La Siesta Mexican Restaurant
1608 NW Broad St, Murfreesboro
(615) 890-4606
Customers' Favorites
Chicken and Steak Fajitas
Chicken Enchiladas
Burrito California
Chips and Salsa
Grilled Chicken
Chicken Fajita
Chicken Tacos
Mexican Pizza
Chimichanga
Taco Salad
Appetizers
Nachos with Cheese
Nachos with Beans and Cheese
Nachos with Beef and Cheese
Combo Nachos
Beef, beans, and cheese.
Nachos with Chicken and Cheese
Nachos La Siesta
Cheese nachos topped with ground beef or shredded chicken and beans. Covered with lettuce, guacamole, and sour cream.
Fajita Nachos
Cheese nachos topped with beans, steak, grilled chicken or shrimp, onions, and peppers. Covered with lettuce, guacamole, and sour cream. Shrimp for an additional charge.
Shrimp Nachos
Covered with lettuce, guacamole, and sour cream.
Texanas Nachos
Covered with lettuce, guacamole, and sour cream.
La Siesta Sampler
2 chicken taquitos Mexicanos, 2 cheese quesadillas, and 3 Buffalo wings. Served with guacamole dip, celery, and ranch dressing.
Buffalo Wings
10 pieces. Bone in.
Queso Fundido con Chorizo
Served with tortillas.
Nachos with Carnitas
Nachos with carnitas, grilled onions, and peppers, topped with shredded cheese.
Soups
Chicken Tortilla Soup
Chicken broth, Mexican rice, tortilla, shredded chicken, avocado, and pico de gallo on the side.
Chicken Noodle Soup
Chicken broth, shredded chicken, noodles, and lime on the side.
Salads
Tossed Salad
Lettuce, chopped tomato, onions, bell peppers, and shredded cheese.
Guacamole Salad
Lettuce, guacamole, and chopped tomato.
Avocado Salad
Lettuce, sliced tomato, onions, avocado, and lime.
Chicken Fajita Salad
Marinated grilled chicken served with lettuce, guacamole, sour cream, and pico de galo.
Steak Fajita Salad
Steak served with lettuce, guacamole, sour cream, and pico de gallo.
Shrimp Salad
Lettuce, sliced avocado, chopped tomato, and onion. Topped with grilled shrimp.
Ensalada de Fajitas
Mexican rice, refried beans, lettuce, guacamole, sour cream, and pico de gallo.
Taco Salad
Crispy flour tortilla shell, filled with your choice of ground beef or shredded chicken. Topped with beans, lettuce, shredded cheese, guacamole, and sour cream.
Fajita Taco Salad
Crispy flour tortilla shell, filled with your choice of steak, grilled chicken or mix. Topped with beans, grilled onions, and peppers. Covered with lettuce, shredded cheese, guacamole, and sour cream. Shrimp for an additional charge.
House Specialties
Plato la Siesta Specialty
1 burrito, 1 chile relleno, 1 beef tostada, 1 beef enchilada, 1 taco, and 1 taquito.
Chile Verde Specialty
Pieces of steak cooked with tomatillo sauce. Served with rice, beans, and tortillas. Available in chicken or pork.
Ranchero Grilled Tacos Specialty
3 flour tortilla stuffed with sliced pork sauteed with onions and cilantro. Served with lettuce, guacamole, sour cream, and pico de gallo.
Vegetales Jalisco Specialty
Fresh cauliflower, broccoli, and carrots in a creamy white cheese sauce. Served with rice and grilled chicken or steak. Shrimp for an additional charge.
Fajita Quesadilla Specialty
A cheese quesadilla filled with your choice of grilled chicken or steak sauteed onions and peppers. Served with rice and beans.
Alambres Specialty
Chicken, steak, mix sauteed with onions, bell peppers, tomatoes, bacon, and topped with shredded cheese. Served with rice, beans, and tortillas. Shrimp for an additional charge.
Carnitas Specialty
Pork tips served with rice, beans, lettuce, guacamole, sour cream, pico de gallo, and tortillas.
