Taco Joe's Mexican Restaurant Menu (Update 2025)
Welcome to Taco Joe's Mexican Restaurant, a culinary gem nestled in Highland, California. Taco Joe's offers a vibrant menu that celebrates authentic Mexican cuisine, making it a perfect spot for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Start your day with their fluffy French toast paired with crispy bacon and eggs, a favorite among patrons. For lunch or dinner, indulge in the Chile Riano burrito or the flavorful pork burrito smothered with green sauce. The three street tacos dinner featuring carne asada delights with its hearty portions and spicy green salsa.
Don't miss the mole chicken enchiladas, a rare find, and the refreshing chips with homemade salsa, highly praised for its unique kick. With a friendly atmosphere and speedy service, Taco Joe's ensures a satisfying dining experience that will have you coming back for more.
Mexican Breakfast
Chilaquiles Divorciados
Sauteed corn tortilla strips in a red and green sauce, topped with eggs, crema and queso fresco. Add pork for an additional charge. Served with rice, beans or house potatoes.
Enchiladas Rancheras
Jack cheese layered enchiladas topped with creamy tomatillo sauce and 2 fried eggs. Served with avocado and crema. Served with rice, beans or house potatoes.
Huevos Rancheros
2 eggs topped with red or green meat and sauce, tortillas served on the side. Served with rice, beans or house potatoes.
Sunshine Burrito
Eggs, cheese, beans, hash browns, and avocado. Served with rice, beans or house potatoes.
Machaca Con Huevos
Shredded beef, mixed with eggs, onions, tomatoes, and peppers topped with pork meat sauce. Served with rice, beans or house potatoes.
Breakfast Enchiladas
Green enchiladas filled with scrambled eggs, onions, tomatoes, and chiles. Served with rice, beans or house potatoes.
Huevos Con Chorizo
Mexican sausage, eggs, and tortillas. Served with rice, beans or house potatoes.
Frida Nachos
Meat, beans, cheese, sour cream, guacamole, pico de gallo on the side-pork, chicken, or beef carne asada or grilled chicken. Add cheese for an additional charge.
Frida Fries
Meat, beans, cheese, sour cream, guacamole, pico de gallo on the side-pork, chicken, or beef carne asada or grilled chicken. Add cheese for an additional charge.
Taquitos
Order of 3 chicken or beef, served with guacamole and topped with lettuce, queso fresco, and crema.
Quesa Birria
Double corn tortilla with cheese and birria meat topped with onion and cilantro, includes consome on the side.
Shrimp Cocktail
Shrimp, onions, cilantro, avocado, cucumber, tomatoes.
Birria Taco
Corn tortilla with birria meat topped with onion and cilantro includes consome on the side.
Nachos
Served with sour cream, guacamole, beans and cheese. Add cheese for an additional charge.
Fiesta Sampler
Cheese quesadilla, beans, and cheese nachos, meat flautas - chicken or beef. Served with sour cream and guacamole.
Queso Fundido
A blend of Jack and Oaxaca cheese served with jalapenos and 4 tortillas.
Pasilla Quesadilla
Jack cheese, spinach, chile pasilla, avocado, chipotle dressing.
Fresh Guacamole
Served with pico and lime.
Tinga Tostada
Chipotle marinated chicken, lettuce, crema, avocado, queso fresco.
Appetizers
Soups and Salad
Albondigas Soup
Meatball soup. Served with rice and tortillas.
Pozole Verde
Served with tortillas and garnish.
Menudo
Served with tortillas and garnish.
Taco Salad
Flour tortilla bowl, beans with your choice of meat. Topped with lettuce, tomatoes, cheese, guacamole, and sour cream. Add cheese for an additional charge.
Jasmin Salad
Organic spring mix, queso fresco, strawberries, chopped cucumber, avocado and topped with grilled chicken. Served with homemade honey walnut dressing. Add shrimp for an additional charge.
Dinner Salad
Iceberg lettuce, sliced carrots, cheese, and tomatoes. Add chopped cucumber for an additional charge.
Shredded Chicken Salad
Marinated chicken, avocado, tomato, and mixed cheese. Topped with crispy tortilla strips.
Fiesta Shrimp And Avocado Salad
Grilled shrimp, sliced carrots, mixed cheese, chopped cucumber, avocado and tomato covered with crispy tortilla strips.
Chipotle Chicken Salad
Strips of marinated grilled chicken on a bed of lettuce, carrots, tomatoes, avocado, cheese, covered with crispy tortilla strips. Served with our delicious chipotle dressing.
