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El Jefe Authentic Mexican Cuisine Menu

$Mexican
524 Lincoln Way, Ames, IA 50010

  • Appetizers

    • Quesadilla

      Grilled flour tortilla stuffed with cheese and your choice of meat. Served with pico de gallo, sour cream and guacamole

    • Nachos Supreme

      Fried tortilla chips smothered with cheese sauce. Your choice of seasoned ground beef or chicken.Served with lettuce, guacamole, sour cream and cheddar cheese
      $11.50

    • Fresh Guacamole

      Diced avocados, tomatoes, cilantro, onion, cheese and lime juice.
      $10.50

    • Nachos Rancheros

      Fresh fried corn tortillas chips topped with steak, Mexican sausage, hot sauce, cheese dip,our special red sauce, guacamole, pico de gallo and sour cream.
      $13.50

  • Soups

    • Chicken Tortilla Soup

      Red tomato broth with zucchini, onion and tomatoes. Served with chicken, fried slices of tortilla, and pico de gallo.
      $15.00

    • Shrimp Soup

      Red tomato broth with zucchini, onion and tomatoes, combined with shrimps.
      $17.00

    • Caldo De Mariscos

      Shrimp, octopus and seafood mix cooked in a light tomato based broth. Served with bread.
      $20.00

  • Dips

    • Cheese Dip

      Creamy queso seved with complimentary tortilla chips.
      $6.00

    • Spinach Dip

      Spinach dip served with complementary tortilla chips.
      $7.00

    • Chori Dip

      Creamy queso sprinkled with chorizo, Served with complimentary tortilla chips.
      $9.00

    • Texas Dip

      Grilled shrimp and crab with cheese sauce.
      $12.00

    • Guacamole Dip

      Fresh guacamole served with complimentary tortilla chips.
      $6.00

    • Corn On The Cob

      Lime, mayonnaise, cheese and chile peppers.
      $6.00

  • Salads

    • Taco Salad Fajita

      A crispy flour tortillas shell, filled with lettuce, meted cheese sauce, sauteed bell peppers, onions, tomatoes & your choice of fajita chicken or steak. Topped with lettuce, cheddar cheese, tomato, guacamole & sour cream.
      $12.00

    • Shrimp Salad

      A fresh romaine lettuce topped with grill shrimp, shredded cheese and tomate. Serveded with your choise of dressing.
      $13.00

    • Taco Salad

      A crispy flour tortilla shell, filled with lettuce, pico de gallo, shredded cheese, sour cream, guacamole & your choice of seasoned ground beef, shredded beef or chicken.
      $11.75

    • Grilled Chicken Salad

      A fresh romaine lettuce, topped with strips of grilled chicken, shredded cheese, tomatoes, avocado croutons. Served with yout choice of dressing.
      $13.00

    • Lettuce Wrap

      Your choice of chicken, steak or shrimp wrapped in lettuce, topped with red cabbage mixed with pico de gallo. Served with black beans and chipotle cream sauce.
      $13.00

  • Lunch Favorites

    • Fajitas Lunch

      Your choice of meat grilled with onions, tomatoes, and bell peppers served on a sizzling platter. Served with rice, beans, lettuce, sour cream, pico de gallo and tortillas.

    • Tacos Supremos Lunch

      2 crispy flour taco stuffed with your choice of beef or chicken, lettuce, cheese, sour cream and tomatoes. Served with rice and beans.
      $11.00

    • Chile Verde Lunch

      Tender pulled pork cooked with green chili sauce. Served with rice, beans and tortillas.
      $12.00

    • Huevos Con Chorizo Lunch

      3 scrambled eggs coocked with choriz (Mexican sausage). Served with rice, refried beans and tortillas
      $12.00

    • Pollo Loco Lunch

      Marinated grilled chicken topped with sauteed onions and smothered with chees sauce. Served with rice, lettuce, guacamole, pico de gallo and tortillas.
      $13.00

    • Chori-Pollo Lunch

      Marinated grilled chicken topped with chorizo (Mexican sausage) and smothered with cheese sauce. Served with rice, lettuce, guacamole, pico de gallo and tortillas.
      $13.50

    • Fajita Quesadilla Lunch

      A grilled tortilla stuffed with cheese and steak or chicken fajitas. Served with rice, beans, lettuce, sour cream and pico de gallo.
      $11.00

    • Carne Asada Lunch

      8 oz. ribeye steak. Served with rice, beans, lettuce, guacamole, pico de gallo, 1 fried jalapeno, sauteed onion and tortillas.
      $16.00

    • Chile Colorado Lunch

      Grilled sirloin steak, cooked with a red chili sauce. Served with rice, beans and tortillas.
      $12.00

