El Norte Mexican Grill
El Norte Mexican Grill
Onion, garlic, tomatoes, green chiles, and jalapenos are added to our white melting cheese and garnished with pico de gallo and cilantro. Perfect for dipping with our hot fresh chips.
Five whole fresh jalapenos stuffed with our own smoked brisket, cheddar, and cream cheese and wrapped in bacon then smoke-roasted! Served with your choice of our signature queso sauce or lime ranch dressing on the side.
Flautas, white queso, and stuffed breaded jalapenos with a heaping mound of guacamole perfect to share or if you just can't decide.
El Norte's table side guacamole mixed at your table with freshly chopped hass avocado, red onion, jalapeno, lime juice, cilantro, and served with our yummy cumin-dusted chips.
Crispy tostadas topped with your choice of fajita beef or chicken or shrimp. Served with refried beans and shredded cheese and garnished with jalapeos, guacamole, sour cream, and pico de gallo on the side.
Signature white queso topped with our spiced ground beef and sprinkled with pico de gallo and cilantro.
Fresh hass avocados blended by hand with tomatoes, cilantro, onions, and lime juice.
Vegetarian. Cheddar and Jack cheese melted on crispy tortilla chips, topped with black bean corn relish, chopped tomatoes, diced avocado, fresh cilantro, and queso fresca. Pickled jalapeos and lime wedges on the side.
Mixed greens, tomatoes, and cheese topped with mesquite grilled chicken or beef fajita, pico de gallo, and lime ranch dressing.
Grilled chicken, bacon, avocado, black bean corn relish, tomatoes, and fresh mixed greens tossed with our Southwest Romano cilantro dressing and topped with queso fresca.
Chopped fajita chicken, diced avocado, fresh strawberries and kiwi, bacon, pecans, and mixed greens topped with queso fresca and our special raspberry vinaigrette dressing.
Fresh mixed greens with our reduced fat lime ranch dressing.
Burrito bowl. Grilled fajita your choice of chicken or beef topped with cilantro rice, black beans, tomatoes, lettuce, and white queso. Add guacamole for an additional charge.
Iceberg lettuce wedge topped with bacon, avocado, chopped tomato, black bean corn relish, queso fresco, and blue cheese dressing.
Mixed greens, black beans, and Jack and cheddar cheese topped with your choice of spicy ground beef or roasted chicken ranchero with lime ranch dressing and topped with pico de gallo, sour cream, and guacamole.
Roasted chicken and fresh poblano peppers simmered in a spicy broth loaded with onions, tomatoes, and fresh cilantro. Served in the classic style with crispy tortilla strips and Jack cheese.
Roasted chicken, corn, celery, carrots, and poblano peppers slowly simmered in a creamy chicken stock.
Marinated and grilled over 100% mesquite wood, served on sauted onions and peppers. Served with cheddar cheese, sour cream, guacamole, ancho chili sauce, fresh warm flour tortillas, Mexican rice and refried beans.
Marinated and grilled over 100% mesquite wood, served on sauted onions and peppers. Served with cheddar cheese, sour cream, guacamole, ancho chili sauce, fresh warm flour tortillas, Mexican rice and refried beans.
Grilled and marinated zucchini, yellow squash, red onions, poblano peppers, and red bell peppers.
Beef, chicken or both is available.
Beef, chicken or both is available.
Chopped beef fajita, diced red onions, and cilantro on our white corn tortillas with a side of our red taco sauce. Served with rice and beans.
Blackened shrimp on our white corn tortillas with a side of fresh pineapple habanero salsa. Served with rice and beans.
This is the style of taco served in the markets of Mexico. Handmade fresh masa tortillas stuffed with your choice of beef or chicken fajita and then folded, grilled, and garnished with lettuce, tomatoes, poblano pepper strips, and guacamole. Served with a side of rice & beans.
Tender smoked brisket tacos, grilled onions, and Monterrey Jack cheese, served in flour tortillas with bowl of borracho beans, sliced avocado, and BBQ sauce.
Blackened tilapia with fresh grilled red bell pepper, poblano, and jalapenos, topped with our Southwestern creamed corn, avocado, and bacon. Served in our handmade Mercado corn tortillas. Comes with Mexican rice and refried beans.
Definitely not traditional but equally delicious. Lightly grilled fresh corn tortillas filled with your choice of tilapia or shrimp, Jack cheese, and garlic sauce. Served with rice and garnished with lettuce, tomatoes, and sliced avocado.C
Your choice of fajita chicken or fajita beef. 2 smoke-grilled enchiladas rolled with cheese in flour tortillas and topped with our very own white queso sauce. Served with cilantro rice and your choice of refried, borracho or black beans.
