La Cocina de Ricardo Breakfast

La Cocina de Ricardo Menu

(949) 586-1477
23532 El Toro Rd #11, Lake Forest, CA 92630
$$$$$

Breakfast

Desayunos. Served with tortillas, rice, and beans. Salad or fries instead of beans and rice. Order of bacon for an additional charge. Egg dishes.
Breakfast Huevos Rancheros
$12.95
2 sunny side up fried eggs on 2 corn tortillas. Topped with ranchero sauce.
Breakfast Huevos con Machaca
$12.95
Scrambled eggs with beef, chicken, or pork, onions, tomatoes, poblano peppers. Spicy on request.
Breakfast Huevos con Chorizo
$12.95
Scrambled eggs with chorizo. Hot peppers on request.
Breakfast Huevos con Jamon
$12.95
Scrambled eggs mixed with ham. Hot peppers on request.
Breakfast Huevos Divorciados
$12.95
2 sunny side up eggs on 2 tortillas. 1 topped with green sauce and the other with red ranchero sauce.
Breakfast Huevos a la Mexicana
$12.95
2 scrambled eggs with onions, tomatoes, and cilantro. Hot peppers on request. Mixed with nopales for an additional charge.
Breakfast Omelette Mexicano
$12.95
Omelet stuffed with enchilada sauce, onions, poblano peppers, red bell peppers, tomatoes, and cheese. Spicy on request. Add ham, bacon, or chorizo for an additional charge.
Breakfast Chilaquilaes Rojos
$12.95
Corn chips with sauce, onions, oregano in red, and queso fresco, and sour cream. Spicy on request. With 2 eggs or with meat for an additional charge.
Breakfast Chilaquilaes Verdes
$12.95
Corn chips with sauce, onions, epazote in green, and queso fresco, and sour cream. Spicy on request. With 2 eggs or with meat for an additional charge.
Breakfast Huevos con Bistec
$14.95
Petite steak; Grilled with onions and peppers, with 2 sunny side up eggs.
Breakfast Huevos A La Diabla
$12.95
Scrambled eggs mixed with our delicious spicy sauce.
Breakfast Huevos Al Chipotle
$12.95
Scrambled eggs mixed with our delicious spicy sauce.
Breakfast Chicharrones en Salsa Roja
$12.95
Pork skin pieces cooked with our delicious red sauce. Served with onions and cilantro. Spicy on request.
Breakfast Chicharrones en Salsa Verde
12.95
Pork skin pieces cooked with our delicious green sauce. Served with onions and cilantro. Spicy on request.

$Appetizers

Para abrir el apetito.
Ceviche de Pescado
$16.95
A generous portion of fish cooked in lime juice then mixed with onions, cilantro, and tomatoes. Garnished with avocado, cucumber, salsa brava, and limes. Offered also with shrimp or octopus. Mixed for an additional charge. Spicy on request.
Super Quesadilla
$13.95
Flour tortilla with cheese, beef, chorizo, chicken, carnitas, or carne asada. Shrimp for an additional charge. Garnished with guacamole and sour cream.
Choriqueso
$13.95
A generous portion of melted cheese topped with chorizo. Served with pickled carrots and tortillas. Spicy on request.
Chiles El Jefe
$5.95
Grilled onions and hot peppers, served with lime and tortillas.
Botanas Dona Alicia
$16.95
Beef taquitos, chicken flautas, and cheese quesadilla. Served with guacamole and sour cream.
Oysters
$16.95-26.95
Mollusk.
Aguachile
$22.95
A generous portion of raw shrimp cooked in lime juice and serrano peppers sauce. Garnished with cucumbers, red onions, and oranges.
Nachos Grande
$7.95-13.95
Chips, bean, cheese, guacamole, onions, tomatoes, cilantro, and sour cream. Jalapenos on request. With meat for an additional charge.
Guacamole Dip
$13.95
Served with chips.
Mexican Pizza
$13.95
A crispy flour tortilla topped with beans, beef, chicken, or pork, cheese guacamole, sour cream, onions, cilantro, and tomatoes. Jalapenos on request.
Taquitos
$13.95
5 corn rolled up taquitos with beef, pork, chicken, or potato. served with guacamole, sour cream, and cheese.
Pork Chicharrones
3.50
A basket of pork cracklings.

