El Ranchero Restaurant Charlottesville Menu
If you're in the mood for some bold flavors and a cozy atmosphere, look no further than El Ranchero Restaurant Charlottesville Menu. Located at 1145 5th St SW, Charlottesville, VA, this gem offers a delightful mix of authentic Mexican dishes that will transport your taste buds straight to the heart of Mexico. From sizzling fajitas to mouthwatering tacos, there's something to satisfy every craving. Whether you're here for a casual lunch or a fun dinner with friends, the menu has a variety of options, each made with fresh ingredients and traditional spices.
One of the highlights is their selection of hearty burritos, stuffed with tender meats, beans, and flavorful sauces. And don’t forget the guacamole - it's the perfect appetizer to start your meal. The menu also features classic favorites like enchiladas, chimichangas, and tamales, along with plenty of vegetarian options that are just as satisfying. Whether you're a fan of spicy salsas or prefer something milder, El Ranchero makes sure there's a dish for every taste.
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Nachos
Nachos Supremos
Topped with chicken, beef, beans, sour cream, lettuce, and tomatoes.
Nachos Fajitas
Chicken or steak cooked with bell peppers, onion, tomatoes, and ranchero sauce. Comes with cheese dip.
Nachos Texanos
Chicken, steak, and shrimp cooked with bell peppers, onions, tomatoes, and ranchero sauce. Covered with cheese dip.
Vegetarianos
Vegetarian Chimichanga
Two vegetarian chimichanga of your choice of fried or sof with mix vegetables. Served with rice, beans, small salad and cheese dip on top.
Los Flacos
Two burritos filled with cooked potatoes, onions, tomatoes, and jalapenos with cheese dip on top. Served with rice and small salad.
Vegetarian #1 (Four Items)
Create your own vegetagle dish with four items: one chile relleno, one enchilada (cheese, bean or spinach) one small burrito (bean or cheese), one cheese quesadilla, served with rice and beans.
Plato Chile Autentico
Vegetarian. Two cheese chile relleno with red sauce on top. Served with rice & beans.
Veggie Fajitas
A combination of mix vegetables, served with rice, beans, and small salad.
Burritos
El Tigre Burrito
A flour tortilla filled with rice, black beans, chicken, steak, and shrimp. Cheese dip and green sauce on top.
Chiop Burrito
A flour tortilla with grilled chicken, creamy chipotle sauce, rice, and black beans, topped with cheese sauce garnished with chipotle sauce.
Burrito Fajita
Chiken or steak. A flour tortilla cooked with bell peppers, onions, and tomatoes with cheese dip. sour cream on top. Served with guaca salad.
Burrito California
Chicken or steak, a flour toritlla filled with rice and beans. Served with a delicious cheese dip on top. Lettuce, guacamole, pico de gallo and sour cream.
Burrito Loco
Shredded chicken or ground beef, guacamole, pickle jalapenos, rice, black beans, and pico de gallo, cheese dip on top and sour cream.
Pollo / Chicken
Rubias
Chicken breast sliced with shrimp and bacon. Cooked with bell peppers and onions. Served on a bed of rice with cheese dip and tortillas.
Choripollo
Chicken breast cooked with Mexican sausage & cheese on on top. Served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Arroz Con Pollo
Chicken breast cut into slices. Served on a bed of rice with cheese dip on top.
Pollo Jalisco
Chicken breast with cheese dip & pico de gallo on top. Served with rice & bean.
El Mexicano
Chicken broast cooked with jalapeno, onions & tomatoes. Served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Pollo Caribeno
Chicken breast cooked with Mexican sausage & cheese dip on top with pineapple. Served with rice & beans.
El Cholito
Grilled chicken, steak & shrimp with onlons. Served on a bed of rice with cheese dip & tortilas.
Pollo Empanizado
Breaded chicken breast. Served with rice, black beans, small salad, and tortillas.
Enchiladas
Enchiladas Verdes
Two chicken enchiladas with green sauce on top. Served with rice & beans.
Enchiladas Clasicas
Four enchiladas: one shredded chicken, one ground beef, one cheese & one beans, with mole Ranchero sauce, lettuce, tomatoes, and sour cream on top.
