El Loco Mexican Cafe Menu
Introducing the menu at El Loco Mexican Cafe, a vibrant cocktail bar with a Tex-Mex twist in Albany, NY. Known for its extensive vegan and vegetarian options, this casual yet classy spot offers a range of delights, from gourmet margaritas to flavorful aperitivos like the El Dip and Loco Chili Carne. For a taste of authentic Mexican cuisine, try the Sopa de Frijole Negro or Gazpacho. Customers rave about the delicious food and drinks, from the frozen margaritas to the house-made hot sauce. While some mention minor service delays, the overall consensus is positive, with guests praising the fantasticos nachos and combo dishes. With a welcoming atmosphere and attentive service, El Loco Mexican Cafe is a must-visit for a fun and flavorful dining experience.
ALCOHOL (Must be 21 to purchase)
GOURMET MARGARITA
Please choose a flavor if desired! Must be 21 to purchase.
FROZEN MARGARITA
Please choose a flavor if desired! Must be 21 to purchase.
BOTTLE OF WINE
Please choose a flavor. Must be 21 to purchase.
BOTTLED BEER
Must be 21 to purchase.
El Dip
A great large party warm up 5 of our delicious dips with unlimited chips.
Unlimited Corn Tortilla Chips Fresh Cut, Fried and Unsalted
Unlimited Corn Tortilla Chips Fresh Cut, Fried and Unsalted with 1 Dip
Unlimited Corn Tortilla Chips Fresh Cut, Fried and Unsalted with 2 Dips
Unlimited Corn Tortilla Chips Fresh Cut, Fried and Unsalted with 3 Dip
Guacamole
Our avocado dip made fresh daily from only hass variety California.
Guacamole with 1 Dip
Guacamole with 2 Dips
Buenos Nacho
El Locos original nacho platter. A single layer of tortilla chips smothered in Jack and cheddar cheeses, refried beans, onions, jalapenos.
Classicos Nacho
Lots of crispy corn tortilla chips topped with melted Jack and cheddar with jalapenos. Served with salsa roja and sour cream.
Fantasticos
Layer upon layer of corn tortilla chips with melted Jack and cheddar cheese, black beans, salsa roja, salsa verde, sour cream, tomatoes, onions and jalapenos. Add meat or dipping sauce for an additiona charge.
Pavo Flautas
4 corn tortilla flutes filled with our sauteed turkey on a bed of lettuce with salsa roja, salsa verde and sour cream for dipping.
Pizza Mexicana
Served on a thin-crusted crispy flour pizza and topped with melted cheeses and jalapeno peppers. Choose from either spinach or our award-winning veggie chili as your sauce.
Pizza Mexicana with Chorizo
Served on a thin-crusted crispy flour pizza and topped with melted cheeses and jalapeno peppers. Choose from either spinach or our award-winning veggie chili as your sauce.
Mushroom Quesadilla
Our cilantro-parsley and lime garlic chimichurri sauce with portabella mushrooms and melted cheeses folded into a flour tortilla, broiled and cut in wedges.
Aperitivos
Aperitivos Sopas
Sopa de Frijole Negro
Vegetarian black bean soup.
Loco Chili Carne
Our shredded beef chili.
Loco Chili Veggie
Our meatless chili.
Gazpacho
Seasonal, chilled vegetable soup.
Burrito Espinaca con Champiniones
Spinach burrito with mushrooms, artichoke hearts and shallots, topped with jack and cheddar cheeses.
Ancho-Chipotle Chicken Chimichanga
Chunks of white meat chicken breast cooked in ancho-chipotle chiles, rolled in a flour tortilla withcheese and deep fried golden brown.
Burrito Verduras
Vegetable and rice burrito - a combination of sauteed fresh vegetables with Mexican rice wrapped in a flour tortilla and covered with melted cheeses.
Tamales con Puerco
2 pork tamales. Our unusual spicy-sweet pork rolled in cornmeal masa, wrapped in cornhusks and steamed. Bathed in a veggie chili garnish.
Chimichanga Verduras
A combination of sauteed fresh vegetables rolled in a flour tortilla with cheese and deep fried to a golden brown.
Chorizo Chimichanga
Spiced chunky Mexican pork sausage, sauteed with onions and peppers, rolled in a flour tortilla with cheese and deep fried to a golden brown.
Ancho-Chipotle Chicken and Spinach Enchiladas
2 enchiladas stuffed with chunks of chicken breast cooked in ancho-chipotle chiles, spinach, artichoke hearts, mushrooms and red peppers. Covered in tomatillo salsa and cheeses and broiled.
