El Jardin Restaurant

655 Capitola Rd, Santa Cruz
(831) 477-9384

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Enchiladas Mexicali Style
Tacos De Carne Asada
Steak a La Mexicana
Chimichanga Supreme
Nachos Whole Order
Chips and Salsa
Burrito Special
Rice and Beans
Tortilla Soup
Chile Relleno

Menu

Appetizers
Bean Dip
Our delicious refried beans topped with green sauce, sour cream, and cheese.
Guacamole Dip
A perfect blend of avocados, tomatoes, and onions.
Nachos (Full Order)
Homemade corn tortilla chips in a layer of beans and cheese, topped with sour cream, guacamole, green sauce, purple cabbage, tomatoes, jalapenos, and cheese.
Super Appetizer
A large sampler platter with quesadillas, taquitos, and nachos.
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.
Taquito
Four small steak or chicken taquitos, topped with green sauce and served with sour cream, guacamole and afresh salad garnish.
Shrimp Cocktail
Bay shrimp mixed in our spicy red salsa with avocado, pico de gallo, cucumbers, and a splash of lime.
Nachos (Half Order)
Homemade corn tortilla chips in a layer of beans and cheese, topped with sour cream, guacamole, green sauce, purple cabbage, tomatoes, jalapenos, and cheese.

Soups and Salads
Tortilla Soup
Crisp tortilla strips in a chicken broth with red sauce, cheese, rice, chicken, sour cream, and guacamole.
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.
Caldo de Pollo
Homemade chicken soup with rice, pico de gallo, purple cabbage, and sliced avocado. Served with tortillas.
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, and purple cabbages.
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.
Dinner Salad
A crisp green salad topped with, tomatoes, mushrooms, cucumbers, onions, bell peppers, guacamole, and cheese (flour shell is optional).

Our Famous Sizzling Fajita
Steak
Strips of steak, onions, and red and green bell peppers, grilled to sizzling perfection. Served with rice, beans, pico de gallo, sour cream, guacamole, and tortillas.
Chicken
Strips of chicken breast, onions, and red and green bell peppers, grilled to sizzling perfection. Served with rice, beans, pico de gallo, sour cream, guacamole, and tortillas.
Veggie
A medley of grilled vegetables-yellow squash zucchini red and green bell peppers, mushrooms and onions, grilled to sizzling perfection. Served with rice, beans, pico de gallo, sour cream, guacamole, and tortillas.
Shrimp
Grilled prawns, onions, and red and green bell peppers, grilled to perfection. Served with rice, beans, pico de gallo, sour cream, guacamole, and tortillas.

Combinations
Two Items
One Item

Supreme Items
Chimichanga Supreme
A large, deep-fried burrito filled with beans, cheese, and your choice of steak, pulled beef, chicken, or pork. Topped with sour cream, guacamole, tomatoes, purple cabbage, cheese, and green sauce. Served with our delicious homemade rice and beans.
Burrito Supreme
A large burrito filled with beans, rice, and your choice of steak, chicken, pulled beef, or pork. Topped with sour cream, guacamole, tomatoes, purple cabbage, cheese, and red or green sauce. Served with our delicious homemade rice and beans.
Enchilada Supreme
A flour tortilla filled with your choice of cheese, steak, chicken, pulled beef, or pork, 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. Served with our delicious homemade rice and beans.
Tostada Supreme
A crispy flour tortilla topped with beans, your choice of steak, chicken, pulled beef, or pork, green sauce, lettuce, tomatoes, sour cream, guacamole, purple cabbage, and cheese. Served with our delicious homemade rice and beans.
Taco Supreme
A crispy flour tortilla filled with your choice of steak, chicken, pulled beef, or pork, green sauce, lettuce, tomatoes, guacamole, sour cream, purple cabbage, and cheese. Served with our delicious homemade rice and beans.
Quesadilla Supreme
A flour tortilla filled with melted jack cheese and topped with your choice of steak, chicken, pulled beef, or pork. Topped with sour cream, guacamole, tomatoes, purple cabbage, red or green sauce, and more cheese. Served with our delicious homemade rice and beans.

Seafood
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. Served with our delicious homemade rice and beans.
Camarones Rancheros
Shrimp sauteed in our special red sauce with mushrooms and onions. Served with tortillas. Served with our delicious homemade rice and beans.
Camarones Diablos
Shrimp sauteed in our spiciest red sauce. Served with tortillas. Served with our delicious homemade rice and beans.
Camarones Salvajes
Shrimp sauteed in a garlic butter sauce with mushrooms and onions. Served with tortillas. Served with our delicious homemade rice and beans.
Camarones Verdes
Shrimp sauteed in our verde sauce with mushrooms and onions. Served with tortillas. Served with our delicious homemade rice and beans.
Shrimp Enchiladas
Two corn tortillas filled with garlic butter shrimp, topped with melted cheese, green sauce, and sour cream. Served with our delicious homemade rice and beans.
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. Served with our delicious homemade rice and beans.

