La Terraza Mexican Restaurant

2217 Avent Ferry Rd, Raleigh
(919) 832-0293

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Hawaiian Fajitas
Grilled Chicken
Chips and Salsa
Texas Fajitas
Shrimp Tacos
Chimichangas
Quesadillas
Steak Tacos
Fish Tacos
Cheese Dip

Menu

Appetizers
Guacamole Dip
A creamy dip made from avocado.
Quesadilla App
4 slices of a chicken or beef tips quesadilla. Served with sour cream, guacamole, and pico de gallo.
Cheese Dip
Creamy dip made from melted cheese.
Queso Fundido
Your choice, sautéed with melted cheese, poblano peppers, mushrooms, and onions.
Chicken Rolls
With chipotle cream dip.
Spicy, Chipotle, Or Barbecue Wings
Served with celery and ranch.

Street Tacos
Tacos De Carnitas
Three corn or flour tortillas filled with carnitas and pico de gallo. Served with refried beans, and lime.
Tacos De Carne Asada (Steak)
Three corn or flour tortillas filled with steak strips and pico de gallo. Served with refried beans, and lime.
Tacos Al Pastor
Three corn or flour tortillas stuffed with adobo marinated pork, pineapple, topped with onion and cilantro. Served with black beans on the side.
Marinated Grilled Chicken Tacos
Three corn or flour tortillas filled with grilled chicken, fresh pico de gallo, avocado, and creamy chipotle sauce. Served with black beans and limes.
Shrimp And Bacon Tacos
Three flour or corn tortillas filled with grilled shrimp, fresh pico de gallo, avocado, and creamy chipotle sauce. Served with black beans and limes.
Fish Tacos
Three flour or corn tortillas filled with grilled tilapia, fresh pico de gallo, avocado, and creamy chipotle sauce. Served with black beans and limes.
Hot Steak
Grilled steak, cooked with our homemade tomatillo sauce topped with cilantro and cebolla. Corn or flour tortillas.
Tacos Campechanos
Three corn or flour tortillas stuffed with grilled steak and chorizo topped with cheese, cilantro and onions. Served with pinto beans.

Burrito Plates
Burrito Azteca
Big burrito filled with grilled chicken, steak, shrimp, and vegetables. Topped with 1/3 of green sauce, 1/3 cheese sauce, and 1/3 red sauce. Served with beans, rice, lettuce, yellow cheese, and tomatoes.
Cali Burrito
Burrito filled with grilled chicken or steak strips, lettuce, pico de gallo, sour cream, creamy chipotle sauce, rice, and black beans.
Burrito Grande
Grilled chicken and steak strips, onions, bell pepper, and tomatoes, topped with cheese dip. Served with beans.
Chori Burrito
Grill chicken, chorizo, served with rice and beans.
Burrito La Terraza
Grill shrimp, onion, tomato, mushrooms, toppin nacho cheese, served whit rice and beans.

Platillos De La Casa
Fajitas
Grilled chicken, steak strips, or mixed sautéed with bell peppers, onions, and tomatoes. Served with rice, refried beans, guacamole salad, sour cream, and flour tortillas.
Parrillada Mix
Great combination of shrimp, grilled chicken, marinated chicken, grilled marinated steak, carnitas (pork), chorizo (pork), and grilled vegetables. Served with rice, beans, sour cream, guacamole, pico de gallo, and flour tortillas. *These items may be served cooked to order. Consuming raw or undercooked meats, poultry, seafood, shellfish, or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness.
Taco Salad
A crisp flour tortilla bowl filled with ground beef or chicken, fried beans, lettuce, tomato, grated cheese and sour cream.
Texas A.C.P
Grilled chicken, shrimp, and beef over rice and covered in melted cheese.
Nachos Tapatios
Cheese nachos topped with grilled chicken, steak strips, shrimp, cheese dip, topped with rice, beans, sour cream.
Chimichangas
Two deep-fried or soft flour tortillas with beef tips, chicken or pork, beans and covered with melted cheese, lettuce, tomato, sour cream. With shrimp for an additional charge.
Molcajete
Mexican hot skillet; filled with grilled chicken, steak, chorizo over onion, potato sliced, queso fresco, grilled sausage and salsa ranchero. Served with rice, beans and tortillas.
Texas Fajitas
Grilled chicken, shrimp, and beef with sautéed, bell peppers, onions and tomatoes. Served with refried beans, rice, salad, sour cream and flour tortillas.
Hawaiian Fajitas
Grilled chicken, shrimp, and pineapple sautéed with yellow squash, green zucchini, red onions. Served with rice, refried beans, salad, sour cream and flour tortillas.
Fajita Taco Salad
A crisp flour tortilla filled with steak, chicken or Mixed, peppers, tomatoes and onion. Served with lettuce, cheese, pico de gallo, sour cream.
Nachos Supreme
Cheese nachos topped with ground beef, chicken, refried beans, lettuce, tomato and sour cream.
Alambre
Strips of grilled chicken or steak sautéed with onions, poblano pepper, mushrooms, bacon, chorizo, pineapple and melted cheese, served with rice and beans.

