El Bajio Mexican Restaurant Menu (Update 2025)
Introducing the Menu at El Bajio Mexican Restaurant
El Bajio Mexican Restaurant invites you to indulge in an authentic culinary journey filled with rich flavors and vibrant presentations. Located in Cedar Rapids, this trendy eatery offers a diverse menu that caters to all tastes, including exciting vegan and vegetarian options. Signature appetizers like the Tacos de la Sierra and the mouth-watering Queso Fundido set the tone for a memorable meal, while heartier offerings such as Birria Bowls and Ceviche highlight traditional Mexican fare.
With an inviting atmosphere, El Bajio is perfect for groups, families, and casual diners alike. A full bar features expertly crafted margaritas, while outdoor seating adds to the laid-back vibe. Whether indulging in handmade tortillas or savoring fresh guacamole prepared at your table, each visit guarantees something special. Experience the authentic feel of Mexico without leaving Cedar Rapids.
Appetizers
Tacos de la Sierra
Grilled corn tortilla, quesadillas filled with beans and cheese. Accompanied by a side of jalapenos.
Queso Fundido
Sauteed chorizo and melted Mexican cheese served with tortillas, make your own tacos.
Dipping Changas
Classic fried burrito stuffed with lots of chicken, beans, and cheese accompanied with a special dipping sauce.
Botana Marisco
Shrimp ceviche, cooked shrimp, octopus, aguachiles and oysters on a big platter.
Bajio Platter
4 wings, 1 dipping changa, and choice of beef or chicken nachos.
Aguachiles
Spicy shrimp with onions. Marinated in lime juice and green chile.
Aguachiles Tropicales
Spicy shrimp with onions, chunks of mango, and strawberries. Marinated in lime juice and green chile.
Nachos
Crispy tortilla chips topped with melted cheese and your choice of picadillo, shredded chicken or shredded beef.
Oysters en Concha
Fresh oysters.
Nachos Clasicos
Crispy tortilla chips topped with melted cheese, beans, jalapenos, lettuce, pico de gallo, sour cream, guacamole, and your choice of picadillo, shredded chicken, shredded beef, steak or grilled chicken.
Oysters Preparados
Fresh oysters prepared with ceviche.
Tacos Dorados
3 pieces. De papa o frijol. Fried tacos stuffed with your choice of potato or beans topped with salsa, lettuce, sour cream, and queso fresco.
Ceviche
Your choice of fresh shrimp or fish cooked in a lime marinade. Mixed with pico de gallo and sliced avocado.
Nacho Mazatlan
Crispy tortilla chips topped with melted cheese, sauted shrimp, crab meat, onions, and tomatoes.
Wings
Cooked wing of a chicken coated in sauce or seasoning.
Queso Dip
Melted cheese dip. Add meat for an additional charge.
Bean Dip
Add meat for an additional charge.
Fresh Guacamole
Fresh guacamole prepared table side. ( we can make it or just sand all the ingredients for you )
guacamole
Our Traditional homemade guacamole (4oz)
Dips
Soups and Salads
Taco Salad
Crispy flour tortilla shell filled with beans along with your choice of meat: picadillo, shredded chicken or shredded beef. Topped with lettuce, sour cream, cheese, guacamole, and tomato. Add veggies for an additional charge.
Brent's Salad
Grilled chicken, onions, bell peppers, and pico de gallo on a bed of lettuce.
Ensalada
Fresh tossed salad with lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, onions, bell peppers, and cheese.
Grilled Ensalada
Ensalada topped with your choice of steak, grilled chicken or shrimp.
Caldo Camaron
Soup with tender pieces of shrimp, zucchini, carrots, and cabbage.
Caldo Pescado
Savory fish soup with zucchini, carrots, and cabbage.
Caldo 7 Mares
Soup of the 7 seas shrimp, fish, scallops, and crab in a broth with zucchini, carrots, and cabbage.
Coctel Camaron
Shrimp cocktail made from poached shrimp. Tossed in a flavorful tomato broth with onions, cilantro and citrus juice.
Vuelve a La Vida
Return to life. Cooked shrimp, oysters, and octopus tossed in a flavorful tomato broth with onions, cilantro, and citrus juice.
Molcajete Maya
Carne asada, carnitas, chicken, chorizo, queso fresco, nopales, avocado, jalapeno and molcajete sauce. Served with rice, beans and tortillas.
Molcajete Mar
Shrimp, red snapper, crab, and scallops in a special sauce. Served with white rice, salad, and tortillas.