Chile Colorado Specialty
Beef chunks with red chili sauce. Served with rice, beans, and flour tortillas. Available in chicken.
Gringo Burger Specialty
Double cheeseburger with lettuce, tomato, onions, and served with fries.
Mexican Pizza Specialty
2 large flour tortillas filled with mushrooms, beef, beans, and topped with pizza sauce, pepperoni, and shredded cheese.
Huevos Rancheros Specialty
2 eggs over easy with red sauce. Served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Huevos con Chorizo Specialty
2 scrambled eggs cooked with Mexican sausage chorizo.
Chimichanga Specialty
Served with rice, beans, lettuce, guacamole, sour cream, pico de gallo, and cheese sauce. Steak, grilled chicken or shrimp for an additional charge
Chilaquiles Specialty
Fried corn tortilla cooked in a pan with green or red sauce and topped with chopped onions, avocado, sour cream, shredded cheese, and your choice of 1 egg over easy or 1 piece of steak.
Enchiladas
Enchiadas Supremas
4 enchiladas: 1 shredded chicken, 1 ground beef, 1 bean topped with enchilada sauce, melted cheese, lettuce, and sour cream.
Enchilada Dinner
Cheese, shredded chicken or ground beef. 2 enchiladas topped with enchilada sauce and melted cheese. Served with rice and beans. Steak, chicken or shrimp for an additional charge.
Enchiladas Verdes
3 enchiladas filled with your choice of shredded chicken, ground beef or cheese. Topped with tomatillo sauce, melted cheese, lettuce, chopped tomato, and sour cream.
Enchiladas Locas
3 cheese enchiladas topped with cheese sauce.
Enchiladas with Tapatio Sauce
3 shredded chicken or ground beef enchiladas topped with cheese and tapatio sauce. Served with rice and beans.
Emchiladas Suizas
3 grilled chicken or steak enchiladas topped with enchilada sauce and cheese dip. Served with lettuce, chopped tomato, and sour cream. Shrimp for an additional charge.
A la Carte
1. Enchilada
Cheese, shredded chicken or groun beef.
2. Chile Relleno
Cheese, shredded chicken or groun beef.
3a. Chimichanga
Shredded chicken or groun beef.
3b. Fajita Chimichanga
Grilled chicken or steak. Shrimp for an additional charge.
4. Chalupa
5a. Rice
5b. Cheesy Rice
6. Beans
7. Tamale
8a. Quesadilla
Cheese quesadilla. Shredded chicken or ground beef for an additional charge.
8b. Fajita Quesadilla
Shredded chicken or ground beef. Shrimp for an additional charge.
9. Tostada
Shredded chicken or ground beef.
10a. Burrito
Shredded chicken, ground beef, bean, veggie or cheese.
10b. Fajita Burrito
Shredded chicken or steak. Shrimp for an additional charge.
11. Fiesta Taco
Deep-fried flour tortilla, stuffed with ground beef, beans, lettuce, shredded cheese, sour cream, and chopped tomato.
12a. Taco
Shredded chicken or ground beef.
12b. Fajita Taco
Grilled chicken or steak. Shrimp or fish for an additional charge.
13. Taquito
Shredded chicken or ground beef.
13. Flauta
Shredded chicken or ground beef.
14. Enchilada Style Burrito
Vegetarian
Vegetarian's Plate
1 cheese enchilada, 1 chalupa, cheese chile relleno, rice, and beans.
Spinach Enchiladas
2 spinach enchiladas. Served with rice and beans.
Quesadilla de Espinaca
A flour tortilla filled with spinach and cheese. Served with rice and beans.
Vegetarian Burrito
A large flour tortilla filled with grilled onions, bell peppers, tomatoes, and mushrooms. Topped with cheese sauce. Served with rice and beans.
Vegetarian Taco Salad
Crispy flour tortilla shell, filled with rice and beans, or grilled onions, bell peppers and tomato. Topped with lettuce, shredded cheese, guacamole, and sour cream.
