El Charro Café Downtown Menu (Update 2025)
Buenos Dias Recipes
Huevos Rancheros
Ranchera salsa, corn tortilla, casero and egg over easy. Gluten free.
Chorizo y Huevos
Grass fed local chorizo with sides and choice of tortilla. Gluten free.
Pan Fried Chilaquiles
Served with tomatillo or red chile sauce, casero and egg over easy. Gluten free.
Nana's Breakfast Burros
Egg burros on flour tortillas with choice of rice and beans or calabacitas.
Homemade Pozole
Slow cooked pork, red chile, spices and nixtamal. Gluten free.
Sonoran Eggs Benito
over easy egg, sonoran corn masa, carnitas & raja crema sauce
Fresh Guacamole
Always made fresh with Haas avocados and your preference of chopped Roma tomato, jalapeno, minced cilantro, queso Cotija, salt and lime to finish. Serves 2-4 with chips. Gluten free, vegetarian.
Cheese Cheesecrisps and Quesadillas
Blend of tres quesos. Vegetarian.
Grilled Green Chile Cheesecrisps and Quesadillas
Blend of tres quesos. Vegetarian.
El Charro Carne Seca Cheesecrisps and Quesadillas
Blend of tres quesos.
Mini Chimichangas Platter
Assorted mini chimi recipes.
Queso Fundido Melt
Queso and crema with chorizo and roasted corn and chips. Gluten free.
Charro Nachos
BBQ Pork or Pollo Arizona, frijoles, jalapeno, sour cream, pico salsa and guacamole. Gluten free.
Chopped Fajita Lettuce Cups
Grilled chicken breast or grilled steak, iceberg lettuce cups with chipotle crema and pico salsa. Gluten free.
Vegan Tamale Stuffed Mushrooms
4 stuffed mushrooms with our house made vegan hemp tamal and topped with gluten-free red enchilada sauce and chopped green olive and chive. Vegan and gluten free.
El Grupo The Tasting Plate
Great for groups, a sampling plate of carnitas, charro birria, chicken mole, carne colorado, frijoles, sour cream and pico salsa. Served with flour or corn tortilla.
Quesabirria Mini Chimis
Our new birria rojo topped with melted queso casero and served 4 per order with a delicious consomm for dipping (sorry, no substitutions) 4 count
Aperitivos
Aperitivos Del Mar
Shrimp Chi-Charron
Bacon-wrapped shrimp and caribe peppers stuffed with queso. Gluten Free.
House Made Ceviche
Served with house made chips. Gluten Free.
Salmon Picado Taquitos
Two taquitos served with guacamole.
Shrimp Culichi
Grilled shrimp in a tomatillo culichi sauce. Gluten free.
Original Vegetarian Tia's Topopo Salad
Tia monicas Mayan masterpiece. Your choice of recipe and dressing. Gluten free.
Grilled Chicken Tia's Topopo Salad
100% all natural chicken. Gluten free.
Marinated Grilled Shrimp Tia's Topopo Salad
Served with margarita lime dressing. Gluten free.
El Charro Carne Seca Tia's Topopo Salad
Gluten free.
Tacostada Salad
Chipotle tortilla, fresh greens, queso casero, refried beans and choice of recipe.
Chef Carlotta's Chopped Salad
Chicken, Serrano citrus vinaigrette, dried cranberry, citrus, pepitas and queso casero. Gluten free.
Small Tortilla Sopa
Large Tortilla Soup
Small Caldo de Queso Soup
Gluten free.
Large Caldo de Queso Soup
Gluten free.
Small Chicken Tortilla Soup
Gluten free.
Large Chicken Tortilla Soup
Small Red Pozole Soup
Gluten free.
Large Red Pozole Soup
Gluten free.
Small Albondigas Soup
Gluten free.
Large Albondigas Soup
Gluten free.
Ensaladas y Sopas
Viva Vegan
Vegan Nopalito Enchiladas
Soft corn tortillas filled with our nopalito blend, topped with our house made gluten free enchilada sauce and vegan cheese. Served with charro frijoles, arroz blanco and pico salsa. Gluten free.
Vegan Burro
House recipe simpatico grilled vegetables, fresh avocado and pico salsa. Served with whole charro frijoles, arroz blanco and gluten free red or green enchilada sauce. Gluten free.
Vegan Bowl
House recipe simpatica grilled vegetables, fresh avocado and pico salsa. Served with whole charro frijoles, arroz blanco and gluten free red or green enchilada sauce. Gluten free.
