Las Velas

21 Market Square, Pittsburgh
(412) 251-0031

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Enchiladas de la Abuela
Chicken Quesadilla
Carnitas Enchiladas
Enchiladas Suizas
Nachos Las Velas
Combo Quesadilla
Enchiladas Verdes
Chips and Salsa
Chicken Fajitas
Fajitas L - Oo

Menu

Lunch Menu
Chips and Salsa
Chips and Guacamole
Chips and Queso
Fajita Salad
A bed of romaine lettuce topped with chicken or steak, hot grilled onions and peppers and a generous portion of melted cheese. Served with creamy vinaigrette dressing with additional shrimp
Fajitas
Traditional chicken or steak fajitas served with rice, black beans, grilled peppers and onions, lettuce, pico de gallo, sour cream, cheese, and tortillas (flour or corn).
Quesadillas
Melted cheese and your choice of chicken, steak, ground beef, carnitas, veggies, or chorizo. Served with lettuce, pico de gallo, guacamole, sour cream.
Huaraches
Elongated oval-shaped tortilla stuffed with refried beans and topped with lettuce, pico de gallo, salsa, sour cream and fresco cheese. Choose chicken, steak or carnitas.
Flautas
Two flautas made with flour tortillas wrapped around a flavorful mix of chicken, cheese, red and green peppers and onions. Served with creamy chipotle sauce. Rice and beans.
Tostadas
Two crispy corn tortillas topped with beans and chicken, steak, ground beef, chorizo or carnitas, lettuce, cheese, and guacamole. Served with rice.
Tostadas de Ceviche
Two crispy corn tortillas topped with a fish ceviche, marinated in lime juice and served cold with rice.
Two Tacos
Flour or corn soft tortillas, mild or hot salsa Grilled chicken, grilled steak, ground beef, chorizo, or carnitas (pork). Rice and beans.
Fish Tacos
Two tacos (flour or corn soft tortillas) topped with freshly breaded tilapia, shredded cabbage, pico de gallo, and a creamy chipotle-mustard salsa. Served with rice and beans.
Enchiladas
Two enchiladas bathed in salsa (choose verde, roja or mole). Topped with onions and cilantro, sour cream, and crumbled fresco cheese. Served with rice and beans.
Sopes
Two thick handmade corn tortilla topped with beans and chicken, steak, ground beef, chorizo or carnitas, salsa verde or roja, onions, cilantro and fresco cheese. Served with rice.
Chile Relleno Combo
One cheese chile relleno, rice, beans, chilaquiles with salsa verde.
Lunch Combo
One burrito, one green enchilada, and one taco cooked with your choice of one meat: chicken, steak, ground beef, chorizo or carnitas. Served with rice and beans.
Cozumel Burritos
Chorizo con papas (chorizo sausage with potatoes), shredded lettuce, sour cream and fresco cheese.
Cancun Burritos
Marinated steak and shrimp, melted cheese, pico de gallo and guacamole.
Xel-Ha Burritos
Rice, chopped onions and cilantro, beans, hot or mild salsa, and melted cheese. Choose from chicken or steak.
The Naked Burritos
Rice, beans, grilled onions and peppers, lettuce, salsa verde, pico de gallo, cheese, and choice of meat. No tortilla.

Chips
Chips and Salsa
Chips and Guacamole
Chips and Queso

Entradas
Cocktail del Cejas
Large shrimp prepared in a mexican cocktail sauce made fresh with onions, cilantro, avocado and lime. Served cold with saltine crackers.
Quesadillas
Your choice of cheese, chicken, steak, ground beef, carnitas, veggies, or chorizo. Served with lettuce, pico de gallo, guacamole, sour cream.
Empanadas del Cejas
Two corn empanadas stuffed with cheese and your choice of chicken, fish, mushrooms, or beef.
Sopecitos
Four small thick corn tortillas, handmade in our kitchen, topped one each of chicken, steak, chorizo and carnitas, beans, salsa verde or roja, onions, cilantro and fresco cheese
Poblano Dip
Poblano peppers cooked with butter, sour cream and cheese. Perfect for a more flavorful start to your meal. Served with our freshly cut chips.
Nachos Las Velas
Our freshly cut and fried chips topped high with black beans, cheese, lettuce, guacamole, sour cream and pico de gallo.
Flautas
Three flautas made with flour tortillas wrapped around a mix of diced chicken, cheese, red and green peppers, corn and onions. Served with creamy chipotle sauce.

