Chivos Mexican Bistro & Cantina
2999 US-190, Mandeville
(985) 778-2298
Customers' Favorites
Served with Guacamole
Enchiladas Alameda
Crawfish Quesadilla
Cheese Dip 16 Oz
Chicken Fajitas
Rice and Beans
Big Sur Fajitas
Guacamole Dip
Refried Beans
Street Tacos
Tacos
Street Style Taco
Corn tortilla, grilled onions, and cilantro. Corn, wheat, flour, and lettuce wraps are available. Choice of shredded chicken, or ground beef. Grilled chicken, carnitas, barbacoa, chorizo, pastor, steak, tongue, ribeye al carbon, shrimp, fish, or crawfish for an additional charge.
Gringo Style Taco
Hard shell or flour tortilla, cheese, and lettuce. Choice of shredded chicken, or ground beef. Grilled chicken, carnitas, barbacoa, chorizo, pastor, steak, tongue, ribeye al carbon, shrimp, fish, or crawfish for an additional charge.
Baja Style Taco (For Seafood Tacos)
Queso fresco, lettuce, pineapple, and chipotle sauce. Choice of fish, crawfish, or shrimp.
Lunch Specials
Los Feliz Lunch
Chile relleno, beef burrito, chicken quesadilla.
Steak & Eggs
Served with grilled onions, served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Chula Vista Avocado Wrap
Grilled chicken, refried beans, rice, lettuce, avocado, and queso sauce, with tortilla soup or charro beans.
Tacos De Birria
Three birria tacos served with tortilla soup and guacamole salad.
Chivos Lunch
Choose two from flauta, enchilada, taco, and tamale served with rice and beans.
Baja Tacos Lunch
Choose two from Mahi Mahi, shrimp or crawfish served with rice and tortilla soup.
Chivos Fajitas
Served with rice, beans, guacamole salad, and tortillas. Chicken, steak, shrimp, or trio.
El Clasico
Choose one from quesadilla, chimichanga, burrito, and chile Relleno served with rice, beans, and guacamole salad. Fajita meat or seafood for an additional charge.
Street Tacos Lunch
Choose two from carne asada, chorizo, pastor, carnitas, barbacoa, and grilled chicken. Served with rice and refried beans.
San Blas Lunch
Served with rice and steamed veggies and queso. Grilled chicken breast, shrimp, or Mahi Mahi for an additional charge.
Huevos Con Chorizo
Served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Taco Salad
Shredded cheese, lettuce, sour cream, guacamole, and pico de gallo with shredded chicken or beef. Grilled chicken, carnitas or barbacoa, steak, shrimp, or crawfish for an additional charge.
Yucatan Salad
Grilled gulf shrimp tossed with queso fresco, corn, avocado, and mixed greens in a cilantro vinaigrette.
Calabasas Lunch
Beef enchilada, rice, chicken quesadilla.
6 Wonders Salad
Grilled chicken, tomatoes, avocado, queso fresco, corn, and romaine tossed with chipotle ranch. Steak or shrimp or Mahi Mahi for an additional charge.
La Lomita
Cheese enchilada, chicken burrito, beef taco.
San Miguelito
Grilled chicken on a bed of rice topped with queso.
Little Tijuana Tacos Lunch
Choose two from tongue or ribeye al carbon. Two tacos served with rice and beans. Tongue on a corn tortilla, ribeye on a flour tortilla.
Strawberry Primavera Salad
Grilled chicken, romaine lettuce, queso fresco, cherry tomatoes, strawberries, pecans, and dried cranberries. Steak or shrimp or Mahi Mahi for an additional charge.
Soup and Chicken Salad
Served with tortilla soup or charro beans.
Caesar Salad
Grilled chicken, romaine, red onions, parmesan cheese, and croutons. Steak or shrimp or Mahi Mahi for an additional charge.
Starters
Queso Dip
Chivos Nachos
Refried beans, lettuce, sour cream, jalapeños, and pico de gallo. Choice of chicken or beef. Steak, chorizo, grilled chicken, carnitas. Shrimp or crawfish for an additional charge.
Guacamole Dip
Choriqueso
Chivos Sampler
Ground beef quesadilla, chicken flauta, carnitas nachos, stuffed jalapeños and queso.
Flautas
Chicken, barbacoa or carnitas. Served with guacamole salad.
