El Buen Pastor Mexican Cuisine

7919 E Brundage Ln, Bakersfield
(661) 479-8367

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Tortilla Chips with Mole Sauce
Tacos El Buen Pastor
Pork Belly Tacos
Pastel 3 Leches
Cochinita Pibil
Burrito Mojado
Steak and Eggs
New York Steak
Street Tacos
Flan De Cafe

Entradas (Appetizers)
Empanadas De Chapulines
4 mini empanadas made with corn dough, stuffed with Oaxaca cheese, chaplains, jalapeno, and epazote. Served with a spicy chimichurri.
Memelitas De Chicharrón
3 corn dough memelas with black beans, pork chicharron, lettuce, sour cream, queso fresco, tomato, and salsa on side.
Queso Fundido
Melted Monterey jack, Oaxaca cheese, and mozzarella cheese. Topped with your choice of chorizo and rajas with corn, or mushrooms.
Guacamole Borracho
Fresh Mexican avocados tossed with mango, jicama, jalapeno,cilantro, and watermelon with ashot of smoky mescal.
Tacos Rebozados
4 mini crispy roll tacos stuffed with plantains. Topped with mole sauce, sour cream, queso fresco, and sliced onions.
Quesadillas Del Mercado
4 handmade cheese quesadillas and 1 of each flavor. Huitlacoche, flor de calabaza, mushrooms, and rajas.
Coliflor Al Pastor
Sauteed cauliflower tossed with al pastor salsa, served over grilled pineapple, topped with fresh onion, and cilantro.

Para La Cruda..For The Hangovers
Camarones Chicatana
Sauteed shrimp with a spicy lime butter chilli sauce. Served with sauteed onions.
Aguachile De Rib Eye
Grilled rib eye, sliced, topped with fresh cucumber, onions, covered with a spicy soy sauce, and avocado.
Ceviche De Pescado
Fresh fish cooked in lime tossed with tomato, onion, cilantro, jalapeno, avocado, and drizzled with red sauce.
Aguachile De Camaron
Shrimp cooked in lime tossed in a jalapeno spicy sauce with red onions, cucumber, and avocado.
Coctel De Camaron
Shrimp cooked in a fresh tomato sauce with dice tomato, onions, cilantro, jalapeno, and avocado.

Sopas Y Ensaladas
Sopa De Tortilla
Chicken, tomato broth with a touch of guajillo chilli. Served with panela cheese, dice avocado, pasilla dry chilli, and tortilla strips.
Crema Poblana
Delicious creamy soup, made with fresh chilli pasilla topped with fresh corn, pasilla pepper rajas, and sour cream.
Caldo De Mariscos
Seafood broth with a touch of guajillo chilli. Served with carrots, celery, shrimp, fish, octopus, clams, and crab.
El Pastor Salad
Mixed greens tossed with honey mustard dressing topped with strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, goat cheese crumble, and topped with walnuts.
Grilled Cesar
Grilled romaine lettuce, croutons, toasted pumpkin seeds with caesar dressing, and parmesan cheese.
Ensalada Sol
Watercress, pears, red onions, bacon, jicama, walnuts, and goat cheese crumble with a hibiscus vinaigrette.
Ensalada De Salmon
Mixed greens, tomato, cucumber, avocado, carrots, with a house vinaigrette, and 8 oz of grilled salmon.

Kids Menu
Kids Quesadilla
2 flour tortillas melted with cheese, cut in four pieces. Served with choice of french fries or rice and beans.
Chicken Tenders
3 fry chicken tender breaded. Served with choice of french fries or rice and beans.
Taco Combo
2 soft tacos with choice of chicken or beef. Served with french fries or rice and beans.

