EL Cerro Tacos - Swansboro
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Appetizers

Chori-Queso
$7.00
Add-ons for an additional charge.
Chicken Wings
$10.00
8 pieces. Additional flavors.
Elote Mexicano
$4.00
Bacon Jalapeno Explosion
$12.00
Bacon wrapped jalapenos stuffed with chorizo and cheese. Served with choriqueso dip.
Cheese Dip
$4.00
Fresh Guacamole
$8.00
Chicharrones
$8.00
Fresh pork skins with a little drizzle of salsa and lime. Goes great with a Modelo.

Soups Caldos

Chicken Tortilla Soup
$11.00
Grilled chicken soup with cheese, tortilla strips, and topped with avocado.
Sopa de Mariscos
$18.00
Worth the wait! Allow us 15 minutes to prepare this healthy seafood soup with shrimp, squid, mussels, octopus, cuttlefish, and crab legs in seafood based broth.

Antojitos

El Cerro Fries
$12.00
Fries covered with your choice of carne asada or chorizo, beans, shredded cheese, guacamole, sour cream, and pico de gallo.
Taquito Stack
$14.00
10 taquitos filled with your choice of chicken or birria. Topped with lettuce, guac, sourcream, pico, and salsa.
Fajita Nachos
$12.99
Your choice of steak, chicken or chorizo, grilled onions, bell pepper, tomato, lettuce, and sour cream.
Rancho Breakfast
$17.00
Crispy fried chilaquiles with choice of red or green salsa, 2 eggs, skirt steak with side of sauteed potatos, and beans.
Tostadas de Frijol
$7.00
3 bean tostadas with lettuce, queso fresco, avocado, and sour cream.
Birria Nachos
$13.00
Birria nachos with cheese, cilantro, onions, guac, sourcream, pico, and chipotle sauce.
Gorditas
$9.00
2 pieces. Fried masa stuffed with your choice of meat, cheese, beans, cilantro, onions, and sour cream.
El Chingon Sampler
$25.00
2 mulitas, 2 vampiros, 3 street tacos with steak, cerro fries.
Sopes
$9.00
2 pieces.
Montecarlo Quesadilla
$14.00
Crispy quesadilla filled with chicken, bacon, pico de gallo, and sour cream.
Empanada
$4.25
1 piece. Fried masa pastry stuffed cheese and your choice of meat.

Burritos

California Burrito
$12.00
Stuffed with carne asada, pico de gallo, shredded cheese, guacamole, sour cream, rice, and fries.
Bean and Cheese Burrito
$7.00
Carne Asada Burrito
$12.00
Stuffed with carne asada, sour cream, shredded cheese, rice, and beans.
Breakfast Burrito
$10.00
Choose 3 fillings: eggs, beans, potato, bacon or chorizo.
Chipotle Burrito
$12.00
Stuffed with grilled chicken or carne asada, rice, avocado, sour cream, signature chipotle sauce, shredded cheese, and pico de gallo.
Burrito Diablo
$12.00
Stuffed with carne asada, grilled onions, jalapenos, and mushrooms, topped with cheese sauce, diablo hot sauce, shredded cheese, and served with rice.
Carnitas Burrito
$11.50
Stuffed with slow-cooked pork, rice, beans, avocado, shredded cheese, and green sauce.
Burrito Mojado
$15.00
Large burrito stuffed with carne asada, shrimp, grilled onions, french fries, topped with cheese dip, drizzle of chipotle sauce, and served with rice.
Goku Burrito
$14.00
Large burrito stuffed with steak, shrimp, french fries, guacamole, sour cream, shredded cheese, and a kick of chipotle salsa.
Veggito Burrito
$10.00
Loaded veggie burrito stuffed with grilled onions, zucchini, spinach, broccoli, bell peppers, rice, and cheese.

