Menu
La Morenita Restaurant in Los Angeles offers a delightful Mexican cuisine experience. The menu includes a variety of appetizers like Guacamole and Queso Fundido, along with breakfast options like Huevos Rancheros and Burrito choices. Customers rave about the authentic and fresh flavors, with special mentions for the Menudo and handmade tortillas. The cozy ambiance, attentive service, and hidden gem status make it a must-visit spot. With options for vegan and vegetarian diets, along with catering services and happy hour specials, La Morenita Restaurant caters to a wide range of preferences. The enthusiastic reviews from patrons highlight the owner's dedication to maintaining a clean and welcoming environment. Don't miss out on this local favorite for a truly delicious dining experience.
Appetizers

Guacamole
Guacamole and chips.
Queso Fundido
Melted cheese with the option of adding chorizo or mushrooms. Served with chips.
Sampler Platter
4 pieces each of taquitos, cheese enchiladas, and quesadillas. Small nachos and guacamole.
Nachos
Tortilla chips topped with beans, jack cheese, your choice of asada, carnitas, or chicken, tomato, onion, cilantro, queso fresco, sour cream, and guacamole.
Huevos Rancheros
2 fried eggs served on lightly fried tortillas and covered with a tomato salsa. Served with rice, beans, and your choice of corn or flour tortillas.
Huevos Divorciados
2 fried eggs served on lightly fried tortillas with one egg covered in a tomato salsa and the other in a green salsa. Served with rice, beans, and your choice of corn or flour tortillas.
Huevos a la Mexicana
Scrambled eggs with tomato, onion, and jalapeno. Served with rice, beans, and your choice of corn or flour tortillas.
Huevos con Nopales (cactus)
Egg and cactus scramble. Served with rice, beans, and your choice of corn or flour tortillas.
Ham and Eggs
Scrambled eggs with ham. Served with rice, beans, and your choice of corn or flour tortillas.
Eggs with Chorizo
Scrambled eggs with chorizo. Served with rice, beans, and your choice of corn or flour tortillas.
Machaca with Eggs
Scrambled eggs with shredded beef, tomato, onion, and jalapeno. Served with rice, beans, and your choice of corn or flour tortillas.
Golden Chilaquiles
2 eggs any style and your choice of cecina, asada, or shredded chicken. Tortilla chips drenched in red, green, or mole sauce and topped with queso fresco, sour cream, and cilantro. Served with beans and rice.
Chilaquiles
Green, red, or mole sauce poured over fried tortilla chips and topped with queso fresco, Mexican sour cream, and cilantro. Served with rice and beans.
Breakfast Burrito
Eggs, your choice of bacon, ham, sausage links, or chorizo, potatoes, tomato, onions, and jalapeno.
Breakfast Torta (Sandwich)
Scrambled eggs, tomato, onion, jalapeno, and your choice of ham, bacon, or chorizo.
Molletes
Open faced torta topped with beans, queso fresco, pico de gallo, and your choice of chorizo or mushrooms.
La Morenita Breakfast
2 eggs, 2 bacon, 2 sausage links, 2 pancakes, and potatoes.
French Toast
4 triangle slices of french toast topped with fruit and powdered sugar.
Pancake Stack
4 fluffy pancakes.
Omelet
Build your own omelet! Served with potatoes and toast.
Breakfast

Burritos

Broadway Burrito
Asada, chorizo, potatoes, tomato, onion, cilantro, queso fresco, mexican sour cream, beans, and rice.
Burrito Mojado (Wet)
Your choice of burrito drenched in red, green, or both sauces. Topped with queso fresco and sour cream.
Burrito
Beans, rice, tomato, onion, cilantro, queso fresco, and mexican sour cream and your choice of meat.
Torta
Toasted Mexican sandwich with beans, meat of your choice, tomato, onion, cilantro, lettuce, and mexican sour cream.
Torta de Milanesa
Breaded beef or chicken in a torta.
Tortas