Combinations
A. One Taco, One Enchilada, Rice and Beans Combo
B. One Chile Relleno, Rice, Beans and Guacamole Salad Combo
C. One Enchilada, Rice and Beans Combo
D. One Taco, One Enchilada and One Burrito Combo
E. One Chile Relleno, One Taco, One Enchilada, Rice and Beans Combo
F. One Tamale, One Burrito and One Enchilada Combo
G. Two Enchiladas, One Tamale and One Taco Combo
H. Two Tacos, Rice and Beans Combo
I. One Taco, One Enchilada and One Chalupa Combo
J. One Quesadilla, Rice and Beans Combo
K. One Burrito, One Chalupa, One Taco and One Enchilada Combo
L. One Burrito, Rice and Beans Combo
LL. One Burrito, One Taco, Rice and Beans Combo
M. One Taco, One Burrito and One Chalupa Combo
N. One Enchilada, One Burrito, Rice and Beans Combo
O. One Tostada, One Chalupa and One Taco Combo
P. Two Tamales with Rice and Beans Combo
Q. Three Tamales Topped with Cheese Sauce Combo
Burritos
Burrito Supreme
A rolled flour tortilla filled with your choice of shredded chicken, ground beef, or beans. Topped with cheese sauce, lettuce, guacamole, and sour cream. Served with rice and beans.
Burrito Ranchero
A flour tortilla filled with carnitas and beans. Topped with cheese sauce, lettuce, sour cream, and chopped tomato. Served with rice and beans.
Burrito Tejano
A flour tortilla filled with steak and grilled onions. Topped with chile Colorado sauce and melted cheese. Served with rice and beans.
Burrito en Salsa Verde
A flour tortilla filled with your choice of shredded chicken or ground beef. Topped with green sauce, melted cheese, lettuce, chopped tomato, and sour cream. Served with rice and beans. Grilled chicken or steak for an additional charge.
Pollo con Espnacas
Marinated pieces of chicken, cooked on the pan with spinach, sour cream and cheese sauce. Sered with Mexican rice.
Pechuga on Hongos
2 pieces of chicken fillet with creamy sauce and mushrooms on top. Served with rice and beans.
Hot and Spicy Burrito
A 10" flour tortilla filled with rice, beans, and your choice of shredded chicken or ground beef. Topped with chile Colorado sauce and melted cheese. Served with sour cream and pico de gallo. Grilled chcken or steak for an additional charge.
Burrito California
A 10" flour tortilla stuffed with grilled chicken or steak, rice, beans, lettuce chopped tomato, sour cream, and topped with cheese sauce. Shrimp for an additional charge.
Fajitas
Chicken Fajita
Steak Fajita
Mix Fajita
Chicken and steak.
Texanas Fajita
Chicken, steak and shrimp.
Shrimp Fajita
Hawaiians Fajita
Bacon, pineapple, steak, and grilled chicken.
Parrilla Mexicana Fajita
Carnitas, chorizo, steak, chicken, and shrimp.
Chicken Dishes
Chicken Enchiladas
3 chicken enchiladas served with rice and beans.
Chicken Tacos
4 tacos stuffed with chicken, lettuce, and shredded cheese.
Flautas Mexicanos
3 rolled tortillas stuffed with chicken, deep-fried to a golden brown. Served with rice, beans, lettuce, tomato, and sour cream.
Taquitos Mexicanos
3 rolled tortillas stuffed with chicken, deep-fried to a golden brown. Served with rice, beans, lettuce, tomato, and sour cream.
Pollo La Siesta
Seasoned chicken strips cooked on the grill with mushrooms and onions. Served with rice, lettuce, sliced avocado, chopped tomatoes, and tortillas.
Pollo Light
2 pieces of chicken cooked on the grill. Served with white rice, lettuce, tomato, sliced avocado, and lime.
Pollo Poblano
2 pieces of chicken, cooked on the grilled with onions, chile poblano, and mushrooms. Topped with melted cheese. Served with rice, lettuce chopped tomato, and sliced avocado.
