Abi Azteca Grill & Bar

3005 Columbia Pike, Arlington
(703) 979-3579

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Sopa De Mariscos Con Langosta
Fried Whole Tilapia with Rice
Pupusas Tamales Tamarindo
Steak and Shrimp Fajita
Ensalada De Fruta Drink
Yuca Con Chicharron
Pupusa De Cangrejo
Pupusas Revueltas
Beef Tongue Taco
Steak Quesadilla

Menu

Featured items
Sopa de Res
Oxtail soup with vegetables.
Tacos Combo (3)
Corn tortilla paired with your choice of protein and topped with onions and cilantro. 3 taco combo served with guacamole and pico de gallo (Except Birria)
Fajita
Served with vegetables, beans, rice, sour cream, pico de gallo, and guacamole on the side
Horchata
Agua fresca made with rice, sugar, morro seed, sesame, cinnamon, peanuts, cocoa and vanilla essence.
Plato Tipico
A typical Salvadorean meal. NY strip with a fried plantain, avocado, rice, beans, and soft cheese.
Empanada de Platano
A deep-fried plantain fritter filled with a milk creme.
Desayuno Latino
A typical Latino breakfast. A sweet fried plantain, chorizo, and 2 eggs. All breakfasts are served with casamiento (mixed rice and beans), soft cheese, and fresh avocado.
Steak Ranchero
A grilled NY strip with 2 eggs your way, topped with ranchero sauce. Served with rice and beans.
Mojarra Frita
Pan-seared whole tilapia served with rice and salad
Torta Mexicana
All tortas mexicanas come with beans, chipotle mayo, lettuce, avocado, tomato, and provolone cheese.
Sopa de Mariscos
A creamy seafood soup with tilapia, mussels, clams, crab, and shrimp.
Burrito Abi
A classic burrito filled with your choice of ground beef or shredded chicken, rice, and beans. Served with guacamole and sour cream. Substitute grilled steak, chicken, or carnitas.
Tamarindo
Agua de tamarindo is made with tamarind pulp for a tart, sweet-sour refreshing beverage
Tres Leches
A light sponge-cake soaked in three sweet milks.
Paella Salvadorena
Rice sautéed with shrimp, mussels, clams, sausage, chicken, and steak.

Breakfast Menu (Desayuno)
Desayuno Latino
A typical Latino breakfast. A sweet fried plantain, chorizo, and 2 eggs. All breakfasts are served with casamiento (mixed rice and beans), soft cheese, and fresh avocado.
NY Steak Ranchero Desayuno
A grilled NY strip with 2 eggs. All breakfasts are served with casamiento (mixed rice and beans), soft cheese, and fresh avocado.
Carne Deshilada
Tender stewed beef scrambled with eggs. All breakfasts are served with casamiento (mixed rice and beans), soft cheese, and fresh avocado.
Huevos Picados con Chorizo
Hearty eggs scrambled with chorizo crumbles. All breakfasts are served with casamiento (mixed rice and beans), soft cheese, and fresh avocado.
Huevos Rancheros
3 fried eggs topped with a classic tomato ranchero sauce. All breakfasts are served with casamiento (mixed rice and beans), soft cheese, and fresh avocado.

Salvadoran Classics (Típico Salvadoreño)
Pupusa
Corn tortilla stuffed with provolone cheese. Served with marinated cabbage (curtido).
Tamal de Elote
Sweet corn tamale served with sour cream.
Pastelitos
Ground beef (or shredded chicken) and potato turnover. Served with spicy marinated cabbage (curtido)
Tamal de Pollo
Chicken tamal served with chimol.
Salvadoran Enchilada
A crispy tortilla topped with your choice of meat, beans, cheese, and served with marinated cabbage (curtido).

Appetizers (Aperitivos)
Yuca con Chicharrón
Fried yuca (cassava root) served with pieces of fried pork and marinated cabbage (curtido).
Guacamole & Chips
Coctel de Camarones
Shrimp cocktail in tomato salsa served with saltine crackers
Platanos Fritos
Fried plantains, served with refried beans and sour cream.
Nacho Supreme
Fresh chips piled with your choice of protein, refried beans, shredded cheese, and jalapeños. Served with sour cream, guacamole, and pico de gallo.
Tacos Dorados
Rolled crispy chicken taquitos, served with guacamole and sour cream.
Abi Fiesta
A sampler platter with one pupusa, a small nacho, rolled crisp taco, cheese quesadilla, and chicken wings.
Chicken Wings
Chicken wings served with fries.
Boquitas Chapina
Grilled sausage, chicharron and fried tortillas.
Crab Dip
Crab meat and cheese combined into a creamy, seasoned dip.
Queso Fundido
Melted cheese dip served with flour tortillas.
Ceviche
A mix of fresh tilapia, shrimp, and squid cured in fresh lime juice.
Queso Fundido con Chorizo
Melted cheese and sausage dip served with flour tortillas.
Alacranes
Jalapeño peppers stuffed with cream cheese.

