El Tapatio Cafe & Cantina
2401 S Austin Ave, Denison
(903) 416-9097
Customers' Favorites
Sour Cream Chicken Enchiladas
Caldo Camaron Shrimp Soup
Vegetarian Quesadilla
Quesadilla Vallarta
Cocktail El Tapatio
Especial El Tapatio
Chilaquiles Fajita
Chicken Quesadilla
Chunky Guacamole
Fajitas Jalisco
Botanas
Botanas el Tapatio
2 tagutos Mexicanos. 2 cheese quesadillas, and guacamole dips.
Cheese Dip White
Guacamole Dip
Guacamole Mexicano
Avocado, onion, tomatoes, and cilantro.
Spicy Guacamole
Avocado, pico de gallo, grilled jalapenos, and grilled onions.
Bean Dip
Nachos Cheese
Include cheese with or withou jalapeno.
Nachos with Beans
Include cheese with or withou jalapeno.
Nachos with Beef
Include cheese with or withou jalapeno.
Nachos with Beef & Beans
Include cheese with or withou jalapeno.
Nachos with Chicken
Include cheese with or withou jalapeno.
Chili Toreados
6 grilled jalapenos with grilled onions.
Choriqueso
Soups and Salads
Guacamole Salad
Chicken Salad
Fresh lettuce, tomatoes, avocado, and grilled chicken on top.
Taco Salad
Crispy flour tortilla, chicken or beef, lettuce, tomatoes, cheese, sour cream, and guacamole.
Taco Salad Fajita
A crisp flour tortilla with melted cheese sauce, topped with your choice of chicken or steak, sauteed with onions, bell peppers, and tomatoes. Covered with lettuce, cheese, sour cream, guacamole, and tomatoes.
Caldo-de-Pollo
Chicken soup with rice, pico de gallo, and chunks of avocado and chicken breast chunks.
Caldo Camaron
Shrimp soup are slow-cooked with our special spices and carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, onions, and tomatoes. Served with rice and fresh avocado slices and tortillas.
Caldo de Pescado
Fish soup are slow-cooked with our special spices and carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, onions, and tomatoes. Served with rice and fresh avocado slices and tortillas.
Especialidades el Tapatio
Chuletas de Puerco
2 pork chops served with rice, beans, pico de gallo topped with green sauce, and 3 tortillas.
Pollo Loco
2 chicken breasts prepared with spices topped with grilled onions and cheese sauce. Served with shredded lettuce, guacamole, tomatoes, rice, beans, and flour tortillas.
Pollo el Tapatio with Mushrooms
2 chicken breasts prepared with spices topped with mushrooms and cheese sauce. Served with shredded lettuce, guacamole, tomatoes, beans, and rice, and flour tortillas.
Pollo Ranchero
2 chicken breasts prepared with spices, topped with cheese, and red sauce. Served with rice and beans, salad, and tortillas.
Pollo Jalisco with Spinach
Grilled chicken, cooked with onions, spinach, and mushrooms, topped with cheese. Served with rice, guacamole salad, and tortillas.
Pollo Acapulco
2 chicken breasts, topped with 5 shrimp cooked with vegetables. Served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Pollo Guadalajara
2 chicken breasts, cooked with onions, tomatoes, and bell pepper. Topped with cheese on a sizzling plate. Served with rice, beans, lettuce, guacamole, sour cream, pico de gallo, and flour tortillas.
Pollo al Chipotle
Chicken breasts cooked with onions, tomatoes, and bell peppers. Topped with chipotle sauce and cheese. Served with rice, beans, tortillas, and guacamole salad.
Lupitas Special
3 chicken enchiladas, topped with cheese sauce. Served with rice.
Carne Asada
Steak topped with grilled onions. Served with rice, beans, guacamole, salad, and flour tortillas.
Carne Mexicana
Steak chunk with ranchera sauce. Cooked with fresh jalapenos, onions, and tomatoes. Served with rice, beans, and 3 flour tortillas.