Vegan Hola Hemp
Hemp seed and ancient grain tamales, one original and one chipotle kind, arroz blanco, gluten free tomatillo sauce and whole charro beans. Gluten free. Vegan.
Jackfruit Taquitos
Crispy corn GF tortillas stuffed with jackfruit birria. 3 per order with fresh pico and avocado-corn salsa, tomato salsita, arroz planta & frijoles charros
Vegan Corn and Quinoa Tamales
Arroz blanco, gluten free tomatillo sauce and whole charro beans.
Original Charro Torta Burger
Grilled onion, queso and chipotle ranch.
Mas Bueno Torta Burger
Charro burger with applewood bacon, avocado and green chile.
Charro Burgers
Burros y Chimichangas
Grilled Asada Burros
Choice of grilled shrimp, grilled chicken or grass fed steak with applewood bacon, fresh avocado, caramelized onion, mild green chile, queso casero, chipotle ranch and pico salsa garnish.
Grilled Shrimp Burro
Served with Applewood bacon, fresh avocado, caramelized onion, mild green Chile, queso casero, chipotle ranch and pico salsa garnish.
Grass Fed Carne Asada Burro
Served with Applewood bacon, fresh avocado, caramelized onion, mild green Chile, queso casero, chipotle ranch and pico salsa garnish.
Classic Bean Burro
Frijoles refritos y queso. Vegetarian.
The G Burro
Grilled vegetables, green corn tamal, green chile and avocado. Vegetarian.
Pollo Arizona Burro
Slow-cooked 100% natural shredded chicken.
Chicken Tinga Burro
Tangy slow-cooked achiote marinated chicken.
Carnitas Ranchero Burro
Slow cooked hand pulled pork roast.
Family Recipe Carne Colorado Burro
Our own slow cooked red chile and beef.
Charro Birria Burro
Slow cooked shredded beef, mild green chile and seasonings.
El Charro Carne Seca Burro
This is the one that made us famous, try it elegante style!
Pollo Arizona
Slow-cooked 100% natural shredded chicken.
Pollo El Charro Burro
Chicken breast, green chile, potato, tomato, onion and crema. Served with arroz and frijoles refritos or charros.
Soft Tacos
2 tacos per order.
Carne Seca Tacos
Crisp Corn Tacos. Gluten free.
Original Charro Style Beef Crisp Tacos
Ground beef patty fold in in a tortilla and fry in a pan. Garnished with peas, radishes and Mexican cheese. Made with grass fed beef. Gluten free.
Crispy Chicken Flautas
3 rolled tacos with sour cream, guacamole and pico salsa. Gluten free.
Crispy Beef Flautas
3 rolled tacos with sour cream, guacamole and pico salsa.
El Charro Rolled Chicken Tacos
3 crisp "charro style" rolled chicken tacos. Gluten free.
Taco Recipes
Hand Made Tamales
Tamale Temptation Trio
Sampling of 3 handmade tamales: pork carnitas, chicken tomatillo and fresh corn. Gluten free.
Fresh Corn Tamales
Served 2 per order with arroz and frijoles refritos or charros. Vegetarian.
Pork Carnitas Tamales
Served 2 per order with arroz and frijoles refritos or charros.
Chicken Tomatillo Tamales
Served 2 per order with arroz and frijoles refritos or charros.
Red Chile Beef Tamales
Served 2 per order with arroz and frijoles refritos or charros. Gluten free.
Hola Hemp Tamales
Vegan Superfood Tamales
Reynosa Chicken
All-natural grilled chicken breast topped with cremosa chipotle and queso casero. Served with frijoles charros and arroz sonora. Gluten free.
Carlotta's Clasico Chicken Mole
A classic presentation of our chefs chicken mole recipe using all-natural grilled chicken breast. Featuring arroz blanco and frijoles charros.
Pescado Tropical
Pan seared cod on a bed of arroz blanco, topped with fresh tomatillo sauce, roasted green chile, mango and avocado-corn salsa. Gluten free.
Grass Fed Charro Steak Asada
100% natural grass fed flank steak with a chile relleno, queso blanco enchilada and pico salsa. Served with frijoles charros, arroz sonora and choice of tortillas. Gluten free.
Smoked Costillas Ribs Adobada
1/2 lb. of tender smoked pork ribs basted in a tangy Mexican prickly pear barbecue sauce with a handmade corn tamal and applewood bacon topped charro beans. Gluten free.
