El Acapulco Mexican Restaurant

301 S Dekalb St, Shelby
(704) 481-8686

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Chicken Fajitas California Burrito Chimichangas
Pork Carnitas and Nachos
Blended Margaritas
Pollero Ranchero
Shrimp and Grits
Acapulco Nachos
Mole Enchiladas
Chicken Burrito
Chips and Salsa
Seafood Fajitas

Menu

Appetizers
Guacamole Dip
Spinach and Cheese Dip
Nachos with Cheese
Spinach Cheese Nachos
Nachos with Beef
Nachos with Chicken and Beef
Seafood Nachos
Corn tortilla chips topped. Served with shrimp, scallops, and cooked with onions and poblano pepper. Topped with beans, sour cream, pico de gallo, and avocado.
Chicken Wings
Jalapenos Poppers

Salads
Taco Salad
Crispy flour tortilla shell with beef, chicken, or spinach and beans topped with lettuce, tomato, sour cream, and guacamole.
Guacamole Salad
House salad with guacamole.
Mexican Salad
Grilled chicken on a bed of vegetables.
Seafood Salad
Crabmeat, shrimp, lettuce, mushrooms, onions, and tomatoes.
Pico De Gallo
Crispy Chicken Salad
A bed of lettuce, tomato, red onion, and shredded cheese covered with crispy fried chicken breast strips.

Quesadillas
Spinach Quesadilla
Flour tortillas (grilled golden brown), lettuce, tomato, guacamole, and sour cream.
Mushroom Quesadilla
Flour tortillas (grilled golden brown), lettuce, tomato, guacamole, and sour cream.
Beef Quesadilla
Flour tortillas (grilled golden brown), lettuce, tomato, guacamole, and sour cream.
Chicken Quesadilla
Flour tortillas (grilled golden brown), lettuce, tomato, guacamole, and sour cream.
Chicken and Spinach Quesadilla
Flour tortillas (grilled golden brown), lettuce, tomato, guacamole, and sour cream.
Shrimp Quesadilla
Flour tortillas (grilled golden brown), lettuce, tomato, guacamole, and sour cream.
Quesadillas Rellenas
2 flour tortillas grilled and stuffed with cheese and beans topped with lettuce, tomato, guacamole, and sour cream.
Quesadillas de Fajitas
Grilled tomato, onion, and green peppers.
Quesadillas San Francisco
Strips of skirt steak marinated in special sauce and yellow cheese.

A La Carte
Burrito Chicken and Spinach
Spinach Burrito
Cheese Enchilada
Quesadilla Chicken and Spinach
Cheese Quesadilla