Chivos Quesadillas
Choice of chicken or beef. Steak, chorizo, grilled chicken, carnitas. Shrimp or crawfish for an additional charge. Served with guacamole salad.
Shrimp Chipotle
Ceviche Campechano
Pico de gallo, cucumber, avocado. Choice of fish or shrimp or combo for an additional charge.
Crawfish Dip
Acapulco Shrimp Cocktail
Gulf shrimp with house-made cocktail sauce. Served with avocados.
Duck Quesadillas
Soups & Salads
6 Wonders Salad
Grilled chicken, tomatoes, avocado, queso fresco, corn, and romaine tossed with chipotle ranch. Steak, shrimp, or Mahi Mahi for an additional charge.
Tortilla Soup
Add chicken for an additional charge.
Taco Salad
Cheese, lettuce, sour cream, guacamole, pico de gallo shredded chicken, or ground beef. Grilled chicken, carnitas, barbacoa, steak, or shrimp for an additional charge.
Charro Beans
Yucatan Salad
Grilled gulf shrimp tossed with queso fresco, corn, avocado, and mixed greens in a cilantro vinaigrette.
Strawberry Primavera Salad
Grilled chicken, romaine lettuce, queso fresco, cherry tomatoes, strawberries, pecans, and dried cranberries. Shrimp or steak for an additional charge.
Caesar Salad
Grilled chicken, romaine, red onions, parmesan cheese, and croutons. Steak, shrimp, or Mahi Mahi for an additional charge.
Sides
Refried Beans
Enchilada
Ground beef or shredded chicken.
Rice
Pork Tamal
Chimichanga
Ground beef or shredded chicken.
Quesadilla
Ground beef or shredded chicken.
Burrito
Ground beef or shredded chicken.
Flauta
Shredded chicken.
Ceviche Tostada
Fish, shrimp, or combo.
Wheat Chips
Chile Relleno
Cheese.
Chiles Toreados
With grilled onions and avocados.
Tostada
Ground beef or shredded chicken.
Beverages
Beverages
Coke, diet coke, coke zero, sprite, dr. Pepper, diet dr. Pepper, bark root beer, minute maid lemonade, iced tea, or coffee. Mexican coke or jarritos mexican sodas.
Especiales Chivos
Enchiladas Tricolor
One chicken with Verde sauce, one beef with queso sauce, and one cheese with red sauce served with rice and beans.
Enchiladas Alameda
Three carnitas enchiladas topped with ranchero sauce, lettuce, avocado, and sour cream served with rice and beans.
Rosarito Grande
Two chicken enchiladas with queso sauce, one soft beef taco, and one tamale, served with rice and beans.
Enchiladas Potosinas
Two cheese enchiladas topped with ranchero sauce, carne asada with grilled onions, served with rice and beans.
Street Tacos
Choose three from carne asada, chorizo, pastor, carnitas, barbacoa, or grilled chicken, served with rice and refried beans.
Chivos Burrito Asada
Stuffed with carne asada, grilled chicken, and shrimp, rice, refried beans, lettuce, pico de gallo, sour cream, and guacamole, topped with queso sauce, served with tortilla soup.
Enchiladas Verdes
Two cheese Verde sauce enchiladas, grilled chicken breast, served with rice and beans.
Louisiana Seafood Enchiladas
Three sautéed baby spinach, shrimp, and crawfish enchiladas, topped with ranchero and cheese sauce, served with rice and tortilla soup.
San Lucas Seafood Plate
Crawfish enchilada, Baja fish taco, one shrimp brochette on a bed of rice, and tortilla soup.
Flautas Dinner
Chicken, barbacoa, or carnitas, served with rice and charro beans.
Baja Tacos
Choose three from shrimp, Mahi Mahi or crawfish served with rice and tortilla soup.
Escondido Plate
Two pork tamales and chile relleno.
El Cajon Plate
Chile relleno, rice, 2 cheese enchiladas with verde sauce.
Little Tijuana Tacos
Choose three from tongue or ribeye al carbon, served with rice and beans.
Chivos Grill
Shrimp Brochetas
Grilled shrimp, jalapeño pepper, and cheese wrapped in bacon served with rice and tortilla soup or charro beans.
Chivos Mexican Cheeseburger
Beef patty or carnitas, lettuce, tomato, avocado, jalapeños, and bacon, served with fries.
Fajitas
Served with rice, beans, guacamole salad, and tortillas.
