El Barco Mexican Seafood Bar & Grill Menu

910 W 5th St, Waterloo, IA 50702
  • Lunch Specials

    • Huevos Con Chorizo

      Three scrambled eggs cooked with chorizo sausage and potatoes. Served with rice, beans and tortillas
      $7.75
    • Huevos Mexicanos

      Three scrambled eggs cooked with green peppers, onions and tomatoes. Served with rice, beans and tortillas.
      $7.75
    • Huevos Rancheros

      Three eggs cooked with salsa ranchera. Served with rice, beans and tortillas.
      $7.75
    • Carne Asada

      Top sirloin steak topped with onions. Served with lettuce, tomatoes. guacamole, jalapeno, rice, beans and tortillas.
      $8.99
    • Fajitas - Beef

      Your choice of beef, chicken or mix grilled with green peppers, onions and tomatoes, Served with rice, beans and tortillas.
      $8.99
    • Taco Salad Fajitas

      Strips of steak, chicken or mix grilled with green peppers, onions and tomatoes. Topped with lettuce and sour cream.
      $7.99
    • Chimichanga - Beef

      A flour tortilla stuffed with your choice of shredded beef or shredded chicken. Rolled and deep fried, topped with cheese sauce. Served with lettuce, tomatoes, rice, beans and sour cream.
      $8.49
    • Speady Gonzales

      One taco, one enchilada and your choice of rice or beans
      $6.99
    • Taco Salad - Beef

      A deep fried tortilla shell filled with your choice of ground beef or shredded chicken and topped with cheese sauce, lettuce, tomatoes, shredded cheese and sour cream.
      $7.49
    • Veggie Fajitas

      Potatoes, mushrooms, carrots, onions, green bell peppers, onions and tomatoes. Served with rice and beans.
      $5.49
    • El Barco Burrito

      Your choice of ground beef or shredded chicken, topped with lettuce tomato, shredded cheese and sour cream. Served with rice and beans.
      $7.75
    • Chile Verde

      Slices of pork cooked in a spicy green sauce. Served with rice, beans and tortillas.
      $8.99
    • Chile Colorado - Steak

      Slices of steak, pork, or chicken cooked with ranchero sauce. Served with rice, beans and tortillas.
      $8.99
    • Taco Supreme - Beef

      A crispy flour taco shell filled with your choice of ground beef or shredded chicken, topped with lettuce, tomato, shredded cheese and sour cream. Served with rice, beans and tortillas
      $7.49
    • Burrito Fajita - Steak

      Strips of steak, chicken or mix grilled with onions, green peppers and tomatoes, topped with lettuce and sour cream. Served with rice and beans.
      $7.95
    • Taco - Beef

      Your choice of ground beef or shredded chicken, topped with lettuce and cheese. Served with rice and beans.
      $5.99
    • Enhilada - Beef

      Soft corn tortillas filled with your choice of ground beef, shredded chicken, beans or cheese. Topped with cheese and enchilada sauce. Served with rice and beans.
      $5.99
    • Tamal

      Corn meal casing filled with ground beef and red sauce. Served with rice and beans.
      $6.99
    • Tostada - Beef

      A flat, crispy corn tortillas topped with your choice of ground beef or shredded chicken, lettuce, cheese, sour cream and tomato. Served with rice and beans.
      $5.99
    • Chalupa

      A flat, crispy tortilla topped with beans, lettuce, cheese, guacamole and tomato. Served with rice and beans.
      $5.99
  • Appetizers

    • Guacamole

      $5.45
    • Bean Dip (Cheese Sauce) - Medium

      $5.49
    • Quesadilla - Cheese

      $6.49
    • Nachos - Cheese

      $7.49
    • Fiesta Dip

      Ground beef, refried beans, Pico de Gallo, cheese sauce, accompanied with home made chips.
      $7.49
    • Queso Fundido

      Homemade chorizo with melted mozzarella cheese.
      $8.49
    • Mexican Fries

      Fries topped with ground beef or chicken with cheese sauce and Pico de Gallo.
      $10.49
  • Salads

    • House Salad

      Lettuce tossed with bell onions, tomatoes, avocado, shredded cheese and croutons. Add chicken or shrimp for an additional cost.
      $6.49
    • Taco Salad

