El Rio Grande Mexican Restaurant

220 N Plaza Dr, Nicholasville
(859) 887-0063

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Steak Chicken or Mixed Fajitas
Steak Chicken & Mixed Fajitas
Especialidad Rio Grande
Steak Fajitas for One
Camarones a La Diabla
Especialidad Fajitas
Grande Quesadilla
Tacos Carne Asada
Chips and Salsa
Chicken Fajitas

Menu

Lunch Specials
Quesadilla Rellena Lunch
A large flour tortilla stuffed with your choice of shredded chicken or chunks of beef. Served with rice and beans.
Fajitas Lunch
Strips of chicken breast or steak with sautéed onions, tomatoes and bell peppers. Served with lettuce, guacamole, sour cream, pico de gallo, rice, beans, and tortillas.
Grilled Quesadilla Special Lunch
A grilled chicken quesadilla served with lettuce, tomatoes, and sour cream.
Taco Salad Lunch
A crisp flour tortilla shell topped with tomatoes, lettuce, shredded cheese, sour cream and cheese sauce with your choice of shredded chicken or ground beef.
Chimichanga Lunch
Deep-fried flour tortilla topped with lettuce, sour cream, pico de gallo, guacamole, cheese sauce and filled with your choice of shredded chicken or chunks of beef. Served with rice and beans.
Asado Lunch
Pork topped with Mexican hot sauce. Served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Burrito al Carbon Lunch
Grilled chicken or steak burrito topped with lettuce, sour cream, shredded cheese and smothered in cheese sauce. Served with rice and beans.
Speedy Gonzales Lunch
A hard shell or soft shell taco topped with cheese and lettuce and an enchilada covered in red sauce with your choice of ground beef or shredded chicken filling. Served with rice and beans.
Quesadilla Fajita Grande Lunch
A large flour tortilla stuffed with onions, tomatoes and bell peppers with your choice of grilled chicken or steak filling. Served with rice and beans.
Casa Fiesta Deluxe Lunch
Grilled chicken with onions, tomatoes, bell peppers, carrots, yellow squash, broccoli and covered in cheese sauce. Served with rice and tortillas.
Fajitas Nachos Lunch
Strips of chicken or steak with sautéed onions, tomatoes, bell peppers, and cheese sauce served on a bed of crisp tortilla chips. Served with rice and beans.
Burrito Grande Lunch
A large flour tortilla topped with lettuce, sour cream, tomatoes, shredded cheese, red sauce and your choice of shredded chicken or ground beef filling. Served with rice and beans.
Arroz Con Pollo Lunch
Grilled chicken cooked with onions, bell peppers, tomatoes and covered in cheese sauce. Served with rice, lettuce, slices of avocado and sour cream.
Pollo Bandido Lunch
Grilled chicken strips covered in cheese sauce. Served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Pollo a la Parrilla Lunch
Grilled chicken breast covered in melted shredded cheese. Served with rice, beans and tortillas.
Taco Salad Fajitas Lunch
A crisp flour tortilla shell topped with onions, tomatoes, bell peppers, lettuce, shredded cheese, sour cream, and cheese sauce with your choice of grilled chicken or steak.

Lunch Combinations
L1. Lunch Combinations
2 hard or soft shell tacos topped with lettuce and shredded cheese with your choice of ground beef or shredded chicken filling. Served with rice and beans.
L2. Lunch Combinations
2 enchiladas topped with shredded cheese and your choice of ground beef or shredded chicken filling. Served with rice and beans.
L3. Lunch Combinations
A pork tamale and a hard or soft shell taco topped with shredded cheese, lettuce and your choice of ground beef or shredded chicken filling.

Appetizers
Guacamole
Cheese Quesadilla
Guacamole Salad
Cheese Dip

Taco Salad
Grilled Chicken Salad
Grilled chicken served over a bed of lettuce, tomatoes, sour cream and cheese.
Taco Salad Fajitas
A crisp flour tortilla shell topped with onions, tomatoes, bell peppers, lettuce, shredded cheese, sour cream, guacamole and cheese sauce with your choice of grilled chicken or steak.
Taco Salad Shrimp
A crisp flour tortilla shell topped with onions, tomatoes, bell peppers, lettuce, shredded cheese, sour cream, guacamole, cheese sauce and shrimp.
Taco Salad
A crisp flour tortilla shell topped with tomatoes, lettuce, shredded cheese, sour cream, guacamole and cheese sauce with your choice of shredded chicken or ground beef.

Steak
T-Bone Steak Ranchero
T-bone steak topped with ranchero sauce. Served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
T-Bone Mexicano
T-bone steak with cooked onions, tomatoes and bell peppers. Served with rice, beans and tortillas.
T-Bone Steak Tampiqueno
T-bone steak served with rice, beans, salad, and tortillas.

Seafood Specialties
Grilled Shrimp Specialty
Grilled shrimp with onions, tomatoes, bell peppers and tomatoes. Served over a bed of rice and lettuce.
Shrimp a la Mexicana Specialty
Shrimp grilled with onions, tomatoes and jalapeño peppers. Served with rice and lettuce.
Shrimp Nachos Specialty
Shrimp with onions, tomatoes, bell peppers, and cheese sauce served on a bed of crisp tortilla chips. Served with rice and beans.
Camarones a la Diabla Specialty
Grilled shrimp smothered in very spicy hot sauce. Served over a bed of rice and lettuce.

