El Palenque Mexican Restaurant Menu (Update 2025)
Welcome to El Palenque Mexican Restaurant, a gem nestled in McConnelsville, Ohio. This vibrant eatery celebrates traditional Mexican cuisine, offering a delightful menu filled with mouth-watering options. Guests repeatedly rave about signature dishes like the Fajita Burrito, which features a succulent blend of steak, chicken, and shrimp, accompanied by fresh peppers and onions.
Those craving a vegetarian experience will enjoy options like the Garden Fajita, packed with flavorful, caramelized vegetables. The portions are generous, ensuring a fulfilling meal every time. Quick service is a standout feature, with many patrons receiving their hot dishes within minutes of ordering.
Don't forget to try their famous queso sauce and complimentary chips and salsa, though some might prefer to save room for the delicious entrees instead. With friendly staff and clean surroundings, El Palenque is not just a meal; it's a dining experience worth returning for!
Mixed Drinks
Kiwi Cooler
Long Island Iced Tea
Buttered Monkey
Texas Margarita
Bloody Mary
Amaretto Seur
Bahama Mama
Lemon Drop Martini
Mexican Sunrise
Whiskey & Cola
Electric Lemonade
A little sour, a little sweet, and completely delicious
Pina Colada
Sex On The Beach
Scratch Margarita
Blue Hawaiian
Margarita
Margaritas
Seafood
Tocino Frito
Ten shrimp wrapped in crispy bacon. Served with a guac salad.
Seafood Enchiladas
Camarones Al Mojo De Ajo
Grilled shrimp cooked with garlic sauce. Served with rice and guacamole salad.
ACM
Scallops, shrimp, and fish over a bed of rice with vegetables and topped with cheese sauce.
Seafood Quesadilla
Grilled flour tortilla filled with shredded cheese, scallops, shrimp, crab, sauteed peppers, onions, and tomatoes, then topped with cheese sauce. Served with a guac salad.
Seafood Chimichanga
Scallops, shrimp, and crab meat with peppers, onions, and tomatoes. Served with rice, beans, and guacamole salad.
Imported Beer (Bottles)
Domestic Beer (Bottles)
Beer
Vegetarian
Veggie B
Cheese quesadilla with beans.
Cocina Vegetarian
Grilled vegetables over a bed of rice and topped with cheese sauce.
Veggie A
Two burritos filled with beans and topped with cheese sauce.
Veggie D
Beans burrito, cheese enchilada, and a bean tostada.
Veggie Chimichanga
Deep fried flour tortilla filled with sauteed veggies. Topped with cheese sauce and served with rice and beans. Garnished with lettuce, sour cream, and pico de gallo.
Garden Fajita
Sauteed tomatoes, onions, bell peppers, broccoli, cauliflower, and mushrooms. Served with rice and beans. Garnished with lettuce, sour cream, guacamole, pico de gallo, and tortillas.
Veggie C
Mushroom quesadilla served with rice.
Veggie Nachos
Grilled veggies over top of nachos. Topped with cheese sauce.
Veggie Enchiladas
Three corn tortillas filled with shredded cheese, sauteed tomatoes, onions, bell pepper, broccoli, cauliflower, and mushrooms. Topped with cheese sauce and a guac salad.
Taquitos Mexicanos L
Two rolled corn tortillas stuffed with beef or chicken. Served with rice, guacamole salad, and beans.
Choripollo L
Grilled chicken topped with chorizo and cheese sauce. Served with rice, beans and tortillas.
Pollo Asado L
Grilled chicken topped with sauteed onions. Served with rice, beans and tortillas.
Quesadilla De Chorizo L
One chorizo quesadilla served with rice and guacamole salad.
Fajitas L
Your choice of protein, sauteed onions, bell peppers, and tomatoes. Served with rice, beans, tortillas, and a guacamole salad.
Arroz Loco L
Your choice of protein served on a bed of rice and topped with cheese sauce.
Taco Salad L
Your choice of shredded chicken or ground beef served in a large crispy tortilla shell. Filled with lettuce, tomato, and cheese sauce.
Chimichanga L
One chicken or beef chimichanga topped with cheese sauce and guacamole salad. Served with rice and beans.
Fajita Burrito L
Your choice of steak or chicken rolled in a flour tortilla and topped with cheese sauce. Served with rice.
El Palenque Lunch
Build Your Own Combo
Pick One
Pick one served with rice and beans.
Pick Two
Pick two served with rice and beans.
House Tacos
Three flour tortillas filled with protein. Served with rice, beans, pico de gallo and hot sauce.
