El Jinete Mexican Restaurant

2011 Congress Pkwy S, Athens
(423) 453-2100

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Molacjete Special with Chicken or Steak or Mix
Tortilla Chips and Salsa
Sopapilla with Ice Cream
Chili Relleno Real
Enchiladas De Mole
Hawaiian Burrito
Steak Quesadilla
Sauteed Chicken
Fajitas Jalisco
Shrimp Ceviche

Menu

Appetizers‏
Choriqueso
A mouthwatering cheese dip topped with chorizo.
Chicken Wings
Mexi Egg Rolls
Three smoked chicken, black beans, corn, jalapeno jack cheese, red peppers, and spinach wrapped inside a crispy flour tortilla. Served with ranch dipping sauce.
Shrimp Cantina
Delicious shrimp sautéed in our special red sauce.
Guacamole Casero
Chunks of avocado mixed with tomato, onion, cilantro, jalapeno, lime, and salt.
Papas Locas
Fries topped with nacho cheese, ground beef, pico de gallo, and jalapeno peppers.
El Camino Sampler
Four wings, cheese quesadilla, tex-mexrolls, beans, and cheese nachos. Served with guacamole, sour cream, and pico de gallo.
Shrimp Ceviche-only
Shrimp cooked in lime juice mixed with tomato, onion, cilantro, jalapeno, lime, and salt.
El Real Dip
Steak, chicken, shrimp, and pico de gallo over cheese dip.

Dips
Cheese Dip (small)
Guacamole Dip
El Camino Dip
Ground beef and pico de gallo with cheese dip
Cheese dip (large)
Bean Dip

Nachos
Nachos with Ground Beef
Nachos with Cheese
Nachos with Beans and Chorizo
Nachos Supreme
Cheese nachos topped with ground beef, chicken, and beans. Covered with lettuce, tomato, and sour cream.
Nachos Carnitas with Grilled Onions
Nachos with Rice & Chorizo
Nachos with Ground Beef & Beans
Nachos Pastor
Cheese nachos topped with pork cooked in our special marinated smoked sauce with pineapple and onions.

Soups‏
Chicken Tortilla Soup
Served with rice, pico de gallo, tortilla strips, lime, and avocado slices.
Shrimp Soup
Shrimp broth with broccoli, cauliflower, zucchini, carrots, and celery with a hint of chipotle to make it flavorful.
Chicken and Vegetable Soup
Healthy chicken broth with rice, broccoli, cauliflower, zucchini, and carrots, topped with avocado slices and pico de gallo.

Salads
Grilled Shrimp Salad
Lettuce, tomatoes, onions, avocado slices, bell peppers, and cucumber, topped with grilled shrimp.
Acapulco Salad
Lettuce, sliced tomato, onion, avocado, bell peppers, and shredded cheese, topped with grilled shrimp and chicken.
Grilled Chicken Salad
Lettuce, tomato, onion, bell pepper, shredded cheese, topped with seasoned grilled chicken.
Grilled Steak Salad
Lettuce, tomato, onion, bell pepper, shredded cheese, topped with seasoned grilled chicken.

