El Norteno Mexican Restaurant - authentic Mexican food
El Norteņo Mexican Restaurant Menu






Queso Quesadilla (Corn)
Grilled, golden brown corn tortillas, filled with Monterey Jack cheese. Served with pico de gallo.

Queso Quesadilla (Flour)
Large flour corn tortillas, filled with Monterey Jack cheese. Served with pico de gallo.

Aguacate (Guacamole)
A pre-Columbian dish made with avocados, tomatoes, onions, cilantro, and lemon juice. Served with freshly made corn chips.

Flautas Norteño
Beef or chicken, rolled tacos, sell-seasoned, deep-fried golden brown and topped with tomato, onion, minced chiles, guaca dhile, and sour cream.

Ensalada de Nopalitos
Tender nopal leaves simmered and marinated in vinaigrette. Served with tomato, onion, and minced chiles, and corn tortillas.

Queso Fundido Solo
Hot Monterey Jack cheese with special El Norteño white corn tortillas.

Queso Fundido Chorizo
Hot Monterey Jack cheese with sliced chorizo. Served with special El Norteño white corn tortillas.

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Flan
Mexican egg custard in a sweet caramel sauce.


Pastel de Tres Leches
This traditional Mexican cake recipe, which translates as "three milks," is sweet, moist and eclicious. Topped with whipped cream.



Soft Drinks
Coke, Diet Coke, Sprite, Dr. Pepper, Orange, Barq's Root Beer

Aguas Frescas
in season
Horchata, Strawberry, Lemonade, Tamarindo, Mango

Liquados (Shakes)
in season
Banana, Chocolate, Strawberry, Cantaloupe

Aguas Frescas (in season)
Horchata, Strawberry, Lemonade, Tamarindo, Mango

Other Drinks
Milk, Coffee, Orange Juice, Iced Tea, Hot Tea, Mexican Hot Chocolate

Imported Beers
Dos Equis Special Lager, Dos Equis Amber, Corona, Corona Lite, Negra Modelo, Modelo Especial, Carta Blanca Tecate, Bohemia, Sol

Domextic Beers
Bud, Bud Lite, Miller, Miller Lite

Wines by the Glass
El Norteño's Specialty Sangria, Chardonnay, White Zinfandel, Merlot, Burgundy

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Chiles Rellenos*
New Mexican green chiles, stuffed with Monterey Jack cheese, coated with egg batter and cooked until the cheese is bubbling hot. Smothered with green chile. Served with rice and beans.

Chiles Rellenos Abogados*
New Mexican green cdhiles, stuffed with Monterey Jack cheese, coated with egg batter and cooked until the cheese is bubbling hot. Submerged in a delectable special tomato sauce. Served with rice and beans.

Menudo*
A New Year's specialty in Mexico. Beef tripe slow wimmered in a soup stock flavored with New Mexican red chiles and spices. Served with rice and beans.

Barbacoa Plate, Burrito Plate, Tacos Plate
Not barbecue beef as it is served north of the Mexican border, but this is a beef simmered over special herbs and spices. Served with rice and beans.

Lengua Plate, Burrito Plate, Tacos Plate
Beef tongue cooked with spices until tender. Served with rice, beans and pico de gallo.

Cabrito al Horno Estilo Birria Plate, Burrito Plate, Tacos Plate
El Norteño has got your goat. The tender and delicious slow-cooked treat called Cabrito, or stewed goat, is a delicacy that can only be found at El Norteño. Served with all the trimmings.

Pollo en Molé*
El Norteño specialty! Slow-simmered chicken in Mexican poblano sauce. Molé sauce is a combination of seeds, chocolate, nuts and chiles. Served with rice and beans.

Pollo en Molé Enchiladas
Corn tortillas filled with shredded chicken smothered with molé sauce and topped with cheese. Served with rice, beans and pico de gallo. -->




Carnes Asada*
Top sirloin steak, sell-seasoned, cooked to your liking. Served with rice, beans, and pico de gallo.

Carnes Asada Al Mesquite*
Top sirloin steak, mesquite-seasoned, cooked to your liking. Served with rice, beans, and pico de gallo.

Carnes Asada Burrito
Delicious top sirloin steak, seasoned to perfection. Served with rice, beans, and pico de gallo.

Flauta de Res
Beef rolled tacos, well-seasoned and deep fried golden brown. Served with sour cream, crisp lettuce, fresh tomato, rice and beans.

Steak Ranchero Picado*
Fajitas made with top sirloin chunks, smothered with grilled, seasoned onions and tomatoes. Cooked to your liking. Served with rice, beans, and pico de gallo.

Steak Ranchero*
Top sirloin steak, smothered with grilled, seasoned onions, dhiles, jalapenños and tomatoes. Cooked to your liking. Served with rice, beans, and pico de gallo.

Tacos de Carne Asada
Top sirloin tacos. Served with rice, beans, and pico de gallo.

Enchiladas de Res
Beef enchiladas, fresh corn tortillas, dipped in a home-made chile sauce with tender top sirloin beef. Served with rice, beans, and pico de gallo.

Enchiladas de Res
Beef, seasoned with spices and placed on a deep-fried corn tortilla, topped with fresh tomato, beans, lettuce and sour cream. Served with rice.

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Al Pastor Plate*, Tacos Plate, Burrito Plate
Pork flavored with thirteen herbs and spices.

Cochinita Pibil Plate*, Tacos Plate, Burrito Plate
Utilizing the ancient Mayan tradition, pork, citrus and spices are wrapped in banana leaves and steamed until tender and juicy. Served with rice, beans, and pico de gallo.

