CACTUS MEXICAN RESTAURANT

221 Carlton Road, Charlottesville
(434) 295-4748

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Tamales Mexicanos Verdes Y Rojos
Chimichanga de Carne O Pollo
Baleada Con Carne Asada
Tacos Arroz Y Frijoles
Pollo Con Tajadas
Caldo de Gallina
Fajitas de Carne
Taquitos Dorados
Quesadilla Mixta
Chicken Fajitas

Menu

Breakfast
Central American Breakfast
Fried ripe plantain, beans, 2 sunny-side up eggs and sour cream and tortillas.
Huevos Con Chorizo
2 scrambled eggs with homemade sausage, served with rice, bean, cheese and tortillas.
Huevos Rancheros
2 sunny-side up eggs, served with rice, beans, cheese and tortillas.
Huevos À La Mexicana
2 scrambled eggs, served with rice, beans, cheese and tortillas.

Lunch Specials
Fajitas Texanas
Steak, chicken and shrimp fajitas cooked with onion, tomato and green, red, and yellow peppers. Served with beans, rice and tortillas.
Quesadilla
Grilled steak or chicken quesadilla, made with a flour tortilla and served with rice and beans.
2 Enchiladas
Two tortillas dipped in our own homemade sauce, filled with cheese, or chicken. Served with rice, refried beans, cheese and Mexican sour cream.
Taquitos Dorados 5 Pzas
Chicken deep-fried tacos. Topped beans with lettuce, cheese, sour cream and salsa on the side.
2 Tacos Arroz Y Frijoles
Two tacos with your meat option, topped with onion and cilantro. Served with rice and beans and salsa on the side.
Chimichanga De Carne O Pollo
Steak or chicken chimichanga. Flour-deep fried tortilla filled with your option of meat topped with melted cheese and served with rice beans and guacamole.
Fajitas De Carne O Pollo
Steak or chicken fajitas cooked with onion, tomato and green, red, and yellow peppers. Served with beans, rice and tortillas.
Los Tres Amigos
1 baleada, 1 pupusa of your filling option, and one taco with your choice of meat and topped with onion and cilantro.

Appetizers
Cheese Dip
Chori Dip
Cheese dip with homemade sausage.
Guacamole Dip
Nachos with Beef
Nachos Fajitas
Shrimp, steak, and grilled chicken, beans, lettuce, pico de gallo and our sour cream.
Nachos with Chicken
Nachos with Cheese

Salads
House Salad
Steak or chicken salad.
Garden Salad
Shrimp Salad
Chef's Salad
Shrimp, steak and chicken.

Dinner
Fajitas Texanas
Steak, chicken and shrimp fajitas cooked with onion, tomato and green peppers. Served with beans, rice and tortillas.
Carne Asada
New York strip steak served with rice, beans, fresh cheese, pico de gallo, grilled onion, jalapeño and tortillas.
Nachos Fajitas
Shrimp, steak and grilled chicken, beans, lettuce, pico de gallo and sour cream.
Pechuga À La Plancha
Grilled chicken breast served with refried beans, rice, pico de gallo, fresh cheese, jalapeño and tortillas.
Pollo Con Tajadas
Authentic Honduran dish. Country style-fried chicken over a bed of fried green banana. Topped with cabbage and served with side of homemade salsa.
Fajita Quesadilla
Option of chicken, beef or shrimp cooked with tomatoes, green, red and yellow peppers, onion and mozzarella cheese. Served with rice, beans and sour cream.
Fajitas Mixtas
Steak and chicken fajitas cooked with onion, tomato and green peppers. Served with beans rice and tortillas.
Choripollo
Cielo, Mar Y Tierra
Grilled chicken, steak and shrimp. Served with beans, guacamole, tomato slices, jalapeño and tortillas.
Mojarra Frita
Authentic fried tilapia, served with rice, refried beans, salad and tortillas.
Camarones ALa Diabla
Delicious sautéed shrimp in our special diablo (hot) sauce with onion. Served with rice, beans, salad and tortillas.
Carne Asada Con Camarones
Cactus Especial
House signature dish made with grilled chicken, grilled steak, pork chops and grilled cactus. Served with grilled onions, beans, rice, pico de gallo and tortillas.
Coctel De Camarones
Shrimp cocktail prepared with our special sauce, onion, cilantro, avocado and lemon juice. Served with crackers on the side.
Fajita Taco Salad
Chicken or beef option. Served in a tortilla shell with lettuce, tomatoes, peppers, onions, beans, rice, fresh cheese, guacamole and Mexican sour cream.
Chuleta Frita
Fried pork chops served with rice beans and tortillas.

Typical Meals
Burritos
Filled with your meat option, rice, beans, lettuce, pico de gallo, sour cream and salsa on the side.
Tortas
Filled with your meat option, mayo, beans, lettuce, onion, tomato, avocado and salsa on the side.
Pupusas
Special meal from El Salvador, thick grilled corn tortilla, stuffed with your option of filling and served with curtido and our special homemade sauce. Cheese Only, Cheese & Loroco Flower, Cheese & Calabaza, Cheese & Bean, Revueltas - Pork & Cheese.
Horden De Sopes
Traditional Mexican corn patties topped with beans, your meat option, lettuce, cheese, pico de gallo, sour cream and salsa on the side.
Platano Frito
Fried plantains with Mexican sour cream.
Tamales Mexicanos Verdes Y Rojos
Red or Green Mexican Tamales.
Baleadas Con Carne
Special dish from Honduras made with a flour tortilla and filled with beans, eggs, cheese and cream.
Gorditas Horden De 3
Traditional Mexican corn patties stuffed with beans, your meat option, lettuce, cheese, pico de gallo, sour cream and salsa on the side.
Tamales Centroamericanos
Central American Tamales.

Authentic Tacos
Taco Order
Per 4.
Taco Platter
3 tacos of your choice served with rice and beans.
Tacos
Individual.

Kids
Quesadilla
Grilled steak or chicken quesadilla, made with a flour tortilla and served with rice and beans.
Chicken Tenders & Fries
Taco Y Pupusa
Pastelito Pollo
Chicken patty served with rice.

Sides
Chips & Salsa
Rice
Mexican Sour Cream
Beans
Tortillas
Avocado

Beverages
Jarritos
Cocacola Medio Litro
Aguas Frescas
Ask your server for flavors of the day.
Mexican & Central American Sodas

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Recent Reviews

Small and family run. It felt like being in my grandmas house. Was the only customer but waitress was amazing. Cute little girl as well with her. Best mexican/south american food i had in years and best in Charlottesville! Please support this place! They also make fresh tortillas and have a market!
July 2026
Great spot to stop in for some authentic food. From south of the border, make sure that if you order tamales, you order the tamales that you're used to honduran tamales, a mexican tamales, are very different.Overall, the food was good.The service was ok, but I think that was because it was during the middle of the day on a weekday, however, everybody was very polite and kind.
July 2026
the food has been great the two times i’ve come here but, the tortilla chips are inedible. they are so so hard!! i also watched the girl adding food to the buffet table pick food out of a tray with her bare hands and started licking her fingers the whole way through the restaurant grabbing more food and coming back to the buffet without washing her hands. that really grossed me out not sure if i’ll be back.
August 2025

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CACTUS MEXICAN RESTAURANT

221 Carlton Road, Charlottesville, VA 22902
(434) 295-4748