    • Chimichanga Lunch

      A flour tortilla stuffed with your choice of beef or chicken, then fried to agolden brown, topped with cheese sauce. Served with rice, beans, lettuce, sour cream and pico de gallo.
      $11.00

    • Red Chilaquiles Lunch

      Lightly fried corn tortillas covered in are homemade salsa and mozzarella cheese, topped with 2 eggs, cilantro, onions, sour cream, with side rice and beans.
      $14.00

    • Green Chilaquiles Lunch

      Lightly fried corn tortillas covered in are homemade salsa and mozzarella cheese, topped with 2 eggs, cilantro, onions, sour cream, with side rice and beans.
      $14.00

  • Lunch Combinations

    • Chile Relleno, Taco, Rice And Side Of Guacamoles Salad Lunch Combo

      $9.00

    • Beef Burrito, Rice & Beans Lunch Combo

      $9.00

    • Enchilada, Rice & Beans Lunch Combo

      $9.00

    • Burrito, 1 Taco & Rice Lunch Combo

      $9.00

    • 2 Taco & Rice Lunch Combo

      $9.00

    • 2 Enchiladas & Rice Lunch Combo

      $9.00

    • Burrito, Tamal & Rice Lunch Combo

      $9.00

    • Chile Relleno, Enchilada, Rice & Beans Lunch Combo

      $9.00

  • Lunch Burritos

    • Texas Burritos Lunch

      2 flour tortillas rolled and stuffed with grilled steak and smothered with cheese sauce. Served with rice, lettuce and cheese.
      $11.50

    • Meat & Potato Burrito Lunch

      Flour tortilla rolled and stuffed with your choice of meat, potatoes, lettuce, white rice, whole pinto beans, and sour cream. Smothered with cheese sauce.
      $12.00

    • California Burrito Lunch

      Large flour tortilla stuffed with rice, beans, lettuce, sour cream, guacamole, pico de gallo and your choice of meat. Topped with green chill sauce, cheese sauce and red sauce.
      $12.50

    • Burrito Rojo Lunch

      Flour tortilla rolled and stuffed with shredded beef, chili rojo sauce, white rice and whole pinto beans. Smothered in our chili rojo sauce and topped with queso chihuahua.
      $12.00

    • Burrito Verde Lunch

      Flour tortilla rolled and stuffed with carnitas (slow fried pork), chili verde sauce, white rice and whole pinto beans. Smothered in our chili verde sauce and topped with queso chihuahua.
      $12.00

  • Chefs Favorites

    • Chile Verde

      Tender pulled pork cooked with green chili sauce. Served with rice, beans and tortillas.
      $15.50

    • Chile Colorado

      Grilled chunks of sirloin steak cooked with red chili sauce. Served with rice, beans and tortillas.
      $16.00

    • Carnitas

      Slow fried pork shoulder butt. Served with rice, beans, lettuce, guacamole, pico de gallo, pickled jalapenos and tortillas.
      $17.00

    • Tacos Al Pastor

      3 soft corn tortillas stuffed with marinated grilled pork with hint of sweet onions and pineaple. Topped with fresh cilantro, onion and avocado. Served with hot salsa and lime.
      $15.00

    • Tacos Al Carbón

      3 steak tacos marinated in our house salsa. Served on corn soft tortillas, topped with queso fresco and pico de gallo. Served with rice, beans, lettuce and guacamole.
      $15.00

    • Steak Tacos

      3 soft flour tortillas stuffed with chunks of grilled steak. Served with beans, pico de gafto and hot saisa.
      $14.00

    • Tacos De Carnitas

      3 braised pork, pico de gallo, avocado, cilantro and queso fresco. Served with pinto beans and tomatillo hot sauce.
      $15.00

    • Fried Taco Birria

      3 corn tacos ahogados. Dipped in our beef birria soup frjed with melted mozzarella cheese. Topped with cilantro and onions. Served with a small birria soup.
      $14.50

    • Chimichanga

      Flour tortillas stuffed with your choice of shredded beef or chicken, then fried to a golden brown, smothered in cheese sauce.Served with rice, beans, lettuce, guacamole, pico de gallo and sour cream.
      $14.00

    • Chiles Rellenos

      2 large poblano peppers stuffed with cheese and your choice of meat, potato, chicken, steak or shrimp. Topped with our special sauce. Served wih rice and beans.
      $14.50

    • Flautas

      Rolled, fried tortillas filled with choice of shredded chicken or beef. Topped with queso fresco, sour cream, tomato and avocado. Served on a bed of lettuce.
      $14.00