Lunch

Chiles Rellenos
Roasted poblano chiles stuffed with cheese, dipped in egg batter and fried until golden, then covered with a tomato salsa. Served with rice, beans, and your choice of corn or flour tortillas.
Pork Chops
Pan-fried pork chops and onions served with rice, beans, and your choice of corn or flour tortillas.
Asada Platter
Carne Asada, grilled green onions, chorizo, guacamole, queso fresco, charro style beans, and rice. Your choice of corn or flour tortillas.
Carne Asada Plate
Carne asada served with rice, beans, and your choice of corn or flour tortillas.
Cecina Platter
Thinly sliced, salted, and slightly dried strips of beef, grilled green onions, chorizo, guacamole, queso fresco, charro style beans, and rice. Your choice of corn or flour tortillas.
Cecina Plate (Salted Beef)
Thinly sliced, salted, and slightly dried strips of beef, served with rice, beans, and your choice of corn or flour tortillas.
Crispy Tacos Plate
3 hardshell tacos stuffed with your choice of beef, chicken, or potato and topped with lettuce, tomato, queso fresco, and mexican sour cream. Served with rice and beans.
Taquitos
Rolled corn tortilla filled with your choice of beef or chicken and deep fried. Topped with lettuce, tomato, queso fresco, mexican sour cream and guacamole. Served with rice and beans.
Enchiladas
Soft corn tortillas rolled and stuffed with your choice of chicken, beef, or cheese and red, green, or mole sauce. Topped with queso fresco, mexican sour cream, and served with rice and beans.
Chile Verde or Rojo
Chunks of pork slow cooked in a delicious green or red sauce served with rice, beans, and your choice of corn or flour tortillas.
Mole con Pollo
2 bone-in chicken pieces covered with Mexico's traditional bitter-sweet sauce. Served with rice, beans, and your choice of corn or flour tortillas.
Milanesa Plate
Breaded chicken or beef, served with rice, beans, and your choice of corn or flour tortillas.
Alambre
Your choice of mushrooms, beef, chicken, or carnitas grilled with bacon, chorizo, bell pepper, onion, tomato, and melted cheese. Basically fajitas on steroids! Served with rice, beans, and your choice of corn or flour tortillas.
Empapelado Foil Wrapped
Fish filet, bell peppers, onions, tomatoes, and capers. Served with rice and tortillas.
Caldo de Camaron
Mexican style shrimp soup. Served with rice and your choice of corn or flour tortillas.
Caldo de Pescado
Mexican style fish soup with vegetables. Served with rice and and your choice of corn or flour tortillas.
Seafood

Hot Skillet Plates

Supreme Fajitas
Steak, chicken, and shrimp fajitas. Served with guacamole, rice, beans, and your choice of corn or flour tortillas.
Fajitas
Your choice of chicken, beef, or mushrooms. Grilled bell peppers, onions, jalapeno, and tomato. Served with rice, beans, and your choice of corn or flour tortillas.
Steak Picado
Beef strips stir fried with bell pepper, onion, tomato, jalapeno, and a tomato sauce. Served with rice, beans, and your choice of corn or flour tortillas.
Pollo Ranchero
Bone-in chicken pieces stir fried with bell pepper, onion, tomato, jalapeno, and a tomato sauce. Served with rice, beans, and your choice of corn or flour tortillas.
Caldo de Pollo (Chicken Soup)
Bone-in chicken with potato, carrot, squash, and corn in a delicious broth. Served with rice and your choice of corn or flour tortillas.
Caldo de Res (beef soup)
Beef chunks, carrot, potato, squash, corn, and cabbage in a rich beef broth. Served with rice and your choice of corn or flour tortillas
Albondigas (meatball soup)
Our famous albondigas (meatballs) in a tasty soup. Served with rice and your choice of corn or flour tortillas. Available Thursdays only.
Pozole
Spicy pork soup with hominy and radishes. Served with corn tostadas. Available Fridays only.
Menudo
Spicy beef tripe soup! Served with onions, cilantro, lime, oregano, chili flakes, and your choice of corn or flour tortillas.
Soups

Small Dishes a la Carte

Gorditas
Stuffed corn masa shell with beans, lettuce, tomato, queso fresco, mexican sour cream and your choice of asada, chicken, carnitas, chile verde, chile rojo, or chicharron prensado.
Sopes
Fried corn masa "bowl" with beans, lettuce, queso fresco, mexican sour cream and your choice of asada, chicken, carnitas, chile verde, chile rojo, or chicharron prensado.
Tacos
Choose between small street tacos or larger tacos.
2 Enchiladas
2 enchiladas a la carte. Your choice of meat and sauce.
2 Taquitos
2 taquitos a la carte. Your choice of meat. Topped with lettuce, queso fresco, and mexican sour cream.
2 Crispy Tacos
2 crispy tacos a la carte. Your choice of meat. Topped with lettuce, tomato, queso fresco, and mexican sour cream.
Guacamole Scoop
One regular scoop of our fresh guacamole.
Chile Relleno
1 chile relleno a la carte covered in our tomato sauce.
Tortillas
3 corn tortillas or 2 flour tortillas.
Jalapenos Torreados (Blistered Jalapeno)
2 Pieces. Blistered fried jalapenos.
Rice
Small order of rice.
Beans
Small order of refried beans.
Fresh Squeezed Orange Juice
Always fresh!
Coffee
Aguas Frescas
Jamaica and Horchata made from scratch. No powder here!
Canned Soda
Bottled Soda
Fountain Drinks
Drinks
