El Molino Mexican Restaurant

2112 Elgin Rd, Carpentersville
(847) 551-1602

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Enchiladas El Molino Medium
Enchiladas Huastaqueñas
Special Chips and Salsa
Enchiladas Huastuquenas
Macho Mex Chimichanga
Fajitas De Camaron
Cheese Quesadilla
Chiles Rellenos
Fried Ice Cream
Tortilla Chips

Menu

Appetizers
Guacamole
Avocado dip
Nachos El Molino
Crisp and corn tortilla chips served with melted cheese and your choice of protein.
Nachos
Crisp tortilla chips with melted cheese and refried beans-jalapenos upon request)
Quesadilla Supreme
Two flour tortillas filled with melted cheese and your choice of protein. Served with guacamole, sour cream, tomato, cilantro, onion, and lettuce.
Fiesta Platter
Sample our appetizers-chicken flauta 1/2 quesadilla, nachos el molino, sour cream, and guacamole.
Quesadilla
Two flour tortillas filled with melted cheese. Served with guacamole, sour cream, tomato, online, cilantro, and lettuce.
Queso Fundido
A delicious blend of chihuahua cheese with chorizo-spicy sausage. Served with flour tortillas.
Coctel de Camarones
A delicious blend of shrimp, marinated in our special sauce.
Tamalitos
A corn dough pastry filled with pork, topped with ranchero sauce, chihuahua cheese and sour cream.
Jalapenos El Molino
Four stuffed large jalapeno peppers, filled with cheese and deep fried. Topped with ranchero sauce and sour cream.
Quesadilla Mushroom
2 Flour tortillas filled with melted cheese and portabella mushrooms. Served with guacamole, sour cream, tomato, cilantro, onion, and lettuce.
Sopes
Two corn dough patties topped with your choice of protein, refried beans, cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion, cilantro, and sour cream.

Mains
Tacos
Three tacos filled with your choice of protein, lettuce, tomato, onion, cilantro, and shredded cheese. Served with rice and beans on the side. Your choice of tortillas-soft corn, soft flour, or hard shell.
Tacos Carne
Three tacos filled with carne asada, lettuce, tomato, onion, cilantro, and shredded cheese. Served with rice and beans on the side. Your choice of tortillas-soft corn, soft flour, or hard shell.
Flautas
Three rolled corn tortillas filled with your choice of meat, deep fried, and topped with guacamole and sour cream. Served with rice and beans on the side.
Tamales
Three corn dough pastries filled with pork and topped with ranchero sauce, melted cheese, and sour cream. Serve with rice and beans on the side.
Tacos Carnitas
Three tacos served with shredded pork topped with lettuce, onion, tomato, cilantro, and shredded cheese. Served with rice and beans on the side. Choice of tortillas-soft corn, soft flour, or hard shell.
Tacos Al Pastor
Three tacos filled With el pastor, lettuce, tomato, onion, cilantro, and shredded cheese. Served with rice and beans on the side. your Choice of tortillas-soft corn, soft flour, and hard shell.
Chiles Rellenos
Two stuffed poblano peppers breaded and deep fried. Filled with your choice of meat or cheese, and topped with ranchero sauce, melted cheese, and sour cream. Served with rice and beans on the side. Your choice of tortillas-soft corn or soft flour.
Tostadas
Two flat crisp corn tortillas topped with a thin layer of beans with your choice of meat, shredded cheese, lettuce, onion, tomato, cilantro, guacamole, and sour cream. Served with rice on the side.