    • Sopes

      3 circles of fried maza. Topped with your choice of meat, grilled chicken, steak orshrimp, lettuce, sour cream, queso fresco, avocado and tomato.
      $13.00

    • El Jefe Especial

      8 oz. nib-eye steak, shrimp, com, 2 cheese enchiladas, guacamole, 1 fried jalapeno, side rice, beans and tortillas.
      $30.00

    • La Taquiza

      Four of our famous mixed taco meat, steak, chicken ocions, jalapeno, pineapple and cheese. Topped with onions and cilantro. Seryed with 2 green onson, lime, hot sauce and fried jalapeno.
      $17.00

  • Molcajetes

    • Molcajete El Jefe

      Combines classic flavors of rib eye steak, grilled chicken breast, griuled shrimp, chorizo sausage, grilled onion, queso fresco, cactus, & with spicy kouse salsa in the molcajete stone.
      $30.00

    • Molcajete Seafood

      Shrimp, scallops, and tilapia grilled with mushrooms, squash Mexican onions and nopales, (cactus) marinated in our special red sauce and covered with cheese. Topped with chile toreado and 1 cheese quesadilla.
      $32.00

  • Chicken

    • Pollo Loco

      Grilled chicken breast topped with sauteed onion and smothered in cheese sauce. Served with rice, lettuce, guacamole, pico de gallo and cheese.
      $14.00

    • Chori-Pollo

      Grilled chicken breast topped with chorizo and smothered in cheese sauce. Served with rice, lettuce, guacamole, cheese and pico de gallo.
      $16.00

    • Chicken Rice

      Grilled chicken served over rice, topped with cheese sauce, and side tortillas.
      $13.00

    • Chicken Primavera

      Grilled chicken breast with mushroooms and onions. Covered with cheese sauce. Served with rice, black beans lettuce, guacamole and sour cream.
      $14.00

    • Chicken Chipotle

      Grilled chicken with chipotle sauce. Served with romaine salad and rice.
      $14.00

    • Pollo Piña

      Grilled chicken breast with pineapple, onions, tomato, peppers, served over rice. Covered with cheese sauce. Served with rice and romaine salad.
      $15.00

    • Pollo Hawaii

      Grilled chicken with ham. Topped with a pineapple ring and cheese sauce. Served with rice and romaine salad.
      $14.00

    • Chicken Mole Poblano

      Chicken breast topped with mole sauce. Served with rice, guacamole, salad and tortillas.
      $15.00

    • Guadalajara Special

      Grilled chicken and shrimp with onions, tomatoes and bell peppers. Served over rice topped with cheese sauce and tortillas.
      $15.00

  • Dinner Combinations

    • Any 2 Items Dinner Combination

      $11.50

  • Los Buritos

    • Fajita Burrito

      flour tortillas stuffed with your choice of chicken or steak fajitas, topped with sed sauce, cheese, lettuce, sour cream, guacamole and pico de gallo. Served with rice and beans.
      $14.00

    • Chipotle Burrito

      Flour tortilla stuffed with tender puled pork or chicken cooked in a chipotle sauce with sauteed onions and mild peppers, topped with cheese sauce. Served with rice, lettuce, and tomatoes.
      $14.00

    • Texas Burrito

      2 flour tortillas stuffed with steak and topped with cheese sauce. Serve with rice, lettuce, and tomatoes.
      $15.00

    • Iris Burrito

      Flour tortilla stuffed with grilled chicken and mushrooms, cheese, beans, rice, hot sauce. Smothered with cheese sauce and enchilada sauce on the side of guacamole and sour cream.
      $15.00

    • Burrito Mexicano

      A flour tortilla stuffed with tender pulled pork and topped with cheese sauce. Served with rice, lettuce, sour cream, and tomatoes.
      $14.00

    • Happy Burrito

      A flour tortilla filled with your choice of ground beef or chicken, topped with red sauce, cheese, lettuce, sour cream and tomatoes. Served with rice and beans.
      $14.00

    • Meat & Potato Burrito

      Flour tortilla rolled and stuffed with your choice of meat: steak, chicken or chorizo, potatoes, lettuce, white rice, whole pinto beans, and sour cream. Smothered with cheese sauce.
      $14.00

    • California Burrito

      Large flour tortilla stufled with rice, bears, lettuce, sour cream, guacamole, pico de gallo and your choice of meat: chicken, pastor, steak, topped with green chill sauce, cheese sauce and red sauce.
      $15.00

    • Burrito Bowl

      Served in a bowl, white rice, romaine lettuce mix, south west stlye com mix, sour cream, queso fresco, hot sauce on the side and your choice of meat: chicken, steak or pastor.
      $16.00