Mar y Tierra
Carne asada, carnitas, chorizo, shrimp, red snapper topped with nopales, avocado, and molcajete sauce. Served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Molcajetes
Antojito Mex
Taco Mexican Style
Carne asada, carnitas, chorizo, pollo, pastor, tripas, lengua, picadillo, cabeza, buche, chicharron. Served with onions, cilantro and corn tortilla.
Taco Texano Style
Served with lettuce, cheese, tomatoes, and flour tortilla.
Burritos
Flour tortilla stuffed with rice, beans, cheese, lettuce, sour cream, and your choice of meat: ground beef, shared chicken, steak, chorizo, al pastor, grill chicken or carnitas
Burritos Dinner
Flour tortilla stuffed with rice, beans, cheese, lettuce, sour cream, and your choice of. ground beef, shared chicken, chorizo,al pastor, grill chorizo, steak or asada. Served with rice and beans.
Tortas
Bread stuffed with cheese, beans, lettuce, tomato, avocado, mayonnaise, and your choice of meat steak, milanesa, pastor, pollo, chorizo, carnitas, jam, ground beef. or huevos con chorizo.
Tortas Dinner
Bread stuffed with cheese, beans, lettuce, tomato, avocado, mayonnaise, and your choice of meat carne asada, milanesa, pastor, pollo, chorizo, carnitas, jamon, adobada or huevos con chorizo. Served with rice and beans or fries.
Sopes
Fried masa cake topped with beans, lettuce, queso fresco, sour cream and your choice of meat carne asada, picadillo, chorizo, pastor or chicharron.
Gorditas
Fried masa cake stuffed with beans, queso fresco, lettuce, sour cream, and your choice of meat carne asada, pollo asado, al pastor, buche, chorizo or carnitas.
Tostada
Crispy tortilla topped with beans, lettuce, queso fresco, sour cream, and your choice of meat shredded chicken, picadillo or shredded beef.
Taco Dinner
Includes 3 tacos, and side of rice and beans. mexican or texano sty.
Birria Tacos
3 birria tacos topped with cilantro and onions. served with rice and beans
Chicken Fajita
Sauteed with onions, tomatoes and bell peppers. Served with salad, rice, beans and tortillas. Extra protein for an additional charge.
Steak Fajita
Sauteed with onions, tomatoes and bell peppers. Served with salad, rice, beans and tortillas. Extra protein for an additional charge.
Steak and Chicken Mixed Fajita
Sauteed with onions, tomatoes and bell peppers. Served with salad, rice, beans and tortillas. Extra protein for an additional charge.
Fajitas Acapulco
Red snapper, crab, scallops, and shrimp sauteed with onions, tomatoes, and bell peppers. Served with salad, rice, beans, and tortillas.
Fajita Pancho
Marinated chicken sauteed with mushrooms and onions. Topped with cheese and served with beans, rice, salad, and tortillas.
Fajitas Leon
Marinated pork in a pastor seasoning sauted with onions, pineapple, and bell peppers. Served with salad, rice, beansAnd tortillas.
Fajitas el Bajio
Grilled shrimp sauteed with onions, tomatoes, and bell peppers. Served with salad, rice, beans, and tortillas.
Fajitas
El Californio
Clasico Combination
Create your favorite combination platter pick any 2 items below and your choice of fries, sopa de fideo, salad or rice, and beans. Stuffed, topped with your choice of meat picadillo, shredded chicken, shredded beef, beans or cheese and onions. Quesadilla, taco, burrito, enchilada, chile relleno, poblano enquesado, tamales (red pork, green chicken or cheese and pepper).
Chimis
1 big fried or baked chimi filled with your choice of meat picadillo, shredded chicken or shredded beef. Garnished withred and cheese sauce, lettuce, and tomatoes. Served with rice and beans.
Seafood Chimi
1 big fried or baked chimi filled with crab and shrimp. Garnished with red and cheese sauce, lettuce, and tomatoes. Served with rice and beans.
Fajita Quesadilla
Flour tortilla stuffed with your choice of meat pastor, carne asada, pollo asado, chorizo or shrimp. Served with rice, beans, sour cream, guacamole, and pico de gallo. Add meat for an additional charge.
Acapulco Quesadilla
Flour tortilla stuffed with shrimp, crab, grilled onions, bell peppers and tomatoes. Served with rice, beans, guacamole, sour cream and pico de gallo.