Kid's Menu

Kid's Quesadilla with Rice
$6.00
Kid's Enchilada Rice and Beans
$6.00
Kid's Taco Rice and Beans
$6.00
Kid's Cheeseburger and Fries
$6.00
Kid's Mac and Cheese
$6.00
Kid's Nuggets and Fries
$6.00

Seafood

Mojarra
$15.00
A fried whole tilapia fish, served with rice, and guacamole salad.
Ceviche de Camaron
$13.50
Shrimp ceviche served cold with tostadas or chips.
Coctel de Camarones
$14.00
Shrimp with cilantro, onions, tomatoes, avocado, and our special coctel sauce. Served cold with crackers.
Camarones El Cholo
$17.00
Shrimp wrapped in bacon dizzled with signature cheese dip. Served with rice, beans, and guacamole salad.
Coctel Mixto
$17.00
Shrimp and octopus with cilantro, onions, tomatoes, avocado, and our special coctel sauce. Served cold with crackers.
Arroz con Camarones
$15.00
Grilled shrimp with cheese dip. Served with guacamole salad, rice, and beans.
Cevichile
$15.00
Shrimp and octopus marinated and cooked in lime juice with habanero, avocado, pico de gallo, cucumber. Served with tostadas.
Back to Life Ceviche
$25.00
2 octopus tostadas, 2 shrimp tostada, 2 fish tostadas.

Enchiladas

Enchiladas Verdes
$13.00
3 beef enchiladas topped with green sauce, queso fresco, sour cream, avocado, cilantro, onions, and black beans.
Enchiladas Supremas
$13.00
Combination of 4 enchiladas with 1 cheese, 1 chicken, 1 ground beef, and 1 been. Topped with cheese, enchilada sauce, lettuce, tomatoes, and sour cream.
Enchiladas Blancas
$13.00
4 chicken enchiladas with chipotle sauce, cheese dip, lettuce, tomatoes, and sour cream.

Fajitas

Chicken Fajitas
$14.00
Shrimp Fajitas
$16.00
Steak Fajitas
$15.00
Texanas Fajitas
$18.00

Tacos

Choose Your Meat Tacos
$3.00
Valley Taco
$3.50
1 piece. A fresh handmade corn tortilla with carne asada, cilantro, onions, queso fresco, avocados, and drizzled with our new guacamole salsa.
Carolina Diablo Taco
$3.50
Carne asada, diced habanero, queso fresco, and our signature hot sauce.
Vampiro Taco
$3.50
1 piece. A fresh handmade corn tortilla until it is crispy and crunchy on flat top cooked with carne asada, cheese, queso fresco, cilantro, onions and drizzled with our diabolo sauce, and guaca sauce.
Shrimp Taco
$3.50
Veggie Taco
$2.25
1 piece. Saute onions, spinach, cilantro, zuccini, queso fresco, served on a corn tortilla drizzled with signature guacamole salsa.
Taquiza Sampler
$28.00
A variety of tacos, asada, al pastor, chorizo, carnitas, lengua, buche, tripa, lomo, barbacoa, pollo, chicharron, carolina diablo taco.
Quesa Tacos
$12.00
3 pieces. 3 corn quesadilla style tacos stuffed with your choice of meat with cilantro, onions, and queso fresco. Served with rice and beans.
3 Tacos Dorados
$6.00
Fried tacos stuffed with potato, lettuce, cheese, and sour cream.
Panzon Taco
$3.75
1 piece. Corn tortillas served with pork belly, onions marinated in vinegar, cilantro, and drizzled with guacamole salsa.
Taco Campechano
$3.00
Mix of carne asada and chorizo.
Taco Salad
$10.00
A crispy flour tortilla bowl with beef, or chicken, beans, cheese, lettuce, tomato, sour cream.
Bean and Cheese Taco
$1.25
Flour tortilla.
Taco Paisa
$3.00
Shredded chicken taco with guacamole, sour cream, and tomato. Corn tortilla.