Seafood‏
Grilled Shrimp
Seasoned grilled shrimp served with steamed vegetables and rice.
Shrimp Acapulco
Seafood‏
Fish Tacos
Served with rice, and pico de gallo.
Shrimp Tacos
Served with rice, and pico de gallo.
Shrimp Chipotle
Seasoned grilled shrimp sauteéd with chipotle and onions, served with rice, lettuce, tomatoes, and avocado slices.
Sauteed Shrimp
Seasoned grilled shrimp sauteéd with zucchini, mushrooms, tomato, onions, and poblano pepper. Served with rice.
Shrimp Al Guajillo
Grilled shrimp cooked with fresh garlic and chile guajillo. Served with steamed vegetables and rice.
Shrimp Jalisco
Seafood‏
Shrimp Cocktail
Shrimp served in a traditional Mexican style cocktail juice consisting of a chilled shrimp broth with pico de gallo, diced avocado, and ketchup. Served with limes, saltine crackers, and hot sauce.
Shrimp a La Diablo
Shrimp in a devilishly hot homemade chipotle sauce served with rice, refried beans.
Shrimp Al Mojo De Ajo
Shrimp sautéed with garlic and butter served with rice, lettuce, sliced tomato, onion, avocado, and lime.
Shrimp Chilaquiles
Fried corn tortilla chips topped with seasoned grilled shrimp, cooked with cheese and salsa ranchera, served with rice and beans.
Filet Tampiqueno
Grilled tilapia cooked with sautéed onion, tomato, and bell pepper, topped with cheese dip, served with rice.
Grilled Filet
Grilled seasoned tilapia served with steamed vegetables and rice.
Filet Veracruz
Grilled tilapia with sautéed onions, mushroom, fresh jalapeno peppers, topped with salsa ranchera, served with lettuce, tomato, onion, and rice.
Filet Al Mogo De Ajo
Grilled tilapia fillet marinated with garlic butter sauce, served with lettuce, tomato, onion, and rice.
Shrimp and Chorizo Nachos
Cheese nachos topped with grilled shrimp and chorizo.
Shrimp Chimichanga
A deep-fried flour tortilla filled with seasoned shrimp, topped with cheese dip, lettuce, guacamole, sour cream, and pico de gallo. Served with rice and beans.

Quesadillas‏
Quesadilla with Cheese
Quesadilla with Grilled Steak
Quesadilla with Meat
Quesadilla with Grilled Chicken
Quesadilla with Shrimp
Grande Quesadilla

Sizzling Fajitas
Fajitas Jalisco
Fajitas Texans
Fajitas
Shrimp Fajita Nachos
Quesadilla Fajita Style
A bean & cheese quesadilla filled with sautéed onion, bell pepper, and tomato, served with rice, guacamole salad.
Shrimp Fajitas
Succulent marinated grilled shrimp
Mar and Tierra

Steak‏
Sirloin Deluxe
Grilled sirloin steak topped with grilled mushrooms and onions. Served with rice and steamed vegetables.
Steak Tampiqueno
T-bone steak served with rice beans and tortillas.
Guiso Mexicano
Grilled strips of sirloin steak sauteéd with tomato, onions, and serrano peppers. Served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Steak with Shrimp
with grilled shrimp garnished with onions. Served with rice and steamed vegetables.
Chicken with Shrimp
with grilled shrimp garnished with onions. Served with rice and steamed vegetables.
Steak Ranchero
T-bone steak topped with hot sauce, served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Steak Mexicano
T-bone steak topped with sautéed onions, bell pepper, and tomatoes, served with rice, beans, and tortillas.

Pork
Chile Verde O Rojo
Chopped pork tips with your choice of salsa tapatia or ranchero sauce. Served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Chuletas Mexicanas
Two seasoned pork chops topped with onions, jalapenos, tomatoes, and your choice of ranchero or Tapatio sauce, served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Carnitas
Slowly cooked pork tips served with rice, beans, lettuce, tomato, jalapeno pepper, and tortillas.

Chicken‏
Pollo Con Queso
Served with rice and tortillas.
Pollo Loco
Seasoned grilled chicken breast topped with sautéed onions, mushrooms, and cheese. Served with rice, lettuce, sour cream, tomatoes, and tortillas.
Steak Con Queso
Served with rice and tortillas.
Pollo Charro
Pollo Real
Seasoned grilled chicken breast topped with sautéed shrimp and pineapple, served with rice, lettuce, sour cream, and tomato.
Pollo Chipotle
Seasoned grilled chicken breast topped with sautéed poblano pepper, mushrooms, and chihuahua cheese, served with rice, lettuce, sour cream, tomato, and tortillas.
Pollo Mexicano
Seasoned grilled chicken breast topped with sautéed onions and fresh jalapeno peppers, served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Pollo Limon
Deliciously grilled chicken marinade in lemon and spices served with rice, lettuce, tomato, and avocado slices.
Pollo Poblano
Sauteed Chicken
Sautéed grilled chicken with poblano peppers, zucchini, mushrooms, and onions. Served with rice, lettuce, tomatoes, and tortillas.