Sopas
Tortilla Soup
A chipotle-flavored chicken broth with sliced avocado, onions, cilantro, and topped with fried tortilla strips and crumbled fresco cheese.
Black Bean Soup
Black bean soup specially seasoned to a perfect flavor with cumin, salsa, and lime.
Sopa Cancun
Freshly made chicken broth surrounds a generous portion of rice, shredded chicken, diced tomatoes, chopped onions, cilantro, sliced avocado and jalapeno peppers on the side.

Ensalads
Ensalada del Cesar
Traditional caesar salad with chicken or steak
Fajita Salad
A bed of romaine lettuce topped with chicken or steak, hot grilled onions and red peppers, melted cheese. Served with creamy vinaigrette dressing.
Burrito Salad
Served in a bowl, rice, beans, lettuce, grilled peppers & onions, salsa verde, pico de gallo, cheese and your choice of meat.

Tacos
Two Tacos
Three Tacos

Tacos Especiales
Tacos del Paisa Fish
Two tacos with freshly breaded tilapia, shredded cabbage, pico de gallo, and a creamy chipotle salsa. Served with rice and beans.
Tacos del Timon Shrimp
Two tacos (flour or corn soft tortillas) with freshly breaded large shrimp, pico de gallo, avocado, and el timon's creamy salsa. Served with rice and beans.
Tacos Checandole Pastor
Three tacos with slow-cooked, marinated shredded pork, onion and cilantro, grilled pineapple, and a sweet and mildly spicy salsa. Served with rice.
Tacos del Guero Cochinita Pibil
Three tacos with slow-coked achiote/vinegar pork and habanero/vinegar marinated red onions. Served with rice.
Tacos de Arrachera
A must try! Three tacos with marinated hanger steak (a special cut), onions and cilantro, and salsa (mild or hot). Served with rice.

Burritos
Burrito Cozumel
A large flour tortilla stuffed full with chorizo con papas (chorizo sausage with potatoes), shredded lettuce, sour cream and fresco cheese.
Burrito Cancun
A large flour tortilla with your choice of marinated steak, pork, or chicken. Stuffed with cheese, pico de gallo and guacamole.
Burrito Isla
A burrito stuffed with melted cheese, rice, green peppers, grilled onions, salsa verde, and sour cream. Your choice of steak, pork or chicken.
Burrito Xel-Ha
A favorite in the riviera maya, this burrito is stuffed with rice, chopped onions and cilantro, beans, hot or mild salsa, and melted cheese. Your choice of steak, pork or chicken.

A Ladito
Black Beans
Pinto Beans
Rice
Guacamole
Sour Cream
Cheese
Rajas con Crema
Pico de Gallo
Papas Leticia
Queso Dip
Veggie Queso Dip