Chicken
A.C.P
Grilled Chicken over rice topped with melted cheese.
Chicken Soup
With tortilla chips, avocado, rice, chicken and Pico de Gallo.
Pollo Chipotle
Grilled chicken breast covered with our delicious homemade chipotle cream sauce. Served with rice, fried beans, pico de gallo, flour tortillas and sour cream salad.
Pollo Tapatío
Grilled marinated chicken breast topped with grilled onions, mushrooms, melted cheese. Served with rice, sour cream salad, and flour tortillas.
Tiras De Pollo
Strips of grilled chicken topped with cilantro, and sautéed with a savory combination of cheese dip and chipotle cream, served with rice, beans, flour tortillas and pico de gallo.
Chori-Pollo
Grilled chicken with chorizo sausage, topped with cheese dip. Served with rice, beans and flour tortillas.
Grilled Chicken Chilaquiles
Tortilla chips covered with special sauce, chicken and cheese. Served with black beans with cilantro, sour cream, avocado and vegetables on a side.
Pollo Tropical
Grilled chicken breast and Shrimp, topped with melted cheese and pineapple. Severed with rice, lettuce, pico de gallo and flour tortillas.

Seafood
*Cocktail De Camarón
Cooked shrimp served with special cocktail sauce, pico de gallo, and avocado. *These items may be served cooked to order. Consuming raw or undercooked meats, poultry, seafood, shellfish, or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness.
*Camarones A La Diabla
Grilled shrimp sautéed in our Spice diabla sauce. Served with rice and salad. *These items may be served cooked to order. Consuming raw or undercooked meats, poultry, seafood, shellfish, or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness.
*Camarones Al Mojo De Ajo
Grilled shrimp sautéed in olive oil and our special garlic sauce with onions. Served with rice and tomato & lettuce salad. *These items may be served cooked to order. Consuming raw or undercooked meats, poultry, seafood, shellfish, or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness.
Shrimp Fajitas
Grilled shrimp sautéed with bell pepper, onions, and tomatoes. Served with refried beans, salad, sour cream, and flour tortillas.
*A.C.C
Grilled shrimp over rice. Cover with melted cheese. *These items may be served cooked to order. Consuming raw or undercooked meats, poultry, seafood, shellfish, or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness.
*Grilled Tilapia Filet
Grilled Tilapia filet. Served with rice, pico de gallo, lettuce, sour cream and lime. *These items may be served cooked to order. Consuming raw or undercooked meats, poultry, seafood, shellfish, or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness.
*Camarones Al Ajillo
Grilled shrimp sautéed in butter garlic guajillo peppers. Served with rice, lettuce and tomato. *These items may be served cooked to order. Consuming raw or undercooked meats, poultry, seafood, shellfish, or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness.
*Chipotle Grilled Shrimp
Grilled shrimp covered with a creamy chipotle sauce, served with lettuce, pico de gallo, black beans and tortillas. *These items may be served cooked to order. Consuming raw or undercooked meats, poultry, seafood, shellfish, or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness.
*Camarones Campesinos
Grilled shrimp with onions and mushrooms, topped with cheese served with rice and salad. *These items may be served cooked to order. Consuming raw or undercooked meats, poultry, seafood, shellfish, or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness.
*Ceviche De Camarón
Cooked shrimp served on top tomato, onions and cilantro, topped with slices of avocado. *These items may be served cooked to order. Consuming raw or undercooked meats, poultry, seafood, shellfish, or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness.
Ceviche La Terraza
Cooked shrimp served on top tomato, onions and cilantro, topped with slices of avocado ans ccumber. *These items may be served cooked to order. Consuming raw or undercooked meats, poultry, seafood, shellfish, or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness.
Salmon A La Diabla
Salmon Al Chipotle
Caldo 7 Mares

