El Bandito's

El Bandito's Menu

(319) 358-2836
327 East Market Street, Iowa City, IA 52245

Breakfast & Brunch


Chorizo & Eggs
$8.00
Three scrambled eggs with homemade chorizo on flour tortillas and your choice of sides.
Eggs in Hell
$8.00
Three eggs, cooked how you like drowning in diablo sauce, served with home fries and your choice of chorizo and spinach.
El Guapo
$10.00
Three eggs, cooked how you like, cheesy ranchero sauce, sour cream, guac and pico on top of home fries, served with flour tortillas and your choice of bacon, portobello or chorizo.
The Ann Perez
$8.00
Three scrambled eggs with peppers, onions, tomatoes, cheese and flour tortillas.
Huevos Rancheros
$8.00
Three eggs, cooked how you like with black beans and ranchera sauce, served with two corn tortillas.
Breakfast Tacos
$8.00
Two tortillas filled with scrambled eggs, one is topped with ranchera sauce and the other is topped with salsa verde, served with home fries and your choice of chorizo, machaca or portabella.
Machaca & Eggs
$8.00
Three scrambled eggs with grass run farms shredded beef seasoned with jalapeños, onions, tomatoes and peppers, served with beans, rice and flour tortillas.
Breakfast Burrito
$9.00
A big tortilla stuffed with eggs, cheese, potatoes with rajas, and your choice of carnitas, chorizo, machaca or veggies, served with choice of sides.
Brown Sugar & Oatmeal Pancakes
$7.00
Three large pancakes with whipped butter and your choice of maple or mango syrup.
Chilaquiles
$8.00
Scrambled eggs, spicy chicken and crispy tortillas topped with salsa verde, cilantro, onions and cheese, served with charro beans.
Single Brown Sugar & Oatmeal Pancake
$3.00
One large pancake with whipped butter and your choice of maple or mango syrup.
Three Egg Omelette
$9.00
Three egg omelette with Mexican mild white cheese blend of cheddar and Colby-Jack.
Banditos Benedictos
$10.00
Two poached eggs on top of polenta and topped with chipotle Hollandaise, served with home fries and your choice of chorizo or spinach.
Fresh Squeezed Orange Juice
4.00

$Appetizers


Chips & Salsa
$2.50
Seasoned homemade chips served with red and green salsas.
Guacamole with Tortilla Chips|Small
$3.50
Chips & Salsa (with Roasted Jalapeño Salsa & Five Chili)
$5.00
Seasoned homemade chips served with red and green salsas.
Guacamole with Tortilla Chips|Large
$7.00
Scorpions
$8.50
Whole shrimp, seasoned cheeses and jalapeños deep friend in a crispy pastry, served with guacamole.
Short Rib Flautas
$12.00
Three flour tortillas stuffed with cheese and slow roasted short ribs, topped with salsa verde and lime crema.
Nachos
$8.50
A layer of corn tortilla chips, melted cheeses, black beans, jalapeños, lettuce, pico de gallo, sour cream and your choice of chicken, beef, chorizo, or cheese.
Queso Bandito
8.00
Asadero, blanco, and Oaxacan cheese, melted with pico de gallo and served with chips, with homemade chorizo or rajas.

$Salads & Soups


Mango Ginger Vinaigrette
$12.00
Your choice of marinated steak, grilled chicken, marinated Portabella, or spiced shrimp on a bed of lightly dressed romaine lettuce, surrounded by cucumbers, tomatoes, queso fresco, and avocados.
Green Chile|Bowl
$6.00
Spicy, slow cooked pavelka point pork chop, poblano peppers, jalapeños peppers, tomatillos and spices, served with corn tortillas.
Fajita Salad
$12.00
Romaine lettuce, tomato, two cheeses, and our fajitas. Choose from portabella, grilled chicken, ribeye, or shrimp, served with guacamole, chipotle sour cream, pico de gallo, mexican ranch and flour tortillas.
Rito's Chicken Soup|bowl
$5.00
Hot, delicious, chicken soup with rice, just like my grandfather used to make! Served with a "Mexican spoon".
Green Chile|Cup
$2.50
Spicy, slow cooked pavelka point pork chop, Poblano peppers, jalapeños peppers, tomatillos and spices, served with corn tortillas.
Rito's Chicken Soup|Cup
3.00
Hot, delicious, chicken soup with rice, just like my grandfather used to make! Served with a "Mexican spoon".

$Corn Tacos


Street Style (all pork is local & free range)
$4.00
Choose from carnitas, al pastor, or chorizo, with cilantro, onion and lime.
Steak
$5.00
Delicious ribeye marinated in chiles, lime and other goodies on two corn tortillas, topped with cilantro, onion, lime and guacamole.
Fish
$5.00
Marinated red snapper, with Mexican slaw, pico de gallo and Poblano.
Portabella Mushroom
$4.00
Marinated portabella mushrooms seared with caramelized onions and guacamole.
Shrimp
5.00
Diced shrimp topped with mango salsa, Mexican slaw, and poblano crema.

$Flour Tacos


Perez Family
$2.75
Fried, beef or chicken, served with lettuce, cheese and pico de gallo.
Lamb Barbacoa (Local Farms)
$5.00
Slow cooked, marinated lamb, cilantro, union, radish salsa, and queso fresco.
Soft Shell
$2.50
Beef, chicken, or black bean, served with lettuce, cheese and pico de gallo.
Beef Barbacoa (Local Farms)
5.00
Slow cooked, marinated beef, cilantro, union, radish salsa, and queso fresco.