      A deep fried shell filled with your choice of ground beef or shredded cheese, sour cream, guacamole and a side of queso dip.
      $10.49
    • Taco Salad Fajita

      A deep fried tortilla shell with your choice of chicken, steak or mix. With bell pepper, onions, tomatoes, topped with lettuce tomatoes, guacamole, sour cream and a side of queso dip.
      $11.49
  • Caldos

    • 7 Mares

      Homemade seafood stew with shrimp, crab, tilapia, octopus, carrots, potato, chayote and celery. Served with tortillas or saltine crackers.
      $19.45
    • Caldo De Res

      Beef soup.
      $15.45
    • Menudo

      Tripe soup (cow stomach).
      $15.99
    • Birria

      Slow cooked beef soup in red sauce with cilantro and onions.
      $15.99
  • Botanes (Mexican Appetizers)

    • Chicharron De Pescado

      Fish fritters.
      $16.49
    • Molcajete Del Mar

      Shrimp, mussels, clams, fried whole tilapia.
      $22.99
    • Coco Relleno

      Coconut, shrimp, and octopus, scallops and more in a special creamy white sauce.
      $26.99
    • Pina Rellena

      Stuffed pineapple with seafood mix cooked with special with the creamy sauce.
      $26.99
    • Chapuzon

      Shrimp, octopus and oysters without shell cooked with our Barco sauce.
      $19.99
    • Veneno

      Seafood boil with a secret sauce.
      $29.99
    • Langostinos Zarandeados

      Whole prawn grilled and topped with special sauce.
      $24.99
  • Mexican Traditional Cuisine

    • Enchiladas Vallarta

      One shredded chicken, one ground beef and one cheese enchilada. Served with a side of rice, lettuce, tomato, sour cream and a slice of orange.
      $13.99
    • Enchialadas Mexicanas

      One ground beef, one shredded chicken, one cheese and one bean enchilada topped with lettuce, tomato and sour cream.
      $11.99
    • Trio Enchiladas

      One shredded chicken, one shredded beef, one bean topped with cheese sauce. Served with rice, beans, lettuce, tomatoes, sour cream and a slice of orange.
      $12.99
    • Burrito Chile Colorado

      Slices of steak cooked with a hot sauce and stuffed in a flour tortilla. Served with a side of rice and beans
      $12.99
    • Burrito El Barco - Beef

      Burrito with your choice of ground beef or shredded chicken topped with lettuce, tomato, shredded cheese and sour cream. Served with rice and beans.
      $11.45
    • Burrito Grande - Chicken

      Made with a jumbo flour tortilla, filled with rice and beans, lettuce, sour cream, guacamole, Pico de Gallo and your choice of chicken, steak, carnitas, vegetarian, or seafood.
      $13.50
    • Burrito Vallarta

      A big burrito filled with chicken and seafood (tilapia, shrimp, crab and Pico de Gallo) onion, tomatoes, smothered with cheese sauce and topped with lettuce, tomatoes, cheese, sour cream and a slice of orange. Served with rice.
      $13.99
    • Burrito El Charro

      A big burrito filled with grilled chicken, chorizo (Mexican sausage), Pico de Gallo, rice and sour cream, covered with cheese sauce and sliced jalapenos.
      $13.99
    • Hawkeyes Burrito - Steak

      A huge burrito stuffed with steak or grilled chicken, rice, beans, lettuce, cheese, guacamole and sour cream. Topped with cheese sauce and red sauce.
      $13.99
    • The Panther Burrito

      A huge burrito filled with shredded pork, chorizo (Mexican homemade sausage), chicken, steak, shrimp, onions, tomatoes, and bell peppers. Covered in green tomatillo spicy sauce, cheese sauce served with rice.
      $16.45
    • Burrito California - Steak

      A burrito made with jumbo flour tortilla filled with your choice of grilled steak, grilled chicken or mix, fries shredded cheese, Pico de Gallo, sour cream and guacamole.
      $13.99
  • Vegetarian Combinations

