El Cortez Mexican Restaurant
10128 191st St, Mokena
(708) 478-7766
Customers' Favorites
Pair of Margheritas with Chips and Salsa
Enchilada Aguascalientes Special
Beef Burrito Suizo and Beef Taco
Enchilada Dinner Mexicana
Grilled Chicken Breast
Chicken Fajita Dinner
Chips \u0026 Salsa
Steak Taco Dinner
Rice and Beans
Steak Campesino
Appetizers
Quesadilla Pacifico
Flour tortillas filled with Mexican cheese, chiles poblanos and grilled shrimp, served with sour cream and avocado slices.
Alas
Hot and spicy bbq chicken wings served with celery and blue cheese.
Queso Fundido
Melted cheese blended with fried Mexican sausage, served with your choice of flour or corn tortillas.
Guacamole
A creamy dip made from avocado.
Chips & Salsa
Thinly sliced and crispy.
Ensaladas
Grilled Chicken Salad
Crisp lettuce, tomatoes, and cucumbers with tender chunks of chicken grilled with onions and green peppers served over rice, sprinkled with cheese.
Taco Salad
A flour tortilla fried and filled with your choice of seasoned beef or chicken, lettuce, tomatoes, sour cream, guacamole, and cheddar cheese.
Garden Salad
Green salad with mixed vegetables.
Caldos
Caldo de Res
Hearty beef soup with chunks of tender beef and fresh vegetables in a savory beef broth.
Caldo Xochitl
Chicken soup in a spicy green sauce with a little rice.
Menudo
Our slow-simmered tripe soup is a true Mexican tradition. We'll add hominy to the soup upon request.
Botanas
Botana Suprema
Chicken pounded out round, sandwiched between two flour tortillas, cut in pieces. Served with sour cream and guacamole chicken.
Nachos
Beans, cheese, guacamole, and jalapenos loaded onto flat fried tortillas.
Chicken Fingers
Always a popular choice. Tender battered chicken strips served golden brown with a hot bbq sauce and french fries.
Tacos
Taco Dinner
3 of a kind corn or flour tortillas filled with your choice of beef, chicken, or pork, served with rice and beans.
Steak Taco Dinner
3 corn or flour tortillas filled with tender steak and served with lettuce, tomatoes and cheese.
Tilapia Taco Dinner
2 corn or flour tortillas filled with grilled or breaded tilapia, garnished with lettuce, tomatoes, and cheese. Served with rice and beans.
Pastor Taco
Marinated pork taco served with cilantro, onions and green sauce.
Cortez Taco
Chicken, sour cream, guacamole, and green sauce mixed together and rolled in 2 corn tortillas.
Shrimp Taco
Grilled shrimp with lettuce, tomatoes, and cheese on a corn or flour shell.
Norteno Taco
Breaded steak served on a flour tortilla with sour cream and avocado slice.
Ranchero Taco
Marinated steak taco with cilantro, onions and green sauce.
Sombrero Taco
Hot. Tender pieces of sauteed steak with chorizo, onions, jalapenos, cilantro, bacon, and 3 different types of sauce, all piled on a corn tortilla.
Picudo Taco
Hot. Tender chicken breast chunks grilled with tomato, onion, jalapeno peppers, and topped with a slice of avocado.
Burritos
Burrito Dinner
Flour tortilla rolled and filled with lettuce, tomatoes, and your choice of beef, chicken, or pork. Served with rice and beans.
Supremo Dinner Burrito
Choice of beef, chicken or pork with lettuce, tomatoes, onions, cilantro, cheese, sour cream and guacamole in a 9-inch flour tortilla. Served with rice and beans.
Mini burrito
3 inch burrito filled with bacon, cheese, home-made hot sauce, and sour creme
Quesadillas
Quesadilla Dinner
3 of a kind tortillas flour or corn filled with your choice of beef, chicken or pork, and plenty of cheese, served with sour cream, rice, and beans.
Steak Quesadilla Dinner
3 of a kind tortillas flour or corn filled with steak and plenty of cheese, served with sour cream, rice, and beans.
Tortas
Molletes con Carne Torta
Grilled onions, tomatoes, peppers mild or hot, refried beans and melted cheese over bread with choice of steak, beef or chicken. No garnish included.
Pollo Torta
Grilled, shredded, or breaded chicken.
Pastor Torta
Seasoned pork.
Carne Asada Torta
Steak.
Milanesa Torta
Breaded steak.
Chorizo Torta
Torta Club
Stacked with ham, bacon, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, avocado, cheese, and sour cream. Served with fries. No other garnish included.
Tostadas
Tostada Dinner
3 of a kind flat tortillas layered with beans, then covered with your choice of beef, chicken or pork. Topped with lettuce, tomatoes, and a sprinkle of cheese. Served with rice and beans.
Specialty Tostadas
3 of a kind crispy flat tortillas covered with your choice of beef, chicken or pork, topped with your choice of sauce and melted cheese. Served with rice and beans.
Enchiladas
Enchiladas Dinner
3 corn tortillas rolled and filled with your choice of one of the following cheese, ground beef, chicken or pork, topped with your choice of sauce and served with rice and beans.
