Tequila Restaurant & Cantina
2824 Easton Blvd, Des Moines
(515) 262-4485
Customers' Favorites
Beef Enchilada with Rice and Beans
37 Fajita Taco Salad Shrimp
Mexico City Street Tacos
Mexican City Steak Tacos
Enchilada Rice and Beans
Combination Fajitas
Carne Asada Taco
Chips and Salsa
53 City Tacos
Chicken Fajita
Mexican Breakfast
54. Huevos сon Chorizo
Mexican sausage with 2 eggs served with rice and beans.
55. Huevos Rancheros
2 over easy eggs on fried tortillas with green salsa served with rice and beans.
56. Huevos ala Mexicana
2 eggs, with onions, tomatoes, bell peppers, rice and beans.
57. Huevos with Bacon and Potatoes
2 scrambled eggs served with potatoes, bacon, rice and beans.
Appetizers
Super Nachos
Chips served with beans, salsa ranchera, cheese, sour cream, with guacamole. Served with your choice of ground beef, shredded beef, grilled chicken, shredded chicken, steak, or chile verde.
Guacamole
Cheese Dip
Bean Dip
Large Quesadilla
Served with guacamole and sour cream. Comes with your choice of cheese, grilled chicken, ground beef, steak, or chile verde.
Soups
Steak Tortilla Soup
Vegetables Tortilla Soup
Chicken Tortilla Soup
Combination
1. One Enchilada Combo
Choice of beef or chicken.
2. One Crispy Taco Combo
Choice of beef or chicken.
3. One Soft Taco and Soft Flour Tortilla Combo
Choice of beef or chicken.
4. One Deep Fried Taco Combo
Choice of steak, beef or chicken.
5. One Small Burrito Combo
Choice of beans, beef or chicken.
6. One Soft Mexican Taco with Soft Corn Tortilla Combo
Choice of steak, beef, chorizo, or carnitas.
7. One Chile Relleno Combo
8. One Beef Tamale Combo
9. One Mini Taco Salad Combo
Choice of beef or chicken.
10. One Enchilada and One Deep Fried Taco Combo
11. One Enchilada and One Small Burrito Combo
12. One Enchilada and One Crispy Taco Combo
13. One Enchilada and One Chile Relleno Combo
14. One Deep Fried Taco and One Chile Relleno Combo
15. Two Enchiladas Combo
16. Two Crispy Tacos Combo
17. Two Deep Fried Tacos Combo
18. One Deep Fried Taco, One Enchilada, and One Mini Taco Salad Combo
19. One Deep Fried Taco, One Enchilada, and One Small Burrito Combo
Chicken
Chicken Salad
Lettuce and tomatoes with grilled chicken topped with shredded cheese.
20. Chicken Dinner
Grilled chicken strips with pico de gallo, sour cream, guacamole, rice and beans.
Choripollo
Grilled chicken with chorizo and cheese dip, served with rice, pico de gallo, and sour cream.
Steak
23. Chile Colorado Steak
Beef glazed with a red sauce served with rice or beans, vegetables and potatoes.
24. Carne Asada
An 8 oz. charbroiled steak served with a cheese enchilada, rice, beans, guacamole, and pico de gallo.
25. Steak Picado
Cooked steak and vegetables served with rice and beans.
26. Steak Dinner
A combination of grilled steak served with pico de gallo, sour cream, guacamole, rice and beans.
Pork
21. Carnltas
Roasted pork served with rice, beans, guacamole and pico de gallo.
22. Chile Verde
Tender pork cubes simmered in spicy tomatillo cilantro salsa. Served with rice and beans.
Chimichangas
27. Tequilas Chimichangas
A flour tortilla filled with your choice of beef, chicken, or chile verde, deep fried until crispy. Served with guacamole, sour cream, beans and rice.
28. Cheese Dip Chimichanga
A flour tortilla filled with your choice of beef, chicken, steak, chile verde, or pork, deep fried. Served with guacamole, sour cream, beans, rice, and melted cheese.
Fajita Chimichanga
A deep fried burrito with sauteed onions, tomatoes, and bell peppers served with a side of guacamole, pico de gallo, and sour cream.
29. Flautas
2 flour tortillas rolled and filled with beef or chicken, fried, served with guacamole, sour cream, rice and beans.
30. Taquitos Fritos
3 corn tortillas rolled and filled with beef or chicken, fried, served with guacamole, sour cream, rice and beans.
Fajitas
31. Chicken Fajita
32. Steak Fajita
33. Shrimp Fajita
34. Chicken and Steak Fajita
35. Chicken, Shrimp, and Steak Fajita
36. Veggie Fajita
37. Taco Salad Fajita
Served with beans, lettuce, tomatoes, guacamole, and sour cream.
Large Burritos
38. Tequila's Burrito
A large flour tortilla filled with your choice of beef, chicken, carnitas, steak, or chile verde, topped with shredded cheese, served with rice and beans.
39. Fajfta Burrito
A large flour tortilla filled with sauteed vegetables served with guacamole, sour cream, pico de gallo, rice and beans.
40. Veggie Burrito
A large flour tortilla filled with a variety of fresh and steamed veggies served with guacamole, pico de gallo, rice and beans.
41. Carne Asada Burrito
A flour tortilla filled with rice, beans, cheese, and pico de gallo. Served with sour cream on the side. Add cheese dip on the side for an additional charge.