Pollutry (Aves)
Saltado De Pollo
Strips of salted chicken sauteed with potatoes, tomatoes, and onions. Served with rice and salad.
Pollo En Crema
Chicken breast sautéed in savory cream sauce and served with rice and salad.
Milanesa de Pollo
Pan-fried breaded chicken. Served with 2 eggs, fried plantain, rice, and salad.
Pechuga Asada
Grilled chicken breast served with rice and salad.
Pollo Entomatado o Encebollado
Juicy piece of chicken sauteed in tomato sauce (entomatado) or in onions and white wine (encebollado). Served with rice and beans.

Soups and Salads (Sopas Y Ensaladas)
Sopa de Res
Oxtail soup with vegetables.
Sopa de Mariscos
A creamy seafood soup with tilapia, mussels, clams, crab, and shrimp.
Taco Salad
12" tortilla shell filled with grilled chicken or grilled steak, beans, lettuce, tomatoes, and onions. Topped with sour cream, shredded, cheese, and guacamole.
Sopa de Gallina
Free-range raised chicken soup with vegetables.
Sopa de Mondongo
Hot soup made with cow feet, honeycomb tripe, and vegetables.
Ensalada Verde
Abi's green salad with avocado and your choice of dressing. Add grilled chicken or steak for +$7.00, or shrimp for +$8.00
Sopa de Langosta con Camarón
Lobster soup with a couple of fresh jumbo shrimp.

Meat (Carnes)
Plato Tipico
A typical Salvadorean meal. NY strip with a fried plantain, avocado, rice, beans, and soft cheese.
Steak Ranchero
A grilled NY strip with 2 eggs your way, topped with ranchero sauce. Served with rice and beans.
Carne Asada
NY strip steak grilled to your liking. Served with rice, beans, and pico de gallo.
Parrillada Abi
Mixed grilled meat platter. Brings ribs, a grilled NY strip, chicken breast, spanish sausage, shrimp skewer, and grilled quail. Served with rice, beans, and salad.
Lomo Saltado
Strips of salted beef back sauteed with potatoes, tomatoes, and onions. Served with rice and salad.
Milanesa de Carne
Pan-fried breaded steak. Served with 2 eggs, rice, salad, and fried plantain.
Carne Encebollada
NY strip sauteed with onions and white wine. Served with rice, beans, and salad.
Carne A La Mexicana (Mild or Spicy)
Strips of beef sauteed with hot peppers, tomatoes, and onions. Served with rice and beans.
Carnitas Platter
Fried pork pieces, served with rice, beans, and pico de gallo.

Specialities (Especialidades)
Paella Salvadorena
Rice sautéed with shrimp, mussels, clams, sausage, chicken, and steak.
Al Alfredo
Fettuccine tossed in a mushroom cream sauce with your choice of chicken or shrimp (+S3.00)
El Fredy
Small bites of grilled steak, shrimp, chorizo, avocado, soft cheese, and fried tortilla.
Costillas Asadas con Camaron
Grilled ribs with shrimp, served with rice and salad.
Lengua Guisada
Marinated beef tongue sauteed in a tomato sauce, served with rice and beans.
Pozole Rojo
Savory pork leg stewed with lime juice, hominy, dried ancho, and guajillo chiles.
Chile Relleno
Stuffed poblano pepper served with rice, beans, and pico de gallo.
Mar Y Tierra
Grilled NY strip steak served with sauteed shrimp served with rice.
Chanfaina
Pork innards stewed in rich tomato broth. Served with rice and salad.
Codorniz Asada
Grilled quail served with rice, beans, and pico de gallo.
Carne Adobada
Pan-fried marinated pork steak. Served with rice, beans and pico de gallo.

Mexican Corner (Esquina Mexicana)

Tacos Combo (3)
Corn tortilla paired with your choice of protein and topped with onions and cilantro. 3 taco combo served with guacamole and pico de gallo (Except Birria)
Fajita
Served with vegetables, beans, rice, sour cream, pico de gallo, and guacamole on the side
Torta Mexicana
All tortas mexicanas come with beans, chipotle mayo, lettuce, avocado, tomato, and provolone cheese.
Quesadilla
A classic quesadilla, with your choice of steak or chicken. Substitute shrimp or crab meat.
Chimichanga Abi
A crispy-browned exterior tortilla, filled with your choice of chicken or beef, rice. and beans. Served with guacamole and sour cream.
Burrito Abi
A classic burrito filled with your choice of ground beef or shredded chicken, rice, and beans. Served with guacamole and sour cream. Substitute grilled steak, chicken, or carnitas.
Taco (1)
Corn tortilla paired with your choice of protein and topped with onions and cilantro.
Birria Pizza
14 inch flour tortilla layered with meat and cheese, cilantro, onions, and sliced radish