Cortez Enchiladas Dinner
3 red enchiladas filled with cheese, Mexican sausage and potato, sprinkled with more cheese and served with sour cream, rice, and beans on the side.
Flautas
Flauta Dinner
3 of kind corn tortillas hard or soft rolled up and filled with choice of beef, chicken, or pork. Includes guacamole and sour cream on the side. Served with rice and beans.
San Marcos Dinner
3 of a kind corn tortillas rolled up and fried, filled with your choice of beef, chicken or potato and covered with cabbage, cheese, sour cream, and red sauce. Served with rice and beans.
Vegetarianas
Veggie Fajitas Vegetarian
A sizzling mix of carrots, bell peppers, tomatoes, onions and mushrooms served with rice, lettuce, pico de gallo, sour cream and guacamole.
Veggie Burrito Supremo Vegetarian
9-inch burrito stuffed with grilled bell pepper, tomatoes, onions, and mushrooms with guacamole, sour cream, pico de gallo, lettuce, and cheese. Served with rice and bola beans.
Chiles Rellenos Vegetarian
2 cheese-stuffed peppers served with Mexican rice and bola beans.
Guacamole Tostada Dinner Vegetarian
3 flat tortillas topped with guacamole, lettuce, tomatoes, and cheese. Includes rice and bola beans.
Veggie Quesadillas Vegetarian
3 tortillas filled with cheese, grilled tomato, onion, bell pepper and mushrooms. Served with Mexican rice and bola beans.
Molletes Vegetarian
2 pieces of bread topped with grilled onions, peppers mild or hot, refried beans tomatoes, and melted cheese.
Carnes
Ricky's Especial
Incredibly tender 8-oz filet mignon cut into delicious chunks and topped with bacon, on a sizzling skillet with grilled onions and refried chorizo beans with melted cheese.
Steak Laredo
Broiled strip steak with sauteed onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, bell peppers, and a special sauce. Served with refried beans.
Steak Cortez
New York strip steak served with beans, cubed potatoes, and a side salad.
Puntillas
Hot. Choice of skirt steak or chicken or shrimp with onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, hot banana peppers, poblano peppers, bell peppers and chorizo served with rice and beans.
Filete Estrella
Thin pounded tenderloin topped with melted cheese and covered in green salsa, served with refried beans.
Steak Fajita Dinner
Chunks of tender steak seasoned and sizzled up with onions and green peppers. Served with beans, pico de gallo, sour cream, and guacamole.
Carne Asada
Skirt steak served with rice, beans, and french fries.
Milanesa de Res
Breaded steak served with rice, beans, and french fries.
Bistec a la Mexicana
Succulent chunks of skirt steak simmered in a Mexican sauce, served with rice and beans.
Mariscos
Camarones Vallarta
Shrimp lightly breaded, seasoned with wine, served on a bed of white rice with your choice of Mexican bread or tortillas.
Camarones Diablos
Hot. Shrimp simmered in our spicy pico de gallo sauce with bacon, served on a bed of white rice with onions and avocado slices on the side, with your choice of Mexican bread or tortillas.
Tilapia a la Vizcaina
Flaky fillet of tilapia lightly breaded and fried served with white rice and corn medley with vizcaina sauce on the side.
Shrimp Fajita
Grilled shrimp with onions and bell peppers sizzled on a skillet, served with rice, sour cream, guacamole, and pico de gallo on the side.
Camarones Ajillo
Shrimp sauteed in garlic and wine served with white rice and choice of Mexican bread or tortillas.
Camarones Empanizados
Breaded shrimp served with rice, lettuce, pico de gallo and barbeque sauce.
Tostada de Ceviche
Shrimp finely chopped on a hard shell tortilla topped with pico de gallo, sour cream, and diced avocados. Makes a great starter or add-on.
Cocktel de Camaron
Succulent shrimp in your choice of a cocktail sauce or our pico de gallo sauce.
Chimichangas Marinera
A blend of shrimp and crab meat in a flour tortilla, fried and served with a side order of rice and avocado slices.
Platillos de Pollo
Pollo Carbon
Strips of chicken breast marinated in two types of sauce, grilled and served over rice with sour cream, guacamole, and a small dinner salad.
Pollo Estrella
Chicken breast pounded out and topped with melted cheese, covered with molcajete sauce, served with rice.
Milanesa de Pollo
Breaded chicken breast served with rice, beans, and fries.
Chicken Fajita Dinner
Chicken breast chunks seasoned and sizzled up with onions and green peppers, served with refried beans, pico de gallo, sour cream, and guacamole.
Pollo Rojo
Pieces of tender chicken breast sauteed in a red sauce and mixed with cubed potatoes and onions, served with a side of rice, pico de gallo, and avocado slices.
Pollo en Mole
Chicken thigh served in mole sauce with rice and beans.
Whisky Chicken
Tender pieces of chicken grilled with bacon, chiles poblano, onions, tomatoes, served with rice, beans, slices of avocado, and cheese sprinkled on top.
