olives and cheese served with a chipotle pepper sauce.

Flautas de Pollo
$5.95

Golden tacos stuffed with shredded chicken, topped with lettuce, sour cream, onions, and cheese.

Empanadas de Plátano Macho con Queso
$7.50
Plantain turnovers filled with cheese.
Tacos de Chapulines
$13.50

Six deep fried mini tacos stuffed with grasshoppers (when available).

Tamales
$10.95

Assorted combination of 5 mini tamales: corn dough filled with chicken, corn, coconut, fish, and pork. Then wrapped and steamed in banana and corn leaves.  

Crepa de Cuitlacoche en Salsa Poblana
$8.95

Thin crepe filled with cuitlacoche (fungus that develops on corn), onions, corn and cheese covered in a poblano pepper sauce.

Empanadas de Chicharron de Chapulin
$6.95

Corn flour turnovers filled with fried grasshoppers (order of 3).

Quesadilla
$3.75

Small corn flour turnover filled with cheese and your choice of: Tinga (shredded beef), flor de calabaza (squash blossom) or cuitlacoche (corn’s black mushroom). 1 per order.

Tamales Vegetarianos
$10.95

Combination of 5 different mini tamales (assorted vegetables).

Longaniza
$5.95

Mexican sausage served with sides of onions, cilantro, slices of limes, tortillas, red & green sauces.

Soups

Caldo Tlalpeño
$8.95

Chicken soup from Tlalpan, Mexico City, made with chipotle pepper, chickpeas, rice, cheese, herbs and spices.

Salads

Japoamore
$6.95

Spinach, celery, apple, cucumber and orange slices in a yogurt-balsamic
dressing and topped with sesame seeds.

Tu Y Yo
$6.95
Lettuce, tomatoes, fresh cheese and cilantro dressing.
 
Ensalada de Nopal
$6.95

Cooked chopped cactus, onions, cilantro and tomatoes topped with cheese and amaranth seeds. Served with vinegar and olive oil.

Seafood

Carmarón Macario (Dolores T. de Mitates 1928)
$18.95

Sauteed shrimp with peppers and garlic featuring a sauce made with morron and poblano chiles, walnuts, cilantro and parsley. Topped with parmesan cheese.

Calamares Enjitomatados
$17.95

Calamari sautéed with onions, garlic, tomatoes, scallions, chile de arbol and spices.

Salmón Criolla (Estela Gómez de Cuervo1940)
$18.95

Fresh pan fried Atlantic salmon in a creamy guajillo sauce accompanied with chipotle-potato and shrimp cakes.

Pescado en Mole Verde
$17.95

Your choice of Frog legs or Tilapia in green mole made with pumpkin seeds, poblano peppers, amaranth & spices.

Chile Relleno de Camarón (Juan José Sandoval Guzman 2003)
$18.95

Poblano pepper stuffed with shrimp, goat cheese and black olives drizzled in a red bell pepper sauce.

Pescado Fortin De Las Flores
$17.95

Fried Tilapia fillet covered in a Fortin sauce made out of mushrooms, white wine, green and red bell peppers, wheat flour and cream.

Beef
Chile Relleno en Nogada
$18.95

Poblano pepper stuffed with ground beef, almonds, raisins and peaches covered in a sweet creamy sauce with pomegranate and cilantro on top (available on fall and winter season).

Bisteces "Mamá Evelia" (Evelia Gómez Viuda de Guzmán 1930)
$15.95

Angus chopped tender sirloin cooked in onion and “tomatillo-chipotle” sauce.

Bisteces en salsa “Borracha” (Emiliana Guzmán de Verdaled 1950)
$15.95

Angus chopped tender sirloin simmered in a “drunken” sauce made with beer, pasilla peppers and cactus strips.

Tinga (Claudia Fuentes)
$15.95

Angus shredded tender sirloin slow cooked in assorted peppers (ancho, chipotle and guajillo).

Chicken

Mole Colorado Tlaxcalteca (Estela Calzada 2005)
$17.95

Chicken breast in red mole made with chocolate, almonds, peanuts, sesame seeds, pumpkin seeds and ancho, pasilla, mulato and chipotle peppers.

Pollo en Mole Blanco
$17.95

Chicken breast covered in a creamy sauce made with onions, nuts, pine nuts, and beer.

Pollo Dos Chiles con Nopales
$15.95

Chicken breast cooked in a sauce made of morita & guajillo peppers,
tomatoes, onions and garlic topped with chopped cactus.

Tinga Poblana
$15.95

Shredded chicken breast cooked in assorted chipotle peppers and tomatoes.

Pechugas en Salsa de Chile Poblano
$17.95

Boneless chicken breast covered in a chile poblano sauce made out of squash blossom, corn, cheese, poblano pepper and cream.

Pork

Puerco en Salsa de Cacahuates
$15.95

Chopped pork tenderloin sauteed within a peanut sauce made of tomatoes, costeño and jalapeño peppers, onion, garlic, bacon and cinnamon.

Nopales con Cerdo
$15.95

Chopped pork tenderloin sauteed with fresh cactus in a sauce made out of green tomatoes, vinegar, ancho, mulato and pasilla  peppers.

Carnitas
$15.95

Slow cooked pork, simmered in spices, lard and orange juice. Accompanied with salsas & tortillas.

Cochinita Pibil ( María Ruz Viuda de Espinosa 1908)
$15.95

Shredded boneless pork loin, marinated in a sauce made of achiote, orange, garlic, onions and spices.

Vegetarian

Pipian Paskal
$14.95

Chopped chayote squash in pipian made of, pumpkin seeds, peanuts, cilantro, herbs, ancho and guajillo peppers.

Spinach a la Carlos (Carlos Cerrillo 2001)
$12.95

Spinach and potatoes in a garlic butter sauce with spices.

Indio Vestido
$14.95

Cactus paddles stuffed with cheese drizzled in a pasilla and tomatillo sauce.

Nopales en Mole Verde
$12.95

Chopped cactus smothered in green mole based on poblano pepper, pumpkin seeds and tomatillo.  

 

Desserts

Imposible
$5.95

Custard on top of a chocolate cake served with caramel sauce.

Avocado Cheesecake
$5.95

Avocado pie topped with crushed pistachio.

Pastel de Nopal (Jaime y Ramiro - La Casita restaurant, CA 2005)
$5.95

Cactus cake covered with tequila sauce (contains nuts).

Flan a la Doris
$5.95
Home made caramel custard served with cinnamon cream sauce.
Extras

Tortillas (3)
$1.00
Rice
$2.00
Beans
$2.00
Fresh cheese
$2.50
Beverages

Coke, Diet, Sprite, Ginger Ale
$2.50
Lemonade
$2.95
Jamaica (Hisbiscus Water)
$2.50
Spring & Sparkling
$2.95
Café de Olla (Mex-style coffee)
$2.25
Hot Chocolate (Oaxaca style) 
$3.25
Tea and Chamonille $2.50
Espresso $2.25
Cappuccino $3.25
Milk (6oz) $1.95
 
Kid's Menu
Kid’s  Sincronizadas
$3.75

Grilled corn tortillas with ham, and melted cheese.

Kid’s Quesadilla
$3.75

Grilled corn tortillas with melted cheese.

Pollo Andrés
$7.50

Breaded chicken strips, served with rice and beans.

Pollo al Grill
$7.50

Grilled chicken, served with rice and beans.

Milanesa
$7.50

Breaded beef filet, served with rice and beans