Carne Asada
Skirt steak with grilled onions served with rice and beans, guacamole salad, and tortillas.
Pollo Santiago
Grilled chicken breast, sautéed mushrooms, and spinach, melted cheese, and bacon, served with rice and steamed veggies.
Big Sur Fajitas
Chopped steak, onions, bell pepper, and fresh jalapeños, grilled with chives special seasoning, served with rice and beans, guacamole salad, and tortillas.
Carnitas
Served with grilled onions, rice, refried beans, guacamole salad, and tortillas.
Alambres
Grilled onions, and melted cheese, served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Diablo Shrimp
Gulf shrimp, spicy sauce, served with rice and steamed veggies.
Parrilla Chivos (For Two)
Delicious combination of carne asada, grilled chicken breast, grilled gulf shrimp, chorizo, and queso ranchero with grilled onions, served with double rice and beans, guacamole salad, and tortillas.
Kids
Quesadilla
Cheeseburger
Grilled Chicken
Burrito
Topped with queso sauce.
Taco
Soft or crispy.
Chicken Nuggets
Enchilada
Topped with queso sauce.
Desserts
Churros
Sopapillas
Raspberry Burritos
Fried Ice Cream
Flan
Choco Brownie and Ice Cream
Scoop of Ice Cream
Family Packs
Family Tacos
Shredded chicken or ground beef. Served with rice and beans. Feeds 4 - 5 people.
Family Sampler
Steak Fajitas
Served with rice and beans. Feeds 4 - 5 people.
Chicken Fajitas
Served with rice and beans. Feeds 4 - 5 people.
Family Nachos
Enchiladas
Shredded chicken or ground beef. Served with rice and beans. Feeds 4 - 5 people.
Tacos
Street Style Taco
Corn tortilla, grilled onions, and cilantro. Corn, wheat, flour, and lettuce wraps are available. Choice of shredded chicken, or ground beef. Grilled chicken, carnitas, barbacoa, chorizo, pastor, steak, tongue, ribeye al carbon, shrimp, fish, or crawfish for an additional charge.
Gringo Style Taco
Hard shell or flour tortilla, cheese, and lettuce. Choice of shredded chicken, or ground beef. Grilled chicken, carnitas, barbacoa, chorizo, pastor, steak, tongue, ribeye al carbon, shrimp, fish, or crawfish for an additional charge.
Baja Style Taco (For Seafood Tacos)
Queso fresco, lettuce, pineapple, and chipotle sauce. Choice of fish, crawfish, or shrimp.
Dinner Specials
Street Tacos
Choose two from carne asada, chorizo, pastor, carnitas, barbacoa, and grilled chicken. Served with rice and refried beans. Served after 04:00 pm.
El Clasico
Choose one from quesadilla, chimichanga, burrito, or chile relleno, served with rice, beans, and guacamole salad. Fajita meat or seafood for an additional charge.
Steak & Eggs
Served with grilled onions, served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Chula Vista Avocado Wrap
Grilled chicken, refried beans, rice, lettuce, avocado, and queso sauce, with tortilla soup or charro beans.
Tacos De Birria
Three birria tacos served with tortilla soup and guacamole salad.
Los Feliz
Chile relleno, beef burrito, chicken quesadilla.
Baja Tacos
Choose two from Mahi Mahi, shrimp or crawfish served with rice and tortilla soup.
San Miguelito
Grilled chicken on a bed of rice topped with queso.
Chivos Fajitas
Served with rice, beans, guacamole salad, and tortillas. Chicken, steak, shrimp, or trio.
Taco Salad
Shredded cheese, lettuce, sour cream, guacamole, and pico de gallo with shredded chicken or beef. Grilled chicken, carnitas or barbacoa, steak, shrimp, or crawfish for an additional charge.
Huevos Con Chorizo
Served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Little Tijuana Tacos
Choose two from tongue or ribeye al carbon. Two tacos served with rice and beans. Tongue on a corn tortilla, ribeye on a flour tortilla.
San Blas
Served with rice and steamed veggies and queso. Grilled chicken breast, shrimp, or Mahi Mahi for an additional charge.
Yucatan Salad
Grilled gulf shrimp tossed with queso fresco, corn, avocado, and mixed greens in a cilantro vinaigrette.
Calabasas
Beef enchilada, rice, chicken quesadilla.