Vegetarian‏
Burrito Vegetarian
10-inch flour tortilla filled with grilled onions, tomatoes, bell pepper, mushrooms, and spinach, topped with cheese sauce.
Chimichanga Vegetarian
A deep-fried flour tortilla filled with grilled spinach, mushrooms, bell peppers, and tomatoes, topped with cheese dip, lettuce, sour cream, guacamole, and pico de gallo. Served with rice and whole beans.
Nachos Vegetarian
Cheese nachos topped with sauteed broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, bell pepper, mushrooms, onions, and tomato.
Spinach Enchiladas
Three spinach and cheese enchiladas served with rice and whole beans.
Fajita Salad
Lettuce, sour cream, guacamole, pico de gallo, rice, and whole beans.
Vegetarian Taco Salad
Our vegetarian taco salad is topped with lettuce, tomato, and sour cream. | grilled onions, tomatoes, bell peppers, and mushrooms
Quesadilla Rellena
A bean and cheese quesadilla filled with your choice of two toppings: mushrooms, spinach, onions, tomatoes bell peppers. Served with lettuce, sour cream, tomato, and rice.
Vegetarian Fajitas
Sauteed broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, bell pepper, mushrooms, onions, and tomato. Served with whole beans.

Vegetarian Combos
Chalupa, Cheese Enchilada and Beans
Two Bean Burritos
Topped with cheese dip and burrito sauce.
Bean Burrito, Bean and Cheese Tostada and Cheese Enchilada
Bean and cheese tostada, and cheese enchilada.
Bean Burrito, Quesadilla and Chalupa
Quesadilla and chalupa.
Cheese Enchilada, Quesadilla and Rice
Quesadilla, and rice.

On the Grill
Alambres
Tender strips of marinated chicken, steak, or shrimp sautéed with onions and bacon topped with cheese. Served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Parrillada
Strips of marinated chicken, steak, shrimp, pork tips, chorizo, and beef ribs. Served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Carne Asada
Thin slices of grilled steak served with rice, beans, tomato, onions, lettuce, guacamole, and tortillas.
Chile Colorado
Chopped steak, with salsa ranchera, served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Grilled Quesadilla Rellena
A bean and cheese quesadilla filled with grilled chicken or steak served with rice and guacamole salad.

Burritos‏
Burrito California
A 10-inch flour tortilla filled with your choice of grilled chicken or steak, rice, beans, sour cream, tomato, and lettuce, topped with cheese dip.
Burrito Fajita
Grilled chicken, steak, mix. A 10-inch flour tortilla filled with your choice of meat, bell peppers, onions, tomatoes, rice, and beans, topped with cheese sauce.
Burrito Real
A flour tortilla filled with your choice of ground or chunks of beef, pastor, shredded chicken, or shredded beef, topped with burrito sauce, lettuce, tomato, sour cream, and cheese, served with rice and beans.
Burrito Hawaii
A 12-inch flour tortilla stuffed with rice, beans, grilled chicken, steak, and shrimp, topped with cheese sauce, chorizo, and grilled pineapple.
Burrito Verde
A flour tortilla stuffed with shredded pork, topped with cheese sauce and green sauce, served with rice lettuce and pico de gallo.
Burrito Del Mar
A 10-inch flour tortilla filled with grilled shrimp and tilapia cooked with bell peppers, onions, and tomatoes, topped with cheese sauce.
Burritos Deluxe
Two flour tortillas filled with beans and chicken topped with cheese, lettuce, tomato, burrito sauce, and sour cream.

Tacos
Tacos Mexican Style
Three corn or flour tortillas filled with your choice of steak, chorizo, carnitas, grilled chicken, shredded beef. Served with cilantro, onions, tomatillo sauce, and a side of beans.
Tacos De Pastor
Three corn or flour tortillas filled with our marinated pork with onions and chunks of pineapple served with onions, cilantro, and tomatillo sauce.