Especiales de Las Velas
Chicken Fajitas Nunca Fallan
Traditional fajitas served with rice, black beans, grilled peppers and onions, lettuce, guacamole, pico de gallo, sour cream, cheese, and tortillas.
Steak Fajitas Nunga Fallan
Traditional fajitas served with rice, black beans, grilled peppers and onions, lettuce, guacamole, pico de gallo, sour cream, cheese, and tortillas.
Shrimp Fajitas Nunga Fallan
Traditional fajitas served with rice, black beans, grilled peppers and onions, lettuce, guacamole, pico de gallo, sour cream, cheese, and tortillas.
Combo Fajitas Nunga Fallan
Traditional fajitas served with rice, black beans, grilled peppers and onions, lettuce, guacamole, pico de gallo, sour cream, cheese, and tortillas.
Enchiladas de la Abuela
Three enchiladas with your choice of meat bathed in our green sauce, red sauce, or mole rojo and topped with chopped onions and cilantro, sour cream, and crumbled fresco cheese. Served with rice and beans.
Chilaquiles al Natural
Crunchy style tortilla chips soaked in green salsa, topped with marinated chicken or steak, chopped onions and cilantro, crumbled fresco cheese and sour cream. Served with rice and beans.
Milanesas Obregon
Hand-breaded thinly sliced chicken or steak specially marinated in spices and wine. Served with rice, lettuce/pico de gallo, guacamole, and papas leticia.
Pollo en m Mole Poblano
Deliciously slow-cooked mole rojo sauce smothered on top of your choice of chicken. Served with rice, beans, papas leticia, and tortillas.
Puerco en m Mole Poblano
Deliciously slow-cooked mole rojo sauce smothered on top of your choice of pork. Served with rice, beans, papas leticia, and tortillas.
Alambres Pollo
Grilled chopped peppers and onions smothered with melted cheese are placed atop grilled chicken and served with rice, lettuce or pico de gallo, guacamole, sour cream and tortillas.
Alambres Carne
Grilled chopped peppers and onions smothered with melted cheese are placed atop grilled steak and served with rice, lettuce or pico de gallo, guacamole, sour cream and tortillas.
Chiles Rellenos
A traditional mexican dish made with poblano peppers with skins removed, dipped in batter, stuffed with cheese and your choice of chicken, steak, or pork. Covered with a savory lightly spiced red sauce.
Carne Cambalache
Our version of carne arrachera. A choice cut of steak specially seasoned in tequila and mesquite-lime vinaigrette, served with rice, lettuce or pico de gallo, rajas or crema, and papas leticia.
Mar y Tierra ok Maguey
Steak and shrimp seasoned in the owner's mother's special recipe. Served with rice, lettuce/pico de gallo, rajas/crema, and papas Leticia.

Desserts
Sopapillas
Warm, soft yet ever so slightly crunchy fried flour tortillas smothered with honey and topped with vanilla ice cream.
Fried Ice Cream
A generous portion of vanilla ice cream with a delicious crunchy cinnamon coating and smothered with your choice of chocolate, honey, or caramel.
Crepas Las Velas
A delicious dessert for two, prepared at your table. Delicious strawberries and bananas are caramelized in a sugary syrup and flavored with cognac before being placed in a soft crepe. Served with your choice of strawberry or vanilla ice cream.
Fresas con Crema
Fresh sliced strawberries mixed with our delicious sugared cream and sprinkled with cinnamon. Served in our sopapilla shell.
Canole Las Velas
Sure to be a favorite, our banana caramel cheesecake is wrapped in a soft flour tortilla and deep fried to delicious perfection.

Beverages
Horchata
Aguas al 100%:
Jamaica
Aguas al 100%:
Tamarindo
Aguas al 100%:
Watermelon
Aguas al 100%:
Coke
Diet Coike
Sprite
Limeade
Lemonade
Shirley Temple

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Recent Reviews

Service was a bit slow, seems understaffed. Our server was running around a lot of tables. I waited 15 minutes for a soda refill. Not impressed with the queso, it was very watery and dripping all over us and the table. I wasn't expecting all of the pork/carnitas tacos to be al pastor style; I'm personally not a fan of the pineapple taste in my carnitas but it wasn't bad per se. This is one of the most sparsely decorated Mexican restaurants I've ever seen, kind...
October 2025
Located downtown on Market Square, which is under major reconstruction - expect to dodge some workmen. Restaurant is on second floor and overlooks the square. Inexpensive Mexican/Hispanic/Latin dishes. Provided free chips and salsa to compensate for kitchen problem, but salsa was a bit runny. Fish tacos were small but enjoyable. Service was very good.
September 2025
I got a pork plate, taco,burrito enchilada with rice and beans. The food had good flavor. Everything was lukewarm. My taco had hard reheated pork in it, I thought they were bones. Good atmosphere, clean, good service. I think all the businesses in that area are suffering from construction right outside their door. First Mexican restaurant were you didn't get chips and salsa. They were extra.
September 2025

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Las Velas

21 Market Square, Pittsburgh, PA 15222
(412) 251-0031