Menu | Azteca Mexican family style restaurant in Charlotte and Gastonia

Shrimps sautéed with garlic butter, mushrooms, spices and covered with a special mojo de ajo sauce.

Traditional Mexican Taquitos crispy corn tortilla filled with your choice of chicken or shredded beef “picadillo” served with sour cream guacamole and special mild sauce.

Large flour tortilla lightly fried and topped with melted cheddar cheese.

Spinach and fresh veggies in a white creamy sauce.

Large flour tortilla filled with your choice of chicken, beef, shredded beef “picadillo” cheddar cheese or our homemade Mexican “chorizo” sausage topped with melted cheddar cheese, tomatoes, onions, guacamole, and sour cream.

Our nachos chicos with your choice of chicken, beef, shredded beef “picadillo, our homemade Mexican “chorizo” sausage.

Lightly fried potato skins filled with beans your choice of chicken or beef and topped with melted cheddar cheese, tomatoes, onions, guacamole and sour cream.

Chips beans, chicken or steak fajitas white monterrey jack cheese, guacamole, sour cream, tomatoes, and onions.

As above “con carne” with Jalapeno peppers, guacamole, sour cream, tomatoes, and onions.

As above plus your choice of chicken, beef, shredded beef “picadillo,” or our homemade Mexican “chorizo” sausage.

Chicken, lettuce, carrots, celery, black olives, jalapeno slices mixed with Italian dressing and ground bacon. Topped with 1 egg and served in a flour tortilla shell.

Guacamole and sour cream and your choice of Chicken or Beef, (Shredded Beef “Picadillo” extra)

Our traditional taco salad is served on a crispy flour tortilla shell with choice of chicken or beef, lettuce, cheese and tomato your choice of dressing.

Lettuce greens, diced ham, red cabbage, carrots, broccoli and mushrooms garnished with hard-boiled eggs and tomatoes. Choice of dressing.

Chicken or Beef strips toped with fresh lettuce greens on a crispy flour tortilla shell served with guacamole and sour cream.

Corn tortillas cooked in chicken broth, garnished with onion, avocado and cheese.

A delicious Mexican soup made with fresh mited pork meatballs and seasonal vegetables in clear broth. Served with diced onion, fresh cilantro and warm tortillas.

Azteca Restaurant Mexican food in Charlotte

Meats

  • Tacos Al Carbon

Choice tender beef skirt steak, flame broiled, sliced and folded into soft corn tortillas with salsa mexicana, fresh cilantro and Mexican cheese.

  • Carne Asada (Customer Favorite)

Well marbled skirt steak butterflied and flame broiled to your liking. Served with guacamole and your choice of warm tortillas.

  • Carnitas de Puerco (Pork Carnitas)

A Mexican tradition roasted pork with rice, beans, salsa mexicana, sour cream, tortillas and guacamole.

  • Steak Azteca

A New York steak flame broiled with four large Mexican prawns butterflied laced with garlic cooked on the grill.

  • Carnitas De Res

Sliced top sirloin steak with bell peppers and onions sautéed in our delicious mild sauce, served with rice, beans cactus salad, guacamole and your choice of corn or flour tortillas.

  • Asada Burrito (House Favorite)

Skirt steak rolled in a flour tortilla with guacamole on top.

  • Chile Colorado

Beef simmered until very tender in a red sauce of tomatoes, onions, mild peppers and spices. Served with tortillas.

  • Chile Verde

Pork Loin braised in a green sauce of special fresh “tomatillos” Mexican tomatoes, green peppers, onions and spices. Served with tortillas.

  • Milanesa: Steak or Chicken

Deep fried, sauteed onions, green & red peppers, cactus salad.

  • Steak Tampiqueña (Favorite)

A New York steak flame broiled, served with a large mole sauce chicken enchilada and refried beans.

  • Steak Torero (Recommended by Chef)

A New York steak flame broiled and topped with sautéed onions, green peppers, and mushrooms. Served with tortillas.

  • Combo Azteca (Exclusive)

Skirt steak butter flied and flame broiled to your liking. Four prawns laced with garlic and grilled, served with rice, beans cactus salad and tortillas.

