Breakfast Menu "El Cortez Mexican Restaurant" Mokena

Name: El Cortez Mexican Restaurant
Address: 10128 191st St, Illinois, il, 60448, US
Telephone: (708) 478-7766
Price range: $$
Rating: 4

Chimichangas, frozen margaritas & other Mexican favorites served up in an easygoing atmosphere.

El Cortez Mexican Restaurant, 10128 191st St, Mokena, IL 60448

(708) 478-7766

Huevos con Chorizo Desayunos

Scrambled eggs with Mexican sausage, served with beans.

$7.25
Huevos a la Mexican Desayunos

Hot. Scrambled eggs with onions, tomatoes and peppers, served with beans.

$6.50
Huevos Rancheros Desayunos

Eggs over easy, covered with ranchero sauce and served with beans.

$6.75
Huevos Paula Desayunos

Mexican cheese omelette covered with green sauce, served with beans.

$6.99
Huevos Paula con Chorizo Desayunos

Served with Mexican sausage.

$7.50
Breakfast Tacos

Two flour or corn tortillas filled with eggs and chorizo, served with lettuce, tomatoes, cheese and a side order of rice and beans.

$7.25
Chorizo Breakfast Burrito

Stuffed with eggs and chorizo.

$4.75
Mexican Breakfast Burrito

Stuffed with eggs a la Mexican.

$4.75
1 Scrambled Egg Desayunos

$1.29
Chilaquiles Desayunos

Hot. Eggs scrambled with corn tortillas, tomatoes, onions and peppers, served with beans.

$5.99

Quesadilla Pacifico

Flour tortillas filled with Mexican cheese, chiles poblanos and grilled shrimp, served with sour cream and avocado slices.

$12.50
Alas

Hot and spicy bbq chicken wings served with celery and blue cheese.

$8.50
Queso Fundido

Melted cheese blended with fried Mexican sausage, served with your choice of flour or corn tortillas.

$10.75
Guacamole

A creamy dip made from avocado.
Chips & Salsa

Thinly sliced and crispy.

$6.50

Grilled Chicken Salad

Crisp lettuce, tomatoes, and cucumbers with tender chunks of chicken grilled with onions and green peppers served over rice, sprinkled with cheese.

$11.25
Taco Salad

A flour tortilla fried and filled with your choice of seasoned beef or chicken, lettuce, tomatoes, sour cream, guacamole, and cheddar cheese.

$11.00
Garden Salad

Green salad with mixed vegetables.

$3.89

Caldo de Res

Hearty beef soup with chunks of tender beef and fresh vegetables in a savory beef broth.

$7.50
Caldo Xochitl

Chicken soup in a spicy green sauce with a little rice.

$7.50
Menudo

Our slow-simmered tripe soup is a true Mexican tradition. We'll add hominy to the soup upon request.

$8.00

Botana Suprema

Chicken pounded out round, sandwiched between two flour tortillas, cut in pieces. Served with sour cream and guacamole chicken.

$16.50
Nachos

Beans, cheese, guacamole, and jalapenos loaded onto flat fried tortillas.

$9.50
Chicken Fingers

Always a popular choice. Tender battered chicken strips served golden brown with a hot bbq sauce and french fries.

$8.95

Taco Dinner

3 of a kind corn or flour tortillas filled with your choice of beef, chicken, or pork, served with rice and beans.

$11.00
Steak Taco Dinner

3 corn or flour tortillas filled with tender steak and served with lettuce, tomatoes and cheese.

$12.00
Tilapia Taco Dinner

2 corn or flour tortillas filled with grilled or breaded tilapia, garnished with lettuce, tomatoes, and cheese. Served with rice and beans.

$12.25
Pastor Taco

Marinated pork taco served with cilantro, onions and green sauce.

$3.75
Cortez Taco

Chicken, sour cream, guacamole, and green sauce mixed together and rolled in 2 corn tortillas.

$3.50
Shrimp Taco

Grilled shrimp with lettuce, tomatoes, and cheese on a corn or flour shell.

$4.00
Norteno Taco

Breaded steak served on a flour tortilla with sour cream and avocado slice.

$3.25
Ranchero Taco

Marinated steak taco with cilantro, onions and green sauce.

$3.75
Sombrero Taco

Hot. Tender pieces of sauteed steak with chorizo, onions, jalapenos, cilantro, bacon, and 3 different types of sauce, all piled on a corn tortilla.

$4.25
Picudo Taco

Hot. Tender chicken breast chunks grilled with tomato, onion, jalapeno peppers, and topped with a slice of avocado.

