La Cita Restaurant

The menu at La Cita Restaurant is full of classic New Mexican favorites and Mexican-American staples like tamales, enchiladas, chile rellenos, fajitas, and other hearty plates that lean into red and green chile.

La Cita is especially known for its New Mexico–style chile rellenos, enchiladas, and tamales, the kind of dishes that have kept travelers coming back for decades.

La Cita Restaurant Menu

La Cita Breakfast Menu

• La Cita Breakfast – Eggs Any Style (eggs any style with potatoes, toast, and choice of ham, bacon, or sausage)
• Smothered Omelet (three-egg omelet with choice of ham, bacon, or sausage; tortillas, potatoes, and red or green chile)
• Denver Omelet (three-egg omelet with ham, bell peppers, onions, and potatoes)

New Mexico Breakfast Favorites

• Huevos Rancheros (two eggs, beans, potatoes, red or green chile, and two flour tortillas)
• Chorizo Scrambled (served with choice of beans or pan-fried potatoes)
• Carne Adovada Breakfast (marinated pork in red chile, two eggs, tortilla, and choice of beans or potatoes)
• Hand Held Burrito (eggs, cheese, potatoes, and choice of ham, bacon, sausage, or chorizo)
• Breakfast Taco (egg, potatoes, cheese, and choice of ham, bacon, or sausage)
• Smothered Breakfast Burrito (eggs, cheese, potatoes, and choice of ham, bacon, or sausage; smothered)

Griddle & Biscuits

• French Toast (served with choice of ham, bacon, or sausage)
• Short Stack Pancakes (2) (served with choice of ham, bacon, or sausage)
• Stack Pancakes (3) (served with choice of ham, bacon, or sausage)
• Biscuits & Gravy (served with choice of ham, bacon, or sausage)

Breakfast Sides

• Egg
• Bacon (4 strips)
• Sausage Patties (2)
• Ham Slice
• Pan Fried Potatoes
• Hashbrowns
• Tortillas (2)
• Toast
• Pancake (1)
• Biscuits (2)
• Cream Gravy
• Red Chile (side)
• Green Chile (side)
• Diced Green Chile
• Tomato (4 slices)
• Avocado (4 slices)

Breakfast Beverages

• Coffee
• Orange Juice
• Milk (16 oz)
• Hot Chocolate
• Soft Drinks
• Bottled Jarritos

Starters

• La Cita Potato Skins (5) (cheese, bacon, chives, sour cream)
• Wings (choice of wet or dry)
• Chips & Salsa
• Guacamole & Chips
• Queso & Chips
• Chile Cheese Fries (smothered in red or green sauce and cheese)
• Frito Pie (add beef or chicken optional)

Soups

• Green Chile Stew
• Pozole
• Homemade Soup of the Day

Salads

• House Salad (lettuce, tomatoes, cheddar cheese, bell peppers, onions; add beef, chicken, or brisket optional)
• Grilled Chicken Breast Salad (lettuce, tomatoes, onion, cheese)
• Taco Salad (choice of beef or chicken with tomatoes, cheese, beans, sour cream, guacamole in a tortilla bowl)
• Chef Salad (ham, turkey, lettuce, tomato, cheese, boiled egg)

Burritos

• Add Chips & Salsa or Beans & Rice with Meal (optional add-on)
• Bean & Cheese Burrito (served with choice of red or green sauce)
• Chicken & Bean Burrito (served with choice of red or green sauce)
• Beef & Bean Burrito (served with choice of red or green sauce)
• Carne Adovada Burrito (marinated pork in red chile with pan-fried potatoes and beans; served with red or green sauce)
• Brisket Burrito (pan-fried potatoes, beans, and choice of red or green sauce)
• Chile Relleno Burrito (brisket, beans, and cheese-stuffed chile relleno)
• Fajita Burrito (choice of chicken or beef steak with beans, rice, bell peppers, onions)
• Stuffed Sopapilla (choice of beef or chicken with cheese and beans; served with red or green sauce)
• Picadillo Burrito (choice of beef or chicken with potatoes, onions, green chile)
• Chimichanga (choice of beef or chicken with beans and rice; served with red or green sauce)