Tacos Carne Asada
3 flour or corn tortillas stuffed with steak. Served with rice, beans, and pico gallo.
Chile Colorado
Beef, pork, or chicken grilled with red chili sauce. Served with rice, beans, and flour tortillas.
Chile Verde
Beef, pork, or grilled chicken with green chili sauce. Served with rice, beans, and flour tortillas.
Carnitas
Pork tips served with rice, beans, guacamole salad, jalapenos, and tortillas.
Carnitas a la Mexicana
Pork tips with ranchera sauce, cooked with fresh jalapenos, onions, and tomatoes. Served with rice, beans, and flour tortillas.
Special Dinner
Chalupa, taco, chilee relleno, tamale, enchilada, rice, and beans.
Chimichanga
Stuffed 4 tortillas with your choice of chunks of beef or spicy chicken, deep-fried to a golden brown, topped with cheese sauce, lettuce, sour cream, guacamole, and pico de gallo. Served with rice and beans.
Chimichanga Fajita
Flour tortilla stuffed with grilled chicken or steak cooked with bell pepper, onions, and tomatoes deep-fried to a golden brown, topped with cheese sauce. Served with rice, beans, lettuce, sour cream, and pico de gallo.
Enchiladas Supremas
4 rolled corn tortillas, 1 beef, 1 chicken, 1 cheese, and 1 bean, topped with enchilada red sauce, cheese, lettuce, tomato, and sour cream.
Enchiladas Rancheras
3 cheese enchilada topped with beef. Cooked with tomatoes, onions, bell pepper, and enchilada sauce. Served with guacamole salad.
Enchiladas Verdes
3 chicken enchiladas with green sauce. Served with rice beans and guacamole salad.
Enchiladas Mexicanas
3 enchiladas topped win green sauce, 1 topped with white sauce, 1 topped wah red sauce. Served with rice and guacamole salad.
Burrito el Tapatio
A large flour tortilla filled with seasoned ground beef or spicy chicken topped with lettuce, tomato, sour cream, and cheese. Served with Mexican rice and beans.
Burrito Veracruz
2 flour tortillas with chicken, topped with cheese, lettuce, tomato, special sauce, and sour cream. Served with rice and beans.
Burrito Gigante
Giant. California style, chunks of steak or grilled chicken, stuffed with rice, and beans, topped with cheese sauce. Served with sour cream, pico de gallo, and guacamole wrapped around a large homemade 4 tortilla with cheese sauce.
Nachos Supreme
Cheese nachos with assorted toppings of beef, chopped chicken, and beans. Covered with lettuce, tomatoes, and sour cream.
Nachos Fajita
Cheese nachos topped with marinated tender strips of chicken, beef, or mixed. Cooked with onions, peppers, and tomatoes. Topped with lettuce, sour cream, guacamole, and pico de gallo.
Chilaquiles Mexicanos
Corn tortilla chips with spicy chicken, cooked with our special sauce. Served with rice and guacamole salad.
Chilaquiles Fajita
Corn tortilla chips with grilled chicken or fajita meat, cooked with our special sauce, served with rice, and guacamole salad.
Quesadilla Rellena
A flour tortilla grilled and stuffed with cheese, and chopped beef. Served with rice or beans, lettuce, guacamole, and sour cream.
Quesadilla Texana
A flour tortilla grilled and stuffed with cheese, chicken, steak, fajita, and shrimp. Cooked with onions, peppers, and tomatoes. Served with rice, guacamole, sour cream, pico de gallo, and lettuce.
Quesadilla Ranchera
Chorizo (Mexican sausage) and cheese served with rice or beans, lettuce, guacamole, and pico de gallo.
Quesadilla Tropical
A flour tortilla stuffed with steak, chicken, shrimp, pineapple, cooked with vegetables. Served with rice or beans and salad.