$Fajitas


Portabella Fajitas
$12.00
Traditional mixture of onions, green peppers, tomatoes and spiced served with warm corn or flour tortillas.
Shrimp Fajitas
$12.00
Traditional mixture of onions, green peppers, tomatoes and spiced served with warm corn or flour tortillas.
Chicken Fajitas
$12.00
Traditional mixture of onions, green peppers, tomatoes and spiced served with warm corn or flour tortillas.
All Meats Fajitas
$12.00
Traditional mixture of onions, green peppers, tomatoes and spiced served with warm corn or flour tortillas.
Ribeye Fajitas
$12.00
Traditional mixture of onions, green peppers, tomatoes and spiced served with warm corn or flour tortillas.
Cowboy Fajitas
15.00
Traditional mixture of onions, green peppers, tomatoes and spiced served with warm corn or flour tortillas.

$Burrito Or Bowl

Served with corn tortillas.
Spicy Shrimp
$12.00
Chipotle and lime roasted shrimp, rice, black beans, pico de gallo, and sour cream.
Green Gigantic
$10.00
Spinach, mushrooms, squash, onions, peppers, tomatoes, with chile colorado, a huge amount of cheese, black beans, guacamole, sour cream and pico de gallo.
Steak Fajita
$12.50
Marinated ribeye with onions, peppers, tomato, pico de gallo, jalapeños and guacamole, served with two sides.
Homemade Chorizo & Eggs
$9.00
Three kalona free range eggs and our local handmade chorizo, cheese and sour cream, served with a side of charro beans.
Shredded Chicken
$11.00
Sautéed onions, chile colorado, pico de gallo and sour cream, served with two sides.
Red Snapper
$12.00
Grilled snapper with slaw, Mexican rice, pico de gallo, guacamole and sour cream.
Carnitas
$13.00
Our version of traditional slow cooked pavelka point pork, simmered in a citrus blend of Mexican spiced and john's white ale, with arbol and sour cream. Topped with salsa verde and Poblano crema and served with potatoes with rajas.
Street Burritos
9.00
The basic, big, bad burrito with rice, beans, guacamole, sour cream, lettuce, pico de gallo, chicken, ground beef, or al pastor.

$Enchiladas

Served with two side dishes.
Shredded Chicken Enchiladas
$12.00
Slow cooked chicken with ancho chiles mixed with queso blanco and queso amarillo covered in suisa rojas sauce.
Spinach & Portabella Mushroom Enchiladas
$12.00
Whole spinach and sautéed mushrooms blended with sharp and mild white cheeses, then covered with ancho cream sauce.
Ground Beef Enchiladas
$12.00
Seasoned ground beef mixed with Mexican cheeses and covered in suisa roja sauce.
Cheese Enchiladas
$10.00
Two cheese enchiladas with cheesy ranchera sauce, served on a cheesy plate.
Enchiladas Verdes
14.00
Slow cooked, local, free ranged pork enchiladas in salsa verde with plenty of cheese, sour cream, onion and cilantro.

$Grit Gym Menu


Grit Gym Bowl
$12.00
Post workout - choice of chicken or beef, rice, black beans, spinach, mushrooms, squash, onions, peppers, tomatoes, guacamole and salsa.
Grit Gym Salad
$12.00
Low calorie, low carb - choice of meat, lettuce, fajitas veggies, pico de gallo and guacamole, served with a side of salsa.
Chorizo & Eggs
$9.00
High protein, low carb, low glycemic - served with calabacitas.
Two Lamb Tacos
$13.00
Gluten-free - served on corn tortillas with a side of calabacitas.
Grit Gym Fajitas
12.00
High protein, low carb, low glycemic - Chicken or shrimp fajitas with double the veggies! Served with corn tortillas, without the sour cream and cheese.

$Entrees

Served with two sides.
Shrimp Diablo
$15.00
A tasty dish inspired by mama Duron's hot sauce, large shrimp in a spicy tomato sauce served over spinach and mushroom enchilada, served with calabacitas.
Chicken Mole
$14.00
Mole of Poblano with marinated chicken breast and toasted sesame seeds served with corn tortillas.
Pechugas de Poblanos
$14.00
Strips of delicious chicken breast, Poblano peppers and onion, sautéed together with Poblano cream and covered with our three white cheese blend.
Quesadilla
$11.00
Large flour tortilla stuffed with black beans, rajas, quest blanco and quest amarillo, served with guacamole, sour cream and pico de gallo.
Carnitas
$14.00
Our own version of traditional slow cooked pavelka point pork, simmered in a blend of Mexican spices and John's white ale, served with flour tortillas.
Chille Relleno
$4.00
Roasted Poblano chile filled with quest amarillo then batter fried, served with salsa rosa (mildly spicy).
Homemade Chorizo & Eggs
$9.00
Spicy Mexican pork sausage scrambled with three kalona free range eggs.
Combination Plate
14.00
Any taco, one tamale, one reline with two side dishes.

$Kids'

For kids with parent present.
Kids' Cheese Quesadilla
$2.00
Kids' Beef & Cheese Soft Tacos
$2.00
Kids' Black Bean & Cheese Burrito
$2.00
Kids' Chicken & Cheese Soft Tacos
2.00

$Side Dishes


Potatoes w/ Rajas
$3.00
Any 2 Sides
$5.00
Mexican Rice
$3.00
Charro Beans
$4.00
Stewed beans with bacon, chorizo and smoked pork.
Black Beans
$3.00
Sour Cream
$0.75
Black Bean Salad
$3.00
Guacamole
$1.00
Calabacitas
$3.00
Sautéed zucchini with spices.
"The Pain"
$0.50
Super hot homemade hot sauce.

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