$Soups

Sopas y caldos. Cup size available: menudo, pozole, chicken soup, caldo de res, and tortilla soup and sopa de mama. Most soups can be prepared spicy.
Caldo 7 Mares Soup
$23.95
Fish, shrimp, crab legs, mussels, and octopus soup.
Caldo de Camaron Soup
$17.95
Shrimp broth, shrimp zucchini, carrots, cilantro. Mixed with fish or octopus for an additional charge. Also available with fish or octopus.
Sopa de Mama
$11.95-13.95
Chicken soup with noodles. Caldo de pollo con fideos. Garbanzo beans on request.
Pozole
$11.95-13.95
White, red, or green. Hominy soup with pork or chicken.
Sopa de Albondigas
$11.95-13.95
Meatball and vegetable soup.
Sopa de Tortilla
$11.95-13.95
Tomato and chicken broth, served with tortilla, cilantro, Jack cheese, and avocado. With chicken on request for an additional charge.
Caldo de Res Soup
$11.95-13.95
Chunks of beef with vegetables. Garbanzo beans on request.
Menudo
$11.95-13.95
Tripe with red broth. Available with hominy. With pata for an additional charge.
Birria
$12.95-15.95
Goat meat soup: Meat and red broth. Garbanzo beans on request.
Caldo de Pollo Soup
$11.95-13.95
Chicken soup with vegetables. Garbanzo beans on request.
Caldo Tlalpeno Soup
$11.95-13.95
Chicken soup with vegetables, melted cheese, and avocado slices.
Mole de Olla
11.95-13.95
Chunks of beef with vegetables and red beef broth. Garbanzo on request.

$Salads

Ensaladas. Italian, blue cheese, ranch, and cilantro.
Ensalada
12.95-17.95
Choice of grilled chicken, shrimp, steak, fish fillet or carnitas. A bed of romaine lettuce, mixed with carrots, and red cabbage. Topped meat with Jack cheese. Garnished with avocado, tomato, and cucumber. Garbanzo beans on request.

$Tostadas


Taco Salad de Carne
$13.95
Crispy flour shell. Filled with beans, beef, pork, or chicken. Lettuce, cheese, sour cream, guacamole, and tomatoes.
Tostada de Ceviche
10.95
Corn crispy toast topped with fish ceviche, garnished with limes avocado, and hot sauce. Also available with shrimp or octopus. Mixed for an additional charge.

$Tortas Hot Sandwiches


Tortas Hot Sandwiches
11.95
Choice of carne asada, carnitas, beef, chicken, milanesa beef, milanesa chicken, and ham and cheese. telera bun, beans, meat, lettuce, tomato, and guacamole. Jalapenos on request.

$Torta Guadalajara

Torta ahogada, hot sandwich drowned in spicy sauce: beans, carnitas, marinated onions, and avocado, in a sourdough bun.
Torta Guadalajara
12.95
Torta ahogada, hot sandwich drowned in spicy sauce. Beans, carnitas, marinated onions, and avocado in a sourdough bun.

$Twin Enchiladas

Enchiladas gemelas. Served with beans and rice. Salad or fries on request instead of beans and rice. Add cup of tortilla soup or salad for an additional charge.
Enchiladas de Mole
$14.95
2 enchiladas stuffed with chicken and topped with our mole sauce. Garnished with avocado, sour cream, and onions.
Enchiladas de Pescado
$16.95
2 enchiladas stuffed with fish cooked in red sauce with onions. Topped with melted cheese and garnished with avocado, onions, and sour cream. Spicy on request.
Enchiladas de Camaron
$16.95
2 enchiladas stuffed with shrimp cooked in red sauce with onions. Topped with melted cheese and garnished with avocado, onions, and sour cream. Spicy on request.
Entomadas
$14.95
2 enchiladas stuffed with fish or shrimp cooked in red sauce with onions. Topped with melted cheese and garnished with avocado, and onions, and sour cream. Spicy on request.
Enchiladas Suizas
14.95
2 chicken enchiladas topped with our delicious red or green sauce. Garnished with guacamole and sour. Spicy on request.

$Burritos

Wet (mojado) with red or green sauce, and cheese. Add guacamole and sour cream, beans and rice for an additional charge.
Beef Burrito
$11.95
Chicken Burrito
$11.95
Asada Burrito
$11.95
Steak or chicken. Asada is grilled with onions and peppers. Flour tortilla, beans, and meat. Onions and cilantro inside.
Surfer Burrito
$13.25
Double flour tortillas, beans, rice, beef asada, chicken or pork, lettuce, tomato, guacamole, cheese, and sour cream.
Machaca con Huevos
$11.95
Flour tortilla, beef, chicken or pork with eggs, onions, poblano, and bell peppers, tomatoes, and beans.
Chimichanga
$13.25
Fried burrito with beef, chicken or pork. Served with guacamole, sour cream, and cheese.
Make Your Own Breakfast Burrito
$10.95
Veggie Burrito
$11.95
Flour tortilla, beans, rice, cheese, onions, lettuce, tomatoes, guacamole, and sour cream.
Chorizo con Huevos
$11.95
Flour tortilla, chorizo, eggs, and beans.
Beans & Cheese Burrito
8.95
Flour tortilla, beans, and cheese or beans, rice, and cheese.