2 Chicken and Cheese Quesadillas
Served with lettuce, guacamole, and sour cream.
Pollo a la Mexicana
Seasoned chicken strips cooked on the skillet with jalapenos or bell peppers onions, and tomatoes. Served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Chicken Tenders and Fries
Pollo Loco
Grilled chicken with cheese sauce. Served with rice and flour tortillas.
Pollo Loco with Mushrooms
Grilled chicken with cheese sauce. Served with rice and flour tortillas.
Pollo a la Diabla
Chicken pieces seasoned on the grill. Served with rice, refried beans, and tortillas.
Seafood
Camarones al Mojo de Ajo
Shrimp sauteed with garlic and butter sauce. Served with rice, beans, and tossed salad.
Camarones a la Diabla
Shrimp sauteed with our homemade spicy salsa. Served with rice, beans, and tossed salad.
Camarones 911
Extremely spicy. Shrimp sauteed with hot salsa and chile de arbol sauce. Served with rice, beans, and a tossed salad.
Baja Fish Taco
3 flour tortillas filled with our homemade tilapia breaded and fried, lettuce, and shredded cheese. Served with pico de gallo, tartar sauce, and limes.
Coctail de Camarones
Shrimp cocktail. Shrimp prepared with tomato ketchup, pico de gallo, orange juice, and avocado. Served with saltine crackers and lime.
Shrimp Tacos
3 flour tortillas filled with grilled shrimp, lettuce, and shredded cheese. Served with pico de gallo and lime.
Shrimp Quesadilla
A cheese quesadilla filled with shrimp. Served with rice and beans.
Camarones al Chipotle
Seasoned grilled shrimp sauteed with chile chipotle and onions. Served with rice and beans. Lettuce, tomato, and avocado on the side.
Camaron Loco
Crazy shrimp. Grilled shrimp topped with cheese sauce and served with cheesy rice.
Steaks
Carne Asada
Thin slices of grilled steak. Served with Mexican rice, beans, lettuce, guacamole, sour cream, pico de gallo, and tortillas.
Bistec a la Mexicana
Pieces of seasoned steak sauteed with onions, jalapenos, and tomatoes. Served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Bisctec a la Americana
Pieces of marinated steak, cooked on the grill with onions, bell peppers, tomatoes, and spices. Served with rice, beans, tortillas, and a tossed salad.
Bisctec a la Americana with Jalapenos
Pieces of marinated steak, cooked on the grill with onions, bell peppers, tomatoes, jalapenos and spices. Served with rice, beans, tortillas, and a tossed salad.
Tacos de Carne Asada
3 flour tortillas stuffed with pieces of steak. Served with lettuce, guacamole, sour cream, pico de gallo, cilantro, and salsa verde.
Quesadilla Hawaiiana
A 10" flour tortilla, stuffed with steak, chicken, bacon, pineapples, peppers, onions and cheese. Served with rice, lettuce, chopped tomatoes, and sliced avocado.
Peruvian
Arroz Chaufa de Carne
Peruvian style stir-fried rice mixed with steak strips. Sauteed in green onions, red pepper, scrambled eggs, and soy sauce.
Arroz Chaufa de Pollo
Peruvian style stir-fried rice mixed with chicken strips. Sauteed in green onions, red pepper, scrambled eggs, and soy sauce.
Arroz Chaufa de Camaron
Peruvian style stir-fried rice mixed with shrimp. Sauteed in green onions, red pepper, scrambled eggs, and soy sauce.
Bistec a lo Pobre
Steak grilled to your taste. Served with white rice, fried egg, plantain, fries, lettuce, and tomatoes.
Pan con Chicharron
Bread filled with sweet potato fried, pork, and Peruvian creole sauce. Served with fries.
Tallarin Saltado de Carne
Spaghetti mixed with fresh beef sauteed in oil, red and green onions, tomatoes, red and yellow pepper and soy sauce.