Tamale Stuffed Chicken
Grilled chicken breast stuffed with melted queso casero and corn tamale. Topped with creamy raja sauce and fire-roasted green chile and avocado-corn salsa. Gluten free.
Sinaloa Shrimp Culichi
Grilled shrimp in a creamy poblano garlic culichi sauce over a bed of arroz blanco with avocado-corn salsa.
Carlotta's Cocina
Classic Combinations
Numero Uno
Queso blanco enchilada and choice of a crisp taco of either rolled chicken, El Charro ground beef or carne seca.
Numero Dos
Grilled chicken soft taco, pollo Arizona enchilada and chicken tamal.
Numero Tres
Carnita tamal, El Charro beef taco and queso blanco enchilada in chile Colorado sauce.
Numero Cuatro
Seafood enchilada del mar, soft grilled shrimp taco and green corn tamal.
Numero Cinco
El Charro crane seca, chile relleno and queso blanco enchilada and choice of tortillas.
Numero Seis
Chile relleno, vegetarian corn tamal and a vegetarian enchilada. Vegetarian.
Famous Carne Seca Platter
A deliciously grande portion of world famous Carne Seca. Dried in the Sonoran Desert sun, our marinated lean Angus beef is shredded and grilled with green chile, tomato and onions. Features guacamole, pico salsa, calabacitas, arroz and frijoles refritos or charros, flour or corn tortillas.
All Natural Chicken Sizzling Fajita
Grass Fed Steak Sizzling Fajita
Vegetarian Sizzling Fajita
Shrimp Sizzling Fajita
Any Combo Sizzling Fajita
Sizzling Fajitas
Enchiladas
Original Enchiladas
Choice of red sauce, green sauce, sour cream or non-fat yogurt and your choice of protein. Gluten free.
El Charro Carne Seca Enchilada
Baked in choice of: red chile or tomatillo green sauce or sour cream. Gluten free.
Enchiladas del Rancho
Slow cooked pork carnitas with roasted green chile cream and queso casero. Gluten free.
Pollo y Mole Clasico
Shredded chicken enchiladas in our mole clsico con chocolate.
Tucson's Enchiladas Sonorenses
A charro tradition of vegetarian native corn masa cakes and red Chile sauce. Vegetarian and gluten free.
Spinach Vegetarian Enchilada
Sauted spinach enchiladas in Mexican crema with queso cotija, chile verde, onion, garlic & raja sauce
Seafood Enchiladas
Made with flour tortillas, grilled shrimp, sustainable cod and baked in raja sauce with corn and avocado salsa.
Enchiladas Bandera
Trio of enchilada recipes: carnitas ranchero, famous carne seca and pollo el charro. Enchilada recipes featuring green, white and red sauces, arroz and frijoles refritos or charros. Guten free.
Bandera Trio Sampler
Carnitas huarache, corn tamal and pollo el charro chimi. Enchilada recipes featuring green, white and red sauces, arroz and frijoles refritos or charros.
Bandera Recipes
Chile Rellenos Recipes
Poblano and Carnitas Relleno Bandera Style
Carnitas stuffed poblano battered in cerveza tempura with green, white and red sauces.
Original Anaheim Recipe
A hand dipped and grilled Anaheim green chile stuffed with queso casero and your choice of our house made red or green sauce. Gluten free.
Carne Seca Relleno
Our famous Carne Seca stuffed relleno baked with red sauce & queso casero
Relleno del Rey
Shrimp & cod seafood stuffed relleno baked in green sauce & queso casero
Chips and Salsa
Gluten free.
Small Side of Guacamole
Gluten free.
French Fries
Gluten free.
Pico Salsa
Gluten free.
Diced Tomato
Gluten free.
Tamal a la Carte
Gluten free.
Hola Hemp Tamal a la Carte
Gluten free.
Chile Relleno a la Carte
Gluten free.
Fresh Jalapeno
Gluten free.
Pickled Jalapeno
Gluten free.
Small Charro Salad
Gluten free.
Frijoles Refritos
Gluten free.
Frijoles Charros
Gluten free.
Arroz Sonora
Gluten free.
Arroz Blanco
Gluten free.
Extra Cheese
Gluten free.
Cheese Enchilada a la Carte
Gluten free.
Sour Cream
Non-Fat Yogurt
Extra Tortillas
Gluten free.
Taco a la Carte
Premium Taco a la Carte
Bean Tostada
Gluten free.
Crinkle Cut French Fries
Gluten free.