$Special Items


California Burrito Special
$10.95
Carne asada, french fries, cheese, and guacamole. Wrapped in a flour tortilla.
Guarachon Special
$13.95
A giant thick corn tortilla, topped with beans, melted Jack cheese, beef, chicken, pork or carne asada, lettuce, pico de gallo made of avocado, onions, tomatoes, cilantro, radishes, cucumber, nopales, a touch of lime, and queso fresco. Served with tomatillo sauce. Spicy on request. Healthy choice: Instead of a tortilla, a layer of chile poblano for an additional charge.
Lime & Pepper Salad Special
$13.95
A bed of romaine lettuce, carrots, and red cabbage, topped with grilled chicken with lime and pepper, queso fresco, and garbanzo beans. Garnished with avocado, tomatoes, and cucumber, and served with cilantro dressing.
Burrito de Fajitas Special
16.95
Wheat tortilla, steak, chicken, fish or shrimp, grilled with onions, poblano peppers, and tomatoes with whole beans.

$Cocktails

Cocteles.
Coctel de Camaron
$16.95
Shrimp cocktail with tomatoes, onions, cilantro, avocado, and special sauce. Spicy or with cucumbers on request. Mixed with octopus for an additional charge.
Campechana
$23.95
Shrimp and octopus in cocktail sauce with onions, tomatoes, cilantro, and avocado. Spicy or with cucumbers ion request.
Campechana Familiar
31.95
A 32 oz. cup with shrimp, octopus, and oysters in cocktail sauce with onions, tomatoes, cilantro, and avocado. Spicy or cucumbers on request.

$Combinations

Combinaciones. Create your own combination of the following items. All of them served with beans and rice. On request salad or fries instead of beans and rice. Additional charge for a cup of tortilla soup or green salad. Whole beans on request.
1. One Item Combination
$10.95
2. Two Items Combination
$13.95
Chile Relleno a la Carte
$6.95
Quesadilla a la Carte
$5.95
Tostadita a la Carte
$5.95
Mini Burrito a la Carte
$4.95
Bean and cheese, beef, chicken, or pork. Wet on request.
Mini Chimichanga a la Carte
$4.95
Bean and cheese, beef, chicken, or pork.
Gordita a la Carte
$5.95
Beef, chicken, or pork.
Enchilada a la Carte
$4.95
Beef, chicken, pork. or cheese.
Flauta a la Carte
$4.95
Beef, chicken, or pork.
Sope a la Carte
$5.95
Beef, chicken, or pork.
Taco Crispy a la Carte
$4.95
Beef, chicken, pork, fish, bean, or potato with lettuce and cheese.
Taco Soft a la Carte
$4.95
Asada, birria, carnitas, lengua, or pastor with onions, cilantro, and salsa de tomatillo.
Taco Rosarito a la Carte
$4.95
Breaded fish or shrimp, cabbage, tomatoes, cilantro, and tartar sauce.
Tamal a la Carte
$4.95
With sauce and cheese. Beef, chicken, pork, or queso y rajas. Red sauce on beef or chicken, green sauce on pork or queso y rajas.
2 Tacos Callejeros a la Carte
$4.95
Mini soft tacos with choice of beef, chicken, or pork with onion, cilantro, and salsa.
2 Taquitos a la Carte
4.95
Corn tortilla. Beef, chicken, pork, or potato.

