El Nopal

962 Baxter Ave, Louisville
(502) 434-7385

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It Was Called the El Nopal if I Remember Correctly
Taco Enchilada & Tostada with White Queso
Carnitas Dinner
Chicken Fajitas
A la Mexicana
Macho Burrito
Chimichanga
Enchiladas
Pollo Asado
Carne Asada

Menu

Appetizer - Nachos
Nacho Fajita
Includes grilled onions, bell peppers and tomatoes.
Special Nachos
Chicken, beef or beans garnished with lettuce, tomato, sour cream and guacamole.
Nachos with Beef & Beans
Chips with cheese and a variety of toppings.
Nachos with Chicken
Chips with cheese and a variety of toppings.
Nachos with Beef
Chips with cheese and a variety of toppings.
Nachos with Beans
Chips with cheese and a variety of toppings.
Nachos with Queso
Chips with cheese and a variety of toppings.
Papa Nachos
Fried sidewinder potato your choice ground beef or shredded chicken topped with white queso, guacamole, sour cream and jalapenos.

Appetizer - Dips
Queso Dip
Melted cheese dip.
Bean Dip
Creamy dipping sauce made from beans.
Guacamole Dip
A creamy dip made from avocado.
Chorizo Dip
Queso Dip 1/2
Melted cheese dip.
Chorizo Dip 1/2
Queso Fundido
Choice of chicken or chorizo and tortillas.
Jalapeno Poppers
Jalapeno, onions and lemon.
Taquitos Loaded Potato
Flour potato fried rolled com tortilla garnished with lettuce, sour cream and tomato. Served with ranchero sauce.
Chicken Tenders
Flour chicken tenders. Served with fries and our special dip sauce.
Tortilla Soup
Chunks of white - meat chicken, rice, pico de gallo, avocado and crispy tortillas strips.
Chicken Wings
10 chicken wings with our homemade hot sauce.

Appetizer - Salads
Taco Salad
Beef or chicken. Crispy flour shell filled with beans, lettuce, tomato, cheese, sour cream and guacamole.
Tossed Salad - Guacamole Salad
Dressings: blue cheese, Thousand Island, French, ranch, honey mustard and Italian.
Chicken Salad
Crispy flour shell filled with strips of grilled chicken, bell peppers, lettuce, tomato, onion, bacon. Shredded cheese and choice of dressing.
Tilapia Salad
Grilled tilapia, served over lettuce, tomato, bell peppers and avocado.
Fajita Taco Salad
Crispy flour shell filled with fajita steak chicken, lettuce, tomato, onions, sour cream guacamole and shredded cheese.

Menu
Grilled Tilapia
Grilled tilapia, served with California vegetables and rice.
Grilled Herb Tilapia
Grilled tilapia seasoned with our fine herbs recipe. Served with rice and vegetables.
Grilled Tilapia Mango Salsa
Tilapia fillet. Served with rice, salad and mango salsa.
Tilapia Nortena
Grilled tilapia with banana peppers, onions and tomatoes. Served with rice and lettuce and avocado slices.
Chile Lime Tilapia
Chile lime tilapia. Served with shrimp, rice black beans and mango salsa.
Huarache
Thick handmade tortilla topped with beans, your choice chicken or beef or chorizo, pico de gallo, sour cream and sliced avocado.
Tostadas
Ceviche or shrimp ceviche, tomato, onion, cilantro and lime juice and avocado slices.
Nopal Special
Grilled nopal, accompanied with cambray grilled onions, banana pepper, chorizo, grilled chicken and shrimp. Served with queso panela, black beans and flour tortillas.
Mariscos Soup
Flour shrimp, crab meat, tilapia, California vegetables, served with flour tortillas.
Pollo BBQ
Grilled chicken breast. Served with fries and vegetables.
Pollo Veracruzano
Grilled chicken breast, crab meat and flour shrimp. Served with rice and vegetables.
Pollo La Campesina
Grilled chicken breast topped with spinach, mushrooms, and white queso. Served with rice and vegetables.
Pollo Feliz
Grilled chicken breast, topped with Monterey jack cheese. Served with rice, and vegetables.
Destiny's Platter
Grilled chicken breast with lemon-cilantro garnished with onions. Served alongside California vegetables and rice.
Pollo Norteno
Grilled chicken breast covered in our delicious Norteno sauce, made with sautéed onions, tomato, jalapeno and cilantro. Served with rice and beans.
Shrimp a la Mexicana
Spicy. Grilled shrimp with sliced jalapeno, onion and tomato. Served with rice, lettuce, avocado and flour tortillas.
Camarones Empanizados
8 shrimp hand breaded in spicy cornmeal or garlic. Served with rice and vegetables.
Shrimp Cocktail
Shrimp, served with pico de gallo, avocado in our special sauce.
Camarones al Mojo de Ajo
Grilled shrimp with garlic. Served with salad, rice and flour tortillas.
Camarones a la Diabla
Spicy. Grilled shrimp cooked with our "diabla" sauce. Served with lettuce, pico de gallo, avocado, rice and flour tortillas.
Salmon Fillet
Grilled salmon with onions and bell peppers. Served with a salad, rice and crabmeat enchilada.
Salmon & Shrimp Platter
A juicy salmon, plus, 6 grilled shrimp. Served 6 with California veggies and rice.
Crabmeat Chimichanga
2 flour tortillas filled with crabmeat deep fried. Served with beans and topped with white queso, red sauce, lettuce, sour cream, guacamole and tomato.
Mojarra Frita
Whole tilapia deep fried and served with rice, salad and a crabmeat enchilada.