Burritos
Burritos Deluxe
2 burritos stuffed with shredded chicken and beans. Topped with shredded cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, sour cream and smothered in red sauce.
Burrito Carne Asada
A steak burrito smothered in red sauce and topped with lettuce, sour cream, and shredded cheese. Served with rice and beans.
Burrito Special
A ground beef burrito topped with shredded cheese, lettuce, sour cream and smothered in red sauce.
Guadalajara
A shredded chicken burrito and a shredded chicken enchilada topped with lettuce, sour cream, pico de gallo and guacamole.
Burrito Grande
A large flour tortilla topped with lettuce, sour cream, tomatoes, shredded cheese and smothered in red sauce with your choice of shredded chicken or ground beef filling. Served with rice and beans.

Chimichangas
Chimichanga Combination
A chimichanga topped with cheese sauce and filled with your choice of shredded chicken or ground beef. Served with a Chile relleno and ground beef or shredded chicken taco with lettuce, cheese and rice.
Shrimp Chimichanga
A chimichanga stuffed with shrimp and topped with cheese sauce, lettuce, sour cream, guacamole and pico de gallo. Served with rice and beans.
Chimichanga
A deep-fried stuffed flour tortilla with your choice of shredded chicken or ground beef and topped with cheese sauce, lettuce, sour cream, guacamole and pico de gallo. Served with rice and beans.

Enchiladas
Enchiladas Suizas
Four tortillas filled with shredded chicken and cheese sauce, smothered in enchilada green sauce. Served with sour cream.
3 Amigos Enchilada
1 cheese enchilada with red sauce, 1 ground beef enchilada with red sauce and 1 shredded chicken enchilada with cheese sauce.
Enchiladas Rancheras
3 cheese enchiladas topped with strips of chicken breast that are cooked with onions, tomatoes and bell peppers. Served with lettuce and sour cream.
Enchiladas Supremas
Four stuffed tortillas, 1 ground beef, 1 shredded chicken, 1 cheese and 1 bean. They are smothered with enchilada sauce and topped with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes and sour cream.
Southwest Enchiladas
3 enchiladas topped with a cooked egg, shredded cheese and red sauce with your choice of ground beef or shredded chicken filling. Served with rice and beans.

Fajitas
Fajitas Hawaianas
Single. Strips of steak, chicken, shrimp, and chorizo cooked with onions, tomatoes, bell peppers and pineapple. Served with lettuce, sour cream, pico de gallo, guacamole, rice, beans, and tortillas.
Especialidad Rio Grande
Steak, chorizo, shrimp, chicken and carne asada cooked with onions, bell peppers and tomatoes. Served with lettuce, sour cream, pico de gallo, guacamole, rice, beans and tortillas.
Fajitas Nachos
Grilled chicken or steak strips with onions, tomatoes, bell peppers and cheese sauce served on a bed of crisp tortilla chips. Served with rice and beans.
Steak, Chicken & Mixed Fajitas
Strips of steak or grilled chicken cooked with onions, tomatoes and bell peppers. Served with lettuce, sour cream, pico de gallo, guacamole, rice, beans and tortillas.
Shrimp Fajitas
1 piece. Shrimp cooked with onions, tomatoes and bell peppers. Served with lettuce, sour cream, pico de gallo, guacamole, rice, beans, and tortillas.

Vegetarian Combinations
A. Chalupa, Cheese Enchilada & Beans Combination Lunch
C. Bean Burrito, Cheese Enchilada & Bean Tostada Combination
B. Bean Enchilada, Chile Relleno & Bean Burrito Combination
D. Bean Burrito, Cheese Quesadilla & Chalupa Combination

A La Carte
Burrito a la Carte
1 burrito smothered in red sauce and stuffed with your choice of filling.
Chile Relleno a la Carte
A poblano pepper stuffed with cheese. Topped with red sauce and shredded cheese. Served on a bed of rice.
Taco
1 hard or soft-shell taco with lettuce, cheese and your choice of filling.
Enchilada a la Carte
1 enchilada smothered in red sauce and stuffed with your choice of filling.
Quesadilla a la Carte
1 flour tortilla smothered with plenty of cheese and your choice of filling.
Tamale a la Carte
Pork tamale topped with ground beef, red sauce, and shredded cheese.

Sides
Pico De Gallo
Tortillas
Beans
Rice
Pineapple
French Fries
Mushrooms
Sour Cream
Grilled Peppers
Shredded Cheese
Chorizo

Desserts
Fried Ice Cream
An ice cream ball covered in cereal, whipped cream, chocolate syrup, cinnamon and topped with a cherry. Filled with raisins.
Flan
Mexican custard.
Xango
Creamy cheesecake wrapped in a pastry tortilla, fried golden and dusted with cinnamon and sugar. Served with ice cream.
Sopapilla
Fried flour tortilla with honey, butter and cinnamon.

Beverages
Mexican Coke Bottle
Milk Lunch
Cherry Coke
Diet Coke
Coffee Lunch
Fanta Bottle
Sprite
Jarritos Bottle
Coke
Orange Juice Lunch
Hi-C Pink Lemonade
Coke Zero Sugar Lunch

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Recent Reviews

I celebrated my birthday here this year. The food and margaritas were delicious. The staff was so nice and attentive. The manager came over to ask about our experience. The location might hurt their visibility so give them a try and then tell your friends to check them out.
July 2024
I really like our new restaurant here in Nicholasville, the staff is amazingly nice and helpful. The restaurant is clean and decorated properly for the dining experience. The food has been very tasty and hot every time I have ordered. I am going back to try the drinks sometime and will report back on my findings.
March 2024
My favorite place to eat. Substantial portions and great service. The fajitas tonight seemed like they had been sitting on the flat top grill for awhile. Not their usual great product.
March 2024

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El Rio Grande Mexican Restaurant

220 N Plaza Dr, Nicholasville, KY 40356
(859) 887-0063