$Platillos Especiales

The dishes are served with beans and rice except carne guisada, camarones con tequila or plato proteina. All dishes come with tortillas. Most dishes can be prepared spicy. On request sald or fries, insted of beans adn rice. Additional charge for a cup of tortilla soup or salad. Whole beans on request
Molcajete Ranchero Especiales
$29.95-80.95
Strips of steak, chicken, chorizo, queso fresco, nopales, zucchini, spicy tomato sauce, roasted serranos. Served in a hot mortar, avocado, rice, and beans with queso fresco and tortillas.
Molcajete de Mariscos Especiales
$34.95-95.95
Filet of fish, shrimp, octopus, queso fresco, crab legs, nopales, roasted serranos. Served in a hot mortar, rice, and beans with queso fresco, avocado, and tortillas.
Molcajete Cielo, Mar, y Tierra Especiales
$34.95-95.95
Steak, chicken, shrimp mixed with octopus, queso fresco, nopales, and roasted serranos. Served in a hot mortar, rice, and beans with queso fresco, avocado, and tortillas.
Parrillada Campestre Especiales
$29.95-80.95
Strips of steak, puerco al pastor, chorizo, queso Mexicano, grilled poblano peppers, and onions, whole grilled serranos, and guacamole. Served on a hot skillet.
Sizzling Fajitas Especiales
$20.95-38.95
Choice of steak, chicken, fish, shrimp, or veggies. Cooked with red bell peppers, green poblano peppers, onions, tomatoes, and a bit of red sauce. Served with guacamole. Additional charged with mixed meats.
Carne Guisada con Frijoles Especiales
$18.95
Choice of steak, chicken, or pork. Grilled with onions, poblano peppers, and mild red sauce. Served mixed with whole pinto beans.
Enchiladas de Langosta Especiales
$13.95-20.95
2 lobster meat enchiladas. Served with rice and garnished with avocado slices, onions, sour cream, lettuce, and radishes.
Asada y Camarones Especiales
$39.95
Grilled steak topped with onions and poblano peppers. Served with roasted garlic shrimp, garnished with lettuce, avocado, cucumbers, limes, and tomatoes.
Camarones con Tequila y Limon Especiales
$20.95
Shrimp sauteed with tequila, lime, and butter, seasoned with granulated garlic and cilantro. Served on a bed of rice. Garnished with lime, tomato, and avocado.
Plato Proteina Especiales
18.95
Low carb dish. Shredded beef grilled with onions, poblano peppers, and tomatoes, topped with melted cheese. Served with 2 fried eggs, lettuce, and radishes.

$Seafood Family Specialties

Especialidades de la familia. All dishes are served with tortillas, beans, and rice. Garnished with lettuce, and radishes. Fries or salad on request, instead of beans and rice. Most dishes can be prepared spicy. Whole beans on request. Add salad, cup of tortilla soup or combined meats for an additional charge. Whole beans on request. Seafood dishes are garnished with lime, lettuce, avocado, tomato, and cucumber.
Mojarra Frita Family Specialty
$18.95
Whole tilapia fish, marinated in lime juice, and then deep-fried. Add diabla sauce or roasted garlic on top for an additional charge. Single serving only.
Asados Family Specialty
$18.95
Grilled onions, poblano peppers, and red bell peppers.
Al Mojo de Ajo Family Specialty
$18.95
Roasted garlic, mixed with onions and poblano peppers.
Al Chipotle Family Specialty
$18.95
Spicy red chipotle sauce.
A La Diabla Family Specialty
$18.95
A spicy red devil sauce.
Empanizados Family Specialty
$18.95
Breaded.
Rancheros Family Specialty
18.95
Red sauce, tomatoes, onions, poblano peppers, and red bell peppers.

$Poultry Family Specialties

Especialidades de la familia. All dishes are served with tortillas, beans, and rice. Garnished with lettuce, and radishes. On request fries or salad, instead of beans and rice. Most dishes can be prepared spicy. Whole beans on request. Add salad, cup of tortilla soup or combined meats for an additional charge. Whole beans on request. Aves.
Pollo en Salsa Verde Family Specialty
$18.95
Juicy chicken breast or thigh and leg bone in. In a mild tomatillo sauce, with onions, and poblano peppers.
Pollo en Mole Family Specialty
$18.95
Chicken breast or thigh and leg. Cooked in our delicious mole sauce.
Pollo Picado Family Specialty
$18.95
Chicken breast; cooked with tomatoes, onions, and poblano peppers. Topped with Jack melted cheese.
Pollo a la Diabla Family Specialty
$18.95
Chicken breast or thigh and leg. Cooked with spicy devil sauce.
Pollo al Chipotle Family Specialty
$18.95
Chicken breast or thigh and leg. Cooked with chipotle sauce.
Milanesa de Pollo Family Specialty
18.95
Breaded chicken breast. Served with sliced fried potatoes, guacamole, and hot sauce.