Specialidades
Nachos Grandes
Nachos, cheese with ground beef, chicken, and beans. Covered with lettuce, tomato, and sour cream.
Parrillada
Grill steak, black tiger shrimp, chicken, and chorizo (Mexican sausage). Cooked with tomato, onion, and pepper. Served with delicious poblano pepper and cream, topped with queso fresco, and frijoles charros on the side.
Arroz con Queso
Grilled chicken or beef with green pepper, onions, and tomatoes. Served on a bed of rice covered with cheese dip.
El Guadalajara
Topped with beef, chicken, rice, beans, lettuce, tomatoes, guacamole, sour cream plus two taquitos of beef, and chicken.
Torta Hawaiiana
Ham, Mexican cheese, jalapenos, pineapple, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, avocado, and beans.
Cream Burritos
2 burritos, one chicken, beans, one beef, beans with lettuce, tomato, and sour cream.
The 2 Amigos
The ultimate combination of one chicken chimichanga, one beef burrito topped with lettuce, tomato, and sour cream. Served with rice and beans.
Chimichanga
2 flour tortillas deep-fried and filled with beef tips, beans, topped with nacho cheese, including lettuce, tomato, sour cream, and guacamole.
Chilaquiles Mexicanos
Pieces of com tortilla cooked with chicken, prepared in our special green sauce, topped with cheese, and two eggs. Served with rice and beans.
Taquitos Mexicanos
4 fried corn taquitos (2 beef and two chicken). Served with lettuce, guacamole, tomato sour cream, and rice.
Enchiladas Supreme
4 enchiladas one chicken, one beef, one bean, one cheese topped with cheese, lettuce, tomato, and sour cream.
Enchiladas Suizas
2 enchiladas one chicken, one spinach, topped with lettuce, tomato, and sour cream. Served with rice and beans.
El Acapulco Fiesta Hamburger and French Fries
Double cheeseburger with ham, bacon, lettuce, tomato, onion, and mayonnaise.
La Bandera
1 chicken enchilada with green sauce, one spinach enchilada with cheese sauce, and one beef enchilada with red sauce. Served with rice and beans.
Fajitas Nachos
Nachos with grilled chicken or beef, bell peppers, tomato, onion, and cheese dip. Guacamole salad and pico de gallo.
Pollo Fundido
2 flour tortillas deep-fried and covered with nacho cheese. Served with rice and pico de gallo.
Spinach and Black Beans Quesadilla
Served with rice and salad.
El Sombrero
Tender grilled steak accompanied by black tiger shrimp cooked guajillo style (diced garlic and dried guajillo peppers). Served with Mexican cactus salad, a side of sliced shrimp cooked with mushrooms, cheese, and chipotle sauce.
Three Amigos
Grilled chicken breast with skirt steak, shrimp, topped with onions, shredded cheese, and pineapple. Served with beans, guacamole, lettuce, sour cream, tomatoes, and tortillas.

Las Fajitas
Vegetables Fajitas
Fajitas cooked with onions, bell pepper, and tomatoes. Served with beans and lettuce, tomatoes, sour cream, and guacamole on the side.
Chicken Fajitas Para Dos
Fajitas cooked with onions, bell pepper, and tomatoes. Served with beans and lettuce, tomatoes, sour cream, and guacamole on the side.
Beef Fajitas Para Dos
Fajitas cooked with onions, bell pepper, and tomatoes. Served with beans and lettuce, tomatoes, sour cream, and guacamole on the side.
Chicken Fajitas
Fajitas cooked with onions, bell pepper, and tomatoes. Served with beans and lettuce, tomatoes, sour cream, and guacamole on the side.
Beef Fajitas
Fajitas cooked with onions, bell pepper, and tomatoes. Served with beans and lettuce, tomatoes, sour cream, and guacamole on the side.
Chicken and Beef Fajitas
Fajitas cooked with onions, bell pepper, and tomatoes. Served with beans and lettuce, tomatoes, sour cream, and guacamole on the side.
Para Dos Fajita
Fajitas cooked with onions, bell pepper, and tomatoes. Served with beans and lettuce, tomatoes, sour cream, and guacamole on the side.
Texas Fajitas
Fajitas cooked with onions, bell pepper, and tomatoes. Served with beans and lettuce, tomatoes, sour cream, and guacamole on the side.
Para Dos (For 2)
Fajitas cooked with onions, bell pepper, and tomatoes. Served with beans and lettuce, tomatoes, sour cream, and guacamole on the side.
Shrimp Fajitas
Fajitas cooked with onions, bell pepper, and tomatoes. Served with beans and lettuce, tomatoes, sour cream, and guacamole on the side.
Seafood Fajitas
Grilled black tiger shrimp, fresh scallops mushrooms, onion, poblano peppers, tomato, and zucchini.
Acapulco
Beef, chicken, carnitas (pork), shrimp, and chorizo (Mexican sausage).