Tamales de Puerco*
Fresh pork tamales served steaming hot and delicately spiced and cooked inside corn wrappers. Served with rice and beans. (May also be ordered by the dozen.)

Posole*
Taste the El Norteño way of preparing this robust bowl of pork loin, hominy and red chile. Served with all the traditional trimmings.

Carne Abodaba Plate*, Tacos Plate, Burrito Plate
Pork marinated in El Norteño's special blend of chile, garlic, cumin, oregano and other "secret" ingredients. Served with rice, beans, and pico de gallo.

Guisado Norteño
Pork chops topped with El Norteño's authentic wild tomato sauce. Served with rice, beans, and pico de gallo

Monturas*
A favorite at El Norteño. Pork with green chile and Monterey Jack cheese. Served with rice, and beans.



Chiles Rellenos*
New Mexican green chiles, stuffed with Monterey Jack cheese, coated with egg batter and cooked until the cheese is bubbling hot. Smothered with green chile. Served with rice and beans.

Chiles Rellenos Abogados*
New Mexican green cdhiles, stuffed with Monterey Jack cheese, coated with egg batter and cooked until the cheese is bubbling hot. Submerged in a delectable special tomato sauce. Served with rice and beans.

Burrito de Frijoles

Soft Tacos de Frijoles

Tostadas de Frijoles

Tostadas de Guacamole

Tacos de Guacamole

Tacos de Nopales

Cheese Enchiladas

Vegetarian Enchiladas

Vegetarian Burrito

Mexican Garden Grilled*

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Tacos de Pescado
Fish tacos, Baja style. Served with rice and beans.

Tacos de Camarones
Shrimp tacos, Baja style. Served with rice, beans and pico de gallo.

Tostadas de Ceviche
Crisp tortillas filled with shrimp cooked in lime juice mixed with tomatoes, jalapeños and onion. Served with rice and beans.

Cocktail de Camarones
Shrimp cocktail, large California Gulf shrimp served in our home-made sauce.

Huachinango*
Mexican Red Snapper fillet, grilled in El Norteño's Marisco sauce. Served with rice and beans.

Pescado Norteño
Seasoned Pacific white fish, broiled untikl juicy and tender with grilled onions, chiles, and tomatoes. Served with rice, beans and pico de gallo.

Pescado Gauymas*
Grilled Red Snapper fillet with green chile, Monterey Jack cheese. Served with rice and beans.

Pescado Frito*
Whole fresh fish, pan-fried Caribbean style. Served with rice and beans.

Camarones Al Mojo de Ajo*
North Atlantic shrimp cooked Mexican-style with butter, garlic and onion. Served with rice and beans.

Camarones Empanizados*
Fresh breaded shrimp. Served with rice, beans and pico de gallo.

Camarones en Salsa Chipotlé*
Shrimp in a hot salsa chipotlé sauce. Served with rice and beans.

Camarones Norteños*
Large shrimp sauteed in salsa de mantequilla (butter) with onions, tomatoes, jalapeños and garlic. Served with rice and beans.

Huachinango a La Veracruzana*
Steamed Red Snapper fillet with Veracruzana sauce made with shrimp. sauteed onions, tomatoes, jalapeños and tomato sauce. Served with shrimp, rice, and beans.

Camarones a la Diabla*
Large shrimp with the flavor of very hot childe de habanero and spice. Served with rice and beans.

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Pollo en Molé*
El Norteño specialty! Slow-simmered chicken in Mexican poblano sauce. Molé sauce is a combination of seeds, chocolate, nuts and chiles. Served with rice and beans.

Pollo en Molé Enchiladas
Corn tortillas filled with shredded chicken smothered with molé sauce and topped with cheese. Served with rice, beans and pico de gallo.

Enchiladas de Pollo
Chicken enchiladas. Fresh corn tortillas dipped in a home-made chile sauce with tender chicken and placed under the broiler before serving. Served with rice, beans and pico de gallo. Red or green chile.

Tostadas de Pollo
Crisp corn tortillas with shredded chicken, beans, crisp lettuce, and topped with fresh tomato and sour cream. Served with rice.

Flautas de Pollo
Chicken rolled tacos, well-seasoned and deep fried golden brown. Served with sour cream, crisp lettuce, fresh tomato, rice, amd beans.

Tacos de Pollo
Soft corn tortillas filled with slow-simmered chicken. Served with rice and beans.

Buritto de Pollo
Everyone's favorite chicken wrapped in a soft flour tortilla. . Served with rice, beans, crisp lettuce, fresh tomato, and pico de gallo.

Pollo Ranchero (Fajitas)*
Small pieces of seasoned chicken breast, broiled until juicy and tender, with grilled onions, chiles, and tomatoes. Served with rice, beans and pico de gallo.

Pollo Montado*
Chicken breast, smothered with green chile and Monterey Jack cheese. Served with rice, beans and pico de gallo.

Pollo en salsa Chipotlé
Chicken breast marinated and smothered with Chipotlé Served with rice, beans and pico de gallo.

Pollo en Crema Chipotlé
Chicken breast grilled and smothered with creamy Chipotlé Served with rice, beans and pico de gallo.

Pollo Norteño*
Seasoned chicken breast, broiled until juicy and tender, with grilled onikons, chiles, and tomatoes. Served with rice, beans and pico de gallo.

Tinga de Pollo
Chicken shredded and cooked in a special roasted red pepper sauce. Served with rice and beans.


*served with your choice of corn or flour tortilla

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1431 Wyoming NE (just north of Constitution)
Albuquerque, NM
505-299-2882

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