Crispy Tacos
Three corn tortillas filled with steak, chicken, or pork, shredded cheese, & pico, then grilled until crispy. Served with rice
Birria Tacos
Three corn tortillas filled with shredded cheese, birria, cilantro, and onions, then grilled until crispy. Served with a side of rice and consome.
Street Tacos
Soft corn tortilla filled with your choice of protein & topped with onions & cilantro.
Tacos
Quesadillas
Shrimp Quesadilla
Grilled flour tortilla filled with shredded cheese and shrimp.
Chicken & Cheese Quesadilla
Grilled flour tortilla filled with cheese and shredded chicken.
Steak Quesadilla
Grilled flour tortilla filled with shredded cheese and grilled steak.
Quesadilla Roja
Grilled flour tortilla filled with cheese and your choice of chicken or beef. Topped with ranchero sauce. Served with lettuce, tomato, sour cream, rice, and guacamole.
Beef & Cheese Quesadilla
Grilled flour tortilla filled with cheese and beef.
Quesadilla Deluxe
Grilled flour tortilla filled with cheese and your choice of chicken or beef. Served with rice and guacamole salad.
Cheese Quesadilla
Grilled flour tortilla filled with cheese.
Birria Quesadilla
Grilled flour tortilla filled with shredded cheese, birria, cilantro, and onion. Served with rice, a guac salad, and consome.
Chorizo Quesadilla
Grilled flour tortilla filled with shredded cheese and chorizo.
Mushroom & Cheese Quesadilla
Grilled flour tortilla filled with cheese and mushrooms.
Fajita Quesadilla
Grilled flour tortilla filled with your choice of chicken or steak with peppers, tomatoes, and onions. Served with rice and guacamole salad.
Quesadilla Rellena
Grilled flour tortilla filled with cheese, beans, and your choice of chicken or beef. Served with rice and guacamole salad.
Chicken Tenders
Chicken tenders and fries.
Choripollo
Grilled chicken breast topped with Mexican sausage and cheese sauce. Served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Jalisco
Grilled chicken breast topped with mushrooms and cheese sauce. Served with rice.
Pollo A La Parrilla
Grilled chicken breast topped with pineapple. Served with rice, beans, guacamole salad, and tortillas.
Pollo Preferido
Grilled chicken topped with colby jack cheese and served with broccoli and a guacamole salad.
Pollo Monterrey
Grilled chicken breast topped with grilled vegetables and cheese sauce. Served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Pollo Con Crema
Grilled chicken breast in a creamy sauce. Served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Pollo Asado
Grilled chicken breast topped with sauteed onions. Served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Pollo Chipotle
Grilled chicken smothered in our own chipotle sauce. Served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Chicken
Kids
1. Hamburger With Fries
Kids hamburger served with a side of fries.
2. Burrito
One beef burrito topped with burrito sauce and rice.
8. Grilled Platter
Grilled chicken or steak served with fries or rice.
4. Enchilada
One beef enchilada topped with enchilada sauce served with rice and beans.
3. Taco
One crunchy beef taco topped with cheese and lettuce served with rice and beans.
6. Chicken Fingers
Three chicken fingers with fries.
7. Mini Taco Salad
Mini tortilla bowl filled with ground beef or shredded chicken topped with cheese sauce, lettuce, sour cream, and tomato.
5. Cheese Quesadilla
One cheese quesadilla with rice.
Chile Relleno
Enchilada
Beef, chicken, cheese, or bean.
Tamale
Burrito
Beef, chicken, cheese, or bean.
Hard Or Soft Taco
Chicken or beef.
Chimichanga
Chicken or beef.
Tacos Supreme
Hard or soft, shredded chicken or ground beef, lettuce, shredded cheese, tomato, onion, & sour cream.
Tostada
Chicken or beef.
Chalupa
A la Carte
Daiquiris
Non-Alcoholic
Daiquiris
Fries With Cheese Dip
Beans
French Fries
Tomatoes
Onions
Sour Cream
Tortillas
Jalapenos
Rice With Cheese Dip
Rice
Pico De Gallo
Cilantro
Shredded Cheese
Chips & Salsa
Lettuce
The Extras
Steak
Steak Tampiqueno
8 oz. ribeye steak topped with onions and peppers. Served with rice, beans and tortillas.
Sirloin Vaquero
8 oz. sirloin steak served with grilled broccoli and a baked potato.
Steak Mar Y Tierra
8 oz. ribeye steak topped with grilled shrimp. Served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Mexican Special
8 oz. sirloin steak topped with grilled onions. Served with fries.