6 Wonders Salad
Grilled chicken, tomatoes, avocado, queso fresco, corn, and romaine tossed with chipotle ranch. Steak or shrimp or Mahi Mahi for an additional charge.
Strawberry Primavera Salad
Grilled chicken, romaine lettuce, queso fresco, cherry tomatoes, strawberries, pecans, and dried cranberries. Steak or shrimp or Mahi Mahi for an additional charge.
Chivos
Choose two from flauta, enchilada, taco, and tamale served with rice and beans.
La Lomita
Cheese enchilada, chicken burrito, beef taco.
Soup and Chicken Salad
Served with tortilla soup or charro beans.
Caesar Salad
Grilled chicken, romaine, red onions, parmesan cheese, and croutons. Steak or shrimp or Mahi Mahi for an additional charge.
Starters
Queso Dip
Chivos Nachos
Refried beans, lettuce, sour cream, jalapeños, and pico de gallo. Choice of chicken or beef. Steak, chorizo, grilled chicken, carnitas. Shrimp or crawfish for an additional charge.
Guacamole Dip
Choriqueso
Chivos Quesadillas
Choice of chicken or beef. Steak, chorizo, grilled chicken, carnitas. Shrimp or crawfish for an additional charge. Served with guacamole salad.
Flautas
Chicken, barbacoa or carnitas. Served with guacamole salad.
Chivos Sampler
Ground beef quesadilla, chicken flauta, carnitas nachos, stuffed jalapeños and queso.
Shrimp Chipotle
Ceviche Campechano
Pico de gallo, cucumber, avocado. Choice of fish or shrimp or combo for an additional charge.
Crawfish Dip
Acapulco Shrimp Cocktail
Gulf shrimp with house-made cocktail sauce. Served with avocados.
Duck Quesadillas
Soups & Salads
6 Wonders Salad
Grilled chicken, tomatoes, avocado, queso fresco, corn, and romaine tossed with chipotle ranch. Steak, shrimp, or Mahi Mahi for an additional charge.
Tortilla Soup
Add chicken for an additional charge.
Taco Salad
Cheese, lettuce, sour cream, guacamole, pico de gallo shredded chicken, or ground beef. Grilled chicken, carnitas, barbacoa, steak, or shrimp for an additional charge.
Strawberry Primavera Salad
Grilled chicken, romaine lettuce, queso fresco, cherry tomatoes, strawberries, pecans, and dried cranberries. Shrimp or steak for an additional charge.
Yucatan Salad
Grilled gulf shrimp tossed with queso fresco, corn, avocado, and mixed greens in a cilantro vinaigrette.
Charro Beans
Caesar Salad
Grilled chicken, romaine, red onions, parmesan cheese, and croutons. Steak, shrimp, or Mahi Mahi for an additional charge.
Sides
Refried Beans
Chimichanga
Ground beef or shredded chicken.
Rice
Enchilada
Ground beef or shredded chicken.
Pork Tamal
Quesadilla
Ground beef or shredded chicken.
Burrito
Ground beef or shredded chicken.
Ceviche Tostada
Fish, shrimp, or combo.
Tostada
Ground beef or shredded chicken.
Flauta
Shredded chicken.
Chile Relleno
Cheese.
Wheat Chips
Chiles Toreados
With grilled onions and avocados.
Beverages
Beverages
Coke, diet coke, coke zero, sprite, dr. Pepper, diet dr. Pepper, bark root beer, minute maid lemonade, iced tea, or coffee. Mexican coke or jarritos mexican sodas.
Especiales Chivos
Enchiladas Tricolor
One chicken with Verde sauce, one beef with queso sauce, and one cheese with red sauce served with rice and beans.
Baja Tacos
Choose three from shrimp, Mahi-mahi or crawfish served with rice and tortilla soup.
Enchiladas Potosinas
Two cheese enchiladas topped with ranchero sauce, carne asada with grilled onions, served with rice and beans.
Chivos Burrito Asada
Stuffed with carne asada, grilled chicken, and shrimp, rice, refried beans, lettuce, pico de gallo, sour cream, and guacamole, topped with queso sauce, served with tortilla soup.
Enchiladas Alameda
Three carnitas enchiladas topped with ranchero sauce, lettuce, avocado, and sour cream, served with rice and beans.
Rosarito Grande
Two chicken enchiladas with queso sauce, one soft beef taco, and one tamale, served with rice and beans.