Chicken
Pollo Guerrero
Grilled chicken breast, shrimp cooked with onion, and cheese sauce. Topped with pico de gallo. Served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Chicken and Spinach Cream Burrito (2)
Flour tortillas rolled around spinach, chicken topped with lettuce, tomato, and sour cream.
La Texana
1 chicken burrito and one chicken enchilad. Topped with lettuce tomato and sour cream.
Enchiladas con Mole
3 chicken enchiladas with mole sauce. Baked with cheese. Served with rice.
Mole Ranchero
Chicken breasts strip sautéed with mole sauce. Served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Enchiladas Verdes
3 chicken enchiladas in our special green sauce, topped with sour cream, and onion. Served with rice and beans.
Pollo con Crema
Grilled chicken breast strips topped with onion and poblano pepper in a cream sauce. Served with rice beans and flour tortillas.
Pollo Estofado
Grilled chicken breast, cooked with onions, tomato, rice, and beans topped with shredded melted cheese. Served on a bed of rice.
Raul's Burrito
Grilled strips of chicken breast, onion, tomato, rice, and beans all inside a flour tortilla covered with nacho cheese. Served with guacamole salad.
Arroz con Pollo
Chunks of chicken with spanish rice, onion, mushrooms, bell peppers, tomato, zucchini, black beans, and pico de gallo are served on the side.
Burrito California
Grilled strips of chicken breast tomato, beans, and Mexican sausage (chorizo).
Acapulco Tacos
Chicken tacos with fried onion, cheese, and chipotle sauce. Served with rice and black beans.
Pollo Nortel
Grilled chicken breast, shrimp cooked with onion, and cheese sauce topped with pico de gallo. Served with rice, beans, and tortillas.

Pork
Carnitas
Fried pork tips with lettuce, tomato, avocado, onion, and flour. Served with rice and beans.
Chile Verde
Pork tips are cooked with our special tomatillo sauce. Served with rice, beans, and flour tortillas.
Enchiladas Mexicanas
2 cheese enchiladas with pork or chicken cooked with tomato onion and green pepper. Served with rice, lettuce, tomato guacamole, and sour cream.
Chuletas Mexicanas
Pork chops are served with rice, beans, our special tomatillo sauce, and flour tortillas.
Burrito El Acapulco
Flour tortilla stuffed with pork cooked with tomato, onion, green pepper topped with nacho cheese, lettuce, tomato, and guacamole.
Tacos de Carnitas (3 pcs)
Soft corn tortillas filled with fried pork tips. Served with pico de gallo rice and beans.

Steak and Beef
Patron Steak
Grilled ribeye topped with sautéed onions, green peppers, mushrooms, and melted cheese. Served with rice beans and tortillas.
T-Bone Steak
Grilled t-bone served with rice, beans, salad, pico de gallo, and flour tortillas.
El Acapulco Steak
Grilled rib eye with tomato, onion, and green pepper. Served with rice, beans, and flour tortillas.
Steak Ranchero
Grilled rib eye covered with green ranchero sauce. Served with rice, beans, and flour tortillas.
Steak Guerrero (8 oz)
Ribeye steak topped with shrimp and melted cheese. Served with sautéed vegetables and rice.
Steak a La Tampiquena
Grilled rib eye served with rice, beans, salad, and flour tortillas.
Rib Eye Steak a La Mexicana
Grilled chopped rib eye with jalapenos, red onions cilantro, mushrooms, and tomatoes. Served with rice and beans.
Carne Asada
Tender roast beef served with lettuce, tomato, onion, sliced avocado, rice, beans, and flour tortillas.
Chile Colorado
Chunks of beef cooked with our special red sauce. Served with rice. Beans and flour tortillas.
Tacos de Carne Asada (3 pcs)
Soft corn tortillas filled with diced carne asada served with pico de gallo, rice, and beans.
Cheese Steak Burrito
1 soft flour tortilla filled with thin-sliced steak grilled onion and nacho cheese. Served with lettuce and tomato.
Mar Y Tierra Plate
Grilled ribeye, shrimps sautéed with onions, green peppers, and mushrooms. Served with Mexican rice, beans, and tortillas.