Enchiladas Mexicanas
3 chicken enchiladas topped with cheese sauce, lettuce, tomatoes, and sour cream. Served with rice and beans.
Seafood Enchiladas
3 shrimp and crab enchiladas topped with cheese sauce, lettuce, tomatoes, and sour cream. Served with rice and beans.
Enchiladas Mole
3 chicken enchiladas, sprinkled with seeds. Topped with our homemade mole sauce. Served with rice and a salad.
Bajio Quesadilla
Steak, chicken, chorizo, and shrimp all stuffed into a flour tortilla. Served with rice, beans, guacamole, sour cream, and pico de gallo.
Rice
Sour Cream
Tangy fermented cream.
Chiles en Vinagre
Beans
Pico de Gallo
Fresh salsa.
French Fries
Fried potatoes.
tortillas
choose your favorite from flour or corn tortillas
Chips
extra small bag of chips
Salsa 8oz
our traditional homemade salsa (8oz)
Sides
Seafood
Camarones a La Diabla
Shrimp served in a spicy sauce.
Tilapia Diabla
Tilapia served in a spicy sauce.
Camarones al Mojo de Ajo
Shrimp served in a buttery garlic sauce.
Camarones Imperiales
Shrimp stuffed with cheese and wrapped with bacon in a special bell pepper sauce.
Mojarra Frita
Fried whole tilapia.
Tacos Chamoy
Ensenada style. Shrimp taco topped with cabbage, sour cream, and a special creamy salsa.
Tacos Javier
Ensenada style. Fish taco topped with cabbage, sour cream, and a special creamy salsa.
Filete Empanizado
Breaded red snapper.
Pescado Zarandeado
Grilled red snapper in a chile sauce topped with grilled veggies and shrimp.
Tilapia al Mojo
Served in a buttery garlic sauce.
Camarones Empanisados
Breaded shrimp.
Carne al Carbon
Traditional marinated arrachera steak cooked on an open flame. Topped with cebollitas and jalapeos. Served with tortillas, rice, and beans.
Carne a La Plancha
Marinated steak grilled on a skillet. Served with cactus, tortillas, rice, and beans.
Steak Ranchero
Grilled steak topped with ranchero salsa. Served with tortillas, rice, and beans.
Carne Zarandeada
Steak marinated with a house chili sauce. Served with grilled onions, one bean quesadilla, tortillas, rice, and beans.
La Tampiquena
Grilled marinated steak served with a poblano enquesado, tortillas, rice, and beans.
Choripollo
2 grilled chicken breast topped with chorizo and lots of cheese! Served with tortillas, rice and beans.
Pollo con Arroz
Grilled chicken on a bed of rice topped with cheese sauce. Served with tortillas.
Pollo al Carbon
Grilled chicken breast served with white rice, salad, and tortillas.
T-Bone Steak
Grilled steak cut from the short loin area cooked on an open flame. Topped with shrimp and veggies. Served with tortillas, rice, and house salad.
Don Tano
Grilled chicken breast and grill marinated steak, chorizo topped with mushrooms, and grilled onions served with rice and beans. Add queso dip or shrimp for an additional charge.
Asador
Platos Caseros
Birria Platos Caseros
Traditional jalisco dish with beef and a hint of goat in a savory chile sauce. Served with homemade corn tortillas, rice, and beans.
Carnitas Platos Caseros
Tender pork sauteed with onions. Served with homemade corn tortillas rice, beans, and salad.
Flauta Dinner
Fried rolled tacos stuffed with either shredded chicken or shredded beef. Topped with queso fresco, sour cream, and lettuce.
Guiso de Puerco
Tender pork in your choice of red or green salsa. Served with homemade corn tortillas rice and beans.
Mole Puebla
Chicken or pork topped with traditional rich red mole sauce sprinkled with seeds. Served with homemade corn tortillas, rice, and salad.
Guisado de Lengua
Sliced beef tongue in green sauce. Served with homemade corn tortillas rice and beans.
Mole Verde
Chicken or pork topped with green tomatillo mole sauce sprinkled with seasonal seeds. Served with homemade corn tortillas, rice, and salad
Chilaquiles Verdes
Traditional chilaquiles with green salsa topped with shredded chicken, queso fresco, and one sunny-side-up egg. Served with beans. Add carne asada for an additional charge.
Enchilada Mineras
5 pieces. Traditional enchiladas from Guanajuato stuffed with chicken. Topped with onions, queso fresco, lettuce, sour cream, and salsa ranchera.