Specialties
Enchiladas a la Parilla
3 corn tortillas filled with cheese and your choice of steak, chicken. pulled beef, or pork, then grilled and topped with lettuce, tomatoes, cheese, sour cream, guacamole, jalapenos, purple cabbage, and red or green sauce. Served with our delicious homemade rice and beans.
Chile Verde
Tender chunks of lean pork in our signature green sauce. Served with tortillas. Served with our delicious homemade rice and beans.
Polla a la Parilla
A marinated chicken breast grilled and seasoned with special spices and a splash of fajita sauce and topped with green sauce. Served with tortillas. Served with our delicious homemade rice and beans.
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. Served with our delicious homemade rice and beans.
Tres Favoritos
A carne asada, a pollo a Ia parilla, and your choice of shrimp (salvajes, verdes, rancheros, or diablos). Served with tortillas. Served with our delicious homemade rice and beans.
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. Served with our delicious homemade rice and beans.
Carnitas
Tender chunks of marinated pork prepared el jardin's own special way. Served with tortillas. Served with our delicious homemade rice and beans.
Polla a la Mexicana
Strips of chicken prepared in a spicy red sauce with onions, jalapenos, and bell peppers. Served with tortillas. Served with our delicious homemade rice and beans.
Carne Asada
A thin fillet of steak, grilled and seasoned with our special spices, and topped with green sauce. Served with tortillas. Served with our delicious homemade rice and beans.
Chile Colorado
Tender chunks of lean pork in our special red sauce. Served with tortillas. Served with our delicious homemade rice and beans.
Milanesa
A fillet of carne asada or 2 chicken breast fillets, breaded, filled, and topped with green sauce. Served with tortillas. Served with our delicious homemade rice and beans.
Steak a la Mexicana
Strips of steak prepared in a spicy red sauce with onions, jalapenos, and bell peppers. Served with tortillas. Served with our delicious homemade rice and beans.
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. Served with our delicious homemade rice and beans.

A La Carte-Lunch Only
Burrito
Chicken, steak, pulled beef, pork, or bean and cheese.
Taco
Chicken, steak, pulled beef, or pork.
Burrito Grande
A large flour tortilla filled with beans, rice, your choice of steak, chicken, pulled beef, or pork, cheese, green sauce, and pico de gallo.
Fish Taco
Tostada
Chicken, steak, pulled beef, or pork.
Enchilada
Chicken, steak, pulled beef, pork, or cheese.
Quesadilla
Chicken, steak, pulled beef, pork, or cheese.
Taquito
Chicken, steak, or pulled beef.
Tamale Chile Relleno
Carnitas or pulled beef.
Sope Chile Relleno
Chicken, steak or pork, or pulled beef.
Lemon Chicken Taco

Children's Plates
Children Chicken Strips
Served with rice and beans or French fries.
Children Burrito
Served with rice and beans or French fries.
Children Tostada
Served with rice and beans or French fries.
Children Taquito
Served with rice and beans or French fries.
Children Quesadilla
Served with rice and beans or French fries.
Children Enchilada
Served with rice and beans or French fries.
Children Taco
Served with rice and beans or French fries.
Children Corn Dog
Served with rice and beans or French fries.

Kids Drinks
Kids Soda
Kids Milk
Kids Juice

Side Orders
Beans (1/2) and Rice (1/2)
Sour Cream
Side Guacamole
Tortillas
Side Pico
Verde Mole
Rice
Roasted Jalapeno (2 pcs)
Beans
Side Salad
Red Mole
French Fries

Beverages
Sodas
Aguas Frescas
Coffee-Revive Cafe
Hot Tea

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Recent Reviews

Gigantic pitcher of Margarita!!
The appetizers were yummy. Better than expected. Where a bean dip can be bland and pasty, their's is really tasty with a very nice texture. We had the Super Appetizer.
The fried things, tacquitos, and chips, were delicate, not greasy, and flavorful.
The Cadillac Margaritas are, also, delicious.
Honestly, I wasn't expecting all these items to be as good as they were.
May 2025
I think what I like the most about this place is the atmosphere it's nice and quiet mellow and has a lot for you to take in it looks small from the outside but when you go in it seems like it just keeps on going and going and there are so many things to look at check out the floor the design and the floor is awesome, you will not find this art piece in the restaurant this is one of my own that I did and the name of it is bailando that is why I am adding it to this post is...
September 2024
My friend and I went to have lunch there and had the tortilla soup and the chicken soup. It was absolutely delicious. We were greeted warmly, server checked in on us on a regular basis. The food is high-quality, the drinks are strong and the ambiance is incredible!
Did I forget to mention that it’s dog friendly and it has a lovely outdoor patio?
If you’re looking for authentic Mexican cuisine, go visit El Jardin!
July 2024

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El Jardin Restaurant

655 Capitola Rd, Santa Cruz, CA 95062
(831) 477-9384