El Jardin Restaurant Menu

655 Capitola Rd, Santa Cruz, CA 95062
  • Appetizers

    • Nachos (Whole Order)

      Homemade corn tortilla chips in a layer of beans and cheese, topped with sour cream, guacamole, green sauce, purple cabbage, tomatoes, and more cheese.
      $13.95
    • Nacho (Half Order)

      Homemade corn tortilla chips in a layer of beans and cheese, topped with sour cream, guacamole, green sauce, purple cabbage, tomatoes, and more cheese.
      $11.95
    • Guacamole Dip

      A perfect blend of avocados, tomatoes, and onions.
      $10.95
    • Bean Dip

      Our delicious refried beans topped with green sauce, Sour cream, and cheese.
      $6.95
    • Quesadilla

      A large flour tortilla filled with melted jack cheese and topped with green sauce. Served with sour cream, guacamole, and a fresh salad garnish Cheese.
      $11.95
    • Taquito

      Four small steak or chicken taquitos, topped with green sauce and served with sour cream, guacamole, and afresh salad garnish.
      $13.95
    • Super Appetizer

      A large sampler platter with quesadillas, taquitos, and nachos.
      $19.95
    • Ceviche Cocktail

      Bay shrimp mixed in our spicy red salsa with avocado, pico de gallo, cucumbers, and a splash of lime.
      $14.95
    • Shrimp Cocktail

      $14.95
  • Soups and Salads

    • La Compuesta

      Our version of a taco salad. A large salad in a crispy flour shell filled with beans, lettuce, tomatoes, cheese, sour cream, guacamole, purple cabbage, green sauce and your choice of steak, chicken, or pork.
      $15.95
    • Fajita Salad

      A large salad in a crispy flour shell filled with your choice of steak, chicken or Shrimp, grilled onions and bell peppers, lettuce, tomatoes, sour cream, guacamole, Purple cabbages. With steak or chicken.
      $17.95
    • Grilled Chicken Salad

      A large salad served with lettuce, tomatoes, cheese, guacamole and purple cabbage, topped with sizzling fajita flavored chicken or lemon chicken, and green sauce.
      $16.95
    • Caldo De Pollo

      Homemade chicken soup with rice, pico de gallo, purple cabbage, and sliced avocado. Served with tortillas.
      $13.95
    • Pozole

      Traditional mexican soup with red sauce, hominy, with avocado, cilantro and onions. * Available only in full order.
      $13.95
    • Tortilla Soup

      Crisp tortilla strips in a chicken broth with red sauce, cheese, rice, chicken, sour cream, and guacamole.
      $13.50
  • Our Famous Sizzling Fajita

    • Veggie

      A medley of grilled vegetables - yellow squash zucchini red and green bell peppers, mushrooms and onions, grilled to sizzling perfection.
      $19.95
    • Chicken Or Steak

      Strips of steak or chicken breast, onions and red and green bell peppers, grilled to sizzling perfection.
      $23.95
    • Shrimp

      Grilled prawns, onions and red and green bell peppers, grilled to perfection.
      $24.95
  • Combinations

    • One Item

      $15.95
    • Two Items

      $17.95
  • Specialties

    • Enchiladas A La Parilla

      Three corn tortillas filled with cheese and your choice of steak, chicken or pork, then grilled and topped with lettuce, tomatoes, cheese, sour cream, guacamole, jalapenos, purple cabbage, and red or green sauce.
      $20.95
    • Torta

      Mexican sub sandwich - A grilled French roll with your choice of steak, chicken or carnitas pork, lettuce, tomatoes, jalapenos, cheese, and guacamole. Served with rice and beans or French fries or salad.
      $19.95
    • Chile Verde

      Tender chunks of lean pork in our signature green sauce. Served with tortillas.
      $17.95
    • Chile Colorado

      Tender chunks of lean pork in our special red sauce. Served with tortillas.
      $17.95
    • Carnitas

      Tender chunks of marinated pork prepared El Jardin’s own special way. Served with tortillas.
      $18.95
    • Carne Asada

      A thin fillet of steak, grilled and seasoned with our special spices and topped with green sauce. Served with tortillas, jalapenos, grilled onions, and bell peppers.
      $19.95
    • Milanesa

      A fillet of carne asada or two chicken breast fillets, breaded, filled, and topped with green sauce. Served with tortillas, grilled onions, bell peppers and melted cheese
      $21.95
    • Steak A La Mexicana

      Strips of steak prepared in a spicy red sauce with onions, jalapenos and bell peppers. Served with tortillas.
      $19.95
    • Polla A La Mexicana

      Strips of chicken prepared in a spicy red sauce with onions, jalapenos, and bell peppers. Served with tortillas.
      $19.95
    • Polla A La Parilla

      A marinated chicken breast grilled and seasoned with special spices and a splash of fajita sauce, topped with green sauce. Served with tortillas, grilled onions and bell peppers.
      $19.95
    • Chicken Mole Poblano

      Strips of marinated chicken breast prepared in a rich, dark sauce with a hint of peanut butter and chocolate. Served with tortillas.
      $20.95
    • Enchiladas De Mole

      Two corn tortillas filled with chicken breast sauteed in a rich, dark sauce with a hint of peanut butter and chocolate and topped with melted cheese.
      $20.95
    • Tres Favoritos