Quesadilla Fajita
A flour tortilla grilled and stuffed with cheese, chicken, or steak fajita. Cooked with onions, peppers, and tomatoes. Served with lettuce, guacamole, sour cream, and pico de gallo. Served with rice and beans.
Quesadilla Fajita with Rice and Beans
A flour tortilla grilled and stuffed with cheese, chicken, or steak fajita. Cooked with onions, peppers, and tomatoes. Served with lettuce, guacamole, sour cream, and pico de gallo. Served with rice and beans.
Queso Fundido
Chorizo (Mexican sausage) cooked onions, tomatoes, peppers, and mushrooms topped with cheese on a sizzling plate.
Huevos Rancheros
3 ranch-style eggs topped with ranch sauce, served with rice, beans, and flour tortillas.
Huevos con Chorizo
2 scrambled eggs with Mexican sausage, Mexican rice, beans, and tortilla.
Huevos Mexicanos
3 scrambled eggs with tomatoes, onions, peppers, Mexican rice, and beans.
Taquitos Mexicanos
4 rolled corn tortillas stuffed with beef or chicken. Served with lettuce, guacamole, pico de galo, sour cream, rice, and beans.
Guadalajara
1 chicken burrito, 1 chicken enchilada topped with lettuce, sour cream, pico de gallo, and guacamole. Served with rice or bean.
Nachos Jalisco
Cheese nachos with marinated tender strips of chicken, beef, and shrimp. Cooked with onions, peppers, and tomatoes. Served with lettuce, sour cream, guacamole, and pico de gallo.
Shrimp Nachos
Cheese nachos topped wah marinated shrimp. Cooked with onions, peppers, and tomatoes. Served with lettuce, sour cream, guacamole, and pico de gallo.
Vegetarian Dinners
1. One Chalupa, 1 Cheese Enchilada and Refried Beans Dinner
2. Two Bean Burritos and Nacho Cheese Sauce Dinner
3. One Bean Burrito, 1 Cheese Enchilada and 1 Bean Tostada Dinner
4. One Bean Burrito, 1 Quesadilla and 1 Chalupa Dinner
5. Vegetable Fajita Dinner
Sauteed broccoli, mushrooms, onions, bell pepper, and tomatoes. Garnished with lettuce, guacamole, sour cream, pico de gallo, and flour tortillas. Served with refried beans and Mexican rice.
6. Taco Salad with Beans Dinner
7. Vegetarian Quesadilla Dinner
A flour tortilla grilled onions, tomatoes, peppers, and stuffed with mushrooms, broccoli, and cheese, served with lettuce, guacamole, sour cream, and pico de gallo.
8. Two Cheese Quesadilla Dinner
Served with Mexican rice and beans.
9. Spinach Quesadilla Dinner
A flour tortilla grilled and stuffed with spinach. Cooked with onions, tomatoes, and bell pepper. Served with sour cream, lettuce, and tomatoes.
10. Vegetarian Fajita Tapatio Dinner
Sauteed cauliflower, carrots, broccoli, mushrooms, bell peppers, onions, and tomatoes. Served with rice, beans, lettuce, sour cream, pico de gallo, and tortillas.
A la Carte
Soft Taco
Beef Taco
Toh-kohs. Tortillas folded and fried crisp. Filled with beef, lettuce and cheese.
Chicken Taco
Toh-kohs. Tortillas folded and fried crisp. Filled with chicken, lettuce and cheese.
Beef Enchilada
Tortillas rolled around seasoned fillings, topped with sauce and cheese.
Chicken Enchilada
Tortillas rolled around seasoned fillings, topped with sauce and cheese.
Cheese Enchilada
Tortillas rolled around seasoned fillings, topped with sauce and cheese.
Beef Burrito
Bur-ee-toh. Flour tortilla rolled around seasoned fillings, topped with cheese and red sauce.
Chicken Burrito
Bur-ee-toh. Flour tortilla rolled around seasoned fillings, topped with cheese and red sauce.
Bean Burrito
Bur-ee-toh. Flour tortilla rolled around seasoned fillings, topped with cheese and red sauce.