Enchiladas Michocanas
Three pork enchiladas with green sauce. Served with rice and guaca salad.
Enchiladas Poblanas
Three shredded chicken enchiladas with mole Poblano. Served with rice and crema salad.
Enchiladas Rancheritas
Three shredded chicken enchiladas with mole Ranchero sauce. Served with rice and guaca salad.
Especiales De La Casa / Home Specials
Carnitas
Tender pork, cooked to perfection. Served with rice, beans, guacamole salad & tortillas.
Molcajete
Grilled chicken breast, steak, shrimp, chorizo & carnitas / pork, with Mexican cheese, cactus & chile toreado. Served with rice & beans.
Dinner Combinations
Your choice 2 items & 2 sides.
Mole Poblano
Chicken breast covered with homemade mole poblano. Served with rice, beans & tortillas.
Chilaquiles
Tortilla strips cooked in a special green or red sauce with chicken & cheese. Served with rice & cream-salad. Add eggs for an additional charge.
Fajita Chimichanga
Grilled chicken or steak your choose of fried or soft cooked with mixed vegetables. Served with cheese dip on top, small salad, rice & beans.
Chimichangas
Your choice of shredded chicken or beef, fried or soft. Served with cheese dip on top, small salad, rice & beans.
Parrillada Latina
Grilled chicken breast, steak, shrimp & chorizo with onion & cheese dip on top. Served with double portion of rice, beans, salad & tortillas.
El Ranchero Special
Grilled steak, chicken breast, chorizo, shrimp, cactus, spring onions, Mexican cheese & chile toreado. Served with black beans & tortillas.
Flautas
Corn or flour tortillas with chicken roll & deep-fried to perfection, topped with green sauce & cheese. Served with rice & salad.
Lunch
Lunch Special #5
Chicken enchilada, chicken burrito, cheese dip on topped. Served with rice.
Lunch Special #4
Chicken quesadilla, cheese dip on topped. Served with rice and beans.
Lunch Special #1
Chile relleno, beans, hard taco, and guaca salad.
Lunch Chimichanga
Soft or fried. Chicken or beef. Served with rice, beans, cheese dip on topped with salad.
Lunch Burrito California
Chicken or steak burrito. Served with rice and beans, topped with delicious cheese dip.
Lunch Special #2
Burrito, beans, and rice.
ACP Lunch
Chicken breast cut into slices served with rice and cheese dip.
Lunch Taco Salad
A crispy flour tortilla shredded chicken or ground beef, rice, beans. Topped with lettuce, shredded cheese, sour cream and tomatoes.
Lunch Carnitas
Tender pork cooked to perfection served with rice, beans, salad, and tortillas.
Lunch Burrito Chipo
A tortilla filled with chicken grilled, grilled onions, and delicious chipotle sauce. Served with rice and beans. Topped with cheese dip.
Speedy Gonzales
Enchilada with red sauce, rice or beans, and hard taco.
Lunch Fajita Texana
Chicken, steak, and shrimp cooked with onions, tomatoes, and bell peppers. Served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Rancherito Bowl
Grilled chicken or steak, Mesican chorizo, rice, black beans, cheese sauce and pico de gallo.
Lunch Fajitas
Chicken or steak cooked with onions, tomatoes, and bell peppers. Served with rice, beans, and tortilas.
Lunch Special #3
Burrito, rice or beans, and taco.
Seafood / Marsicos
Camarones A La Diabla
Shrimp cooked with diablo hot sauce and onions. Served with rice and cream salad.
Mojarra Frita
Fried fish. Served with rice and small salad (avocado & tomatoes).
Coctel De Camarones
Cold shrimp cooked mix prepared with special sauce, pico de gallo, avocado. Served with salted cracker.
Camarones A La Crema
Shrimp cooked with cream sauce. Served with rice and guac salad.
Camarones Con Vegetables
Shrimp cooked with mix vegetables bell peppers, yellow squash, mushrooms, tomatoes and onions. Served with bed rice with cheese dip on top and tortillas.
Fish Tacos
Two tilapia fish tacos with pico de gallo, lettuce, and shredded cheese. Served with rice and beans.