Shrimp sauteed in garlic butter, placed on a bed of Mexican rice, and topped with our signature jalapeno cream sauce with your choice of 1 side.
8 oz. of tilapia, blackened Cajun style served on a bed of fresh Julienne cut sauteed veggies.
A large roasted fresh poblano chile pepper filled with our own roasted chicken and special blend of sweet apricot, onion, and spices, served with your choice of 2 sides.
Fresh mesquite grilled chicken breast, grilled onions, fresh peppers, red onions, mushrooms, and Jack cheese. Served on a sizzling platter with your choice of 1 side and fresh warm tortillas.
Large 16 oz. pork shank slowly roasted until fork tender then fire glazed with a special sweet and spicy sauce. Served with your choice of 2 sides.
Black beans, cilantro rice, corn, and red onion rolled in a soft corn tortilla and topped with verde sauce and queso fresca. Served with black beans and salad garnish with ranch dressing.
Marinated beef or chicken over Julienne veggies and sprinkled with Jack cheese. Served with pico de gallo and corn tortillas. Add extra cheese for an additional charge.
Large chicken breast basted with garlic butter, stuffed with Jack cheese and poblano peppers, roasted, and topped with jalapeno cream sauce served with Mexican rice and your choice of 1 side.
A fresh flour tortilla loaded with cheddar and Jack cheese, bacon, red onion, and green chiles and griddled to a crunchy perfection. Served with pico de gallo, sour cream, and guacamole on the side.
Specialty-shaped super thin white corn tortillas rolled and stuffed with our roasted chicken and lightly fried crisp. Served with guacamole, sour cream, chili con queso, and arbol chili. Add extra for an additional charge.
El Norte's fried burrito. Your choice of ground beef or ranchero chicken with beans, lettuce, tomatoes, and cheese, wrapped in a flour tortilla and deep fried the traditional way. Topped with your choice of queso sauce, chili con carne, ranchero or verde sauce and served with rice and beans.
Your choice of ground beef or chicken ranchero stuffed in a fresh flour tortilla with cheese, refried beans, lettuce, and tomatoes. Topped with your choice of sauce and served with rice and refried beans.
Your choice of any 1 item. Served with rice and beans.
Your choice of any 2 items. Served with rice and beans.
Your choice of any 3 items. Served with rice and beans
Grilled chicken, cilantro rice, black bean corn relish, tomatoes, and avocado served with a side of spicy avocado dressing.
A fresh blackened tilapia filet on a bed of fresh grilled vegetables and Jack cheese with a side of spicy avocado dressing.
Blackened beef fajita meat with lettuce, tomatoes, grilled onions, and chipotle sour cream sauce.
Blackened chicken fajita meat with lettuce, tomatoes, grilled onions, and chipotle sour cream sauce.
Vegetarian.
Vegetarian.
Grain. Vegetarian.
Vegetarian. Grilled zucchini, yellow squash, red onions, poblano peppers, and red bell peppers. Topped with tomatoes.
The classic Mexican dessert. Simple, sweet, light, and elegant.
Vanilla, or caramel.
Hard to describe, but easy to eat! Topped with caramel and pecans.
Mix and match up to 6 enchiladas of your choice, including cheese, beef, chicken sour cream, chicken verde or spinach.
Mix and match up to 8 enchiladas of your choice, including cheese, beef, chicken sour cream, chicken verde or spinach.
Mix and match up to 10 enchiladas of your choice, including cheese, beef, chicken sour cream, chicken verde or spinach.
20 oz. fountain drink.
Horchata or hibiscus.
a person dipping a tortilla into a bowl of salsa
Blackened Tilapia Especiale
a coca cola bottle on the wall
a stained glass window
One of my fave north Texas Tex Mex go to
Coconut she'll art
paella, interior
interior
Great kitchen atmosphere
Festive!
dessert, outside
outside
Choose two, chicken enchilada and ground beef taco. Queso blanco. Papa Pepes spicy shrimp tacos. Awesome!
interior
Chicken Monterrey Especiale
Perfect chips and salsa
Order to go
1/2 full small container queso for $8.25
Margarita and chips and salsa
Cabo Style Signature Tacos
Raspberry swirl margarita and Herradura Rocks Top Shelf margarita - delicious!
Exterior Mural
food, soups and chowder
Neha A.