Chilaquiles Rojo
Chilaquiles with salsa ranchera topped with queso fresco, sour cream, and a sunny side up egg. Served with beans.
Chile Rellenos
2 breaded poblano peppers stuffed with queso fresco and topped with salsa ranchera. Served with homemade corn tortillas, rice, and beans.
Guisado el Bajio
Carne asada with 2 sunny side up eggs topped with salsa ranchera. Served with homemade corn tortillas, rice and beans.
Poblanos Enquesados
2 fire-grilled poblano peppers stuffed with queso fresco and topped with salsa ranchera. Served with homemade corn tortillas, rice, and beans.
Torta Ahogada
Salsa drowned sandwich. Bread filled with beans, carnitas, onions, and cabbage. Served with 2 salsas mild and hot and a side of rice and beans.
Enchiladas Bajio
4 enchiladas, 1 of each picadillo, chicken, cheese, and bean. Topped with cheese and enchilada sauce. Served with rice and beans.
Chicharron Dinner
Fried pork belly in a tomatillo sauce. Served with homemade corn tortillas, rice, and beans.
Kids Enchilada
Stuffed tortilla topped with chili sauce.
Kids Quesadilla
Cooked tortilla that is filled with cheese and folded in half.
Kids Chicken Tenders
Breaded or battered crispy chicken.
Kids Cheeseburger
Grilled or fried patty with cheese on a bun.
Kids Mac and Cheese
Grilled or fried patty with cheese on a bun.
Kids Taco
Folded tortilla with a variety of fillings such as meat or beans.
Kids Burrito
Flour tortilla with a savory filling.
Kids Menu
Breakfast
Huevos con Chorizo
Scrambled eggs with Mexican sausage served with rice and beans.
Huevo con Hamon
Scrambled eggs with diced ham served with rice and beans.
Huevos Rancheros con Tortillas
2 sunny side up eggs served on a fried tortilla topped with salsa ranchera served with rice and beans.
Huevos Albanil
2 sunny side up eggs with salsa ranchera served with rice and beans.
Huevos Mexican
2 scrambled eggs with onion, tomato, jalapeno topped with cheese served with rice and beans.
Machaca con Huevos
Marinated beef with egg served with rice and beans.
Menudo
A traditional Mexican soup made of beef stomach served with onion, chile and lime. Served Saturday & Sunday.
Huevo con Jamon
Scrambled eggs with diced ham. Served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Huevos Rancheros with Tortillas
2 sunny side up eggs on a fried tortilla topped with salsa ranchera. Served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Anytime
Lunch
Uno Lunch
Enchilada and taco with your choice of meat beef or chicken. Served with rice or beans.
Dos Lunch
Burrito and taco with your choice of meat beef or chicken. Served with rice and beans.
Tres Lunch
Quesadilla with your choice of chicken or beef. Served with rice and beans. Extra protein for an additional charge.
Cuatro Lunch
Quesadilla stuffed with crab and shrimp. Served with a beef taco, rice, and salad.
Lunch Fajitas Pancho
Marinated chicken sauteed with onions and mushrooms. Topped with cheese and served rice, beans, and tortillas.
Lunch Fajitas
Your choice of meat chicken, steak or mix sauteed with onion, tomatoes, and bell peppers. Served with rice, beans andtortillas.
Chimi Lunch
Fried or baked chimi filled with your choice of meat picadillo, shredded beef or shredded chicken. Topped with red and cheese sauce and served with lettuce, tomatoes, onions, rice, and beans.
Coca Cola
Coke products.
Agua Fresca
Horchata
Tamarindo
Pineapple
Jamaica
Lemonade
Strawberry, mango, peach, raspberry.
1/2 galon of barril marg.
1 MARGARITA.
YOUR CHOICE OF HOUSE OR BARRRIL MARG.
Beverages
Desserts
Fried Ice Cream
Fried ice cream topped with your choice of cinnamon, chocolate or strawberry.
Churros
Classic fried dough topped with cinnamon and sugar.
Flan
Mexican custard.
Sopapilla
Fried flour pastry topped with cinnamon, sugar and honey.
Chocolate Cake
Home made chocholate cake dipped in chocolate.
Xangos
Chimi cheesecake topped with cinnamon, sugar, and whipped cream. Choice of strawberry or chocolate.
Pastel Tres Leches
3 milks sweetened condensed cream and whole milk. Poured over rich sponge cake.