    • Burrito Gordo

      4 large flour tortilla stuffed with rice, beans, chicken and chorizo (Mexican sausage) topped with cheese sauce.
      $15.00

  • Seafood

    • Fish Tacos

      2 grilled tilapia, red cabbage, tomatoes, and cheese. Served with white rice and black beans.
      $15.00

    • Shrimp Tacos

      2 grilled shrimp, sweet onions, red peppers, topped with cilantro, queso fresco, Served with white rice and black beans.
      $15.00

    • Tilapia A La Plancha

      7-9 oz. tilapia fillet grilled and served over sauteed onions, tomatoes, and bell peppers. Served with rice and side salad.
      $16.00

    • Coctel De Camarones

      Refreshing shrimp cocktail with pico de gallo and diced avocado. Served with saltine crackers.
      $18.00

    • Camarones A La Diabla

      Sauteed shrimp with pico de gallo and a very spicy red sauce. Served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
      $18.00

    • Camarones Crema

      Shrimp cooked with sour cream. Cheese sauce and mushrooms. Served with romaine salad and black beans.
      $18.00

    • Camarones Al Mojo De Ajo

      Sauteed shrimp with garlic, onion, mushrooms, and cilanitro. Topped with cheese sauce. Served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
      $18.00

    • Garden Shrimp

      Grilled shrimp with onions, tomatoes, broccoli, and carrots. Served with rice and romaine salad.
      $17.00

    • Shrimp Chipotle

      Grilled shrimp cooked with onions, tomatoes, and bell peppers. Served with rice and romaine salad.
      $16.50

    • Burrito De Mar

      Flour tortilla roiled and stuffed with shrimp, tilapia and crab, smothered in cheese sauce. Served with rice, lettuce, guacamole, and pico de gallo.
      $16.00

    • Seafood Chimichanga

      A flour tortilla stuffed with shrimp, tilapia, and crab, then fried to a golden brown. Smothered with cheese sauce and served with rice, beans, lettuce, sour cream, pico de gallo, and guacamole.
      $16.00

    • Shrimp Ceviche

      Citrus marinated shrimp mixed with diced tomatoes, cucumber, onion, cilantro. Topped with avocado slices, served with tostadas.
      $18.00

    • Camarones Corajudos

      Whole shrimp sauteed in fresh lime juice with our special sauce. Served with cucumber slices.
      $22.00

    • Fried Mojarra

      Whole fried tilapia, served with rice and fresh salad.
      $19.00

    • Rojo Aguachile

      Shrimp cooked in lime juice, with an red spicy sauce. Miced with red onion and cucumber topped with slice avocado. Served in our molcajete stone.
      $24.99

    • Verde Aguachile

      Shrimp cooked in lime juice, with a green spicy sauce. Miced with red onion and cucumber topped with slice avocado. Served in our molcajete stone.
      $24.99

    • Oysters

  • Steaks

    • Picadillo Steak

      Grilled chunks of sirloin steak cooked with pico de gallo. Served with rice, beans, lettuce, tomatoes and tortillas.
      $16.00

    • Steak Para El Jefe

      8 oz. ribeye steak served with 1 strip of grilled shrimp wrapped in bacon. Served with rice, beans, lettuce, guacamole, tomatoes, and tortillas.
      $20.50

    • Carne Asada

      8 oz. ribeye steak. Served with rice, beans, lettuce, guacamole, pico de gallo, 1 fried jalapeno, sauteed onion and tortillas.
      $20.00

    • El Regio

      Grilled chicken, steak, and shrimp. Served with rice and beans, guacamole, pico de gallo, 1 fried jalapeno and tortillas.
      $21.00

    • Steak Jalisco

      12 oz. T-bone steak grilled to perfection, served in a sizzling platter, in a bed of cooked vegetables and cheese sauce. Served with rice, beans, lettuce, pico de gallo, guacamole and tortillas.
      $22.00

    • Steak Ranchero

      12 oz. T-bone steak grilled to your liking. Smothered with our special spicy sauce, served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
      $21.00

  • Fajitas

    • Grilled Chicken Fajita

      $15.00

    • Steak Fajita

      $16.00

    • Shrimp Fajita

      $18.00

    • Shrimp & Chicken Fajita

      $18.00

    • Steak & Shrimp Fajita

      $19.00

    • Shrimp & Scallops Fajita

      $19.50

    • Pork Fajita

      $15.00

    • Vegetarian Fajita

      Mushrooms, zucchini, onions, tomatoes & bell pepper.
      $14.00

    • Fajitas Hawaiianas

      Shrimp, chicken, pineapple chunks, bacon.
      $19.00

    • Fajitas Alegres

      Steak, chicken, shrimp and chorizo.
      $19.50

    • Fajitas Jalisco

      Steak, chorizo and chicken. Topped with queso.
      $18.00

    • Fajitas Del Mar

      Grilled shrimp, tilapia and scallops served on top of onions, bell peppers and pineapple.
      $20.00