Signature Dishes and Moles
Mole Verde
Pumpkin seeds sauce. Served with your choice of chicken or pork, with rice, black beans, and tortillas.
Pipian De Puerco
Peanut sauce with spices and chilli. Served with pulled pork, rice, black beans, and tortillas.
Mole Negro
Traditional chilli, spices, and nuts to create Oaxaca sauce. Served with chicken breast, rice, black beans, and tortillas.
Fettuccine Poblano
Fettuccini pasta tossed in a creamy poblano chilli sauce with corn and rajas. Served with your choice of chicken or shrimp.
Milanesa De La Abuela
Choice of breaded beef or breaded chicken fried. Served with your choice of french fries and rice or salad.
Cochinita Pibil
Pork marinated with achiote and chilli slow cooked with banana leaves. Served with black beans, habanero relish, and tortillas.
Tlayuda Oaxaquena
12" Thin corn tostada with black beans, quesillo, cabbage, avocado slices, tomato, Oaxacan cheese, chorizo, cecina, and marinated pork with red salsa on side.
Rib-Eye Tenochtitlan
10 oz ribeye grilled, served over a huitlacoche sauce, and topped with a goat cheese garnish with sauteed potatoes.
Pollo Pibil
Fresh roasted chicken with achiote sauce. Served with habanero relish, black beans, and nopalito salad.
Combinación El Buen Pastor
6 oz adobada beef pork, shrimp poblano enchilada, and chile relleno. Served with rice and beans.
Tacos El Buen Pastor
4 tacos with the best flavor of the town beef asada, chicken, pastor, and cochinita pibil. Served with rice and beans.

Seafoods
Pescado A La Veracruzana
Fresh fish of the season, topped with a white wine, tomato sauce with olives, yellow chillies, capers, onion, and bell peppers. Served with rice.
Camarones Al Ajillo
5 prawns sauteed with garlic, white wine sauce, and with a touch of chilli guajillo. Served with white rice.
Pescado Tikin-Xic
Fresh fish marinated, grilled with a red chilli sauce, served over a fry plantain tortilla with rice and black beans.
Pescado De La Casa
Fresh fish of the season or salmon. Served with rice, roasted veggies, choice of your favorite sauce ajillo sauce, diabla sauce, and a la plancha (no sauce).
Pulpo A Las Brasas
Charbroil adobo octopus. Served with rice, onion relish, and topped with mayonnaise chipotle sauce.
Baja Fish Tacos
2 tacos baja style, with handmade tortillas, topped with cabbage, pico de gallo, aji chilli sauce, and chipotle mayo. Served with rice and beans.

De La Parrilla De Don Luis
Molcajete El Buen Pastor
Served with beef, octopus, shrimp chicken, panela cheese, jalapeno pepper, grilled onions, and topped with a creamy poblano sauce. Served with rice black beans and tortillas.
Molcajete
Served with beef, chicken, shrimp, chorizo, nopal, panela cheese jalapeno peppers, cilantro, and tomatillo sauce. Served with rice, black beans, and tortillas.
Fajitas El Buen Pastor
Sauteed onions, bell pepper, topped with al pastor meat, and melted with cheese. Served with rice, beans, and guacamole.
Fajitas Sol
Sauteed bell peppers, onions, topped with your choice of your favorite protein, or mix with 2 choices of protein. Served with rice beans and guacamole.
Surf and Turf
Half fresh lobster, 8 oz grill rib eye served with 2 sides, and pick your favorite.
Cecina A Las Brasas
Thin beef bistec grilled. Served with nopalito salad, queso panela, grilled onions, black beans, and tortillas.

Prime Selections
Rib Eye Steak (10 oz)
Served with fettuccine pasta and roasted veggies.
New York Steak (10 oz)
Sauteed potatoes and roasted veggies.
Outside Skirt Steak (10 oz)
Sauteed mushrooms and roasted veggies.

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Recent Reviews

Went for the Sunday brunch which didn't close till 3 p.m but upon arrival had to wait for booth because only bar and outdoor seating available. The outside patio was hot due to outdoor cooking and no fans were being used despite there being there. The menudo was slimy with no spices, the tamales were very dry, the rice was white rice with a few vegetables and egg. Had to wait for items to be refilled because they kept running out of certain things. The table service was...
June 2026
The food was very delicious and the dessert yummy 😋 . My first time there ,I love it. I'm going back.I recommend you to try this place come down and bring a family or friend. You want regret it?I had the buffet. Monday / Friday. I'm thinking of going back for the weekend buffet. I heard it's better.I can imagine. God bless enjoy life be happy 😊 😃.
May 2026
Atmosphere was nice. They had a fun spin on the chips that came out for free. They had like some cheese and I think it was some black bean dip on it and the salsas were very tasty as well.,I ordered the ribeye for $40. I asked for it medium, and it came out well done. They offered to send it back, but i’ll only do that if the food is un edible. All the seasonings n pasta that came with it n the squash everything tasted really good. But when you order a ribeye, it...
May 2026

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El Buen Pastor Mexican Cuisine

7919 E Brundage Ln, Bakersfield, CA 93307
(661) 479-8367