Beef & Pork
Carne Asada
Mexican style grilled marinated steak served with rice, refried beans, salad, pico de gallo, guacamole and flour tortillas on the side. *These items may be served cooked to order. Consuming raw or undercooked meats, poultry, seafood, shellfish, or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness.
A.C.S
Steak strips over rice topped with melted cheese. *These items may be served cooked to order. Consuming raw or undercooked meats, poultry, seafood, shellfish, or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness.
Carnitas
Country pork served with rice, fried beans, flour tortillas and green sauce on the side.
Carne Con Chile
Grill steak with tomatillo sauce, hot or mil, served with rice and beans and tortilla. *These items may be served cooked to order. Consuming raw or undercooked meats, poultry, seafood, shellfish, or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness.

Special Plates
Arrachera Burrito
Stuffed with carnitas, rice, black beans, pico de gallo and chipotle sauce, Topping with green salsa and Carne Asada.
Mojarra Frita and Shrimp
Family Quesabirria
Quesadillas stuffed with "Birria" meat (a traditional ancestral stew made from a combination of chili pepper-based and beef). With cheese, cilantro and onions. Served with a cup of Birria soup just for dipping.
Choipotle Burrito
Stuffed with grilled chicken, Corn, chipotle sauce and topping with cheese dip, pico de gallo, served with rice and crema salad.
Texas Volcan
Big flour tortilla filed with grilled shrimp, steak, chicken and onions, cheesse dip an top, served with rice, beans and salad.
Enchiladas Rancheras
Two cheeses enchilada with pork, and onions, bell peppers, tomato, served with beans and guacamole salad.
Menudo
Three Flautas
Beef or chicken.
Steak & Shrimp
Rib-eye steak with shrimp, onions, mushrooms, served with rice and guacamole salad and Tortillas.
Three Tostadas De Ceviche
Alambron
Delicious mix of grilled onions, bell pepper, tomato served with beans and guacamole salad.
Fajitas Del Mar
Grilled Shrimp, fish, scallops , onions, tomato and bell pepper, served with rice, beans, guacamole and sour cream and tortilla.
Taco Loco
Big Crispy flour Tortilla With a bean of lettuce, grilled onions, poblano pepper and Shrimp, steak, chicken, sour cream, pico de gallo an top.
Torta Mexicana
Caldo De Camaron

Enchilada Plates
Enchiladas Suizas
Three chicken enchiladas covered with our special green sauce and cilantro. Served with rice, lettuce, tomato, and sour cream.
Enchiladas Supreme
Four enchiladas (one chicken, one beef, one beans, one cheese), topped with lettuce, tomato, and sour cream.
Enchiladas Blancas
Three chicken enchiladas covered with melted cheese. Served with rice, lettuce, tomato, and sour cream.

Make Your Own Combo
Make Your Own Combo
Choose any two items! + rice and beans. Add Steak, Grilled Chicken or Shrimp for an additional charge.

