El Merendero

5443 S 12th Ave, Tucson
(520) 294-1522

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Wednesday - Red Chile Beef Plate
Toritos Seasonal
Chips and Salsa
Cheese Crisp
Carne Asada
Chimichanga
Enchiladas
Tampiquena
Guacamole
Tortillas

Menu

Breakfast
1. Huevos Rancheros Breakfast
2 eggs on a crispy tortilla smothered in our ranchero salsa.
2. Huevos Divorciados Breakfast
2 eggs over easy separated by hash brown and beans, each 1 smothered in a different sauce, 1 red and 1 green.
3. Chilaquiles Breakfast
Crispy tortilla smothered in enchilada sauce with 2 eggs on top.
4. Omelette Breakfast
A ham and cheese omelette accompanied by hash browns and beans, with your choice of corn or flour tortilla.
5. Pancakes Breakfast
3 pancakes with your choice of ham, bacon, or sausage on the side.
6. Chorizo con Huevo Breakfast
Scrambled eggs cooked with chorizo accompanied with rice and beans. Your choice of corn or flour tortilla.
7. Huevos con Enchilada Breakfast
2 eggs and 2 chicken enchiladas (red or green), accompanied by beans and hash browns
8. Giant Breakfast Burrito
Build your own breakfast burrito. Extra charges after 3 ingredients.
9. Huevos a la Mexicana Breakfast
2 eggs scrambled with vegetables, accompanied by hash browns and beans. your choice of corn or flour tortilla.
10. Huevos Montados Breakfast
2 eggs over a piece of skirt steak accompanied by hash brown, with your choice of corn or flour tortilla.

Appetizers
Cheese Crisp
Fried 16" tortilla with melted Monterey Jack cheese.
Quesadillas
Make it a pollo con chipotle, shrimp, or carne asada for an additional charge.
Al la Carte Enchilada
Your choice of ground beef, shrimp, shredded beef, cheese, or chicken.
Tostada
Bean, ground beef, shredded, or chicken.
Guacamole
Made fresh to order guacamole.

Soups
Albondigas Soup
Meatball soup with rice.
Sopa de Tortilla
Chicken broth, with in house fried tortilla chip, cheese, avocado, and sour cream.
Caldo de Pollo
Chicken soup.
Caldo de Queso
Cheese soup with potatoes and green chiles.
Menudo
Beef tripe soup with a red chili pepper base.
Cocido
Beef and vegetable soup.

Taco Salads
Camaron Taco Salad
Taco bowl with beans, cooked shrimp, topped with lettuce, tomatoes, onions, guacamole, and sour cream.
Asada Taco Salad
Taco bowl with beans and grilled steak, topped with lettuce tomatoes, onions, guacamole, and sour cream.
Taco Salad
Taco bowl with beans and desired meats topped with lettuce tomatoes, onions, guacamole, and sour cream.

Combo's
Tacos
Carne asada, ground beef, shredded beef, or chicken. Additional charge for crispy shrimp or crispy fish.
Flautas
Rolled tacos with your choice of chicken or shredded beef.
Flautas Combo
Served with rice and beans. Rolled tacos with your choice of chicken or shredded beef.
Chimichanga
Your choice of carne asada, ground beef, shredded beef, chicken, or red chile beef. Make it enchilada style for an additional charge.
Chimichanga Combo
Your choice of carne asada, ground beef, shredded beef, chicken, or red chile beef. Make it enchilada style for an additional charge.
Burritos
Burritos Combo
Served with rice and beans.