Combinaciones
Fajita Mix Any 2
Fajita chooses your own combination of steak, chicken, and or shrimp. Served with lettuce, pico de gallo, sour cream, and guacamole. Combo of any 3.
Fajita Mix Any 3
Fajita chooses your own combination of steak, chicken, and or shrimp. Served with lettuce, pico de gallo, sour cream, and guacamole. Combo of any 3.
Plato Cortez
A flour taco, enchilada Suiza, and tostada Suiza, all made with your choice of beef, chicken, or pork. Served with rice and beans.
Combinacion Nortena
Tender 4-oz filet mignon served with a cheese-stuffed pepper, rice, beans, and a touch of guacamole.
Plato Mexicano
1 corn beef taco, 1 cheese Mexican enchilada, one bean tostada, served with rice and beans.
Vallarta Especial
Surf and turf the Mexican way! Garlic beef tenderloin with shrimp served with papas ajillo and white rice.
Steak Tampiquena
A flavorful tradition! Tender skirt steak, a cheese Mexican enchilada and a cheese quesadilla served with fries and a touch of guacamole.
Combo Cortez
Combo Cortez
A big combo platter of popular appetizers: chicken fingers, two tamales, 2 quesadillas, and 2 chicken flautas with sour cream, guacamole, pico de gallo, and cheese sprinkled on top. Great for sharing or as a meal.
Especialidades De La Casa
Steak Campesino Special
New York strip steak simmered in a special sauce, topped with carrots mushrooms upon request and served with rice and refried beans.
Parrillada Special
Tender skirt steak served with zesty chorizo, grilled jalapenos, and onions.
Cook's Especial
Chunks of steak with slices of poblano peppers, covered with melted cheese, pico de gallo, guacamole, and sour cream on the side. Served with beans and rice.
Manny Special
Grilled chicken breast smothered in poblano peppers, onions and tomato sauce served on a bed of rice with 3 slices of avocado.
Enchilada Aguascalientes Special
A tender bone-in chicken dipped in red sauce, 3 Mexican cheese enchiladas and red cubed potato sprinkled with cheese.
Chimichangas Special
Hot. Your choice of seasoned shredded beef or chicken rolled in flour tortillas, fried, covered with tomatoes, lettuce, sour cream and guacamole. Served with a side order of rice.
Tamale Dinner Special
2 pork tamales in the husk served with rice and beans.
Tamales Cortez Special
2 pork tamales without the husk, topped with sour cream and hot sauce, smothered with melted cheese and served with a side of rice.
Especially for Kids
1. Kid's Tacos
2 meat and cheese tacos served with rice and beans.
2. Kid's Burrito
Meat and cheese burrito served with rice and beans.
3. Kid's Nachos
Bean and cheese nachos.
4. Chicken Fingers Kids
Served with fries.
5. Kid's Quesadillas
Two cheese quesadillas made with corn or flour tortillas served with rice and beans.
6. Kid's Grilled Steak
Chunks of grilled steak served with salad and Mexican rice.
7. Kid's Grilled Chicken
Chunks of grilled chicken breast with salad and Mexican rice.
Side Orders
Order of Tortillas
Four flour or corn tortillas.
Papas
French fries.
Rice
Beans
Rice & Beans
Sour Cream
Beans with Chorizo
Frijoles Borrachos
Drunken beans.
Tamale
Pork.
Jalapenos
Papas Mexicanas
Cubed potatoes in sauce sprinkled with cheese, served with avocado.
Papas Ajillos
Garlic potatoes.
Papas Ags
Cubed potatoes in traditional Mexican red sauce and cheese.
Pan Ajillo
Garlic bread.
Pico de Gallo
Cebollitas
Salsa
Suiza, verde, queretana, poblano, or ranchero.
Desserts
Fried Ice Cream
Bunuelos
Golden crispy sweet strips of pastry served with chocolate syrup and strawberry dipping sauce.
Mexi-chango
Fried tortilla stuffed with cream cheese. Served with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and sprinkled with choice of strawberry or chocolate syrup.
Flan
Creme caramel custard.
Beverages
Soft Drinks
Brewed Unsweet Iced Tea
Cafe
Coffee.
Jarrito
Variety of flavors fruit punch, lime, mandarin, strawberry, pineapple, grapefruit and guava.
Horchata
Rice water.
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Recent Reviews
I'm speechless writing this review; there are no words to say about this place, it was the epitome of average. Several excellent Mexican restaurants in Frankfort, El Cortez needs to step it up ☝️
October 2025
I eat here regularly and enjoy their food, friendly staff and great service. Wife and I can’t go a week without stopping by and having their great salsa and guacamole.
Just love this place, staff are like family to us!!!
Just love this place, staff are like family to us!!!
August 2025
I’ve been eating here consistently for 2 years and the food is packed with flavor, properly seasoned, and authentic. It’s easy to tell that regardless of the time of day you visit, they care about their recipes and their execution. The service is always great also and everyone is kind and jovial. I grew up eating REALLY good chile rellenos regularly and El Cortez has the absolute best chile rellenos I’ve ever had. 5+ stars.
July 2025
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