Kids' Menu
F. Chicken Nuggets and Fries
E. Mini Nachos with Cheese, Beef & Chicken
A. Taco & Burrito
C. Cheese Quesadilla & Enchilada
B. Taco, Rice & Beans
D. Cheese Quesadilla & Rice
G. Grilled Chicken and Fries

Quesadilla Plates
Fajita Quesadilla
Grilled flour tortilla stuffed with cheese, grilled chicken or steak strips sautéed with green peppers, onions, and tomatoes. Served with rice, sour cream, pico de gallo, and guacamole salad.
Texas Fajita Quesadilla
Grilled flour tortilla stuffed with cheese, grilled chicken, strips steak and shrimp sautéed with green peppers, onions, and tomatoes. Served with rice, sour cream, pico de gallo, and guacamole salad.
Quesabirrias
3 Quesadillas stuffed with "Birria" meat ( A traditional ancestral stew made from a combination of chill pepper-based and beef). With cheese, cilantro and onions. Served with rice and cup of Birria soup just for dipping.
Quesadilla Blanca
Grilled flour tortilla stuffed with cheese, chicken, or beef tips topped with your choice; a special red sauce, green sauce, or melted cheese for our quesadilla blanca. Served with rice and sour cream salad. Add $1.00 for Quesadilla Blanca.
Shrimp Fajita Quesadilla
Grilled flour tortilla stuffed with cheese, grilled shrimp sautéed with green peppers, onions, and tomatoes. Served with rice, sour cream, pico de gallo, and salad.

Vegetarian
Veggie Fajitas
Grilled mushrooms, zucchini, broccoli, squash, onions, bell pepper, and tomatoes. Served with black or refried beans and guacamole salad.
Veggie Quesadilla
Grilled flour tortilla filled with mushrooms or spinach, onion, tomato, bell peppers, and cheese. Served with rice, lettuce, and tomato.
Veggie Sincronizada
Grilled tortilla sandwich stuffed with spinach, mushrooms, and onions. Served with black beans and sour cream salad.
Veggie Taco Salad
Fried flour tortilla bowl filled with black beans, grilled zucchini, squash, mushrooms, onions, bell peppers, and tomatoes topped with cheese, lettuce, sour cream, and pico de gallo.
Veggie Nachos Supreme
Cheese nachos topped with grilled onions, bell pepper, tomatoes, lettuce, sour cream, and pico de gallo.

Salads
Crema Salad
Lettuce, tomato and sour cream.
Caesar Salad
Lettuce, chicken breast, croûtons, Parmesan cheese and Caesar dressing.
La Terraza Grilled Chicken Salad
Grilled marinated chicken, lettuce, black beans, corn, tortilla chips, diced tomatoes, cheese and ranch dressing.

Soft Drinks
Pink Lemonade
Agua De Jamaica
Coca Cola
Zero Coke
Iced Tea
Diet Coke
Sprite
Dr Pepper
Mello Yello
Agua De Horchata
Fanta