Entrees
1. Carne con Chile Colorado
Tender cubed beef marinated in our home made red chile sauce.
2. Shredded Beef
Shredded beef cooked with tomato's and onions.
3. Carne Asada Plate
A delicious Top sirloin arrachera flap meat seared to perfection accompanied with grilled onions, a fried Jalapeno, and guacamole.
4. Bistec Ranchero
Diced beef cooked with tomato, onion and green chile.
5. Enchiladas
Your choice of red or green enchilada. Chicken, cheese, ground beef, shredded beef, or shrimp. Make it chipotle crema for an additional charge.
6. One & Two
1 cheese enchilada and 2 ground beef tacos.
7. 3 Piece Meal
A ground beef taco, chicken tostada, and 1 cheese enchilada.
8. Chile Rellenos
Fluffy battered and fried green chiles stuffed with cheese topped with our red salsa.
9. Higado Encebollado
Liver and onions.
10. Tampiquena
A delicious top sirloin arrachera flap meat to perfection accompanied by a quesadilla, cheese enchilada, green chile, and guacamole.
11. Fajitas
Chicken or beef fajitas served with sour cream and guacamole.
12. Milanesa
Country fried steak served with french fries.

Botanas de Mariscos
Chicharrones de Camaron
Crispy deep fried shrimp chicharrones accompanied by mayonnaise and a salad.
Camarones Natural
Steamed shrimp.
Camarones Ahogados
Raw shrimp cooked in lime served with cucumber and onion.
Toritos
6 bacon wrapped peppers stuffed with shrimp. Soaked in soy sauce.
Tostada de Ceviche
Cocktails
Your choice of shrimp or octopus.
Ceviche Cocktail
Accompanied by 2 tostadas.

Sopas de Marisco
Caldo Camaron
Shrimp soup.
Caldo Pescado
Fish soup.
Albondigas de Camaron
Shrimp meatball soup.

Pescado
Pescado a la Parilla
Grilled fish.
Pescado Empapelado
Fish cooked in foil accompanied by cheese and our signature ranchero salsa.
Pescado Empanizado
Breaded fish served with french fries.
Pescado Culichi
Fish drowned in our Pablano cream.
Al Mojo de Ajo
Grilled fish with garlic.
Pescado Veracruzano
Fish sauteed with potatoes, olives, and our ranchero salsa.
Ranchero
Fish cooked in our ranchero salsa.

Camaron
Al Mojo de Ajo
Grilled shrimp with garlic.
Camaron Empanizado
Breaded shrimp served with french fries.
Camaron Culichi
Shrimp drowned in our Poblano cream.
Camaron Veracruzano
Shrimp sauteed with potatoes, olives, and our ranchero salsa.
Brocheta
A kabob featuring whole shrimp, bacon, bell peppers, and onions.
Fantasias
Bacon wrapped shrimp stuffed with cheese.
Fajitas de Camaron
Shrimp fajitas.
Camarones Chipotle
Shrimp in our chipotle cream sauce.
Camaron a la Parilla
Grilled shrimp served.

Kids Menu
Kids Grilled Cheese
Hamburger
Served with fries.
Kids Chicken Nuggets
Served with fries.
Cheeseburger
Served with fries.
Flan
Churros
Filled with cajeta.
Cheesecake Mini Chimichanga

Drinks
Soft Drink
Aguas Frescas
Juice
Tea
Coffee

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Recent Reviews

Service was friendly. We ordered a combo and the pescado culichi. About ten minutes later most of our combo came out. 5 minutes after that the rest of our combo came out. 10 minutes after that a shrimp culichi came out. It had already taken long enough that I just ate the shrimp and didn't ask for a remake. The food all tasted good. They weren't very busy and our order was repeated to us so I'm not sure what the deal was.
June 2026
I use to love this restaurant until they raised the price for their fantasias from $14 to $19.00 a plate. That’s very expensive especially when you guys forget to put the ketchup and ranch in my bag… please consider changing your prices for this meal especially if you giys aren’t adding anything to the meal to make it worth $20.
May 2026
Went here for dinner with my family and it was definitely worth trying. The service was great and our waiter was so sweet to us.The food tasted amazing. I also enjoyed the atmosphere. Very nice! We will for sure be back.
January 2025

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El Merendero

5443 S 12th Ave, Tucson, AZ 85706
(520) 294-1522