Burrito Fajita
Grilled chicken or beef topped with cheese sauce.
Enchilada Fajita
Grilled chicken or beef topped with cheese sauce.
Chalupa
Cha-lu-paz. Flat tortillas with fried beans, sprinkled with cheese and topped with guacamole salad.
Tostada
Tohs-tah-dahs. A flat crisp corn tortilla covered with beef, lettuce, cheese, sliced tomato and sour cream.
Tostaguac
Toast-a wak. Flat crisp corn tortilla, covered with beef, beans, lettuce, tomatoes, and guacamole.
Tamale
Chile-Relleno
Cheese Quesadilla
Chicken Quesadilla
Beef Quesadilla
Grilled Chicken Quesadilla
Grilled Beef Quesadilla
Taco Carne Asada
Toh-kohs.
Taco Carnitas
Tacos Fajita Pollo
Toh-kohs.
Chimichanga
Grilled Chimichanga
Fish Taco
Toh-kohs.
Shrimp Taco
Toh-kohs.
Shrimp Enchilada
Tortillas rolled around seasoned fillings, topped with sauce and cheese.
Fajitas & Steaks
Especial el Tapatio
Beef ribs, chorizo, shrimp, chicken, and steak.
Fajitas
Chicken, beef, or mixed.
Fajitas Jalisco
Marinated tender strips of beef, chicken, and shrimp.
Fajitas Broccoli
Chicken or beef.
Fajitas Shrimp
Fajitas Tropical
Chicken, beef, chrimp, and pineapple.
Steak Tampiquena
T-Bone beef steak topped with hot sauce and served with Mexican rice, beans, and tortillas.
Steak Ranchero
T-Bone steak topped with hot sauce and served with Mexican rice, beans, and tortillas.
Steak Mexicano
T-Bone beef steak topped with hot sauce and cooked onions, tomatoes, bell pepper, Mexican rice, beans, and tortillas.
Steak Veracruz
T-Bone beef steak and shrimp, topped with cooked onions, tomatoes, bell pepper, Mexican rice, beans, and tortillas.
Combinations
1. One Taco, 2 Enchiladas and Rice Combo
2. One Taco, 1 Enchilada and 1 Chalupa Combo
3. One Taco, 1 Enchilada and 1 Chile Relleno Combo
4, Two Tacos, 1 Enchilada and Chile Concarne Combo
5. One Beef and 1 Cheese Enchilada, Rice and Beans Combo
6. One Taco, 1 Enchilada, Rice and Beans Combo
7. One Enchilada, 1 Chile Relleno, Rice and Beans Combo
8. One Enchilada, 1 Tamale, Rice and Beans Combo
9. One Enchilada, 1 Chalupa and Mexican Rice Combo
10. Two Beef Tacos, Mexican Rice and Refried Beans Combo
11. One Burrito, 1 Taco and 1 Enchilada Combo
12. One Chalupa, 1 Chile Relleno and Refried Beans Combo
13. One Enchilada, 1 Burrito, and 1 Chile Relleno Combo
14. One Taco, 1 Chile Relleno and 1 Chalupa Combo
15. One Burrito, 1 Enchilada and 1 Tamale Combo
16. One Chalupa, 1 Chile Relleno and 1 Burrito Combo
17, One Burrito, 1 Enchilada, Rice and Beans Combo
18. One Chalupa, 1 Chile Relleno and 1 Enchilada Combo
19. One Chalupa, 1 Burrito and 1 Enchilada Combo
20. One Chile Relleno, 1 Taco, Rice and Beans Combo
21. One Taco, 1 Burrito and 1 Chalupa Combo
22. One Burrito, 1 Chile Relleno and 1 Taco Combo
23. One Taco, 1 Burrito, Rice and Beans Combo
24. One Chile Relleno, 1 Burrito and Rice Combo
25. One Chalupa, 1 Taco and 1 Tostada Combo
26. One Tostaguac, 1 Taco, Rice and Beans Combo
27. Two Chile Rellenos, Rice and Beans Combo
28. One Tostada, 1 Enchilada, Rice and Beans Combo
29. One Chile Relleno, 1 Tamale and Rice Combo
30. Two Tamales, Rice and Beans Combo
31. Two Spinach Enchiladas, Rice and Beans Combo
To Go Chips & Sauces
Tomato Sauce
Habanero Sauce
Tomatillo Sauce
Cheese Dip
Guacamole
Avocado salad.