    • One Chalupa, One Cheese Enchilada And Beans

      $9.25
    • Two Bean Burritos With Cheese Sauce

      $9.25
    • One Bean Burrito, One Cheese Enchilada And One Bean Tostada

      $9.25
    • One Bean Burrito, One Quesadilla And One Chalupa

      $9.25
    • Vegetarian Fajitas

      Mushrooms, red potato, onions, carrots, and bell peppers. Served with rice beans, lettuce, Pico de Gallo, sour cream and tortillas.
      $12.99
  • Fajitas

    • Fajitas Con Queso - Steak

      Your choice of steak, chicken or mix fajitas topped with cheese sauce. Served with tortilla, rice and beans.
      $13.45
    • Fajita Quesadilla - Steak

      A large flour tortilla filled with your choice of steak or chicken cheese, onion, green bell peppers and tomatoes. Served with rice and beans.
      $13.25
    • Fajita Jalisco

      Grilled steak, chicken and shrimp cooked with potatoes, onions, bell peppers and tomatoes. Served over a bed of rice and topped with cheese sauce.
      $15.99
  • Carnes

    • Carne Asada

      Top sirloin topped with green peppers, onions, and tomatoes. Served with a side of lettuce, guacamole, jalapeno, rice and beans and tortillas.
      $15.45
    • Street Tacos - Carne Asada

      Your choice of meat; carne asada, chicken, chorizo, carnitas (pork) or al pastor (marinated pork).
      $13.49
    • Tacos De Birria

      Slow cooked beef with consommé, onions and cilantro, Served with rice and beans.
      $13.99
    • Rolled Quesadilla - Steak

      A jumbo flour tortilla that is filled with cheese, Pico de Gallo and sour cream with your choice of grilled steak or chicken. Served with lettuce, tomatoes, sour cream and guacamole.
      $13.49
    • Chile Colorado - Steak

      Slices of steak, pork or grilled chicken cooked with ranchero sauce. Served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
      $13.99
    • Chili Verde - Pork

      Slices of pork or grilled chicken cooked in a spicy green sauce, Served with rice, beans and tortillas.
      $12.99
    • Choripollo

      Grilled chicken cooked with chorizo and a side of cheese sauce. Served with rice, beans and tortillas.
      $13.99
    • Milanesa De Pollo

      Breaded grilled chicken served with rice, beans, lettuce, sour cream, cheese, tomatoes, sliced avocado, slice of orange and tortilla.
      $14.45
    • Chicken With Ajo (Garlic)

      Chicken breast served on a bed of mexican rice, cooked with garlic and cheese sauce. Also, available in chipotle sauce.
      $13.99
    • Molcajete

      Carne Asada (steak), chicken breast, camaron (shrimp), chorizo, (Mexican sausage), nopal (Mexican cactus), onion, with corn tortilla quesadilla, roasted Chile and tortillas. Served with cheese, rice and beans.
      $23.99
  • Ostiones/Oysters

    • Ostiones - 1/2 Dozen

      $13.99
  • Ceviches

    • Shrimp Ceviche

      $14.99
    • Fish Ceviche

      $12.99
    • Octopus Ceviche

      $15.99
    • Fish And Shrimp Ceviche

      $13.99
    • Shrimp And Octopus Ceviche

      $15.99
    • Fish, Octopus And Shrimp Ceviche

      $14.99
  • Camarones (Shrimp)

    • Camarones A La Diabla

      $18.99
    • Camarones A La Cora

      $18.99
    • Camarones Al Mojo De Ajo

      $18.99
    • Camarones Capeados

      $18.99
    • Camarones Momia

      $18.99
    • Camarones Cucaracha

      $18.99
    • Camarones Empanizados

      $18.99
    • Camarones Zarandeados

      $25.99
  • Aguachiles

    • Aguachile Verde

      $19.99
    • Aguachile Rojo

      $19.99
  • Seafood

    • Pescados | Mojarra

      Whole tilapia deep fried. Served with lettuce, tomatoes, shredded, cheese, rice and tortillas.
      $17.99
    • Pescados | Mojarra Cucaracha

      Whole tilapia deep fried and topped with camarones cucaracha (unshelled shrimp with head) aun our Barco sauce.
      $22.99
    • Pescados | Filete De Pescado

      Breaded fish. Served with rice and salad.
      $16.49
    • Pescados | Pescado Capeado