      A carne asada, a pollo a Ia parilla and your choice of shrimp ( rancheros, or diablos). Served with tortillas, grilled onions, bell peppers and jalapenos
      $31.95
  • Supreme Items

    • Quesadilla Supreme

      A flour tortilla filled with melted jack cheese and topped with your choice of steak, chicken or pork, sour cream, guacamole, tomatoes, purple cabbage, red or green sauce and more cheese.
      $17.95
    • Chimichanga Supreme

      A large, deep-fried burrito filled with beans, cheese and your choice of Steak, chiken or pork, topped with sour cream, guacamole, tomatoes, Purple cabbage, cheese, and green sauce.
      $17.95
    • Burrito Supreme

      A large burrito filled with beans, rice and your choice of steak, chicken or pork, topped with sour cream, guacamole, tomatoes, purple cabbage, cheese, and red or green sauce.
      $15.95
    • Taco Supreme

      A crispy flour tortilla filled with your choice of steak, chicken or pork, green sauce, lettuce, tomatoes, guacamole, sour cream, purple cabbage, and cheese.
      $17.95
    • Enchilada Supreme

      A flour tortilla filled with your choice of cheese, steak, chicken or pork, with onions, and topped with melted cheese, red or green sauce, sour cream, guacamole, tomatoes, purple cabbage, and more cheese on top of a bed of lettuce.
      $17.95
    • Tostada Supreme

      A crispy flour tortilla topped with beans, your choice of steak, chicken or pork, green sauce, lettuce, tomatoes, sour cream, guacamole, purple cabbage, and cheese.
      $17.95
  • Seafood

    • Camarones Salvajes

      Shrimp sauteed in a garlic butter sauce with mushrooms and onions. Served with tortillas.
      $22.95
    • Camarones Verdes

      Shrimp sauteed in our verde sauce with mushrooms and onions. Served with tortillas.
      $22.95
    • Camarones Rancheros

      Shrimp sauteed in our special red sauce with mushrooms and onions. Served with tortillas.
      $22.95
    • Camarones Diablos

      Shrimp sauteed in our spiciest red sauce. Served with tortillas.
      $22.95
    • Shrimp Enchiladas

      Two corn tortillas filled with garlic butter shrimp, topped with melted cheese, green sauce, and sour cream.
      $21.95
    • Shrimp Quesadilla

      A flour tortilla filled with melted jack cheese and garlic butter shrimp, topped with sour cream, sliced avocado, tomatoes, purple cabbage, cheese, and green sauce.
      $21.95
    • Crab Enchilada

      A Flour tortilla filled with Canadian snow crab sauteed in a garlic butter sauce, topped with melted cheese, green sauce, sour cream, and more crab.
      $22.95
  • *a La Carte-lunch Only*

    • Burrito

      Chicken steak pulled beef pork or bean and cheese; and rice and beans
      $8.95
    • Enchilada

      Chicken steak pulled beef pork or cheese.
      $5.95
    • Quesadilla

      A large flour tortilla filled with melted jack cheese and topped with green sauce. served with sour cream guacamole and a fresh salad garnish cheese.
      $5.95
    • Taco

      Chicken steak pulled beef or pork.
      $5.95
    • Tostada

      Chicken steak pulled beef or pork.
      $6.95
    • Taquito

      Four small steak or chicken taquitos topped with green sauce and served with sour cream guacamole and afresh salad garnish.
      $6.95
    • Chile Relleno

      $8.95
    • Tamale

      $8.95
    • Sope

      $8.95
    • Fish Taco

      Cad Sauteed in garlic butter.
      $8.95
    • Taco Reyes

      $6.95
    • Lemon Chicken Taco

      $8.95
    • Burrito Grand

      A large tortilla filed with bean, rice, your choice of steak, chicken or pork, cheese, green sauce, pico de gallo. Add one dollar to make these items flour.
      $12.95
  • Children’s Plates

    • Taco

      Chicken steak pulled beef or pork.
      $8.95
    • Tostada

      Chicken steak pulled beef or pork.
      $8.95
    • Taquito

      Four small steak or chicken taquitos topped with green sauce and served with sour cream guacamole and afresh salad garnish.
      $8.95
    • Corn Dog

      $8.95
    • Quesadilla

      A large flour tortilla filled with melted jack cheese and topped with green sauce. served with sour cream guacamole and a fresh salad garnish cheese.
      $8.95
    • Chicken Strips

      $8.95
    • Enchilada

      Chicken steak pulled beef pork or cheese.
      $8.95
    • Burrito

      Chicken steak pulled beef pork or bean and cheese.
      $8.95
    • Soda

      $1.95
    • Milk

      $2.95
    • Juice

      $2.95
  • Side Orders

    • Beans

      $5.00
    • Side Guacamole

      $4.00
    • ½ Beans, ½ Rice

      $8.00
    • Tortillas

      $3.00
    • Side Salad

      $6.00
    • Sour Cream

      $2.00
    • Red Mole

      $2.25
    • Side Pico

      $2.00
    • 2 Roasted Jalapeno

      $3.00
    • Rice

      $5.00
  • Beverages

    • Sodas

      $3.95
    • Aguas Frescas

      $3.95
    • Shirley Temple, Roy Rodgers

      $3.95
    • Milk

      $4.50
    • Juice

      $4.50

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Menu Gallery

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  • Menu 5
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