Esperanza's Mexican Bakery & Café Service List

Main Menu

• Lite Lunch / Comida

  Meat options: Shredded Beef, Ground Beef, Shredded Chicken, Beef Tips in a Sauce, Porkskin (Fried or Spicy and Soft), Carnitias, or Chili Rojo. Beef tongue will be an additional $1.75. Fajita meat (chicken or beef strips grilled with bell peppers & onions) will be an additional $1.25.

  • Flour Quesdilla

    Flour tortilla filled with cheese and grilled. Lettuce & pico de gallo served on the side.

    	$3.25
    Add your choice of meat	$4.25

  • Gordita

    Corn masa made into a puffed pocket shell grilled, then fried fluffy, stuffed with your choice of meat. Lettuce & pico de gallo served on the side.

    $4.25

  • Torta de Telera

    Bakery made bread with your choice of carnitas, desebrada, or Ham & Cheese. Filled with Avocado, Lettuce, Tomato, Sour Cream and Onions.

    	$5.75
    With Fries	$7.00

  • Tortas

    Bakery made french bread, filled with your choice of meat topped with lettuce, tomato and french fries served on the side.

    $5.25

  • Torta de Pollo Asada

    Grilled chicken breast on a bolillo. Served with a cup of frijoles a la charra.

    $7.15

  • Tostada

    Tostada layered with beans, meat and topped with lettuce, pico de gallo and white cheese.

    $3.50

  • Burritos

    Handmade flour tortilla filled with your choice of meat.

    	$4.20
    Bean and Cheese only	$3.25

  • Carne Asada Burrito

    Homemade flour tortilla filled with your choice of beef or chicken fajita strips grilled with onions and bell peppers. Pico de gallo added upon request.

    $5.50

  • Corn Quesadilla

    Corn masa patted flat, filled with cheese, and fried.

    	$3.75
    Your choice meat inside	$4.75

• Salads & Such

  • Taco Salad

    Fried flour tortilla, filled with lettuce, shredded beef, shredded chicken or ground beef with cheese, pico de gallo, sour cream, and guacamole on top.

    $8.75

  • Irwin’s Grilled Chicken Salad

    Iceburg lettuce topped with sliced grilled beef or chicken, bell peppers, onions, tomato and cheese. Ask server for dressing choices.

    $8.75

• Combinations

  Substitutions will be an additional cost.

  • Uno

    One sour cream chicken enchilada, one cheese enchilada, one crispy taco, and rice.

    $7.75

  • Dos

    Two tamales, one cheese enchilada, one shredded beef or chicken tostada, guacamole, and rice.

    $9.75

  • Tres

    Two monterrey enchiladas, one cheese enchilada, one tamale, and rice.

    $8.95

  • Cuatro

    One cheese enchilada, one flour quesadilla filled with cheese and fajita meat, one tamale, and rice.

    $9.25

  • Cinco

    One cheese, or beef chile relleno, one cheese enchilada, rice, and beans.

    $8.95

• Child's plate

  12 and under only. Served with rice and beans

  • Tamale

    $4.25

  • Enchilada

    $4.25

  • Corn Crispy Taco

    $4.25

  • Flauta

    $4.25

  • Flour Taco

    $4.25

• Soups

  Served with your choice of tortillas.

  • Caldo de Res

    Homestyle beef soup with carrots, potatoes, squash, corn, and a side of rice.

    $7.25

  • Frijoles Ala Charra

    Pinto beans, chorizo, ham, and jalapeños.

    Small portion	$3.85
    Large portion	$4.99

  • Sopa de Tortilla

    Chicken based soup with crispy fried tortilla strips, avocado slices, and grated white cheese served on the side.

    $5.25

  • Sopa De Fideo

    Vermicelli soup.

    $3.85

  • Menudo

    Traditional beef tripe and yellow hominy soup.

    Grande / large portion	$5.75
    Small portion	$4.50

  • Caldo de Pollo

    Homestyle chicken soup with bone, carrots, and rice.

    $5.75

• Fish / Mariscos

  • Caldo de Pescado

    Two pieces of whole catfish with bone in a spicy vegetable base with carrots, celery, and chayote. Served with toast and rice.

    	$8.75
    Con Camaron / Add shrimp	$10.95

  • Camarones Rancheros

    Jumbo shrimp sauteed with lemon, jalepeño, and tomatos. Served with rice, salad, and toasted bolillo.