Tallarin Saltado de Pollo
Spaghetti mixed with fresh chicken sauteed in oil, red and green onions, tomatoes, red and yellow pepper and soy sauce.
Lomo Saltado
Stir-fried steak strips sauteed with red onions, tomatoes, and fries. Served with white rice.
Pollo Saltado
Stir-fried chicken strips sauteed with red onions, tomatoes, and fries. Served with white rice.
Salchipapas
Peruvian street food. Thinly sliced pan-fried hotdogs mixed together with fries covered with ketchup, mayo, and mustard.
Dips
Guacamole Casero
Chunks of avocado mixed with cilantro, tomatoes, jalapenos, onions, and lime.
Cheese Dip
Guacamole Dip
Bean Dip
Beef Dip
Chorizo Dip
Extras
Chips and Salsa
Salsa
16 oz.
Side Orders
Jalapenos
Fresh or vinagre.
Shredded Cheese
Guacamole
Tomato
Lettuce
Salsa Verde
Hot Salsa
Mild Salsa
Bell Pepper
Sour Cream
Cheese Sauce
Cilantro
Onions
Pico de Gallo
Chiles Toreados
3 pieces.
Grilled Bell Peppers
Grilled Onions
Grilled Jalapenos
Tortilla
Flour or corn.
Avocado
1 piece.
French Fries
Grilled Shrimp
8 pieces.
Chorizo
Mexican sausage.
Grilled Chicken
Grilled Steak
Fried Plantain
Platano frito.
Desserts
Banan Chimichanga
A fresh banana wrapped in a flour tortilla, deep-fried and sprinkled with cinnamon sugar. Topped with whipped cream, chocolate syrup, honey, and a cherry.
Apple Burrito
A deep-fried flour tortilla filled with apple pie filling and sprinkled with cinnamon sugar and honey on top.
Peach Burrito
A deep-fried flour tortilla filled with peach pie filling and sprinkled with cinnamon sugar and honey on top.
Mexican Flan
Homemade. Traditional Mexico city style cream caramel custard.
Churros con Nieve
A deep-fried sweet dough filled with caramel, sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar served with vanilla ice cream, whipped cream, chocolate syrup, and a cherry.
Deep Fried Ice Cream
Vanilla ice cream covered with coconut and corn flakes. Topped with whipped cream, chocolate syrup and a cherry.
Sopapilla with Ice Cream
A sopapilla topped with ice cream, whipped cream, chocolate syrup, and a cherry.
Sopapilla
A flour tortilla deep-fried to a golden brown topped with honey and cinnamon sugar.
Beverages
Sweet Tea
Unsweetened Tea
Milk
Orange Juice
Horchata
Chicha Morada
One of Peru's national drinks. Made from purple corn.
Soft Dinks
Inca Kola
Peruvian soda.
Jarritos
Mexican soda.
Mexican Coca Cola
Orange Fanta
Kid's Menu
K-1 Taco, rice and beans
K-2 Burrito, Rice and Beans
K-3 Enchilada, Rice and Beans
K-4 Hamburger and Fries
K-5 Hot Dog and Fries
K-6 Quesadilla, Rice and Beans
K-7 Chicken Tenders and Fries
K-8 Kraft Macaroni and Cheese
K-9 Salchipapas
Peruvian street food.
K-10 Pollo Loco
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Recent Reviews
La Siesta consistently offers excellent service and top-notch food. Its menu features unique items, such as Pollo con Espinacas (chicken with spinach) and excellent enchiladas, tacos, etc. The MTSU discount is a great bonus as well.
March 2025
30+ Years of being the best in town says a lot! La Siesta is always good and consistent. Great staff that treats you like family.
Great Lunch & Dinner specials regularly, and fantastic drinks. Try the Fajitas!
Great Lunch & Dinner specials regularly, and fantastic drinks. Try the Fajitas!
January 2025
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Always working next to this restaurant and this is the first time I’ve been here. I will be coming here more often .Food was hot and fresh. Best salsa ever can tell there’s fresh basil