$3.75

Burrito Dinner

Flour tortilla rolled and filled with lettuce, tomatoes, and your choice of beef, chicken, or pork. Served with rice and beans.

$7.50
Supremo Dinner Burrito

Choice of beef, chicken or pork with lettuce, tomatoes, onions, cilantro, cheese, sour cream and guacamole in a 9-inch flour tortilla. Served with rice and beans.

$11.25
Mini burrito

3 inch burrito filled with bacon, cheese, home-made hot sauce, and sour creme

$2.50

Quesadilla Dinner

3 of a kind tortillas flour or corn filled with your choice of beef, chicken or pork, and plenty of cheese, served with sour cream, rice, and beans.

$11.25
Steak Quesadilla Dinner

3 of a kind tortillas flour or corn filled with steak and plenty of cheese, served with sour cream, rice, and beans.

$12.50

Molletes con Carne Torta

Grilled onions, tomatoes, peppers mild or hot, refried beans and melted cheese over bread with choice of steak, beef or chicken. No garnish included.

$9.50
Pollo Torta

Grilled, shredded, or breaded chicken.

$7.25
Pastor Torta

Seasoned pork.

$7.50
Carne Asada Torta

Steak.

$7.75
Milanesa Torta

Breaded steak.

$7.75
Chorizo Torta

$7.25
Torta Club

Stacked with ham, bacon, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, avocado, cheese, and sour cream. Served with fries. No other garnish included.

$8.75

Tostada Dinner

3 of a kind flat tortillas layered with beans, then covered with your choice of beef, chicken or pork. Topped with lettuce, tomatoes, and a sprinkle of cheese. Served with rice and beans.

$10.75
Specialty Tostadas

3 of a kind crispy flat tortillas covered with your choice of beef, chicken or pork, topped with your choice of sauce and melted cheese. Served with rice and beans.

$12.50

Enchiladas Dinner

3 corn tortillas rolled and filled with your choice of one of the following cheese, ground beef, chicken or pork, topped with your choice of sauce and served with rice and beans.

$11.00
Cortez Enchiladas Dinner

3 red enchiladas filled with cheese, Mexican sausage and potato, sprinkled with more cheese and served with sour cream, rice, and beans on the side.

$11.50

Flauta Dinner

3 of kind corn tortillas hard or soft rolled up and filled with choice of beef, chicken, or pork. Includes guacamole and sour cream on the side. Served with rice and beans.

$11.25
San Marcos Dinner

3 of a kind corn tortillas rolled up and fried, filled with your choice of beef, chicken or potato and covered with cabbage, cheese, sour cream, and red sauce. Served with rice and beans.

$11.95

Veggie Fajitas Vegetarian

A sizzling mix of carrots, bell peppers, tomatoes, onions and mushrooms served with rice, lettuce, pico de gallo, sour cream and guacamole.

$15.00
Veggie Burrito Supremo Vegetarian

9-inch burrito stuffed with grilled bell pepper, tomatoes, onions, and mushrooms with guacamole, sour cream, pico de gallo, lettuce, and cheese. Served with rice and bola beans.

$12.95
Chiles Rellenos Vegetarian

2 cheese-stuffed peppers served with Mexican rice and bola beans.

$16.50
Guacamole Tostada Dinner Vegetarian

3 flat tortillas topped with guacamole, lettuce, tomatoes, and cheese. Includes rice and bola beans.

$11.25
Veggie Quesadillas Vegetarian

3 tortillas filled with cheese, grilled tomato, onion, bell pepper and mushrooms. Served with Mexican rice and bola beans.

$12.50
Molletes Vegetarian

2 pieces of bread topped with grilled onions, peppers mild or hot, refried beans tomatoes, and melted cheese.

$8.50

Ricky's Especial

Incredibly tender 8-oz filet mignon cut into delicious chunks and topped with bacon, on a sizzling skillet with grilled onions and refried chorizo beans with melted cheese.

$21.50
Steak Laredo

Broiled strip steak with sauteed onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, bell peppers, and a special sauce. Served with refried beans.

$23.00
Steak Cortez

New York strip steak served with beans, cubed potatoes, and a side salad.

$23.50
Puntillas

Hot. Choice of skirt steak or chicken or shrimp with onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, hot banana peppers, poblano peppers, bell peppers and chorizo served with rice and beans.

$22.00
Filete Estrella

Thin pounded tenderloin topped with melted cheese and covered in green salsa, served with refried beans.