Soups/ Salads
Caldo De Res
A real Mexican tradition. Made in a broth with beef and a fresh blend of vegetables. Served with rice, cilantro, onion, lime, and your choice of tortillas on the side.
Taco Salad
Your choice of chicken, ground beef, or machaca beef-upcharge for carne asada. Served in a crisp flour tortilla shell with lettuce, onion, tomato, cilantro, shredded cheese, avocado, slices, and a side of sour cream.
Caldo De Pollo
A real Mexican tradition. Made with broth, half a chicken on the bone, and fresh vegetables. Served with rice, cilantro, onion, lime, and your choice of tortillas on the side.
Camarones Vallarta
Fresh shrimp deliciously mixed with cabbage, onion, cilantro, tomato, carrots, and mayonnaise.

Steaks / Meat
Carne Asada
Tender skirt steak marinated and charbroiled to your taste. Served with Mexican fries, rice, refried beans, garnish salad, and flour or corn tortillas.
Fajitas
Carne asada, chicken, shrimp, or combo. Tender strips of meat marinate and charbroiled with onion and green pepper. Served sizzling hot with rice, refried beans, garnish salad, guacamole, sour cream, cheese, and flour or corn tortillas.
Carne Oaxaquena
Tender skirt steak, marinated and charbroiled to your taste, topped with our spicy chipotle sauce and cheese. Served with chicken chilaquiles on the green sauce, rice, refried beans, garnish salad, and flour or corn tortillas.
Bistec a la Mexicana
Casserole of tender pieces of skirt steak seasoned with peppers, onions, tomatoes, and ranchero sauce. Served with rice, refried beans, garnish salad, and flour or corn tortillas.
Carne Tampiquena
Tender skirt steak marinated and charbroiled to your taste. Served with Mexican fries, a tamale, rice, refried beans, garnish salad, guacamole, sour cream, and flour or corn tortillas.
Pollo Oaxaqueña
Cut up breast of chicken, topped with our spicy chipotle sauce and cheese. Served with chicken chilaquiles on green sauce, rice refried beans, garnish salad, and flour or corn tortillas.
Milanesa
A breaded skirt steak in our special spices. Served with Mexican fries, rice, refried beans, garnish salad, and flour or corn tortillas.

Pollo
Mole Poblano
Fresh chicken cooked in mole sauce made with a fine blend of spices and a variety of peppers. Served with Rice, Beans, and your choice of tortillas on the side.
Pollo en Salsa
Grilled chicken marinated in ranchero sauce, green peppers, and onions. Served with rice, beans, and your choice of tortillas on the side.

Seafood
Shrimp Tacos
Two tacos filled With grilled shrimp, cabbage, cilantro, onions, and Southwestern sauce with rice, beans, and your choice of tortilla.
Fish Tacos
Two tacos filled with grilled white fish, cabbage, cilantro, and onions, Served with rice and beans and a side of Southwestern sauce-crisp corn, soft flour, or soft corn.
Camarones Veracruzanos
Sauteed shrimp casserole, served with peppers, tomatoes, onions, spices, and ranchero sauce on a bed of rice.
Camarones a La Plancha
Four jumbo shrimp sliced open and half of a skirt steak, deliciously seasoned and charbroiled to your taste. Served with Mexican fries, rice, and beans. Your choice of flour or corn tortillas.
Camarones Empanizados
Six large breaded shrimp served with a garnish salad and French fries.

Chimi & Burritos
Burrito Suizo
Three burritos made with flour tortillas with your choice of machaca beef, ground beef, chicken, cheese, beans, and cheese or carne asada-upcharge. Topped with our ranchero sauce and melted cheese. Served with rice, refried beans, and sour cream.
Burritos
Three burritos made with flour tortillas with your choice of machaca beef, ground beef, chicken, beans, and cheese or carne asada-upcharge. Served with rice and refried beans.
Chimichanga Delite
Our regular chimichanga with your choice of meat-carne asada upcharge. Topped with suiza sauce and cheese and served with rice, refried beans, guacamole, and sour cream.
Chimichanga
A folded flour tortilla deep fried and filled with your choice of meat-carne asada upcharge. Served with rice, refried beans, guacamole, and sour cream.
Macho Mex Chimichanga
A huge chimichanga for a big eater. Filled with your choice of meat. Topped with suiza sauce and cheese. Served with rice, refried beans, guacamole, and sour cream.
Panzon
A deep-fried corn dough pastry filled with your choice of machaca beef, ground beef, chicken, chorizo, or carne asada-upcharge. Topped with spicy chipotle salsa-milder salsa upon request and chihuahua cheese. Served with sour cream, avocado slices, lettuce, pico de gallo, rice, and refried beans.