Burritos
Burrito al Carbon
Grilled strips of chicken or steak rolled in a flour tortilla with white queso on top. Served with rice.
El Burro Grande
Strips of chicken, grilled with onions, bell pepper and tomato with beans rolled in large flour tortilla served with lettuce, sour cream and enchilada sauce.
Burrito Gigante
Beef or chicken, beans, rice, tomato, lettuce and sour cream rolled in a large flour tortilla 12" topped with white queso.
Burritos Rancheros
Spicy. 2 burritos filled with shredded beef or shredded chicken and beans, topped with ranchero sauce and shredded cheese.
Macho Burrito
Extra big, deep fried with shredded beef or chicken, beans, lettuce and sour cream topped with white queso and enchilada sauce.
Burrito de Carnitas
Burrito de carnitas, topped with white queso served with rice and beans, tomatillo sauce on the side.
Seafood Burrito
Dinner sized burrito filled with shrimp, crab meat and tilapia, smothered in white queso. Served with rice.
Burrito Toluca
Sauteed potatoes with tomatoes, onions, with pork chorizo or chicken chorizo and Monterey cheese wrapped in a soft flour tortilla. Covered with enchilada sauce.
Burrito Soya
Sauteed potatoes with tomatoes, onions with soy chorizo and cheese wrapped in a soft flour tortilla. Covered with enchilada sauce.
Burrito Sabroso
Sauteed potatoes with tomatoes, onion and Monterey cheese wrapped in a soft flour tortilla. Covered with enchilada sauce.
Burritos Deluxe
2 burritos, 1 chicken and beans, the other beef and beans, topped with lettuce, burrito sauce, sour cream and tomato.

Quesadilla
Quesadilla Fajita Grande
Grilled with onions, bell peppers and tomato garnished with lettuce, sour cream and tomato.
Quesadilla a la Mexicana
Your choice and chorizo. Served with lettuce, sour cream, guacamole and tomato.
Vegetarian Quesadilla
Grilled mushrooms, onions, bell peppers, zucchini and tomato. Served with lettuce, guacamole and sour cream.
Shrimp Quesadilla
Grilled shrimp, bell peppers, onions, tomato. Served with lettuce, sour cream and tomato.
Quesadilla Roja
Stuffed with ground beef, shredded beef or chicken. Served with rice lettuce, sour cream, tomato and ranchero sauce.
Quesadilla Verde
Stuffed with ground beef, shredded beef or chicken. Served with rice lettuce, sour cream, tomato and ranchero sauce with guacamole.
Quesadilla de Espinacas
Stuffed with spinach and mushrooms. Served with rice, lettuce, sour cream, tomato and guacamole.
Salmon Quesadilla
A twist an a traditional Mexican favorite featuring fresh grilled salmon, onions, peppers and cheese. Served with rice and avocado slices.
Quesadilla Soya
Sautéed potatoes with soy, tomato, onions and cheese.
Quesadilla Chorizo
Pork or chicken chorizo with sautéed potatoes with tomatoes, onions and cheese.

A la Carta
Burritos a la Carta
Beef, chicken or bean. Flour tortilla with a savory filling.
Burrito Deluxe a la Carta
1 piece.
Chalupas a la Carta
Fried tortilla with a savory filling.
Chiles Rellenos a la Carta
Stuffed peppers.
Chimichanga a la Carta
Beef or chicken with white queso, lettuce, guacamole, sour cream. 1 piece.
Enchiladas a la Carta
Chicken, beef or cheese. Stuffed tortilla topped with chili sauce.
Lunch Fried Burritos a la Carta
Chicken or beef.
Fried Taquitos a la Carta
Chicken or beef. 3 pieces.
Grilled Chicken Breast a la Carta
1 piece.
Cheese Quesadillas a la Carta
Quesadilla Rellena a la Carta
Chicken or beef.
Quesadilla Chorizo a la Carta
1 piece.
Grilled Quesadilla a la Carta
Chicken or steak.
Tacos a la Carta
Folded tortilla with a variety of fillings such as meat or beans.
Taco Fajita a la Carta
Grilled chicken or beef.
Beef Tamales a la Carta
Dough wrapped around a filling and steamed in a corn husk or banana leaf.
Tostadas a la Carta
Chicken or beef. Deep fried tortilla with a variety of toppings.
Grilled Shrimp a la Carta
12 pieces.

Beverages
Soft Drink
Milk
Orange Juice
Jarritos
Red Bull
Energy drink, sugar-free and yellow and orange edition.
32 oz frozen or rocks lime specify please
Specify frozen or on rocks
Flavored margarita frozen or on rocks
Frozen or on rocks specify please ! Strawberry,raspberry,mango,peach

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Recent Reviews

We were in Louisville for guys weekend. After a long day of tasting it was good to stop and get dinner. Huge portions and good food. The place was full of drunk people which was loud but the food was good.
September 2025
We went there for my birthday, had been wanting to try it the entire time I have been in Louisville, turns out it was the best Mexican food I have had in a very long time. The Margaritas were top notch! Walked in was sealed, drink order taken, chips and salsa left, server brought glasses of water to us without being asked. Most places you have to ask before getting them. Less than 5 minutes drinks were in front of us and Food order taken, within 10 minutes food was on the table...
May 2025
This el nopal kind of skimps u on food. Every other one I get quesadillas from they’re loaded. This one is barely even half that and they give u less rice and lettuce all while keeping the price the same kind of disappointed especially cuz it usually fills me up but ik this won’t🫤 hate to say but I won’t be going back to this location again. The one in Hillview off Preston next to beef o Brady’s is far superior compared to this one. It’s the one I go to 99% of the...
January 2025

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El Nopal

962 Baxter Ave, Louisville, KY 40204
(502) 434-7385