Steak Miramar
8 oz. ribeye steak topped with onions, mushrooms and cheese sauce. Served with rice, beans and tortillas or tossed salad and baked potato.
Steak Fundido
Grilled steak strips topped with cheese sauce and shredded cheese. Served with rice, beans and tortillas.
Guacamole Dip
Chori Queso Dip
Chorizo and cheese dip.
House Dip
Cheese dip, pico, and ground beef.
Bean Dip
Cheese dip and beans.
Cheese Dip
Creamy, melted cheese blend, perfect for dipping
Spicy Seafood Dip
Cheese sauce with shrimp, crab, sauteed onion, & jalapenos.
Dips
Desserts
Fried Ice Cream
Dessert Sampler
A selection of our most cherished desserts, typically includes items such as churros, cheesecake chimichanga, and fried ice cream.
Caramel Apple Pie
Churro
Chocolate Chimichanga
NY Style Cheesecake
Cheesecke Chimichanga
Monster Burrito
A burrito filled with rice, beans, and your choice of grilled steak or chicken. Covered in cheese sauce and served with guacamole salad.
Papa Mexicana
One baked potato loaded with pork, steak, or chicken, butter, cheese, sour cream, & pico.
Pollo Mexicana
Grilled chicken and shrimp, topped with colby jack cheese, and served with rice.
Chile Colorado
Your choice of steak or chicken cooked in red salsa. Served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Fajita Chimichanga
Taquitos Mexicanos
Four corn tortillas filled with your choice of chicken or beef. Served with rice, beans and guacamole salad.
Chimichanga
Two soft or deep fried flour tortillas filled with chicken or beef. Topped with guacamole salad and served with rice and beans.
Cheeseburger
Topped with cheese, lettuce, tomato, onions, and pickles. Served with fries.
Carne Asada
Two grilled thin steaks. Served with rice, beans, tortillas and guacamole salad.
Grilled Chicken Sandwich
Grilled chicken breast with lettuce, pickles, and tomato. Served with fries.
El Rancherito
Beef tips cooked with mushrooms, onions, and tomatoes. Served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Huevos Con Chorizo
Three scrambled eggs mixed with chorizo. Served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Especial De La Cocina
Grilled chicken, steak, and shrimp sauteed with bell peppers, onions, and mushrooms. Served on a bed of rice then topped with cheese sauce.
Carnitas
Pork chunks seasoned and cooked until golden brown. Served with rice, beans, guacamole salad and tortillas.
Arroz Loco
Your choice of protein served with rice and cheese sauce.
El Palenque Favorites
Drinks
Starry
Root Beer
Chocolate Milk
Orange Juice
Mountain Dew
Exhilarate and quench your thirst with a one of a kind taste.
Diet Pepsi
A crisp tasting, refreshing pop of sweet, fizzy bubbles without calories.
Pink Lemonade
Apple Juice
Orange Crush
White Milk
Sweet Tea
Fruit Punch
Unsweet Tea
Pepsi
The bold, refreshing, robust cola
Dr. Pepper
Diet Mountain Dew
Exhilarate and quench your thirst with a one of a kind taste.
Sierra Mist
A caffeine-free soda that provides a crisp, clear burst of lemon lime flavor
Coffee
Enchiladas Rancheras
Three cheese enchiladas topped with shredded pork, cooked tomatoes, onions, bell peppers, enchilada sauce and guacamole salad.
Enchiladas Supremas
Four soft corn tortillas. One each: cheese, beef, chicken, and bean. Topped with enchilada sauce, lettuce, sour cream, and tomatoes.
Enchiladas Rojas
Three soft corn tortillas filled with chicken and covered in ranchero sauce. Topped with lettuce, sour cream, and tomatoes.
Enchiladas Suiza
Three soft corn tortillas stuffed with beef. Topped with enchilada sauce, tomatoes, onion, and sour cream.
Enchiladas
Fajitas
Fajitas Locas
Chorizo, steak, chicken, jalapenos, colby jack cheese.
Fajitas Seafood
Scallops, shrimp, and fish.
Chicken & Steak Fajitas
Chicken Fajitas
Shrimp Fajitas
Fajitas Hawaiian
Chicken, steak, shrimp and pineapple.
Fajitas Texana
Steak, chicken, and shrimp.
Steak Fajitas
El Palenque Fajitas
Bacon, chicken, steak, chorizo, and shrimp.