Seafood
Shrimp Cocktail
Our cocktail sauce is made with onion, tomato, cilantro, avocado, valentina salsa, and saltine crackers served on the side.
Camarones con Arroz
Marinated shrimps, sautéed with green peppers, mushrooms, onion, zucchini, and tomato. Served with rice and two slices of french bread (buttered and grilled).
Camarones a La Diabla
Spicy shrimp served with rice a small salad and corn tortillas.
Camarones Al Mojo
Large shrimp sautéed with fresh garlic in our special sauce served with rice, onion, tomato, avocado, and lime with two slices of french bread (buttered and grilled) on the side.
Camarones a La Veracruz
Black tiger shrimp sautéed with sliced carrots, mushrooms served with rice, beans, pico de gallo, corn salad, and french bread (buttered and grilled).
Mojarra Frita (Deep Fried Tilapia)
Served with rice, lettuce, tomato, onion, avocado, lime, and tortillas.
El Sureno
Marinated shrimp, sautéed with green pepper, mushrooms, onion, zucchini, carrots, broccoli, and tomato. Served with rice, guacamole salad, and french bread.
Combo El Paso
A combination of tender roast steak, shrimps, bell pepper, and mushrooms. Served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Camarones Tapatios
Black tiger shrimp sautéed in butter with tomato, onion, and cilantro. Served with rice and beans.
Camarones Al Chipotle
Sautéed black tiger shrimp with tomato, onion, and chipotle peppers. Served with rice and beans.

Vegetarian
Spinach and Cream Burritos (2 pcs)
Flour tortillas rolled around spinach, topped with lettuce, tomato, and sour cream.
El Rio
One bean burrito, one cheese enchilada and one chalupa.
El Vegetariano
One spinach burrito, one cheese enchilada, rice, beans, and sour cream.
Tex-Mex Quesadillas
2 flour tortillas, one with spinach, and one with mushroom, cheese, and onion. Served with lettuce, tomato, sour cream, and guacamole.
Poblanos El Acapulco
2 peppers stuffed with cheese. Served with rice, beans, lettuce, and sour cream.
El Favorito
1 chile poblano, one spinach enchilada, rice, and beans.

Kids
Cheese Quesadilla and Rice
Chicken Plate-Grilled Strip of Chicken and Rice
Cheeseburger and French Fries
Crispy Chicken and French Fries

Side Orders
Frijoles Charros (Muy deliciosos)
Our special pinto beans are made with bacon, onion, cilantro, tomato, and jalapenos.
Spinach
Corn Tortillas (3 pcs)
Shredded Cheese
Jalapenos

Desserts
Flan (Mexican Custard)
Fried Banana
Apple Chimichanga
Fried Xango
Creamy cheesecake wrapped in a pastry tortilla, deep-fried, dusted with cinnamon, and sugar. Served with vanilla ice cream.

Beverages
Ice Tea
Orange Juice and Milk

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Recent Reviews

Great service bad chefs I ordered Nachos Grande the waiter told me it came with ground beef & chicken I asked how much extra would it cost for steak and Jalapeños he 6.95 I said ok didn’t take too long how I noticed there was only steak and ground beef no Chicken and the steak was cut as small as the ground beef pieces you couldn’t tell it apart. Okay atmosphere it was crowded you had to squeeze by the tables good service horrible chef
March 2025
I don’t ever make reviews but I am very impressive with this place, I would say I had to wait like 10 mins to get my order it and it was very good, good quality food and friendly people, very happy about this.
October 2024
This place is amazing absolutely the best Mexican food and waiter was awesome with our kids best part we eat for 50$ for 2 adults and 3 kids we will definitely make this our to go to spot for Mexican I suggest getting the Mexican pizza ???
September 2024

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El Acapulco Mexican Restaurant

301 S Dekalb St, Shelby, NC 28150
(704) 481-8686