El Charrito Mexican Grill

6291 Central Ave, Portage
(219) 841-9466

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Customers' Favorites

Bacon Wrapped Stuffed Jalapeños
Quesabirria Dinner Dipping Tacos
Complimentary Chips Salsa
Cheese Steak Tacos
Carne Asada Dinner
Quesabirria Dinner
El Charrito Nachos
Enchiladas Verdes
Quesadilla Supreme
Guacamole & Salsas

Menu

Starters and Appetizers
Guacamole with Chips
Bean Dip with Chips
Refried beans topped with queso sauce.
Pico de Gallo with Chips
Queso Dip with Chips
Bacon Wrapped Jalapenos
Served with dipping sauce.

A La Carte
Taco a la Carte
Chile Relleno a la Carte
Enchilada a la Carte
Tostada a la Carte
Burrito a la Carte
10-inch flour tortilla prepared with your choice of filling, rice, refried beans, lettuce, tomatoes, and sour cream.
Side of Rice a la Carte
Side of Fries a la Carte
Side of Beans a la Carte

Salads
Traditional Taco Salad
A crispy flour tortilla shell filled with lettuce, tomatoes, guacamole, sour cream, and topped with white shredded cheese. Your choice of filling.
Fajita Taco Salad
Crispy flour tortilla shell filled with fajita-style veggies (cooked onion, green peppers and tomatoes), refried beans, lettuce, pico de gallo, guacamole, sour cream, and your choice of protein.
Grilled Chicken Salad
Marinated grilled chicken breast sliced, served on top of a bed of lettuce, with diced tomatoes, sliced avocados, and a side of ranch dressing.
Guacamole Salad
A small bed of lettuce topped with guacamole, sour cream and diced tomatoes.

Nachos
El Charrito Nachos
Tender steak, grilled chicken, and shrimp cooked with our fajita-style veggies (cooked onion, green peppers and tomatoes) covered in queso sauce, topped with guacamole and sour cream.
Pollo Loco Nachos
Shredded chicken topped with lettuce, diced tomatoes, covered in queso sauce and topped with sour cream.
Fajita Nachos
Our fajitas-style veggies (cooked onion, green peppers and tomatoes) topped with queso sauce, your choice of protein.
Beef and Bean Nachos
Ground beef, refried beans, covered in queso sauce and topped with sour cream.

Quesadillas
Fajita Quesadilla
A large flour tortilla stuffed with shredded cheese, fajita-style veggies (cooked onion, green peppers and tomatoes), served with a side of rice and guacamole salad, your choice of protein.
Quesadilla Supreme
A large tortilla stuffed with shredded cheese served with a rice and guacamole salad, your choice of protein.

House Favorites
Chimichanga Dinner
2 chimichangas filled with beans, cheese, covered in our rojo sauce, served with rice, beans and guacamole salad with your choice of protein.
Chile Rellenos Dinner
2 poblano peppers filled with cheese, deep-fried and covered in your choice of Queso Sauce or Rojo (red) Sauce, served with rice, beans, and guacamole salad.
Burrito Grande
Filled with grilled chicken, chorizo, rice, beans, shredded cheese, covered in verde sauce and queso sauce.
Burrito El Jefe
Filled with grilled chicken, steak, shrimp, rice, beans, shredded cheese, covered in rojo sauce and served with guacamole salad.
Tamale Dinner
2 tamales your choice of Chicken or Pork served with a side of rice and refried beans.
Quesa-birria Dinner
3 Quesa-birria served with a side of rice, beans, and consommé (dipping broth), garnished with cilantro, onions, and lime wedge.

Taco Plates
Tacos El Charrito
2 tacos filled with a mix of steak, grilled chicken, and shrimp, our specialty sauce served with rice, beans and grilled jalapeno on the side.
Tacos de Carnitas
2 tacos filled with our delicious pork carnitas, topped with onion, cilantro, limes, served with rice, beans, and grilled jalapeno on the side.
Tacos de Chorizo
2 tacos filled with chorizo, topped with onions, cilantro, limes, served with rice and beans.
Tacos de Arrachera
2 tacos filled with our delicious marinated grilled skirt steak, topped with cilantro, onions, limes, and served with rice and beans.
Tacos de Pescado
2 fish tacos served on flour tortillas topped with pico de gallo, served with a side of rice.
Cheese Steak Tacos
2 tacos filled with tender steak cooked with onions and green peppers, covered with queso sauce and served with rice and beans.

Enchiladas
Enchiladas de Camarones
3 enchiladas filled with shrimp covered in rojo sauce, melted cheese, served with rice and guacamole salad.
Enchiladas del Mar
3 enchiladas filled with our seafood mix of shrimp, crab, and white fish, covered in queso sauce served with rice and guacamole salad.
Enchiladas Suizas
3 enchiladas covered in our queso sauce served with rice, beans, and guacamole salad, filled with your choice of filling.
Enchiladas de Mole
3 enchiladas covered in our signature mole sauce served with rice, beans, and guacamole salad, filled with your choice of filling.
Enchiladas Rojas
3 enchiladas covered in our rojo (red) sauce served with rice, beans, and guacamole salad, filled with your choice of filling.
Enchiladas Verdes
3 enchiladas topped with verde (green) sauce, melted cheese served with rice, beans, and guacamole salad, filled with your choice of filling.