Lunch Specials
A.C.P
Grilled chicken over rice and covered with melted cheese.
A.C.S
Steak strips over rice and covered with melted cheese.
Texas A.C.P
Grilled Chicken, Shrimp, and Steak strips over rice covered with melted cheese.
Cali Burrito
Burrito filled with grilled chicken or steak strips, lettuce, pico de gallo, sour cream, creamy chipotle sauce, rice, and black beans.
Shrimp Fajitas
Grilled shrimp sautéed with bell pepper, onions, and tomatoes. Served with rice, refried beans, guacamole salad, sour cream, and flour tortillas.
Fajitas
Steak, chicken, or mixed, grilled with bell peppers, onions, and tomatoes, served with salad, rice, refried beans, sour cream, and tortillas.
Fajita Quesadilla
Grilled flour tortilla stuffed with cheese, steak, chicken or Mixed. Green peppers, tomatoes, and onions. Served with rice, sour cream salad, and pico de gallo.
Fajita Taco Salad
A crisp flour tortilla filled with steak, chicken or Mixed, peppers, tomatoes, and onion. Served with lettuce, cheese, pico de gallo & sour cream.
Chori-Pollo
Grilled chicken with chorizo sausage, topped with cheese dip. Served with rice, beans, and flour tortillas.
Fajita Burrito
Filled with Steak, Chicken, or Mixed, grilled green peppers, tomatoes, and onions. Served with rice, sour cream salad, and pico de gallo.
Huevos Con Chorizo
Two eggs with pork sausage, served with rice, fried beans, and flour tortillas. *These items may be served cooked to order. Consuming raw or undercooked meats, poultry, seafood, shellfish, or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness.
Enchiladas Verdes
Two chicken enchiladas with green sauce on top. Served with rice and crema salad.
Enchiladas Supreme
One cheese and one chicken enchilada topped with lettuce, tomato, and sour cream. Served with rice.
Speedy González
Pick one itme, chile rellno ,chaliupa, burrito,, taco, quesadilla or enchilada, served with rice and beans.
Chimichanga
One flour tortillas deep-fried, filled with Beef tips, pork or chicken topped with lettuce, tomato, cheese, sour cream. Served with beans. Add shrimp for an additional charge.
Texas Fajita Quesadilla
Grilled flour tortilla stuffed with cheese, grilled chicken, strips steak and shrimp sautéed with green peppers, onions, and tomatoes. Served with rice, pico de gallo, and crema salad.
Huevos Rancheros
Two eggs, served with Mexican red sauce, rice, fried beans, and flour tortillas. *These items may be served cooked to order. Consuming raw or undercooked meats, poultry, seafood, shellfish, or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness.
Taco Salad
A crisp flour tortilla filled with ground beef or chicken, beans, lettuce, tomato, grated cheese, and sour cream.
Quesadilla Deluxe
Flour tortilla with cheese and chicken, topped with lettuce, tomato, sour cream, and rice.
A.C.C
Grilled shrimp over rice and covered with melted cheese.
Pollo Tapatio
Grilled chicken breast marinated, grilled onions, mushrooms, and melted mozzarella and cheese. Served with rice, lettuce, sour cream, and flour tortillas.
Enchiladas Blancas
Two chicken enchiladas topped with cheese dip. Served with rice, lettuce, tomato, and sour cream.
Burrito Tapatio
Chicken or steak fajita cooked with green peppers, onion, and tomatoes topped with melted cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, and sour cream. Served with beans.
Pollo Chipotle
Grilled marinated chicken breast served with rice, two flour tortillas, and lettuce & tomato salad.
Grilled Tilapia Filet
Grilled tilapia filet. Served with rice, pico de gallo, lettuce, sour cream, and lime.
Fajita Nachitos
Cheese nachos topped with grilled chicken or steak, beans lettuce, pico de gallo, onions, tomato, bell pepper, and sour cream.
Texas Fajitas
Grilled chicken, shrimp, and steak with sautéed, bell peppers, onions, and tomatoes. Served with refried beans, rice, salad, sour cream, and flour tortillas.
Carne Asada and Enchiladas
Grilled steak served with one chicken and one cheese enchilada with green creamy sauce and rice on the side. *These items may be served cooked to order. Consuming raw or undercooked meats, poultry, seafood, shellfish, or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness.
Lunch Hawaiian Fajitas
Grilled chicken, shrimp, and pineapple sautéed with yellow squash, green zucchini, red onions. Served with rice, refried beans, salad, sour cream, and flour tortillas.

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Recent Reviews

The chips and salsa weren’t very good, service was abysmally slow and dinner prices aren’t great. Spent 35 minutes of the hour and a half I was there waiting on the check. However, actual food was good.
October 2025
I just stopped by to leave my experience with this restaurant yesterday it was my third time here but on two occasions I was served by the same waiter terrible service I never checked my table I took the ticket and he did not remove any dish he always with his hearing aid in his ear and that was not the worst his aroma that was not normal to tobacco was super strong, from there everything was good the food was good only the service was not good with this waiter and it was twice...
September 2025
I enjoyed the ACP. The beef nachos also seemed to be tasty. A couple interesting points. This restaurant is now La Terraza, the terrace; however, it was formerly El Cerro, the hill. I had dinner here the better part of a decade ago, and I prefer the ACP now. Interesting bit for the vexillologists, they hang the Italian flag above their bar area (which is the mexican flag omitting their coat of arms). Personally, I think a coat of arms is rarely a wanted addition to a flag, but...
September 2025

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La Terraza Mexican Restaurant

2217 Avent Ferry Rd, Raleigh, NC 27606
(919) 832-0293