$19.50
Steak Fajita Dinner

Chunks of tender steak seasoned and sizzled up with onions and green peppers. Served with beans, pico de gallo, sour cream, and guacamole.

$18.25
Carne Asada

Skirt steak served with rice, beans, and french fries.

$21.00
Milanesa de Res

Breaded steak served with rice, beans, and french fries.

$15.75
Bistec a la Mexicana

Succulent chunks of skirt steak simmered in a Mexican sauce, served with rice and beans.

$16.50

Camarones Vallarta

Shrimp lightly breaded, seasoned with wine, served on a bed of white rice with your choice of Mexican bread or tortillas.

$21.50
Camarones Diablos

Hot. Shrimp simmered in our spicy pico de gallo sauce with bacon, served on a bed of white rice with onions and avocado slices on the side, with your choice of Mexican bread or tortillas.

$21.75
Tilapia a la Vizcaina

Flaky fillet of tilapia lightly breaded and fried served with white rice and corn medley with vizcaina sauce on the side.

$17.50
Shrimp Fajita

Grilled shrimp with onions and bell peppers sizzled on a skillet, served with rice, sour cream, guacamole, and pico de gallo on the side.

$21.75
Camarones Ajillo

Shrimp sauteed in garlic and wine served with white rice and choice of Mexican bread or tortillas.

$21.75
Camarones Empanizados

Breaded shrimp served with rice, lettuce, pico de gallo and barbeque sauce.

$21.75
Tostada de Ceviche

Shrimp finely chopped on a hard shell tortilla topped with pico de gallo, sour cream, and diced avocados. Makes a great starter or add-on.

$6.95
Cocktel de Camaron

Succulent shrimp in your choice of a cocktail sauce or our pico de gallo sauce.

$12.25
Chimichangas Marinera

A blend of shrimp and crab meat in a flour tortilla, fried and served with a side order of rice and avocado slices.

$13.75

Pollo Carbon

Strips of chicken breast marinated in two types of sauce, grilled and served over rice with sour cream, guacamole, and a small dinner salad.

$16.00
Pollo Estrella

Chicken breast pounded out and topped with melted cheese, covered with molcajete sauce, served with rice.

$16.50
Milanesa de Pollo

Breaded chicken breast served with rice, beans, and fries.

$14.50
Chicken Fajita Dinner

Chicken breast chunks seasoned and sizzled up with onions and green peppers, served with refried beans, pico de gallo, sour cream, and guacamole.

$16.75
Pollo Rojo

Pieces of tender chicken breast sauteed in a red sauce and mixed with cubed potatoes and onions, served with a side of rice, pico de gallo, and avocado slices.

$15.00
Pollo en Mole

Chicken thigh served in mole sauce with rice and beans.

$12.50
Whisky Chicken

Tender pieces of chicken grilled with bacon, chiles poblano, onions, tomatoes, served with rice, beans, slices of avocado, and cheese sprinkled on top.

$16.75

Fajita Mix Any 2

Fajita chooses your own combination of steak, chicken, and or shrimp. Served with lettuce, pico de gallo, sour cream, and guacamole. Combo of any 3.

$21.75
Fajita Mix Any 3

Fajita chooses your own combination of steak, chicken, and or shrimp. Served with lettuce, pico de gallo, sour cream, and guacamole. Combo of any 3.

$23.75
Plato Cortez

A flour taco, enchilada Suiza, and tostada Suiza, all made with your choice of beef, chicken, or pork. Served with rice and beans.

$12.50
Combinacion Nortena

Tender 4-oz filet mignon served with a cheese-stuffed pepper, rice, beans, and a touch of guacamole.

$18.25
Plato Mexicano

1 corn beef taco, 1 cheese Mexican enchilada, one bean tostada, served with rice and beans.

$12.00
Vallarta Especial

Surf and turf the Mexican way! Garlic beef tenderloin with shrimp served with papas ajillo and white rice.

$18.99
Steak Tampiquena

A flavorful tradition! Tender skirt steak, a cheese Mexican enchilada and a cheese quesadilla served with fries and a touch of guacamole.

$21.00

Combo Cortez

A big combo platter of popular appetizers: chicken fingers, two tamales, 2 quesadillas, and 2 chicken flautas with sour cream, guacamole, pico de gallo, and cheese sprinkled on top. Great for sharing or as a meal.

$16.50

Steak Campesino Special

New York strip steak simmered in a special sauce, topped with carrots mushrooms upon request and served with rice and refried beans.