      Strips of tilapia batted in sauce and deep fried. Served with rice and salad.
      $16.49
    • Charolas | Mega Charola

      Langostinos, cucaracha, chapuzon, mejillones, mojarra.
      $165.00
    • Charolas | Charola Mixta

      Mojarra, mejillones, crawfish, camarones y seafood mix.
      $39.95
  • Seafood Torres (Towers)

    • Shrimp

      $23.99
    • Octopus And Shrimp

      $29.99
    • Trio

      Fish, shrimp, octopus.
      $35.99
  • Special Dinners

    • Chimichanga - Beef

      Flour tortilla stuffed with your choice of shredded beef or shredded chicken rolled and deep fried. Topped with cheese sauce. Served with rice and beans and a side of lettuce, tomatoes, sour cream and guacamole.
      $13.99
    • Birria Quesadilla

      Quesadilla with tender flavorful meat and consommé. Served with rice and beans.
      $14.25
    • Pizza Birria

      Tender delicious meat in the form of a pizza.
      $22.29
    • Tacos El Barco

      Shrimp, onions, tomatoes, and pepper with special sauce cooked in Mexican style. Served with rice and salad.
      $18.99
    • Flautas - Chicken

      Three flour tortillas filled with your choice of shredded chicken or shredded beef, rolled and deep fried. Served with lettuce, tomatoes, sour cream and guacamole. Served with rice, beans and a side of cheese sauce.
      $12.49
    • Nachos El Barco

      Corn chips topped with cheese sauce, shredded chicken, beans, ground beef, lettuce, shredded cheese, tomato and sour cream.
      $12.49
    • El Barco Burger Deluxe

      Our signature Barco Burger features a perfect flame - grilled 1/2 all beef patty, topped with melted American cheese.
      $16.49
    • Nachos Fajita - Chicken

      Chicken or steak, with onions tomatoes and peppers covered in cheese sauce.
      $12.49
  • Fajita Platters

    • Flaming Fajita - Single

      Steak and chicken, covered with cheese sauce, (Dish will be on fire).
      $16.99
    • Fajitas Barco Special - Single

      Steak, chicken, shrimp and grilled chorizo
      $17.99
    • Fajita Chicken - Single

      $14.99
    • Fajita Steak - Single

      $14.99
    • Fajita Mix - Single

      $14.99
    • Fajita Camaron - Single

      $16.99
  • A la Carte

    • Tacos

      $2.99
    • Burritos

      $5.50
    • Enchiladas

      $3.50
    • Tostadas

      $4.50
    • Tamal

      $4.50
    • Chalupa

      $4.75
    • Chiles Rellenos

      $4.75
    • Taco Supremo

      $3.99
  • Side Orders

    • Corn Tortillas (5 Pieces)

      $1.99
    • Flour Tortillas (3 Pieces)

      $1.99
    • Refried Beans

      $3.49
    • Mexican Rice

      $3.49
    • Rice And Refried Beans

      $5.99
    • Pico De Gallo

      $2.99
    • Lettuce

      $1.99
    • Shredded Cheese

      $1.99
    • Tomatillo Sauce

      $1.99
    • Sour Cream

      $1.99
    • Chiles Toreados

      $2.25
    • Jalapenos

      $1.99
  • Kids Meal

    • Kids Mini Chimichanga

      Served with rice and beans.
      $6.50
    • Kids Pepperoni Pizza

      $6.50
    • Kids Chicken Nuggets

      Served with french fries.
      $6.50
    • Kids Cheeseburger

      Served with french fries.
      $6.50
    • Kids Burrito

      Served with rice and beans.
      $5.50
    • Kids Enchiladas

      Served with rice and beans.
      $5.50
    • Kids Tacos

      Served with rice and beans.
      $5.50
    • Kids Quesadilla

      Served with rice and beans.
      $5.50
    • Macaroni And Cheese

      Served with french fries.
      $7.99
    • French Fries

      $3.50
  • Desserts

    • Sopapilla With Ice Cream

      $5.99
  • Beverages

    • Pepsi Products

      $3.25
    • Horchata

      $3.50
    • Coffee

      $1.99
    • Milk

      $3.50
    • Chocolate Milk

      $3.50
    • Orange Juice

      $3.50
    • Kids Beverages

      $2.50

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