    • Fajitas Texanas

      Steak, chicken and shrimp.
      $19.00

    • Fajita Bowl

      Grilled onions, bell pepper, your choice of chicken or steak. Served in a bowl with rice, pinto beans, cilantro, tomatoes, broccoli, avocado, sour cream.
      $14.50

    • Fajita Para El Jefe

      Steak, chicken, shrimp with mushrooms and grilled onions. Topped with mozarella chees and pico de gallo.
      $20.00

  • Enchiladas

    • Potato Enchiladas

      3 corn tortillas rolled and stuffed with potatoes. Topped with red chili sauce and queso fresco. Served with black beans, romaine lettuce and tomatoes.
      $13.00

    • Enchiladas Poblanas

      1 beef, 1 chicken, 1 refried bean and 1 cheese topped with red enchilada sauce, lettuce, sour cream and tomato.
      $13.00

    • Enchiladas Verdes

      3 corn tortillas rolled and stuffed with your choice of beef, chicken, or cheese. Topped with green chili sauce and cheese. Served with rice and beans.
      $13.00

    • Enchiladas Mole Poblano

      3 cheese enchiladas topped with shredded pork and enchilada mole poblano sauce. Served with side rice, lettuce, guacamole and tomatoes.
      $15.00

    • Seafood Enchiladas

      3 corn tortillas rolled and stuffed with shrimp, tilapia, crab, and scallops. Topped with green chili sauce, cheese, sour cream, and avocado slices. Served with rice and beans.
      $15.50

    • Enchiladas Jalisco

      2 corn tortillas, rolled and stuffed with chicken, topped with red sauce and cheese. Served with rice, lettuce, guacamole, and pico de gallo.
      $14.00

  • Quesadillas

    • Fajita Quesadilla

      A grilled flour tortilla stuffed with cheese and your choice of chicken or steak fajitas. Served with rice, beans, lettuce, guacamole, pico de gallo and sour cream.
      $14.00

    • Seafood Quesadilla

      A grilled flour tortillas stuffed with cheese, shrimp, tilapia, and crab. Served with rice, beans, lettuce, guacamole, pico de gallo and sour cream.
      $14.50

    • Spinach Quesadilla

      Grilled flour torilla filled with spinach and cheese. Served with your choice of chicken, steak or cheese only. Served with black beans, romaine lettuce, tomatoes, and Guacamole.
      $13.00

    • California Quesadilla

      Folded tortilla grilled and stuffed with cheese and your choice of meat, grilled chicken, grilled steak, pastor or shrimp. Served with pico de gallo, guacamole, and sour cream rice and beans.
      $14.00

    • Garden Quesadilla

      A grilled flour tortilla stuffed with cheese, mushrooms and sauteed vegetables. Served with rice, beans, lettuce, guacamole, pico de gallo and sour cream.
      $14.00

    • Quesadilla El Jefe

      Flour tortilla stuffed with grilled steak or chicken and melted cheese. Topped with cheese sauce and served with rice, lettuce, tomato and sour cream.
      $14.50

  • Desserts

    • Grilled Mexican Street Corn

      Fresh corn grilled with sauteed vegetables topped with lime, mayonnaise, Cotija cheese and tajin.
      $7.00

    • Churros

      Rolled churros in cinnamon suggar traditional, with side chocolate, caramel syrup and whipped cream.
      $8.00

    • Sopapilla With Ice Cream

      Golden fried pastry dough topped with honey, whipped cream, chocolate syrup, cinnamon, and cherry. Served with ice cream.
      $7.00

    • Flan

      Mexican custard baked until creamy and smooth. Topped with whipped cream.
      $7.00

    • Cheesecake

      Fresh cheesecake slice topped with cherry, chocolate syrup, and whipped cream.
      $7.00

    • Fried Ice Cream

      Vanilla ice cream rolled in a coconut and corn-flake coating, quick fried, Topped with honey, whipped cream, chocolate syrup, cinnamon, and cherry..
      $7.00

  • Drinks

    • Mexican Coca-Cola

      Bottle.
      $4.75

    • Fresh Water

      Agual frescas.
      $5.50

    • Soft Drink

      $3.25

    • Jarritos

      Bottled Mexican soda.
      $3.50

    • Fresh Brewed Tea

      $2.99

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