  • Fajitas

All served with rice and beans

Your choice of Steak or Chicken strips marinated in our secret sauce then delivered sizzling hot over a bed of sautéed onions and green peppers served with salsa mexicana, sour cream, guacamole, rice, beans and your choice of flour or corn tortillas.

  • Fajitas Texanas (Recommended)

Chicken, beef and shrimp.

Chicken

  • Arroz Con Pollo (Signature)

Our signature item! Tender sliced chicken breast specially prepared with fresh mushrooms, onions and green peppers served on a bed of rice with melted Monterrey Jack cheese, smothered with our special mild sauce and garnished with avocado and tomato. Served with your choice of warm tortillas. Not served with beans.

  • Pollo Poblano (Favorite)

Grilled fresh chicken breast served in an authentic Pueblan style! Poblano peppers, chocolate, spices create this mysteriously dark, bittersweet sauce. Served with your choice of tortillas.

  • Don Juan Special (Recommended)

Chicken and spinach burrito with onions, tomatoes in mushroom sauce,topped with cheese dip & pico de gallo.

  • Pollo Asado

Grilled boneless and skinless butterflied breast of chicken marinated with citrus juices, “achiote” annatto tree seeds and spices. Served with tortillas.

  • Pollo Con Crema

Tender chicken strips cooked with green peppers and onions in authentic Mexican sour cream sauce served with rice, beans and tortillas.

  • Chicken Carnitas (Customer Favorite)

Chunks of tender chicken breast strips with bell peppers and onions sautéed in a delicious sauce, served with cactus salad, rice, beans with melted cheese, and your choice of warm corn or flour tortillas.

  • Chicken Mexican

Breast strips sautéed with fresh tomato sauce and spices.

Seafood

  • Dos Amigos

Chicken mixed with shrimp, cooked with green peppers & onions in authentic mexican sour cream sauce served with rice, beans and tortillas.

  • Enchiladas De Camaron

2 flour tortillas rolled and filled with shrimp and spices topped with Monterey jack cheese and a sauce of special fresh “tomatillos” Mexican tomatoes topped with sour cream.

  • Camarones Al Mojo De Ajo (Favorite)

Large Mexican prawns butterflied, laced with garlic, grilled and served on a bed of rice and shredded lettuce with a tantalizing seafood sauce garnished with fresh scallions, tomato and lemon, onions, green peppers and mushrooms. Served with your choice of tortillas. Not served with beans.

  • Camarones Con Hongos

Large prawns sautéed with garlic butter, mushrooms, spices and covered with a “special” mojo de ajo sauce served with rice and beans.

  • Camarones a la Diabla

Butterfly prawns with garlic served with special salsa (hot), rice, avocado and mayonnaise. Not served with beans.

  • Camarones Mexicanos (Recommended by Chef)

Large prawns sautéed with butter, mushrooms, onions, green peppers and blended with tomatoes, herbs and spices served on a bed of rice with melted Monterey jack cheese and garnished with avocado and tomato. Served with your choice of warm tortillas. Not served with beans.

  • Camarones Con Tocino

Bacon wrapped large prawns braised and served with grilled onions, mushrooms, green peppers, garnished with tomato and lemon.

  • Carnitas Camarones

Prawns sliced and fried with onions, green peppers and mushrooms served with rice and beans.

  • Burrito Azteca

One burrito stuffed with shrimp, chicken, topped with mushroom sauce, avocado and sour cream. Served with rice and beans and coleslaw.

  • Pulpo a la Diabla

Octopus with garlic served with special salsa (hot), rice, avocado and mayonnaise. Not served with beans.

Vegetarian

(Many Menu items may be altered to suit your dietary needs. Please ask your server)

  • Expresso Vegetarian Burrito

Beans, rice, cheese and lettuce wrapped in a flour tortilla and smothered with guacamole, tomatoes and onions topped with parmesan cheese.

  • Azteca’s Vegetarian Chef Salad

Lettuce greens, red cabbage, carrots, broccoli and mushrooms garnished with hard boiled eggs and tomatoes. Choice of dressing.

  • Enchiladas Popeye (Favorite)

Fresh mega vitamin leafy stuff fortified with spinach and fresh veggies in a white creamy sauce, includes rice, beans and coleslaw.

  • Macho Burrito

Nopales (cactus) Frijol negro (whole black beans) and rice, topped with salsa verde, pico de gallo and guacamole.