Chips
Side Orders
Tortillas
Corn or flour. Tor-tee-yahs. Thin corn pancakes used as a base for many dishes.
Mexican Rice
Refried Beans
Sour Cream
Pico de Gallo
Sliced Jalapenos
Shredded Cheese
Avocado Sauce
Sliced Avocado
Papas Fritas
French fries.
Mixed Vegetables
Broccoli
Tocino
Bacon.
Child's Plates
1. Kids 1 Cheese Quesadilla and Rice Plate
1. Kids 1 Steak Quesadilla and Rice Plate
1. Kids 1 Chicken Quesadilla and Rice Plate
1. Kids 1 Mixed Quesadilla and Rice Plate
2. Kids 1 Taco, Mexican rice and Fried Beans
3. Kids 1 Enchilada, Rice and Beans
4. Kids 1 Burrito, Rice and Beans
5. Kids Mexiburger
Served with cheese, tomato, onion, pickle, lettuce, mayonnaise, mustard, and french fries.
6. Kids Plain Burger
Beef patties with cheese on a bun and french fries.
7. Kids French Fries
8. Kids Chicken Fingers with Fries
9. Kids Pollo el Tapatio
Grilled chicken pieces with rice.
10. Kids Cheese Nachos
Choice of ground beef or shredded chicken. Steak or grilled chicken for an additional charge.
11. Kids Chicken Sandwich
12. Six Cheese Sticks and French Fries
Adults Plates
1. One Cheese Quesadilla and Rice Plate
1. One Steak Quesadilla and Rice Plate
1. One Chicken Quesadilla and Rice Plate
1. One Mixed Quesadilla and Rice Plate
Steak and chicken mix.
2. One Taco, Mexican rice and Fried Beans
3. One Enchilada, Rice and Beans
4. One Burrito, Rice and Beans
5. Mexiburger
Served with cheese, tomato, onion, pickle, lettuce, mayonnaise, mustard, and french fries.
6. Plain Burger
Beef patties with cheese on a bun and french fries.
7. French Fries
8. Chicken Fingers with Fries
9. Pollo El Tapatio
Grilled chicken pieces with rice.
10. Cheese Nachos
Choice of ground beef or shredded chicken. Steak or grilled chicken for an additional charge.
11. Chicken Sandwich
12. Six Cheese Sticks and French Fries
Desserts
Cheesecake Chimichanga
Topped with cinnamon and honey.
Sopapillas
Strawberry Sopapillas
Flan
Mexican custard.
Cheese Cake
Soft Drinks & More
32 oz. Soft Drink To Go
Choice of flavor.
Milk
Coffee
Iced Tea
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Recent Reviews
This Mexican place has the the authentic Mexican food I love but they have some texmex options available too. The prices are low, and the service is faster than you will ever experience, it’s shocking actually. We love it here.
July 2025
We ordered from door dash not too long ago and my husband really loved it. As a vegetarian, I didn’t see much on their door dash menu for my daughter and me. We still decided to try in person and it was amazing! They have the largest vegetarian menu I have seen in Sherman/denison and I really appreciate it! Server was friendly and funny! Our Cali friends who went with us, even added fries to their burritos and said it was wonderful. I can’t wait to try more vegetarian options...
June 2025
I wish I could remember her name but we had the absolute best and most amazing waitress! She was on top of her entire section and never let us run out of anything. Great service, food was amazing!
June 2025
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