    $11.25

  • Ceviche

    White fish marinated with lime juice tossed with tomatoes, onions & cilantro. Served on a bed of lettuce with a slice of avocado on top and saltine crackers on the side.

    	$8.25
    Con camaron y pulpo / add shrimp and octopus	$10.75

  • Coctel de Camaron (Shrimp Coctel)

    Baby shrimp cooked and served in a mild redcoctel sauce with sliced avacado on top.

    Lg	$8.75
    Sm	$5.45

  • Combination Fillet & Shrimp

    Jumbo shrimp and fillet of catfish sauteed ranchero style or Al mojo de Ajo style. Served with rice, salad and toasted bolillo.

    $13.45

  • Filete de Pescado Ranchero

    Large piece of catfish fillet breaded then grilled, then sauteed with diced jalepeño peppers and tomatoes. Served with rice, salad, and toasted bolillo.

    $10.95

  • Fish tacos

    Three corn tortillas filled with grilled white fish. Served with rice and salad.

    $7.95

  • Pescado Empanizado

    A whole piece of breaded catfish deep fried. Served with french fries, salad and a toasted bolillo. Tartar sauce on the side.

    	$10.95
    Pescado frito (not breaded)	$10.95

  • Sopa Marinera

    Scallops, shrimp, fish fillets and octopus in a spicy tomato base soup. Served with toast.

    $14.95

  • Tostada de Ceviche

    Tostada piled high with ceviche and diced avocado. Served with lettuce and tomato.

    $5.25

  • Vuelve a la Vida

    Oysters, octapus and shrimp in a mild spice coctel sauce and topped with avocado.

    $10.95

  • Filete Empanizado

    Fillet of catfish breaded and fried. Served with french fries, toast and salad.

    $10.95

  • Oysters

    In half shell.

    Half Dozen	$5.25
    Full Dozen	$8.50

  • Camarones Empanizados

    Jumbo Shrimp breaded and fried, served with fries, salad & toast, tartar sauce on side.

    $11.25

• Enchiladas & More

  All plates served with rice, beans and tortillas.

  • Flautas

    Three corn tortillas filled with your choice of beef, chicken or potato, then fried crispy. Served with a side of pico de gallo and sour cream.

    	$6.75
    Add Guacamole	$8.50

  • Green Chicken Enchiladas

    Three chicken enchiladas smothered in tomatillo sauce, and topped with white cheese.

    $7.50

  • Monterrey Enchiladas

    Three enchiladas filled with your choice of beef or chicken fajita meat, topped with ranchero sauce and cheddar cheese.

    $8.25

  • Red Enchiladas

    Three enchiladas with red sauce and cheddar cheese on top. For the inside it's your choice of cheese, chicken or beef.

    $6.75

  • Sour Cream and Chicken Enchiladas

    Two chicken enchiladas smothered with sour cream sauce and white cheese.

    $7.50

  • Cheese Sauce Enchiladas

    Two enchiladas filled with cheese, chicken or beef, topped with cheese sauce.

    $6.50

  • Flour Tortilla Taco Plate

    Two flour tortillas filled with your choice of shredded meat, ground meat, or chicken, topped with lettuce, pico de gallo and cheese.

    $8.25

  • Tamale Plate

    Three handmade tamales served with or without red chile sauce on top.

    	$5.95
    Topped with red sauce	$6.50

  • Taco Plate

    Three soft or crispy corn tortillas filled with shredded beef, ground beef or chicken and topped with lettuce, pico de gallo and grated cheese.

    $7.25

  • Mole con Pollo

    Bone in chicken breast and drumstick smothered in our famous mole sauce.

    $7.95

  • Chile Relleno

    Large poblano pepper filled with white cheese or beef then battered and fried, topped with a mild tomato sauce, and cheese on top of cheese chille relleno only.

    	$7.25
    Substitute mild tomato sauce for cheese sauce	$8.50

  • Sopes

    Three corn mase shells grilled then fried, topped with refried beans, your choice of meat, lettuce, pico de gallo, and white cheese.

    $7.75

  • Taquitos de Lengua

    3 corn tortillas filled with tongue, and served with pico de gallo on the side.6.25 Served with rice and beans.

    	$9.25
    2 tongue tacos in flour tortilla	$6.45
    Served with rice and beans	$9.45

• Meat Plates / Carnes

  All plates served with rice, beans and your choice of tortillas.