Tilapia With Shrimp
Grilled tilapia fish. Served with rice and vegetables. (Yellow squash, zucchini, carrots, cauliflower, and broccoli.)
Camarones Al Ajillio
Shrimp cooked with ajillio sauce. Served with rice, and crema salad.
Caldos / Soup
Caldo De Res
Beef soup seasoning with vegetables.
Caldo De Camarones
Mexican shrimp soup, seasoning with vegetables and spices.
Caldo De Menudo
Beef tripe soup with Mexican seasoning.
Caldo De Pollo
Chicken broth soup with vegetables.
Tacos
La Taquiza
12 Tacos. Con todos ingredients. 1 with all the toppings, 2 al pastor, 2 lengua-tongue, 2 carnitas, 2 birria, 2 pollo-chicken, 2 carne-steak.
Tacos Dorados
Flour deep fried taquitos with chicken or beef. Served with rice, cream, and salad.
Tacos Estilo DF (Al Pastor)
Tender pork and Mexican chorizo.
Tacos Carnitas
Tender pork.
Tacos De Lendua
Beef tongue.
Diablo Tacos
Two flour tortilla with grilled chicken, jalapeno, onions, and lettuce. Served with rice and beans.
Fajitas
Del Mar
Tiilapia and shrimp.
Fajitas / Texanas
Chicken, steak, and shrimp.
Carnes / Steaks
Steak Ranchero
12 oz. T-bone steak cooked with Ranchero sauce. Served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Tuto T-Bone
12 oz. T-bone steak, served with mix vegetables, yellow squash, zucchini, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, and Mexican rice.
Carnita Asada
Rib-eye steak cooked to perfection. Served with rice, beans, salad, and tortillas.
Steak Mexicano
12 oz. T- bone steak cooked with onions, tomatoes, and jalapenos. Served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Steak & Shrimp
Rib-eye steak and six shrimp. Served with rice, beans, and salad.
Chori-Steak
Rib-eye steak with Mexican sausage and cheese dip on top. Served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Salads
Grilled Taco Salad
A crispy flour tortilla with your choice of with chicken or steak. Served with rice, beans, lettuce, pico de gallo, and sour cream.
Fajita Taco Salad
A crispy flour tortilla with your choice of chicken or steak. Cooked with bell peppers, onions, and tomatoes. Served with rice, beans, lettuce, and sour cream.
La Chula Salad
Grilled chicken, steak, and shrimp with lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, bell peppers, and onions.
Taco Salad
A crispy flour tortilla with your choice of shredded chicken or ground beef. Served with rice, beans, lettuce, sour cream, and shredded cheese.
La Flaquita Salad
Chicken breast, salad with lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, bell peppers, and onions.
Mexican Specials
Gorditas
Three homemade tortillas cooked to perfection with beans, lettuce, cheese, and sour cream. Green or red sauce.
Huaraches
One homemade tortilla cooked to perfrction. Served with bacon, beans, lettuce, cheese, and sour cream. Green or red sauce.
Sope
Two homemade tortilla cooked to perfection with beans, lettuce, cheese, and sour cream. Green or red sauce.
Huevos / Eggs
Huevos Con Chorizo
Eggs with Mexican sausage.
Huevos A La Mexicana
Cooked with onions, tomatoes, and jalapenos mixed together.
Huevos Rancheros
Eggs cooked in ranchero sauce.
Quesadillas
La Gorda Quesadilla
A flour tortilla with grilled chicken, steak, and shrimp, cooked with bell peppers onions, and tomatoes. Served with rice and salad.
Fajita Quesadilla
A flour tortilla with grilled chicken or steak. Cooked with bell peppers, onions, and tomatoes. Served with rice and salad.
Quesadilla Pastor
A flour tortilla with pork and mexican chorizo. Served with rice and guca salad.
Quesabirria
Shredded beef, homemade sacue. Served with rice and cream salad.
Quesadilla Carnitas
A flour tortilla with pork and chorizo. Served with rice, lettuce, and pico de gallo.
Grilled Quesadilla
Chicken or steak. A flour tortilla with cheese, served with rice and guaca salad.
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