Combinations (Combinaciones)

Dos Pupusas
Served with rice and beans.
Tres Enchiladas
Served with rice and beans
Una Pupusa and Una Enchillada
Served with rice and beans.
Una Pupusa and Un Tamal
Served with rice and beans.
Enchiladas de Cangrejo
Two crab meat enchiladas with rice and beans

Seafood (Mariscos)
Mojarra Frita
Pan-seared whole tilapia served with rice and salad
Camarones Al Ajillo
Jumbo shrimp sauteed in garlic and white wine. Served with rice and salad.
Camarones En Crema
Jumbo shrimp sauteed with tomatoes, onions, and green peppers in a delicious cream sauce.
Pargo Frito
Pan-seared red snapper rubbed with herbs and spices, served with rice and salad.
Trucha A La Plancha
Broiled trout served with white rice and salad
Langosta Rellena
Boiled whole lobster stuffed with crab meat. Served with rice and vegetables.
Camarones Entomatados
Jumbo shrimp sauteed with tomatoes.
Salmon Relleno
Broiled salmon fillet stuffed with crab meat topped in mushroom cream sauce. Served with rice and vegetables

Kids Menu (Ninos)
Chicken Tenders
Served with choice of rice, beans, or French fries.
Kid's Quesadilla
Served with choice of rice, beans, or French fries.
Kid's Pupusa
Served with choice of rice, beans, or French fries.
Kid's Chicken
Served with choice of rice, beans, or french fries.
Mac and Cheese
Served with choice of rice, beans, or French fries.
Kid's Cheese Pizza
Served with choice of rice, beans, or French fries.

Sides
Tortilla
Rice
Chips and Salsa
Homemade chips and salsa
Cuajada
Fresh soft cheese that is made from milk curds
Avocado
Jalapeno Asado
Grilled Jalapeno
Pico De Gallo
Sour Cream
Shredded Cheese
Guacamole

Desserts (Postres)
Empanada de Platano
A deep-fried plantain fritter filled with a milk creme.
Tres Leches
A light sponge-cake soaked in three sweet milks.
Flan
Mexican Fried Ice Cream
A scoop of "fried" vanilla ice cream inside of a cinnamon-sugar tortilla shell.
Nuegados
Cassava and cheese fritters, served with a rich cane sugar syrup.
Mousse Cake
A white chocolate mousse and real oreo cookies.

Fresh Waters (Agua Frescas)
Horchata
Agua fresca made with rice, sugar, morro seed, sesame, cinnamon, peanuts, cocoa and vanilla essence.
Tamarindo
Agua de tamarindo is made with tamarind pulp for a tart, sweet-sour refreshing beverage
Ensalada De Frutas
Agua fresca made entirely from fresh fruit.
Maracuya
Agua fresca de Maracuya, made from passion fruit pulp for a fairly tart, slightly sweet, super refreshing beverage.
Maranon
Jocote de marañon or "cashew apple" is a juicy fruit that has a sweet-acid taste, made as a tropical juice with water and sugar.
Cebada
A classic agua fresca made with barley, blended spices, and strawberry essence

Shakes (Licuados)
Mango Shake
Mango Shake
Strawberry & Banana Shake
Strawberry Banana Shake
Strawberry Shake
Strawberry Shake
Pineapple Coconut Shake
Pineapple Coconut Shake

Canned Sodas
Coke
Diet Coke
Diet Coke
Inca Cola
Inca Cola
Cola Champagne
Cola Champagne
Jarritos
Grapefruit
Sprite
Sprite
Ginger Ale
Ginger Ale
Redbull
Orange Soda
Orange Soda

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Recent Reviews

I took my cousins today. It had been a while since I stopped by. The food remains top tier. The pupusas had the cheese pull and were delicious. They had tall glass Modelos. The waitress was friendly and attentive. The music was perfect -exactly what what you expect at an authentic Salvadorian /mexican restaurant
June 2026
Sometime in 2000, that was my first visit to your restaurant. A local friend brought me there, and it was also the time when I got addicted to your food.

I relocated to Taiwan in 2001 and stayed here ever since. But I went back to DC for visits every two to three years. Everytime I did, dining at Abi was always on my to-do list.

While I'll keep my regular itinerary, hope you'll keep going as well so I'll always have a restaurant...
May 2026
Bright color and bright atmosphere, everything smells so good. The staff is so sweet. Ordered a cheese and bean papussa, a chicken empanada soooo good, barria tacos, and two desserts I've never had. Every single thing was delicious. I'm still 2 weeks later craving that empanadas
March 2026

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Abi Azteca Grill & Bar

3005 Columbia Pike, Arlington, VA 22204
(703) 979-3579