Enchiladas
Enchiladas Mole
Three corn tortillas filled with your choice of-cheese authentic mole poblano sauce, machaca beef, ground beef or chicken, carne asada upcharge. Covered with our authentic mole poblano sauce, and topped with melted chihuahua and sour cream. Served with rice and refried beans.
Enchiladas El Molino
Three corn tortillas filled with your choice of-cheese beef, machaca beef, or chicken, carne asada upcharge. Covered with our special el molino sauce medium, topped with melted chihuahua and sour cream. Served with rice and refried beans.
Enchiladas Suizas
Three corn tortillas filled with your choice of cheese, machaca beef, ground beef or chicken, carne asada upcharge. covered with our ranchero sauce-mild, topped with melted chihuahua cheese and sour cream. Served with rice and refried beans.
Enchiladas Indias
Three corn tortillas filled with your choice of cheese, machaca beef, ground beef, or chicken-carne asada upcharge. Covered with our delicious green sauce-mild, topped with melted chihuahua and sour cream. Served with rice and refried beans.
Enchiladas Entomatadas
Three corn tortillas filled with your choice of cheese, machaca beef, ground beef or chicken, carne asada upcharge. Topped with melted chihuahua and sour cream. Served with rice and refried beans.
Enchiladas Huastuqueñas
Three corn tortillas filled with your choice of cheese, machaca beef, ground beef or chicken, carne asada upcharge. Covered with our chipotle sauce-spicy, topped with melted chihuahua cheese and sour cream. Served with rice and refried beans.

Combinations
#4 El Jacal
Chicken flauta, cheese chile relleno, and tamale. Served with rice and beans on the side.
#3 Chicago
Chorizo tostada cheese burrito, cheese, and onion enchilada with molino sauce served with rice and beans on the side.
#5 The Vegetarian
Guacamole tostada, cheese burrito, cheese and onion enchilada with molino sauce. Served with rice and beans on the side.
#2 El Molino
1/2 skirt steak, chicken taco on a hard shell tortilla, cheese enchilada with molino sauce. Served with rice and beans on the side.
#1 Guadalajara
Ground beef taco with a hard shell tortilla, 1/2 a quesadilla, and cheese chile relleno. Served with rice and beans on the side.

Breakfast
Huevos Con Chorizo
Scrambled eggs with Mexican sausage. Served with rice, refried beans, and tortillas.
Huevos El Molino
Scrambled eggs fried with tortilla chips, peppers, and onions. Topped with molino sauce, melted cheese, and sour cream. Served rice, refried beans, and tortillas.
Huevos Rancheros
Two eggs sunny side up, topped with ranchero sauce, and cheese. Served with rice, refried beans, and tortillas.

Burgers
Hamburger
Our 1/3 pound hamburger is served with onion, pickle, lettuce, tomato, and French fries.
Grande Hamburger
Our double-decker hamburger is served with onion, pickle, lettuce, tomato, and French fries.

Kids
Kid Burrito
1 burrito made with a flour tortilla filled with machaca beef, ground beef, chicken, cheese, beans, and cheese or carne asada-upcharge. Served with rice and refried beans.
Kid Quesadilla
1/2 quesadilla. Served with rice and refried beans.
Kid Chicken Fingers
Served with French fries.
Kid Quesadilla Supreme
1/2 quesadilla filled with your choice of meat. Served with rice and refried beans.
Kid Taco
1 taco filled with your choice of machaca beef, chicken or carne asada-upcharge. Topped with lettuce, tomatoes, onions, cheese, and cilantro. Served with rice, beans, and flour or corn tortilla.
Kid Enchilada
1 enchilada topped with suiza sauce and filled with chicken, machaca beef, ground beef, cheese, beans, and cheese or carne asada-upcharge. Served with rice and refried beans.
Kid Chicken Breast
Chicken breast cut into pieces and served with rice beans.