Caldo De Res
Hearty beef stew featuring tender chunks of beed with carrots, potatoes, and corn in a rich, savory broth. seasoned with herbs and a touch of Mexican authenticity. the perfect dish for chilly days.
Supreme Burrito
Choice of meat, beans, cheese, sour cream, guacamole. Topped with meat sauce red or green.
Meat Burrito
The cheese melted on top-choice of pork, beef or chicken. No carne asada. Topped with meat sauce red or green.
Carne Asada Burrito
Meat, beans, rice, cheese and pico de gallo. Served dry. Topped with meat sauce red or green.
Carnitas Burrito
Meat, beans, rice, cheese and pico de gallo. Served dry. Topped with meat sauce red or green.
Bean And Cheese Burrito
Topped with meat sauce red or green.
Combination Burrito
Pork, beef or chicken, beans and cheese. No carne asada. Topped with meat sauce red or green.
Garbage Burrito
Pork, beans, rice, lettuce, tomato and cheese. Topped with meat sauce red or green.
Relleno Burrito
Chile Relleno stuffed with cheese and beans. Topped with meat sauce red or green.
Quesadilla Style Burrito
Deluxe burrito. Served with meat, beans, cheese, topped with meat sauce. Red or green.
Vegetarian Burrito
Whole beans, rice, spinach, pico, avocado. Make it suizo or enchilada style. Served dry. Topped with meat sauce red or green.
Suizo Burrito
Grilled chicken or shrimp queso fresco, and rice topped with creamy tomatillo sauce, Jack cheese, and avocado. Topped with meat sauce red or green.
Burritos
Quesadillas
Pollo Quesadilla
Chicken, mushrooms, cheese and ortega chiles. Includes scoop of beans, guacamole and pico de gallo.
Carne Asada Quesadilla
Cheese and meat. Includes scoop of beans, guacamole and pico de gallo.
Super Quesadilla
Pork, beans, cheese, topped with meat sauce. Includes scoop of beans, guacamole and pico de gallo.
Shrimp Quesadilla
Grilled shrimp and melted Jack cheese. Includes scoop of beans, guacamole and pico de gallo.
Buttermilk Pancakes
Served with bacon or sausage and eggs.
French Toast
Served with 2 eggs, bacon or sausage.
Stuffed French Toast
Stuffed with cream cheese and topped with whipped cream, choose from strawberry or apple.
Fruit And Cream Crepes
2 pieces. Choose from strawberry or apple. Served with bacon or sausage and eggs.
From The Griddle
Dinner Entrees
1. Two Cheese Enchiladas
Served with rice and beans.
2. Two Hard Shell Tacos
Shredded beef or ground beef, lettuce, tomato, cheese. Chicken or potato guacamole, lettuce, tomato. Served with rice and beans.
#3 Taquitos
(3 chicken or beef)Served with guacamole and topped with lettuce, tomatoes,cheese ,crema, rice and beans on the side.
4. Two Meat Enchiladas
Choice of chicken, beef or pork
5. Chile Verde Or Chile Colorado
Choice of pork or beef served with tortillas
6. Two Flautas
Choice of beef, or chicken . Served with rice and beans.
7. Plato Gordo
Cheese enchilada, tamale, and relleno
8. Pick Any Two
Hard shell taco, cheese enchilada, Chile relleno, or tamal. Add meat to enchilada for 3.00
9. Combination Burrito
Meat beans and cheese, topped with cheese and red or green sauce. Choice of pork , beef, or chicken. ( Carne asada is 4.00 extra)
10. Carnitas
Served with pico de Gallo and tortillas.
11. Two Sopes
Two round thick fried tortillas filled with ground beef, topped with lettuce, tomatoes, Mexican crema and cilantro.
12. Chicken Enchiladas Suizas
Our special tomatillo sauce with melted jack cheese , topped with crema and cilantro.
13. Three Street Tacos
Carne asada , grilled chicken, or carnitas. Served with onions, cilantro and cabbage.
14. SANTA FE ENCHILADAS
Layered enchiladas with ground beef, mushrooms, olives, onions, green sauce and cheese
15. Chimichanga
Chimichanga stuffed with cheese and your choice of meat topped with sour cream and guacamole. (Pork, chicken, beef, or carnitas) Wet optional w/ asada add 3.00
Chicken Breast Asada
Marinated chicken breast grilled to perfection.
Fajitas Dinner Platter
Sauteed with bell peppers, tomatoes, onions and melted cheese on top. Served with sour cream and guacamole.