Seafood
Camarones a la Diabla
Juice shrimp simmered in a spicy sauce, cooked with onions, served with rice, beans, guacamole salad, and pico de gallo, served with a choice of tortillas.
Camarones al Mojo de Ajo
Juice shrimp marinated with garlic, cooked with onions, served with rice, side of salad with pico de gallo, sliced avocado with a choice of tortillas.
Arroz con Camarones
Garlic shrimp served over a bed of rice topped with queso sauce and served with a choice of tortillas.
Tostadas de Camarones
2 tostadas layered with refried bean, juice shrimp, lettuce and topped with pico de gallo.
Burrito del Mar
Filled with our seafood mix of shrimp, fish, crab, rice, pico de gallo, cheese and sour cream.
Shrimp Cocktail
Shrimp swimming in our delicious signature cocktail sauce and served with tostadas.
Shrimp Chimichangas
2 deep-fried chimichangas filled with shrimp, beans, shredded cheese covered in our rojo sauce. Served with guacamole salad, rice and beans.

Pork
Carnitas Dinner
Tender chunks of delicious pork cooked with grilled onions, served with rice, beans, grilled jalapeno, with a choice of tortillas.
Pork en Salsa Verde
Pork slow-cooked in our verde salsa, served with rice, beans with a choice of tortilla.
El Puerco Burrito
Filled with marinated pork, rice, beans, cheese covered in rojo sauce and queso sauce, served with rice and guacamole salad.

Steak
Carne Asada Dinner
Tender marinated skirt steak topped with grilled onions, jalapenos, served with rice, beans, guacamole salad with a choice of tortillas.
Steak Ranchero
Grilled skirt steak covered with our special ranchero salsa, served with rice, beans, guacamole salad with a choice of tortillas.
Steak a la Mexicana
Sliced skirt steak cooked with tomatoes, onions, jalapenos, served with rice, beans, guacamole salad with a choice of tortillas.

Signature Dishes and Sizzling Fajitas
Parillada to Share
Serves 2. Grilled chicken, steak, shrimp, chorizo, pork, jalapenos and green onions.
El Molcajete
Grilled chicken, steak, chorizo, shrimp, jalapenos, green onions, topped with melted cheese served in a traditional molcajete.
House Fajitas
Your choice of protein.
Aloha Fajitas
Grilled chicken, ham and pineapple.
Fajitas Charrito
A mix of grilled chicken, steak, shrimp, and chorizo.
Vegetarian Fajitas
Our seasoned fajita-style veggies (cooked onion, green peppers and tomatoes) grilled to perfection.

Chicken
Pollo Ranchero
Juicy grilled chicken breast covered in our delicious ranchero salsa, topped with melted cheese, served with rice, beans, and guacamole salad with a choice of tortillas.
Arroz con Pollo
Grilled chicken breast sliced, served on top of a bed of rice and covered in our delicious queso sauce served with a choice of tortillas.
Pollo Asado
Grilled marinated chicken breast served with rice, beans, guacamole salad and a choice of tortillas.
Chicken Flautas
4 chicken flautas served with rice, beans and guacamole salad.

Fountain Drinks
Fountain Drink
Your choice of flavor.
Jarritos
Horchata
24oz

Childrens Plates
Childrens Burrito
Your choice of filling, covered in queso sauce served with rice and beans.
Childrens Cheese Quesadilla
Served with rice or fries.
Childrens Enchilada
Served with rojo sauce, rice and beans.
Childrens Chicken Strips
Served with fries.
Childrens Taco
Your choice of filling, served with rice and beans.

Desserts
Oreo Cheese Cake
Churros with Ice Cream
Tres Leche Cake
Cheesecake Chimichanga

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Recent Reviews

Amazing chimichangas, queso, drinks, and service.

They dethroned my other go-to and now I dont wanna step foot in my old place.

The service is great, managers very nice, unbeatable drinks in Portage!

Our table was slanted and so things were dripping onto the booth, just fyi 😆

Still my favorite restaurants hands down!
September 2025
Juan was superb. Made sure our selections were what we hoped for and that we were happy. He was very thorough making sure we knew the prices were ok when top shelf was ordered coupled with offering sauce options to try with my burrito. Everything from service, food and atmosphere was wonderful!
September 2025
My Dad and I stopped here for lunch on a road trip back to Illinois. The food and service were simply outstanding. The lunch specials were well portioned, very reasonably priced, and the food was of outstanding quality. I highly recommend this fantastic restaurant.
August 2025

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El Charrito Mexican Grill

6291 Central Ave, Portage, IN 46368
(219) 841-9466