  • Bistec Ranchero

    Strips of steak simmered in a ranchero sauce.

    	$7.95
    A-la-mex	$8.95

  • Barbacoa

    Mexican style cheek meat served with pico de gallo. A mexican treat.

    	$7.25
    A-la-mex	$8.25

  • Cabrito

    South Texas baby goat marinated in spices then braised in a spicy sauce, served with guacamole salad, pico de gallo & mexican relish.

    $18.95

  • Carne Asada

    Fajitas Strips of grilled steak or chicken, onions, and bell peppers served with guacamole, pico de gallo, and a mexican relish.

    	$10.75
    Combo fajitas	$10.75
    Shrimp fajitas	$15.25

  • Carne de Puerco en Chile Rojo

    Pork tips smothered in a spicy red sauce. Served with rice and beans.

    $7.50

  • Carnitas

    Choice cuts of pork, fried to perfection and served with pico de gallo, guacamole, and mexican relish.

    $10.95

  • Guisado in chile verde

    Mexican style beef tips with poblano peppers.

    $7.75

  • Higado A la Mexicana

    Grilled beef liver with tomato, onion, and sliced jalapenos. Served with salad.

    $8.50

  • Lengua en Caldillo

    Beef tongue simmered in a tomato, jalapeño & onion gravy.

    $8.75

  • Milanesa

    Sirloin steak pounded thin then breaded and grilled. Served with guacamole salad, pico de gallo, relish and fries.

    $10.75

  • Pollo Asado

    Boneless, skinless breast of chicken, grilled with onions and bell peppers. Served with rice and salad only.

    $9.95

  • Tampiquena

    Steak, pounded then grilled to perfection with grilled onions. Served with french fries, a guacamole salad, pico de gallo & mexican relish.

    $10.75

  • Guisado

    Mexican style beef tips.

    $7.25

• Appetizers

  • Nachos

    Cheddar cheese melted on top of tortilla chips.

    $4.95

  • Bean and Cheese Nachos

    $5.50

  • Nachos Supreme

    Your choice of chicken or beef fajita meat with grilled onions & bell peppers, beans, cheese, sour cream, pico de gallo and guacamole.

    	$8.35
    Half order of nachos surpreme	$7.65

  • Tamales

    Three tamales.

    $3.50

  • Chile con Queso

    Small	$3.15
    Large	$4.50

  • Chile con Queso with chorizo or ground beef

    Small	$4.25
    Large	$5.95

  • Queso Flameado

    Grilled chorizo topped with melted white cheese. Served with three flour tortillas.

    	$6.25
    A-la-mex	$7.75

• Side Orders

  • Breakfast potatoes

    $1.75

  • Cheese

    $1.50

  • Bacon

    3 slices.

    $2.25

  • Chorizo

    $2.50

  • Extra tortillias

    2 slices.

  • Ham

    2 slices.

    $2.25

  • One egg

    $1.25

  • Pico de Gallo

    add jalepeños upon request.

    $1.95

  • Rice or Refried beans

    	$1.50
    With melted cheese on top	$2.25
    With chorizo	$3.25

  • Jalaeños toriados

    3 Slices

    $1.25

  • Sour cream

    $1.25

  • One tamale

    $1.35

  • Two slices of toasted bolillo

    $1.75

  • Guacamole

    $3.75

  • French fries

    $2.25

  • Flour tortilla taco

    $3.10

  • Flour tortilla taco w/Fajita meat

    $4.10

  • Flour tortilla taco filled w/beef tounge

    $3.99

  • Corn tortilla taco

    $2.15

  • Corn tortilla taco filled w/beef tounge

    $3.10

  • Corn tortilla taco w/Fajita meat

    $2.65

• Drinks

  • Aguas Frescas

    no refills.

    	$3.10
    Smaller aguas frescas	$2.15

  • American Soft Drinks

    free refills.

    $1.99

  • Iced Tea

    $1.75

  • Coffee

    $1.50

  • Mexicana Coca-Cola

    11Oz	$1.85
    1/2 Liter	$2.75

  • Mexican Sodas and Topo Chico

    $1.75

  • Milk

    white or chocolate.

    $1.50

  • Orange juice

    $1.95

  • Fresh Squeezed Orange juice

    $3.95

  • Licuados

    Smoothies made with fresh fruit. Ask your server what fresh fruit we are using for the day.

    $3.99