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Our Menu

  • Breakfast
  • Lunch & Dinner Menu

Breakfast served from 6:30 am to 12:00 pm

Breakfast Burritos

Large flour tortilla filled with southwestern potatoes, mild salsa, scrambled eggs, and your choice of … | Add Cheese 1.00 | Add Sour Cream 1.00

Sautéed Veggies

$12.95

Chorizo

$12.95

Cheese ‘n’ Yellow Corn

$12.95

Bacon

$12.95

Chile Verde

$12.95

Chile Colorado

$12.95

Machaca

$12.95

Scrabled Eggs Plate

Upon request, beans can be substituted for potatoes | Substitute tortilla for toast, add 3.75

Sautéed Veggies

$13.95
Scrambled with eggs and served with southwestern potatoes, mild salsa, and tortillas.

Nopales (tender cactus)

$13.95
Scrambled with eggs and served with southwestern potatoes, mild salsa, and tortillas.

Cheese and Corn

$13.95
Scrambled eggs with fresh kernels of yellow corn and cheddar cheese served with southwestern potatoes, mild salsa, and tortillas.

Smoked Bacon

$14.50
Served with plain scrambled eggs, southwestern potatoes, mild salsa, and tortillas.

Chorizo

$14.50
Scrambled with eggs and served with southwestern potatoes, mild salsa, and tortillas.

Avocado and Cheese

$14.50
Scrambled eggs with avocado and cheddar cheese served with Southwestern potatoes, mild salsa, and tortillas.

Little Cactus Special

Little Cactus Special

$17.25
Tortilla chips, eggs, cactus, corn, and cheese scrambled together, and topped with cheese, mild salsa, sour cream, and your choice of our ranchero sauce or green chili sauce.

Omelets

All of our fluffy omelets are served with southwestern potatoes, mild salsa, sour cream, and tortillas.

Nopalitos Omelet

$16.25
Tender cactus, poblano chiles, and cheese.

Veggie Omelet

$16.25
Lightly sautéed jicama, squash, purple cabbage, red and green sweet peppers, carrots, and cheese.

Chorizo Omelet

$16.95
Spicy house-made chorizo, and cheese.

Spinach and Bacon Omelet

$16.95
Sautéed spinach, smoked bacon, and cheese.

Smothered Omelets

$2.00
Any of our fluffy omelets generously covered with our ranchero or green chile sauce, add…

Hot Corn Meal Mush

Hot Corn Meal Mush

$9.00
Served with brown sugar and milk.

Hot Corn Meal Mush

$3.00
With bananas and raisins add

Red Potato Plate

Red Potato Plate

$10.95
Southwestern potatoes topped with sour cream, mild salsa, and Asiago cheese.

Red Potato Plate

$4.95
With a side of two eggs, add...

Machaca

Machaca

$14.95
Seasoned shredded pork and chiles, scrambled with eggs, served with potatoes and tortillas.

Huevos Rancheros

Huevos Rancheros

Two fried eggs, served on a bed of pinto beans and cheese, topped with ranchero or green chile sauce,
mild salsa, sour cream, southwestern potatoes, and tortillas $17.50 | With chorizo $18.50

Polenta Breakfast

Polenta Breakfast

$17.25
Soft polenta topped with your choice of Chorizo, Chile Verde, Chile Colorado, roasted corn, two fried eggs, queso fresco, mild salsa, and tortillas.

Chile Verde

Chile Verde

$17.25
A spicy stew of pork with poblano and jalapeño chiles, served with two fried eggs, pinto beans, and corn or flour tortillas.

Chile Colorado

Chile Colorado

$17.25
Tender chunks of braised beef served with two fried eggs, southwestern potatoes, mild salsa, and corn or flour tortilla.

Pancakes

Three Buttermilk Pancakes

Served with maple flavor syrup and butter $12.75 | With two strips of smoked bacon $13.75

Short stack (2 pancakes)

$12.25
With two strips of smoked bacon $13.25 | With fresh bananas, add $2.00

Pancake Special

2 pancakes served with strawberries and whipped cream on top $14.50 | With two strips of smoked bacon $15.75

French Toast

(3 slices of French toast) 13.00 | With two strips of smoked bacon 14.25

Sides

Sour Cream

$1.00

Tortillas-flour or corn

$2.00

Guacamole

$2.00

Toast

$3.75
2 pieces, made with delicious whole wheat-walnut sourdough bread.

Potatoes

$4.75

Two Eggs (fried or scrambled)

$5.95
With Meal $4.95

Smoked Bacon

$5.99

Lunch & Dinner Served from 12:00 pm-8:00 pm

Rice & Bean Plates

All plates are served with rice, whole pinto beans, mild salsa, and corn or flour tortillas.

Chile Verde

$15.95
A spicy stew of pork, poblano, and jalapeno chiles.

Carnitas

$15.95
Seasoned slow-roasted pork, shredded and then grilled to perfection.

Chile Colorado

$15.95
Tender chunks of braised beef in a mild red sauce.

Tacos

Nopalitos Taco

$14.75
Large crispy flour tortilla filled with beans, lettuce, guacamole, sour cream, mild salsa, and your choice of charbroiled chicken, beef, chile verde, carnitas or veggies.