Carne Asada
Strips of steak cooked on the grill with sliced grilled queso fresco. Served with beans, rice, and tortillas.
Shrimp Enchiladas
Served with grilled queso fresco, topped with red mole nopal sauce and avocado. Served with beans, rice, and tortillas.
Camarones Al Mojo De Ajo
Shrimp cooked in butter, garlic, and spices. Served with beans, rice, and tortillas.
Camarones A La Mexicana
Made with tomatoes, onions, chiles, and special spices. Made spicy upon request. Served with beans, rice, and tortillas.
On the Grill and Seafood Entrees
House Favorites
Chicken Mole Enchiladas
Rich dark mole sauce, topped with queso fresco and crema. Served with beans and rice.
Torta
Made on a telera bread, grilled queso fresco, avocado, onions, lettuce, tomatoes, and jalapenos. Choice of carnitas or carne asada. Served with french fries.
Camarones Costa Azul
Fried bacon-wrapped shrimp stuffed with cheese, served with beans and rice.
Suizo Burrito
Grilled chicken or shrimp. Queso fresco and rice, topped with creamy tomatillo sauce, Jack cheese and avocado. Add shrimp for an additional charge.
2 Fish Taco
Served with chipotle sauce, pico de gallo, crema and cabbage, served with beans and rice.
Steak A La Mexicana
Strips of steak topped with onions, tomatoes, and chiles, served with beans and rice.
Hard Shell Tacos
The shredded beef and ground beef tacos come with lettuce, tomato, and cheese and the chicken and potato tacos come with guacamole, lettuce, tomato.
Street Taco
Cilantro, onions, cabbage.
Tamale
Pork, topped with meat sauce.
Enchilada Suiza
Creamy tomatillo sauce with melted Jack, cheese, topped with cilantro and crema. Grilled chicken or cheese.
Fish Taco
Chipotle sauce, crema, cabbage, pico de gallo.
Cheese Enchilada
Tostada
Beans, lettuce, tomato, and cheese. Add meat chicken, shredded beef, ground beef, pork.
Chile Relleno
Topped with meat sauce.
Mole Enchilada
Rich dark mole sauce, topped with queso fresco and crema. Grilled chicken or cheese.
Guadalajara Potato Taco
Hard shell potato taco topped with lettuce, crema, queso fresco, and sauce.
Verde Enchilada Supreme
Chile verde pork meat served with green peppers, onions, and sour cream topped with green sauce.
Vegeterian Taco
Hard shell, whole beans, guacamole, lettuce, pico de gallo.
Shrimp Enchilada
Served with grilled queso fresco, topped with red mole nopal sauce and avocado.
Shrimp Taco
Chipotle sauce, crema, cabbage, pico de gallo.
A La Carte
Side Orders
Chips And Salsa
Beans
Rice
Fresh Guacamole
French Fries
Chiles Toreados
3 pieces.
Sour Cream
Meat Sauce
Bowl Of Vegetarian Whole Beans
Frijoles de la olla.
Pico De Gallo
Tortillas
Kid's Small Bean And Cheese Burrito Plate
Kid's Quesadilla Plate
Kid's 1 Hard Shell Taco Plate
Kid's 1 Street Taco Plate
Kid's Cheese Enchilada Plate
Kid's 2 Rolled Taquitos With Guacamole Plate
Kid's Cheese Burger Plate
Kid's Chicken Nuggets Plate
Kid's Grilled Cheese Plate
Kid's Mini Albondiga Soup Bowl Plate
2 meatballs.
Kid's Plate
Desserts
Apple Chimi
Caramelized apples and cream cheese filled in a deep fried flour tortilla. Served with vanilla ice cream, whipped cream chocolate and caramel.
Soft Drink
Horchata
Strawberry Lemonade
Iced Tea
Chocolate Milk
Coffee
Milk
Orange Juice
Apple Juice
Beverages
HAPPY HOUR SPECIALS
HAPPY CEVICHE TOSTADAS
TWO SMALL CEVICHE TOSTADAS MADE WITH SHRIMP, CUCUMBER, TOMATO, AND CURT WITH LIME CAN ONLY ORDER FROM 3PM -5:00PM
HAPPY ENCHY FRIES
CRISPY FRIES TOPPED WITH CHEESE AND OUR HOMEMADE ENCHILADA SAUCE
HAPPY NUGGETS 6PC
A SIDE ORDER OF 6PC NUGGETS AVAILABLE ONLY FROM 3PM-5PM