$Beef Family Specialties

Especialidades de la familia. All dishes are served with tortillas, beans, and rice. Garnished with lettuce, and radishes. On request fries or salad, instead of beans and rice. Most dishes can be prepared spicy. Whole beans on request. Add salad, cup of tortilla soup or combined meats for an additional charge. Whole beans on request. De Res.
Bistec Ranchero Family Specialty
$18.95
Steak strips; grilled with onions, poblano peppers, potatoes, and tomato. In a mild sauce.
Lengua en Salsa Verde Family Specialty
$24.95
Slices of beef tongue. Cooked in our delicious mild tomatillo sauce with onions and poblano peppers.
Lengua en Salsa Roja Family Specialty
$24.95
Slices of beef tongue. Cooked in our delicious mild red sauce with onions and poblano peppers. Tomato in red.
Milanes Family Specialty
$24.95
Breaded steak, topped with sliced fried potatoes. Served with guacamole.
Carne Asada Family Specialty
$24.95
Grilled steak with onions, red bell peppers, and poblano peppers. Served with guacamole.
Picadillo de Res Family Specialty
$18.95
A generous portion of our delicious shredded beef, mixed with onions and poblano peppers. Topped with potatoes. Served with cilantro and onions. Also available with chicken or pork.
Calabacitas a la Tano Family Specialty
$18.95
Zucchini strips buried under a mountain of shredded beef, grilled with onions, poblano peppers, and tomatoes. Topped with melted Jack cheese. Offered also with chicken or pork.
Carne a la Tampiquena Family Specialty
$27.95
Grilled steak with onions, red bell peppers, and poblano peppers. Served with a chicken mole enchilada and guacamole. Single serving only.
Albondigas al Chipotle Family Specialty
18.95
Meatballs in a tomato sauce, mixed with onions and red chipotle sauce.

$Pork Family Specialty

Especialidades de la familia. All dishes are served with tortillas, beans, and rice. Garnished with lettuce, and radishes. On request fries or salad, instead of beans and rice. Most dishes can be prepared spicy. Whole beans on request. Add salad, cup of tortilla soup or combined meats for an additional charge. Whole beans on request. De Puerco.
Carnitas los Gordos Family Specialty
$18.95
Roasted lean chunks of pork. Served with onions, jalapenos, cilantro, and guacamole.
Costillas Verdes Family Specialty
$18.95
Pork ribs in mild green sauce. Mixed with nopales for an additional charge.
Costillas Rojas Specialty
$18.95
Pork ribs in mild red sauce. Mixed with nopales for an additional charge.
Pastor a la Lake Forest Family Specialty
$18.95
Marinated chunks of pork. Cooked in a red sauce. Served with cilantro, onions, and tomatillo sauce.
Chile Verde Family Specialty
$18.95
Chunks of pork. Cooked in a mild green tomatillo sauce. Garnished with cilantro and onions. Add nopales for an additional charge.
Chile Colorado Family Specialty
18.95
Chunks of pork. Cooked in a mild red sauce. Garnished with cilantro and onions. Also available with beef or steak.

$Side Orders


French Fries
$3.50
1/2 Avocado
$3.00
Order of Rice
$3.00
Order of Beans
$3.00
Sour Cream
$1.50
Cheese
$1.50
Chiles Toreados
$1.50
Chips & Salsa
3.50

$Child's Plates

Para los ninos. Includes soda from the fountain.
Kids Taco Plate
$7.95
Choice of beef, chicken or pork. Served with beans and rice or french fries.
Kids Burrito Plate
$7.95
Choice of beef, chicken or pork. Served with beans and rice or french fries.
Kids Enchilada Plate
$7.95
Choice of beef, chicken or pork. Served with beans and rice or french fries.
Kids 2 Taquitos Plate
$7.95
Choice of beef, chicken or pork. Served with beans and rice or french fries.
Kids Milanesa de Pollo Plate
$8.95
Steak or fish. Chicken fingers. Served with beans and rice or french fries.
Kids Pancakes Plate
$7.95
3 pieces. Includes a small milk or a small orange juice.
Kids Scrambled Egg Plate
$7.95
With bacon or ham served with beans and rice or french fries.
Kids Fried Egg Plate
7.95
With bacon or ham served with beans and rice or french fries.

$Desserts

Postres.
Bunuelos
$5.75
Churros
$5.75
Flan Kalhua
$8.75
Flan
$5.75
Sopapillas
$5.75
Platano Frito
$7.25
Cheesecake
$7.25
Helado Frito
5.75

$Soft Drinks

Refrescos.
Coke
$2.95
Diet Coke
$2.95
Sprite
$2.95
Orange Fanta
$2.95
Root Beer
$2.95
Dr Pepper
$2.95
Ginger Ale
$2.95
1/2 Liter Coca Mexicana
$3.75
Refrescos Enbotellados Sodas
2.95

$Beverages


Pink Lemonade
$2.95
Regular Ice Tea
$2.95
Horchata
$2.95
Tamarindo
$2.95
Jamaica
$2.95
Strawberry Lemonade
$2.95
Pina Colada Bang
$2.95
Orange Bang
$2.95
Hot Chocolate
$4.50
Coffee
$2.95
Hot Tea
$2.95
Fresh Orange Juice
$2.95

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