$21.00
Parrillada Special

Tender skirt steak served with zesty chorizo, grilled jalapenos, and onions.

$22.00
Cook's Especial

Chunks of steak with slices of poblano peppers, covered with melted cheese, pico de gallo, guacamole, and sour cream on the side. Served with beans and rice.

$18.95
Manny Special

Grilled chicken breast smothered in poblano peppers, onions and tomato sauce served on a bed of rice with 3 slices of avocado.

$17.50
Enchilada Aguascalientes Special

A tender bone-in chicken dipped in red sauce, 3 Mexican cheese enchiladas and red cubed potato sprinkled with cheese.

$15.00
Chimichangas Special

Hot. Your choice of seasoned shredded beef or chicken rolled in flour tortillas, fried, covered with tomatoes, lettuce, sour cream and guacamole. Served with a side order of rice.

$14.50
Tamale Dinner Special

2 pork tamales in the husk served with rice and beans.

$10.00
Tamales Cortez Special

2 pork tamales without the husk, topped with sour cream and hot sauce, smothered with melted cheese and served with a side of rice.

$11.50

#1. Chicken Quesadillas Lunch

2 flour tortillas stuffed with chicken and cheese. Includes lettuce, tomato, sour cream, rice, and beans.

$8.50
#2. Beef Burrito Suizo & Beef Taco Lunch

Burrito stuffed with beef, lettuce, and tomato, topped with red sauce and cheese. Soft flour taco with beef, lettuce, tomato, and cheese. Served with rice and beans.

$9.50
#3. 2 Tacos Lunch

Both filled with beef, chicken or pork, both made with flour or corn tortillas, served with rice and beans.

$9.50
#4. Enchiladas Suiza Lunch

2 enchiladas, both beef, chicken, or pork, served with rice and beans.

$9.50
#5. Chicken Fajita Tacos Lunch

Two soft tacos flour tortillas served with lettuce, pico de gallo, sour cream, guacamole, rice, and beans.

$10.25
#6. Enchilada Suiza & Tostada Lunch

Both made with beef, chicken or pork. Tostada also has beans, lettuce, tomato and cheese. Includes rice and beans.

$9.75
#7. Steak Fajita Tacos Lunch

2 soft flour tacos, lettuce, pico de gallo, sour cream, guacamole, rice and beans.

$11.25
#8. Cheese Chile Relleno Tacos Lunch

2 tacos flour or corn tortillas served with rice and beans.

$10.25

1. Kid's Tacos

2 meat and cheese tacos served with rice and beans.

$6.00
2. Kid's Burrito

Meat and cheese burrito served with rice and beans.

$6.00
3. Kid's Nachos

Bean and cheese nachos.

$5.75
4. Chicken Fingers Kids

Served with fries.

$5.75
5. Kid's Quesadillas

Two cheese quesadillas made with corn or flour tortillas served with rice and beans.

$6.00
6. Kid's Grilled Steak

Chunks of grilled steak served with salad and Mexican rice.

$8.50
7. Kid's Grilled Chicken

Chunks of grilled chicken breast with salad and Mexican rice.

$8.25

Individual Tortillas

Four flour or corn tortillas.

$0.69
Papas

French fries.

$2.89
Rice

$1.99
Beans

$1.99
Rice & Beans

$2.99
Sour Cream

$1.79
Beans with Chorizo

$3.95
Frijoles Borrachos

Drunken beans.

$5.25
Tamale

Pork.

$3.25
Jalapenos

$1.79
Papas Mexicanas

Cubed potatoes in sauce sprinkled with cheese, served with avocado.

$5.25
Papas Ajillos

Garlic potatoes.

$5.25
Papas Ags

Cubed potatoes in traditional Mexican red sauce and cheese.

$3.50
Pan Ajillo

Garlic bread.

$1.79
Pico de Gallo

$2.79
Cebollitas

$1.79
Salsa

Suiza, verde, queretana, poblano, or ranchero.

$2.00

Fried Ice Cream

$4.99
Bunuelos

Golden crispy sweet strips of pastry served with chocolate syrup and strawberry dipping sauce.

$4.59
Mexi-chango

Fried tortilla stuffed with cream cheese. Served with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and sprinkled with choice of strawberry or chocolate syrup.

$5.49
Flan

Creme caramel custard.

$4.99

Soft Drinks

$2.49
Brewed Unsweet Iced Tea

$2.49
Cafe

Coffee.

$1.99
Jarrito

Variety of flavors fruit punch, lime, mandarin, strawberry, pineapple, grapefruit and guava.