Signature Plates

Carne Asada Plate
$17.00
Tender thin cut steak. Served with grilled onions, guacamole salad, rice, and beans.
A. C. P. Plate
$12.00
Strips of grilled chicken on a bed of rice covered with cheese sauce.
Molcajete Plate
$28.00
Traditional Mexican stone bowl loaded with thin cut steak, grilled chicken, chorizo, nopales, onions, jalapenos, pico de gallo, queso fresco, and spicy salsa.
Milanesa de Pollo Plate
$13.50
2 breaded chicken breast. Served with rice and guaca salad.
Molcajete de Mariscos Plate
$28.00
Grilled shrimp, scallops, tilapia fillet, grilled onions, nopales, Chile toreado, and drizzled with our signature cheese dip.
Chori-Pollo Quesadilla Plate
$13.00
Large quesadilla stuffed with grilled chicken and chorizo, served with rice, and sour cream salad.
Carnitas Plate
$13.50
Slow simmered tender pork. Served with guacamole salad, rice, and beans.
Bistec Relleno Plate
$18.00
Thin cut steak stuffed with mushrooms, cheese, grilled onions, diced Chile poblano peppers, served with refried beans, and guaca salad.
Gringa Quesadilla Plate
$12.00
Large quesadilla stuffed with al pastor, grilled onions, and pineapple. Served with rice and salad.
2 Mulitas Plate
$10.00
Sandwich style tacos stuffed with your choice of meat, cilantro, onions, cheese, guacamole, served with rice, and beans.
Fajita Quesadilla Plate
$12.00
Large quesadilla stuffed with steak or chicken, grilled onions, peppers, and tomato. Served with rice and salad.
Pollo Relleno Plate
$16.00
2 grilled chicken breast stuffed with ham, mushrooms, spinach, and cheese, covered with our signaturecrema sauce, and served with rice, guacamole salad, sliced avocado, and sour cream.
Torta Mexicana
$12.00
Your choice of meat, beans, lettuce, avocado, tomato, onions, mayo, and jalapenos with a side of fries.
Chimichanga Dinner
$12.00
2 chimichangas with your choice of beef, or chicken deep-fried topped with cheese dip, sour cream salad. Served with beans.
Torta Cubana
$15.00
Carne asada, chorizo, carnitas, al pastor, ham, cheese, beans, avocado, lettuce, tomato, onions, mayo, and jalapenos with a side of fries.
Steak and Shrimp
$19.00
Skirt steak with shrimp covered with diablo salsa. Served with rice, beans, and avocado salad.
Torta Chingona
$17.00
Milanesa carne, sausage, eggs, ham, cheese, and lettuce, onions, tomato, jalapenos, avocado, sour cream, and mayo serve with fries.
Costillas en Salsa
$16.00
Beef ribs simmered in your choice of green or red salsa. Served with rice, beans, and salad.
Chori-Pollo
$13.00
Grilled chicken breast, chorizo topped with cheese sauce. Served with rice and beans.
Bistec Picado
$14.00
Steak strips covered in red or green salsa. Served with rice and beans.
Flautas de Pollo
$12.00
4 chicken flautas covered with cheese dip, salsa verde, sour cream, pico de gallo, queso fresco. Served with rice and guacamole salad.

Postres

Slice of Tres Leches Cake
$5.50

When you step into El Cerro Tacos in Swansboro, you're in for a mouthwatering adventure, especially when it comes to their diverse and flavorful menu. Start your meal with a selection of appetizers that pack a punch. The Chori-Queso combines the smokiness of chorizo with melted cheese, perfect for dipping with crispy tortilla chips. For something with a bit more heat, try the Bacon Jalapeno Explosion—a crispy, spicy delight that's sure to satisfy your craving for something bold. And if you're in the mood for something classic, the Cheese Dip and Elote Mexicano (grilled corn smothered in a creamy, tangy sauce) are must-tries.

Their soups will warm you up with rich, hearty flavors, like the Chicken Tortilla Soup, packed with tender chicken and crispy tortilla strips. Seafood lovers can’t miss the Sopa de Mariscos, a zesty, savory option full of fresh seafood.

The Antojitos section is a treat for snack lovers, offering indulgent options like the Fajita Nachos and El Cerro Fries, loaded with toppings. If you're craving something lighter, the Tostadas de Frijol or Rancho Breakfast will hit the spot.

For the main course, you can't go wrong with one of their massive burritos. The California Burrito stands out, stuffed with savory carne asada, fries, and a delicious mix of fresh ingredients. Don’t overlook their flavorful Breakfast Burrito or the smoky Chipotle Burrito for an extra kick.

For those with a sweet tooth, finish your meal with a slice of decadent Tres Leches Cake, the perfect sweet end to a savory feast.

Whether you're craving tacos, fajitas, or seafood, El Cerro Tacos has something to satisfy every taste. Each dish is prepared with care, ensuring every bite is packed with authentic Mexican flavors.

EL Cerro Tacos - Swansboro

EL Cerro Tacos - Swansboro offers a delicious Mexican cuisine experience with a wide range of appetizers, soups, and antojitos. Enjoy their ChoriQueso Addons, Chicken Wings, Elote Mexicano, and more. Located at 714-10 W Corbett Ave Swansboro, NC, this restaurant offers takeout, vegetarian options, catering, and a full bar. With positive reviews praising the food, service, and ambiance, it's a must-visit spot for traditional Mexican flavors.

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