Feb 23, 2025
A fancy restaurant this is not, but the food, particularly the queso, is good. Friends and I split the queso (nom nom - could eat this all day every day) and I ordered the chicken enchiladas as my entree, which were fine. I do think given the number of fantastic Tex-mex spots in the area, there are better places. That said this was still pretty darn good. Ambiance was nothing to write home about, but as I mentioned the food is good.
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JohnK W.
Jan 13, 2024
Ate here for a birthday celebration. First time back in about 6 years. Enjoyed the large portions and the food!
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Brian M.
Nov 4, 2024
El Norte is a neighborhood restaurant that shows its age through it's decor. I believe it is family-owned. A grand burrito, quesadillas, and marcelinos tacos were ordered. Service was good. Food was basic and did not have a fresh and well- seasoned taste. Food did not meet the return visit category...adios!
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Mel K.
Oct 26, 2024
Great service and nice atmosphere. I got the chicken quesadilla special. I could only eat half the quesadilla because it tasted like it was lathered in a lot butter. It was just too much. The chips were good. I don't know that I would go back. The meals that my friends had looked mediocre. No one was impressed.
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Terri J.
Mar 5, 2024
Two stars for the service. Came here for lunch and had the stuffed chicken. It was like jerky. The cooks just reheat everything in a microwave. This place has fallen down since all the fabulous reviews and I won't be returning. Prices are high for mediocre food. There are better options for Mexican in this area.
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Cori N.
Apr 3, 2024
Had great expectations for this place. A friend had suggested we go here several times based on the queso and the chili relleno. So after months and months of waiting, I finely get my chance. My mother orders soft beef tacos with corn tortillas. I order the chili relleno. What we got was the soft beef tacos on flour tortillas and the "stuffed chicken."Tacos were ok, and yes disappointed over the wrong tortillas but just decided to let it go. Then I get a dish that I couldn't figure out. It was like a reverse chili relleno. Chicken wrapped around a poblano pepper. I was certain the waitress heard me correctly. I didn't realize this was the wrong dish until we paid. So bottom line, don't care for the stuffed chicken and never got to try the chili relleno. The Mexican squash side dish was nothing more than a very few slices of yellow squash swimming in white queso...couldn't eat it.Very disappointed. Perhaps the waitress was new? After the stuffed chicken, not sure I want to go back to try and get the dish I actually ordered.
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Guy H.
Aug 2, 2022
Tonite was my first ever questionable experience here. I have sought out Tex Mex here for 25 years. Ive noticed a little inconsistency in my last few visits. Last visit was great but I didn't get my usual tex mex order. Tonight I was feeling cheese enchiladas and brisket tamale! So after a movie, I headed to El Norte.Without going into too much detail(this visit doesn't deserve it) I will just say they've hit bottom. Long story short I always know when the food has a tectonic shift,it usually involves new ownership. So after considerable back and forth on two menu items, I had ordered that weren't right in any galaxy in the known Tex Mex universe I bluntly ask, has this business changed hands?The reply was guarded with a twisting hedging body language so, I know. Nothing wrong with a new owner. That is unless they start monkeying with a decades-old success formula. This happens occasionally and sadly for me. Everyone loves to find a dependable go-to for a great favorite meal. The same thing happened recently at one of my favorite Thai places.The problem here came in the form of some questions about the offerings and confusion over what was served me. I then asked for a manager and the Gas Lighting continued. I was perplexed and still am! They just made it way too hard and I dont like to be BSed, especially for no reason. Just spit it out.20 years ago you couldnt get a seat in this place. The food was exceptional and won national acclaim. Right before my eyes I see all that hard earned good will melting away. Southern Living, D magazine and others raved about this place.Unfortunately, Im not investing my "treasure" on their learning curve so Ill be moving on from this establishment. Its been a good run but, Rest in Peace El Norte.Dont Go!
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Kyle M.
Jul 9, 2024
Best chips and salsa in DFW. Plates are gigantic and are priced at the same price of a kids meal at a fancy restaurant in frisco. Everything is made from scratch and is delicious. You have to come.
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T M.
Dec 8, 2024
El Norte is our favorite Mexican restaurant in Plano. Chips and salsa are great. Jumbo margaritas are a must. The food has never disappointed us. We go here often.
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Austin M.
Jan 28, 2025
We knew coming here the Tex-Mex wasn't going to be the best, but the food tasted so salty and the texture of the chicken was so tough that I would be surprised if the meats were cooked that morning. It tasted like they reheated the meat in the microwave, throw on a pound of salt, and lightly heated the "tortillas" ( if you can call them tortillas ). I am just hoping we don't get sick. The waitress was nice, if a bit inexperienced.
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