La Cita’s Entrees

• Chips & Salsa Served Upon Request Only
• Nachos (choice of beef, chicken, or cheese with tortilla chips, beans, melted cheese, lettuce, tomato, guacamole, sour cream, jalapeños)
• Quesadilla (choice of ground beef, shredded chicken, fajita beef, or fajita chicken; guacamole, sour cream, pico de gallo)
• Carne Asada (grilled steak with beans, rice, guacamole, pico de gallo, sour cream, and two tortillas)
• Combination Plate (cheese enchilada, tamale, chile relleno, and taco with red or green sauce; beans, rice, sopapilla; beef enchilada upgrade optional)
• Tacos (3) (three beef or chicken tacos with rice and beans)
• Enchiladas (3) (three rolled enchiladas filled with beef, chicken, or cheese; red or green sauce, beans, rice)
• Tacos al Carbon (2) (two steak and grilled onion tacos with guacamole, pico de gallo, beans, rice)
• Fajitas (choice of beef, chicken, or shrimp with bell peppers, onions, pico de gallo, guacamole, sour cream, beans, rice, and tortillas)
• Tostadas (two flat corn tortillas with beans, cheese, lettuce, tomato, sour cream, guacamole, and beef or chicken)
• Camarones a la Diabla (sautéed shrimp with pico de gallo, beans, rice)
• Carne Adovada (pork marinated in red chile with pan-fried potatoes, two tortillas, beans, red or green sauce)
• Tamales (3) (three homemade tamales with beans, rice, red or green sauce)
• Adrian’s Special (grilled steak cuts with onions, jalapeños, tomatoes; guacamole, pico de gallo, beans, rice, two tortillas)
• Chile Rellenos New Mexico Style (two green chiles stuffed with cheese, panko-crumbed and fried; beans, rice, red or green sauce)
• Steak La Cita (grilled 8 oz ribeye with two cheese enchiladas, fried potatoes, beans, red or green sauce)

La Cita’s Grill

• Hamburger (8 oz) & Fries (lettuce, tomato, onion, pickles; add cheese, bacon, or green chile optional)
• New Mexico Burger (wrapped in flour tortilla with cheddar cheese and green chile; served with fries)
• Hamburger Steak (10 oz hamburger steak with mushrooms, onions, choice of potato and salad)
• Breaded Bird (four chicken strips with gravy, fries, bread, salad)
• Grilled Bird (cilantro-lime chicken breast with pico; choice of potato, bread, salad)
• Steak Fingers (choice of potato, Texas toast, salad)
• New Mexico Chicken Fry (breaded pan-fried steak smothered in green chile sauce and cheese; choice of fries or beans & rice)
• Swiss Turkey Avocado Sandwich (served with choice of potato)
• Spaghetti & Meatballs (served with garlic toast; salad add-on optional)
• La Cita Melt (beef patty on jalapeño cornbread with onions, jalapeños, cheese)
• Grilled Pork Chops (choice of potato, Texas toast, salad)
• Teresitas Style Grilled Pork Chops (smothered in green chile & cheese; choice of potato, Texas toast, salad)
• Chicken Fried Steak (choice of potato, cream gravy, Texas toast, salad)
• New Mexico Philly (with fries, bell peppers, onions, green chile)
• New York Strip (8–10 oz steak with choice of potato, cream gravy, Texas toast, salad)
• Ribeye Steak (10 oz steak with choice of potato, bread, salad)
• Huevos Rancheros (served with red or green sauce)

Tacos & More by the Dozen

• Crispy Tacos (dozen)
• Grilled Soft Tacos (dozen; served with 8 oz salsa)
• Taquitos (dozen; served with 4 oz salsa)
• Tamales (dozen; allow two hours cook time)
• Beef Taquitos (dozen)

A La Carte

• Rice
• Beans
• Tortillas (2)
• Taco (a la carte)
• Enchilada (a la carte)
• Tamale (a la carte)
• Chile Relleno (a la carte; served with red or green sauce)
• Guacamole (4 oz; served with chips)
• Tostada (a la carte)
• Chips & Salsa
• French Fries (smothered in red or green sauce and cheese optional)
• Beef Patty
• Red Sauce
• Green Sauce

Postres

• Brownie Sundae
• Apple Tart (topped with ice cream)
• Cheese Cake Chimichanga (deep-fried, topped with strawberry topping)
• Pecan Pie (ice cream add-on optional)
• Sopapillas (2) (cinnamon sugar, honey)
• Fried Ice Cream

Beverages

• Fountain Drinks
• Flavored Jarritos
• Bottled Coca Cola
• Tea
• Coffee