42. Shredded Beef Burrito
A large flour tortilla filled with shredded beef, rice and beans, topped with shredded cheese and served with salsa verde and sour cream on the side.
Mexican Burrito
A large flour tortilla with your choice of beef, chicken, or steak, with sauces laid over to represent the Mexican flag. Served with sour cream, lettuce and tomatoes.
Shrimp Entrees
43. Camarones ala Diabla
Large shrimp marinated in a hot diabla sauce served with rice, beans, avocado slices, and sour cream.
44. Camarones Rancheros
Jumbo shrimp with mild ranchera sauce. Served with rice and beans.
45. Camarones Flores
Jumbo marinated shrimp wrapped in bacon and fried until crispy, served with a side of beans and rice.
46. Camarones al Mojo de Ajo
Sauteed shrimp marinated in a garlic sauce served with rice, avocado slices, and lettuce.
47. Enchilada del Mar
Sauteed shrimp and vegetables rolled with ranchera sauce in 2 flour tortillas topped with melted cheese and served with rice and sour cream.
Enchiladas
48. Enchiladas Suizas
2 chicken enchiladas with green tomatillo sauce. Served with rice, beans and sour cream.
49. Enchiladas Rancheras
2 cheese enchiladas with ranchera sauce served with rice, beans, and sour cream.
50. Enchiladas Verdes
2 pork enchiladas with green tomatillo sauce, topped with shredded cheese, served with rice, beans, and sour cream.
51. Enchiladas Supremas
4 enchiladas filled with your choice of beef, chicken, beans, or cheese. Served with lettuce, tomatoes, and sour cream. Add cheese dip on the side for an additional charge.
52. Cheese Dip Enchiladas
2 enchiladas filled with your choice of beef, chicken, or cheese, served with a side of cheese, rice and beans.
Tacos
53. Three Mexican City Tacos
3 mini soft corn tortillas filled with pico de gallo and your choice of steak, chicken, carnitas (pork), beef, or chorizo. Served with rice, beans, and a lime wedge on the side. Add shredded cheese for an additional charge.
1 Mexican City Taco
1 Deep Fried Taco
A deep fried flour tortilla filled with lettuce, tomatoes, and cheese with your choice of steak, grilled chicken, beef or shredded chicken.
1 Soft Taco
A flour tortilla with lettuce, tomatoes, and cheese served with your choice of chicken or beef.
1 Crispy Taco
A fried tortilla with your choice of beef or chicken.
1 Soft Mexican Taco
A large soft corn tortilla with your choice of steak, grilled chicken, pork, chorizo, or beef, filled with pico de gallo and guacamole.
Extras
Plain Small Quesadilla
Enchilada
Beef, chicken or chile verde.
Mini Taco Salad
Choice of beef or chicken.
Small Burrito
Choice of beef, chicken, beans, or cheese.
Chile Relleno
Tamal
Order of Steak
Order of Grllled Chicken
Order of Potatoes, Veggies and Cheese
Tostada Beans and Cheese
Tostada with Beef
Tostada with Chicken
Small Bean Dip
Side of Sour Cream
Side of Beans
Side of Pico de Gallo
Side of Ranch Dressing
Side of Italian Dressing
Bag of Corn Chips
Cup of Salsa
Kids Menu
Kids Enchilada
Kids Crispy Taco
Kids Soft Taco
Kids Deep Fried Taco
Kids Burrito, Beans and Cheese
Kids Quesadilla
Kids Nachos Without Rice
Kids Nachos Without Beans
Kids Chicken Nuggets
Kids Cheese Burger
Desserts
Deep Fried Ice Cream
Vanilla ice cream rolled in crispy flakes, deep fried and covered with cinnamon sugar topped with chocolate, caramel cream.
Sopapilla
An open faced tortilla, fried, and topped with ice cream, cinnamon sugar, chocolate, caramel, and whipped cream.
Beverages
Soft Drinks
Add grenadine for an additional charge.
Jarritos
Cherry Tempo
Iced Tea
Orange Juice
Coffee
Milk
Chocolate Milk
Recent Reviews
I have patronized this restaurant for +20 years and have always gotten the best Mexican food and drinks that can be offered anywhere in the Des Moines area and beyond. The hospitality and service is always great and I promise that you too will be pleasantly pleased with any thing offered on their menu! Try one of my very favorites “Chili Colorado”. It’s the dish that I measure any Mexican restaurant anywhere in America, because when I travel away from home I have never found...
February 2025
Great Customer Service! NOT! I called in a order to go. A simple chicken quesadilla fajita. A side of rice. Also some queso dip. Paying over 20 dollars. Got home, there's only maybe 7 pieces of chicken in my large quesadilla. I called them. Told the lady I wasn't happy. Before I could say more. I was told "Not To Come Back" Then she hang up the phone up. Poor customer service. Shaking my head.
October 2024
Highly recommend Tequila Mexican restaurant! It had been a long day with my kiddos and we had just picked up my husband from the airport so we wanted to dine out instead of having to make anything. I was craving Mexican and my husband found Tequila Mexican Restaurant was near us and family friendly. When they say family friendly, they were not kidding. I had a total mom fail and didn’t think about my 2 month old being cranky after getting shots today. When we finished ordering,...
July 2024