Oaxacan gastronomy is distinct and a blend of old-world traditions and flavors influenced by geography and a proud practice of handing down family recipes.
Appetizers
Proteins are Tasajo, Cecina Enchilada, & Chicken Thigh Meat.
Homemade chips drenched in our signature Mole Negro sauce and queso fresco.
Two deep-fried cheese empanadas
Two deep –fried chicken taquitos
Two molotes with chorizo & potatoes
Two memelas with queso fresco
We spread our unique hand-blended black bean purée on a crafted tostada shell and top it with shredded chicken that is simmered in a tomato-chipotle sauce, lettuce, queso fresco, and sour cream.
Two deep-fried, handcrafted corn tortillas filled with your choice of chorizo with potatoes or queso fresco, topped with black bean purée, cabbage, queso fresco, and guacamole.
Four single rolled deep-fried corn tortillas filled with your choice of chorizo & potatoes or chicken, topped with black bean purée, cabbage, queso fresco and guacamole.
Banana leaf-wrapped tamale filled with boneless chicken mole and covered with El Tule’s spice blend signature Mole Negro sauce.
Popular Oaxacan delicacy – grasshoppers toasted on a clay griddle and sprinkled with a sour-spicy-salty seasoning using El Tule’s special secret recipe, served with fresh lime and chile.
Made with handcrafted tortilla, avocado, queso fresco, and sauce.
Mole Specialties
Authentic savory-sweet flavored mole served with chicken thigh meat. Includes rice, refried pinto beans, and handcrafted corn tortillas.
Try our unique green mole. Made with El Tule’s secret recipe, including yerba santa, tomatillos, and jalapeños. Served with chicken thigh or pork, rice and handcrafted corn tortillas.
Another one of our popular moles. Made with guajillo and pasilla dry chili peppers, yerba santa, cumin, and El Tule’s original spice blend secret recipe. Served with chicken thigh, green beans, chayote, potatoes, rice and handcrafted corn tortillas.
Made from two kinds of chilis, cane sugar, onions, peanuts, almonds, sesame seeds, and El Tule’s original spice blend secret recipe. Served with chicken thigh or pork, rice and handcrafted corn tortillas.
Served with chicken thigh or pork, olives, capers, chiles in vinegar, and El Tule’s special secret spice blend Estofado sauce. Includes rice and handcrafted corn tortillas.
Oaxacan Specialties
Three folded soft corn tortillas, filled with your choice of chicken or queso fresco, then smothered in our signature Mole Negro sauce and sprinkled with sesame seeds. Served with rice and beans.
Lightly toasted french roll with melted quesillo, topped with black bean purée, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, and fresh avocado.
Add tasajo or cecina enchilada
Flour tortilla filled with rice, boneless chicken, and El Tule's spice blend signature Mole Negro sauce.
Three corn tortillas served with tasajo or cecina enchilada. Covered with our spicy black bean purée, queso fresco and onion slices.
Grilled salted beef or spicy marinated pork served with nopales, grilled jalapeños and scallions, avocado, pico de gallo, whole black beans, salad, and handcrafted corn tortillas.
Three handcrafted corn dough tortillas, deep fried, filled with chorizo and potatoes and topped with black bean purée, guacamole, queso fresco, and sour cream.
Two handcrafted corn tortillas filled with cilantro and our signature Mole Amarillo.
Two handcrafted corn tortillas filled with chorizo, potatoes, and quesillo.
Two handcrafted corn tortillas filled with quesillo, epazote, and jalapeños.
A gigantic, thin, handcrafted, baked corn tortilla imported from Oaxaca, topped with our black bean purée, lettuce, tomato, avocado, queso fresco, quesillo, and your choice of meat: tasajo, cecina enchilada, or chorizo.
Tlayuda with all three types of meat: tasajo, cecina enchilada, and chorizo.
A gigantic, thin, handcrafted, baked corn tortilla, imported from Oaxaca. Topped with our black bean purée, lettuce, tomato, avocado, with queso fresco, and quesillo optional.
A combination of the 3 Oaxacan-style seasoned meats: chorizo, cecina, tasajo. Served with grilled nopales (cactus), onions, and jalapeños. Includes cilantro, quesillo, pico de gallo, queso fresco, guacamole, and handcrafted corn tortillas.
A homemade corn tortilla topped with asiento de puerco, black bean purée, and queso fresco.
Add tasajo or cecina enchilada
Desserts
Oaxacan Prickly Pear sorbet
Nieve de Limón
Lime sorbet
This Oaxacan specialty has a fascinating balance of smokiness and sweetness, somewhat like a crème brûlée. The simplicity of the recipe demands the best quality vanilla and caramelized sugar, creating an exquisite and lingering finish on the palate.
All three ice creams
Oaxacan style gelatinous dessert made from ground maize and sugar with corn, milk, and cinnamon.
Includes nicuatole, old-fashioned hand-churned ice cream, and flan.
Drinks
Horchata mixed with prickly pear (opuntia is a genus fruit in the cactus family commonly referred to as tuna – the fruit from nopal derived from the Nahuatl word nōpalli), topped with cantaloupe and peanuts.
Chilacayote (a squash grown for its edible seeds), cinnamon, and piloncillo.
Rice Water
Hibiscus Flower
Oaxacan Hot Cocoa made with your choice of milk or water.
Tejate
Legend tells us it was once the drink of Mesoamerican nobility. Today, El Tule Restaurant is one of the only destinations where you'll enjoy this fermented cacao and maize flour concoction.
Coke, Diet Coke, Sprite, Dr. Pepper
Apple Juice, Orange Juice, Hot Tea, Iced Tea
Bottled Jarritos, Sangría, Coke
Cervezas/Beers
Corona, Pacifico, Modelo Especial, Negra Modelo, Victoria, Dos Equis
Specialty Drinks
Chavelas
Freshly squeezed lime, salt, and cold beer served in a frozen glass.
Michelada
Freshly squeezed lime, salt, Tapatío, El Tule's chili powder, clamato juice, and your choice of cold beer served in a frozen glass.
Sangrita
Sangria spritzer with freshly squeezed lime, Tapatío, salt, with El Tule's chili powder, Served in a frozen glass.
House Sangria
By the Glass , Small Carafe, or a Large Carafe
Piña Colada
Strawberry, Mango, or Lime Margarita
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