Burrito Fajita
Flour tortilla filled with your choice of protein, peppers, onion, and tomatoes topped with cheese sauce and served with rice.
Burrito Grande
Two burritos filled with chicken or steak, peppers, onions and tomatoes topped with cheese sauce and served with rice or beans.
Burrito Especial
Shredded chicken or ground beef rolled in a flour tortilla and topped with burrito sauce, lettuce, sour cream, and tomato.
Burrito De Chipotle
One burrito filled with shredded cheese, steak, chicken, shrimp, & chorizo. Topped with chipotle sauce, sour cream, & grilled jalapenos
Burrito De Carne Asada
One 10" flour tortilla filled with steak and topped with cheese sauce served with rice, beans, and a guac salad.
Burritos
Appetizers
Papas Locas
Your choice of protein over a bed of fries topped with cheese sauce, pico, and sour cream.
Nachos Supreme
Nachos served with beef, shredded chicken, and beans topped with lettuce, tomatoes, and sour cream.
Bean Nachos
Nachos topped with beans, shredded cheese, and cheese sauce.
Bean & Beef Nachos
Nachos topped with ground beef, beans, shredded cheese and cheese sauce.
Sampler Platter
Three taquitos, one cheese quesadilla, two stuffed jalapenos, and one chicken or beef tostada.
El Palenque Pick A Nacho
Shredded chicken, beef or shredded pork topped with cheese.
Taquitos Supremos
Four flour tortillas filled with your choice of protein topped with lettuce, pico, sour cream, and salsa picosa.
Cheese Nachos
Nachos topped with shredded cheese and cheese sauce.
Fajita Nachos
Your choice of protein with sauteed onions, tomatoes, and green peppers served over nachos, and topped with with melted cheese.
Pick A Nacho
Shredded chicken, beef or shredded pork topped with cheese.
Cheesy Melts
Two flour tortillas filled with chicken or steak, cheese sauce, colby jack cheese, & rice, then grilled until crispy. Served with sour cream & chipotle sauce.
Build Your Own Breakfast
Build Your Own Breakfast
Salads
Fajita Taco Salad
Your choice of protein, sauteed peppers, onions, and tomatoes topped with cheese sauce, lettuce, guacamole, and pico.
Camarones Ensalada
Shrimp, cucumbers, avocado, tomatoes, cheese, and our house mexican dressing served over a bed of lettuce.
Grilled Chicken Salad
Fresh garden greens, cheese, green peppers, onions, and tomatoes topped with grilled chicken.
Taco Salad
Your choice of shredded chicken or ground beef served in a large crispy tortilla shell. Filled with lettuce, tomatoes, and cheese sauce.
Mexican Mix
Home fries topped with sausage gravy, scrambled egg, sausage or bacon, and cheese sauce. With a biscuit on the side.
Breakfast Sandwich
White or wheat bread, one egg, sausage or bacon, & cheese.
Pancake Breakfast
Two light fluffy pancakes served with sausage or bacon.
Huevos Con Chorizo
Two eggs scrambled with chorizo & served with rice, beans, & tortillas.
Open Face Quesadilla
One 8" tortilla topped with shredded cheese, scrambled egg, avocado, & queso fresco.
Mexican Special
8oz sirloin served with one egg, home fries, & toast.
Breakfast Fajitas
Steak, bacon, sausage, hash browns, peppers, onions, & tomatoes topped with two eggs and served on a sizzling skillet. Served with a side of tortillas.
Monster Breakfast Burrito
One 10" tortilla filled with sausage, steak, or bacon, home fries, scrambled egg, sauteed peppers, & onions. Topped with cheese sauce.
Sausage Gravy & Biscuits
Breakfast Menu
Drinks (Breakfast)
Mimosas
Milk
Sierra Mist
Refreshing lemon-lime soda, perfectly carbonated for a crisp and cool taste.
Cranberry Juice
Pepsi
The bold, refreshing, robust cola
Coffee
Diet Pepsi
A crisp tasting, refreshing pop of sweet, fizzy bubbles without calories.
Apple Juice
Orange Juice
Tea
Mexican Omelet Burrito
Filled with cheese, sauteed tomatoes, onions, and peppers. Topped with cheese sauce, bacon, & jalapenos.
El Palenque
Filled with cheese, steak, and sauteed onion. Topped with avocado & Pico de Gallo.
Build Your Own
South Of The Border
Filled with cheese, chorizo, onions, and peppers. Served with a side of salsa and sour cream.
Omelets
Extras
Cheese Dip
House Dip
Cheese dip, pico, and ground beef.