Antojitos Tradicionales
Chimichanga
Enchiladas Supremas
One beef, one chicken, one cheese, and one bean enchilada topped with enchilada sauce, lettuce, tomato, and sour cream.
Chimichanga Supremas
Enchiladas Rancheras
Chiles Poblanos Reales
Two poblano peppers filled with steak, chicken & shrimp cooked with onions, tomatoes, topped with melted cheese.
Entomatadas
Three corn tortillas stuffed with grilled chicken topped with tomatillo sauce served with rice, lettuce, guacamole, and tomatoes.
Nachos Real
Mexican Hamburger
Grilled hamburger with lettuce, tomato, onions, cheese, jalapeno, and avocado slices, served with fries.
Quesadilla Rellena
Chiles Poblanos
Taco Salad
Special Dinner
Trio Tamales
One filled with veggies topped with cheese sauce, one with chicken and tomatillo sauce, and one with pork and red sauce.
Enchiladas Tapatias
Three chicken enchiladas topped with salsa tapatia served with rice and beans.
Chilaquiles Mexicanos
‘fried corn tortilla chips topped with chicken, cooked with cheese and salsa ranchera, served with rice, lettuce, and sour cream.
Flautas Mexicanos
Flour tortillas filled with your choice of ‘shredded beef, chicken, or pork and served with lettuce, pico de gallo, and sour cream.
Guadalajara
One chicken burrito. One chicken enchilada, topped with red sauce, lettuce, sour cream, pico de gallo, and guacamole.
Fajita Taco Salad

A La Carte‏
Taco
Chicken Taco
Chimichanga a La Carte
Served only with cheese dip on top.
Chile Poblano
Stuffed poblano pepper with chihuahua cheese, covered with egg whites and deep-fried, topped with ranchero salsa.
Tamale
Beef Taco
Burrito
Bean Burrito
Tostada
Enchilada

Side Orders
Sour Cream
Mexican Rice
Cheesy Rice
Grilled Onion
Shredded Cheese
Refried Beans
Tomato
Tomatillo Sauce
Jalapenos
Chiles Tornados(3 Pcs)
Grilled Shrimp(8 Pcs)
1 Avocado
Lettuce
Pico De Gallo
Grilled Chicken
Grilled Steak

Kids Menu 12 and Under
Kids Cheeseburger and Fries
Includes soft drink for kids 10 years and under only.
Kids Quesadilla, Rice and Beans
Includes soft drink for kids 10 years and under only.
Kids Taco, Rice and Beans
Includes soft drink for kids 10 years and under only.
Kids Enchilada, Rice and Beans
Includes soft drink for kids 10 years and under only.
Kids Burrito, Rice and Beans
Includes soft drink for kids 10 years and under only.
Kids Tenders and Fries
Includes soft drink for kids 10 years and under only.
Kids Hotdog and Fries
Includes soft drink for kids 10 years and under only.
Kids Grilled Chicken, Rice
Includes soft drink for kids 10 years and under only.
Kids Grilled Chicken, Fries
Includes soft drink for kids 10 years and under only.
Pizza Bites
Includes soft drink for kids 10 years and under only.
Mini Corn Dogs and Fries
Includes soft drink for kids 10 years and under only.
Kraft Macaroni and Cheese
Includes soft drink for kids 10 years and under only.

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Recent Reviews

The restaurant was very clean and spacious! The bathrooms were even clean and smelled nice! The food was very good, and if you enjoy spicier salsa, ask for their hot salsa; it’s delicious! The service was great and there was no wait on a table or for our drinks/chips to be refilled.
June 2025
This is our go-to spot for mexican food since we moved to Athens. A huge selection of vegetarian dishes and every other kind of dishes for that matter. It's always fresh, hot and delicious. Not to mention reasonably priced. My wife and I had dinner as I'm writing this and our bill was $28.51. 2 people eating for under $30 is unheard of even if you eat fast food.
Never had a bad experience here and that's what keeps bringing me back. I've never had...
June 2025
Warmly greeted as we entered. Hostess immediately took us to our table. Great atmosphere. Mexican music playing in background. We didn't have to wait long for our food. I believe about 10 minutes. Food is superb. I think I've just found my new favorite Mexican Restaurant. I know I will be back here again. Front entrance is level with parking lot for easy wheelchair accessibility.
June 2025

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El Jinete Mexican Restaurant

2011 Congress Pkwy S, Athens, TN 37303
(423) 453-2100