A La Carte
Taco
One taco filled with your choice of meat, lettuce, tomato, onion, cilantro, and shredded cheese. Your choice of tortilla-soft corn, soft flour, or hard shell.
Tamale
One corn-douched pastry filled with pork and topped with ranchero sauce, melted cheese, and sour cream.
Sope
One corn dough patty topped with your choice of chicken, machaca beef, ground beef, chorizo, or carne asada-upcharge with beans, cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion, cilantro, and sour cream.
Tostada
Pne flat crisp corn tortilla topped with a thin layer of beans with your of meat, shredded cheese, lettuce, onion, tomato, cilantro, guacamole, and sour cream.
Chile Relleno
One stuffed poblano pepper breaded and deep friend. Filled with your choice of meat or cheese, and topped with ranchero sauce, melted cheese, and sour cream. Your choice of tortillas-soft corn, soft flour, or hard shell.
Burrito Suizo
One burrito made with a 6 inches flour tortilla filled with your choice of machaca beef, chicken, cheese, beans and cheese, or carne asada-upcharge. Topped with salsa sauce and cheese.
Burrito A La Carte
One burrito made with a 6 inches flour tortilla filled with your choice of machaca beef, chicken, cheese, beans and cheese, or carne asada-upcharge.
Burrito Cheese on Top
One burrito made with a 6 inches flour tortilla filled with your choice of machaca beef, chicken, cheese, beans, and cheese or carne asada-upcharge and topped with cheese.

Dessert
Flan
Caramel custard served with a delicious mix of fresh berry puree on the side.
Fried Ice Cream
Vanilla ice cream deep-fried and rolled in rice krispies. Served with peaches or strawberries, chocolate syrup, and whipped cream in a fried tortilla shell.
Mulitas
Flour tortilla filled with your choice of mangos, guavas, peaches, or strawberries, deep fried and topped with whipped cream.
Ice Cream
1 or 2 scoops of vanilla ice cream.

Sides
Side Rice
Side Sour Cream
Side Mexican Fries
Side Beans
Side Tortillas
Side Pico
Avocado Slices
Side Jal
Side Cilantro
Side American Fries

Chips / Salsa
Special Chips (12 oz) and Salsa
A combo special-one 12 ounce green salsa, one 12-ounce red salsa, and a small bag of chips.
Salsa
Bag of Chips
Specialty Salsa
Special Chips (32 oz)/ Salsa
Bucket (64 oz)

Beverage
Horchata
Soft Drink
Jarrito
Topo Chico Mineral Water

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Recent Reviews

Recently remodeled, we found it to be very comfortable and inviting. Classical guitar playing live added to the ambience as well as the aromas of classic Mexican dishes.
Chips and tortillas are all house made, (I'd love to have their recipe,) and the entrees were very good.
We'll definitely keep this on our radar in the future.
May 2026
Great place! First time back after the renovation, and it is open and fresh feeling. We had a variety of different food options and all were very delicious. Our server Saharai , was attentive and friendly when we were asking questions. We will definitely be returning and recommending to others!
May 2026
The food was amazing, the best chilaquiles I’ve ever had! Everything tasted authentic and fresh. My licuado was delicious, the tamalitos were incredible, and the café de olla was so good. The service really stood out because they even made something for us that wasn’t on the menu without hesitation. Highly recommend!
March 2026

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El Molino Mexican Restaurant

2112 Elgin Rd, Carpentersville, IL 60110
(847) 551-1602