Street Tacos
Choose three from carne asada, chorizo, pastor, carnitas, barbacoa, or grilled chicken, served with rice and refried beans.
San Lucas Seafood Plate
Crawfish enchilada, Baja fish taco, one shrimp brochette on a bed of rice, and tortilla soup.
Louisiana Seafood Enchiladas
Three sautéed baby spinach, shrimp, and crawfish enchiladas, topped with ranchero and cheese sauce, served with rice and tortilla soup.
Enchiladas Verdes
Two cheese Verde sauce enchiladas, grilled chicken breast, served with rice and beans.
Flautas Dinner
Chicken, barbacoa, or carnitas, served with rice and charro beans.
Escondido Plate
Two pork tamales and chile relleno.
El Cajon Plate
Chile relleno, rice, 2 cheese enchiladas with verde sauce.
Little Tijuana Tacos
Choose three from tongue or ribeye al carbon, served with rice and beans.
Chivos Grill
Fajitas
Served with rice, beans, guacamole salad, and tortillas.
Chivos Mexican Cheeseburger
Beef patty or carnitas, lettuce, tomato, avocado, jalapeños, and bacon, served with fries.
Shrimp Brochetas
Grilled shrimp, jalapeño pepper, and cheese wrapped in bacon served with rice and tortilla soup or charro beans.
Carne Asada
Skirt steak with grilled onions served with rice and beans, guacamole salad, and tortillas.
Big Sur Fajitas
Chopped steak, onions, bell pepper, and fresh jalapeños, grilled with chives special seasoning, served with rice and beans, guacamole salad, and tortillas.
Alambres
Grilled onions, and melted cheese, served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Pollo Santiago
Grilled chicken breast, sautéed mushrooms and spinach, melted cheese, and bacon, served with rice and steamed veggies.
Parrilla Chivos (For Two)
Delicious combination of carne asada, grilled chicken breast, grilled gulf shrimp, chorizo, and queso ranchero with grilled onions, served with double rice and beans, guacamole salad, and tortillas.
Diablo Shrimp
Gulf shrimp, spicy sauce, served with rice and steamed veggies.
Carnitas
Served with grilled onions, rice, refried beans, guacamole salad, and tortillas.
Kids
Quesadilla
Taco
Cheeseburger
Enchilada
Topped with queso sauce.
Grilled Chicken
Chicken Nuggets
Burrito
Topped with queso sauce.
Desserts
Churros
Sopapillas
Flan
Fried Ice Cream
Choco Brownie and Ice Cream
Raspberry Burritos
Scoop of Ice Cream
Family Packs
Family Sampler
Steak Fajitas
Served with rice and beans. Feeds 4 - 5 people.
Enchiladas
Shredded chicken or ground beef. Served with rice and beans. Feeds 4 - 5 people.
Chicken Fajitas
Served with rice and beans. Feeds 4 - 5 people.
Family Nachos
Family Tacos
Shredded chicken or ground beef. Served with rice and beans. Feeds 4 - 5 people.
Photos
+26 photos
+25 photos
Add a photo
Order Online
Recent Reviews
Been coming here since they opened nearly every week. Good food, consistent service, a neat menu that is just different enough from typical Tex-Mex (it's LA-Mex) to make with interesting.
September 2025
Great margaritas. We came in Friday eve for appetizers; 1 dish shrimp quesadillas and 1 dish labeled as sampler appetizer. Everything served was great, with some left over to take home. The salsa with their chips seemed especially fresh and flavorful. Atmosphere became loud and clattery because of hard interior surfaces and also because the place was packed by the time we left!
August 2025
I ordered a crown and sprite at the bar. They charged me $10 and poured this ridiculous 1 ounce pour (half of the jigger) with sprite. At least if I saw somebody I know, I could tell them I'm not drinking.
The drink is clear. And that's all I have to say, about that.
The drink is clear. And that's all I have to say, about that.
June 2025
You May Also Like
Papa Johns Pizza - 2993a U.S. Hwy 190 Ste A
![]()
Pizza, Chicken Wings, Fast Food
UR Teas: Modern Tea Brewing Co. - 3317 US-190
![]()
Tea, Coffee & Tea, Pet Friendly
Jersey Mike's Subs - 3323 US-190
![]()
Sandwich Shop, Fast Food, Pet Friendly