*Soft Taco Plate

$14.95
Two soft corn tacos filled with beans and your choice of charbroiled chicken, beef, chile verde, carnitas, or veggies; topped with mild salsa and served with a small salad.

*Nopalitos Fish or Shrimp Tacos

Two soft corn tortillas filled with grilled fish or shrimp, shredded red and green cabbage, chipotle mayonnaise, and topped with pineapple salsa and served with a small salad.

Nopalitos Sauteed Fajitas

All plates include sautéed mixed bell peppers, cactus, yellow onions, and mild salsa. Served with rice and whole pinto beans, corn, or flour tortillas. Your choice of the following:

Chicken

$17.95

Beef

$18.95

Shrimp

$20.95

Combo

$22.95
Two choices of meat.

Trio Fajitas

$23.95

*Nopalitos Southwest Burger

*Nopalitos Southwest Burger

$19.99
An all-beef patty topped with mozzarella and cheddar cheese, grilled onions, smoked bacon, red leaf lettuce, and chipotle mayonnaise. Served with fresh French Fries.

*Tamale Bowl

*Tamale Bowl

$13.75
Just like a tamale but served in a bowl. Cornmeal covered with your choice of chile verde, chile
Colorado, or vegetarian chile, topped with melted cheese and sour cream.

Rice Bowls

Any of the following in a bowl over rice, served with chips | With Cheese add … 1.00

Chile Verde

$12.95
Spicy pork stew.

Beef

$12.95
Shredded beef in a mild red sauce.

Veggie Chile

$12.95
Mild black bean chile.

Tostadas

Vegetarian Tostada

$13.95
Large crispy flour tortilla topped with sautéed veggies, beans, lettuce, mild salsa, sour cream, and guacamole.

Tinga Chicken Tostada

$14.95
A large crispy flour tortilla topped with shredded chicken simmered in a chipotle chile sauce, lettuce, salsa, beans, sour cream and guacamole.

Beef Tostada

$14.95
Large crispy flour tortilla topped with braised shredded beef in a mild red chile sauce, lettuce, beans, salsa, sour cream, and guacamole.

Smothered Burrito

Smothered Burrito

$14.95
Large flour tortilla filled with your choice of charbroiled chicken, beef, chile verde, veggies, carnitas, or chorizo and mild salsa, beans, rice, and cheese, then covered with our ranchero sauce or green chile sauce.

*Burritos

Large flour tortilla filled with salsa, beans, rice, cheese and your choice of the following | To All Burritos: Add sour cream 1.00, add guacamole 2.00

Shredded Chicken in Adobo Sauce

$12.95

Charbroiled Chicken

$12.95

Beef

$12.95

Chile Verde

$12.95

Carnitas

$12.95

Chorizo

$12.95

Vegetarian

$12.95

Bean & Cheese

$7.95

Burrito Bowls

To All Burritos: Add sour cream 1.00, add guacamole 2.00

Burrito Bowls

$12.95
Just like a burrito, but served in a bowl without a
tortilla.

Quesadillas

Cheese Quesadilla

$8.75
Melted cheese in a flour tortilla served with chips

Nopalitos Quesadilla

$12.95
Flour tortilla stuffed with cheese, roasted poblano chilies, and cactus, served with mild salsa, sour cream, and guacamole.

Chicken or Beef Quesadilla

$13.95
Flour tortilla stuffed with cheese and your choice of charbroiled chicken or shredded beef, served with mild salsa, sour cream, and guacamole.

Spicy Pork Quesadilla

$13.95
Flour tortilla stuffed with cheese, shredded pork, and fresh sliced jalapenos served with salsa, sour cream, and guacamole.

Salads

Add your choice of charbroiled chicken, beef, chile verde, or carnitas for $12.95

Nopalitos House Salad

$9.95
Crispy greens, Asiago cheese, and toasted pumpkin seeds, with our house dressing for $9.95 | Add your choice of charbroiled chicken, beef, chile verde, or carnitas for $12.95

Sonora Salad

Toasted flour tortilla topped with beans, crispy greens, and seasonal veggies, with our house dressing for $12.95 | Add your choice of charbroiled chicken, beef, chile verde or carnitas for $14.75

Nachos

#1

$11.25
White corn tortilla chips, beans, cheddar cheese, and salsa.

#2

$12.75
To #1 add your choice of charbroiled chicken, beef, or chile verde with sour cream and guacamole.

#3

$12.25
White corn tortilla chips covered with our vegetarian chile, cheese, sour cream, and guacamole, and salsa.

Soups & Chiles

Black Bean Soup

Bowl, with chips $9.95 | With a small salad and corn tortillas $11.50

Vegetarian Black Bean Chile

A mild red chile with black beans, posole, and roasted peppers…. | Bowl with chips $10.25 | With small salad, and corn tortillas $11.95

Sides

Beans (whole pintos)

With Meal $3.75 | Side Only $4.00

Rice

With Meal $3.75 | Side Only $4.00

Chips

$3.00

Tortillas-flour or corn

$2.00

Sour Cream

$1.00

Guacamole

$2.00

Chips and Guacamole

$5.99

Salsa by the Pint

Fresh Tomato

$8.00

Roasted Tomatillo

$9.00

Relish

$9.95
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