$2.00
Horchata

Rice water.

$2.49

Opening Hours

Tuesday: 11:30 AM–9 PM

Wednesday: 11:30 AM–9 PM

Thursday: 11:30 AM–9 PM

Friday: 11:30 AM–10 PM

Saturday: 11:30 AM–10 PM

Sunday: 11:30 AM–6 PM

Monday: 11:30 AM–9 PM

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Went on a Tuesday night after work and a pitcher of margaritas was like $12. Came with salsa and it was good. I got the shrimp tacos and my girlfriend got the al pastor enchiladas. Both was pretty delicious. We enjoyed our meals and will definitely go back again.

When I tell you this food was delicioso.. I'm telling you... It was awesomeness.. we will be back!!!

The food is excellent & very authentic. I have been going here for years. They have consistently blown me away with kindness and delicious food. It is all worth the price. You will end up taking some home!! Service is friendly and attentive, even when they are busy.

I ordered a Long Island ice tea cocktail, it looked like a lemonade. My sister ordered an iced tea, extra ice. It barely had ice in it. The beans had no favor to them. We ordered flour tortillas and received corn. Wait time was like we were forgotten. This finally convinced my sisters that we where not returning.

Stopped here for lunch today I would definitely not recommend this restaurant although I did enjoy the old Blue Island restaurant this one is much to be desired. Arrived 11:30 a.m. ordered lunch and appetizers they forgot the appetizers the food was cold and everything ran together. I we were kind of disappointed and the service was really so so seemed like they were more into their phone apps then customer service they provided! For this being a Mexican style restaurant the table settings we're more like you were in a mess hall instead of a restaurant. Very disappointing again we're not returning.

I was highly disappointed with the margarita which was bland and didn’t taste of any alcohol. The food was ok but not as grand as all the Reviews made it out to be . It’s not the worse meal I’ve ever had but definitely not as hype as the reviews make it seem. I would not recommend this place to any of my friends and stay away from the mini burrito.

The food is consistently wonderful for the past 20 years. The no frills interior maches the extremely affordable prices.

So this is the new version of the Old Western Avenue place that was in Blue Island for years. They moved into in the hinterlands of Mokena a few years back. Tried my favorite that I would always order the Pollo Estrella, and it was a bit of a let down....I guess you can't recreate what you remember from your youth....

Breakfast Menu "El Cortez Mexican Restaurant" Mokena

Main Menu

Desayunos Breakfast.

Huevos con Chorizo Desayunos

Huevos a la Mexican Desayunos

Huevos Rancheros Desayunos

Huevos Paula Desayunos

Huevos Paula con Chorizo Desayunos

Breakfast Tacos

Chorizo Breakfast Burrito

Mexican Breakfast Burrito

1 Scrambled Egg Desayunos

Chilaquiles Desayunos

Appetizers

Quesadilla Pacifico

Alas

Queso Fundido

Guacamole

Chips & Salsa

Ensaladas Salads.

Grilled Chicken Salad

Taco Salad

Garden Salad

Caldos Soups.

Caldo de Res

Caldo Xochitl

Menudo

Botanas

Botana Suprema

Nachos

Chicken Fingers

Tacos

Taco Dinner

Steak Taco Dinner

Tilapia Taco Dinner

Pastor Taco

Cortez Taco

Shrimp Taco

Norteno Taco

Ranchero Taco

Sombrero Taco

Picudo Taco

Burritos

Burrito Dinner

Supremo Dinner Burrito

Mini burrito

Quesadillas

Quesadilla Dinner

Steak Quesadilla Dinner

Tortas Mexican sandwiches. Garnished with beans, lettuce, tomatoes, sour cream, guacamole, and jalapeños

Molletes con Carne Torta

Pollo Torta

Pastor Torta

Carne Asada Torta

Milanesa Torta

Chorizo Torta

Torta Club

Tostadas Flat tacos.

Tostada Dinner

Specialty Tostadas

Enchiladas

Enchiladas Dinner

Cortez Enchiladas Dinner

Flautas Rolled tacos.

Flauta Dinner

San Marcos Dinner

Vegetarianas

Veggie Fajitas Vegetarian

Veggie Burrito Supremo Vegetarian

Chiles Rellenos Vegetarian

Guacamole Tostada Dinner Vegetarian

Veggie Quesadillas Vegetarian

Molletes Vegetarian

Carnes Meat entrees.

Ricky's Especial

Steak Laredo

Steak Cortez

Puntillas

Filete Estrella

Steak Fajita Dinner