Ancho-Chipotle Chicken Burrito
Chunks of white meat chicken breast cooked in ancho-chipotle chiles, wrapped in a flour tortilla with Mexican rice and topped with melted cheeses.
Chorizo and Rice Burrito
Spiced chunky Mexican pork sausage, sauteed with onions and peppers, wrapped in a flour tortilla with Mexican brown rice and topped with melted cheese.
Pavo Flauta
3 corn tortillas filled with turkey rolled into flutes, deep fried until crispy and served with a guacamole garnish.
Machaca Flauta
3 corn tortillas filled with beef rolled into flutes, deep fried until crispy and served with a guacamole garnish.
Especiales Mexicanas
Mole Negro
Chicken Mole Negro
Chunks of chicken breast and sauteed onions in our black mole sauce. Served with Mexican rice, black beans, a green salad and warmed flour tortillas.
Tofu and Vegetable Mole Negro
A mixture of tofu, zucchini, mushrooms, potatoes, peppers, onions and more, sauteed in our black mole sauce, Served with Mexican rice, black beans, a green salad and warmed flour tortillas.
A Mega Wrap
Served with your choice of 2 fillings. Beef, turkey, black beans or pinto beans and lettuce, tomato, Mexican rice, sour cream, covered with our salsa roja, jack and cheddar cheeses and broiled. Served with blue corn bread.
Burrito Grande
Loco Combos
Enchilada and Taco Combo
Burrito and Taco Combo
3 Tacos Combo
Enchilada and Chimichanga Combo
2 Enchiladas Combo
Enchilada and Burrito Combo
Chimichanga and Taco Combo
2 Chimichangas Combo
Burrito and Chimichanga Combo
2 Burritos Combo
Chimi, Enchilada and Taco Combo
Burrito, Enchilada and Taco Combo
Chimichanga, Burrito and Taco Combo
Burrito, Chimi and Enchilada Combo
Chicken Fajita Salad
Mixed baby greens topped with warm strips of marinated chicken, tomatoes, onions, cucumbers, peppers, jalapenos and shredded cheeses. Served with chipotle ranch dressing.
Shrimp Salad
Mixed baby greens topped with jumbo shrimp cooked in our garlic-cilantro-lime chimichurri sauce, with tomatoes,peppers, onions, cucumbers, jalapenos and carrots. Served with chimichurri vinaigrette.
Tofu Salad
Mixed baby greens topped with our broiled marinated tofu strips, cheese, tomatoes, peppers, onions, cucumbers, jalapenos and carrots. Served with our house cumin-garlic vinaigrette.
Fajita Salads
Taco Salads
The Incredible Edible Bowl
Layered on our refried pinto beans and topped with a salad of fresh lettuce, tomatoes, onions and cilantro, black olives and shredded cheeses.
Ensalada
The salad fixings without the beans. Served with fresh grated carrot and our house dressing.
Ensalada with Guacamole
The salad fixings without the beans. Served with fresh grated carrot and our house dressing.
Ancho-Chipotle Chicken and Black Bean Salad
Chunked breast of chicken sauteed with ancho-chipotle chiles, served over black beans and topped with a salad as above.
Loco Chili Carne Salad
For the real chili head. A large helping of our award winning chili, served on a bed of brown rice, blanketed with shredded cheeses.
Loco Chili Veggie Salad
For the real chili head. A large helping of our award winning chili, served on a bed of brown rice, blanketed with shredded cheeses.
Ancho-Chipotle Chicken and Spinach Quesadilla
Our spinach, artichoke heart and mushroom mix with chicken cooked in ancho-chipotle chiles.
Ancho-Chipotle Chicken with Mexican Rice Quesadilla
Our chunked breast of chile spiced chicken with Mexican brown rice cooked in ancho-chipotle chiles.
Spinach and Portabella Mushroom Quesadilla
Spinach and artichoke hearts with portabellas.
Portabella Mushroom Quesadilla
Strips of portabellas sauteed in garlic and butter.
Ancho-Chipotle Chicken and Portabella Mushroom Quesadilla
Strips of portabellas with our chile spiced chicken.
Ancho-Chipotle Chicken and Black Bean Quesadilla
Our chunks of spiced breast of chicken layered on black beans cooked in ancho-chipotle chiles.
Frijole Quesadilla
Refried pinto beans or black beans, with green chiles and scallions.
Ancho-Chipotle Chicken In Green Salsa Quesadilla
Our chunked breast of chicken cooked in ancho-chipotle chiles and covered in tomatillo salsa.
Queso Quesadilla
Jack and cheddar cheeses, with green chiles, onions and cilantro.
Chorizo Quesadilla
Spiced Mexican pork sausage sauteed in onions and peppers.
Quesadillas
Fajitas
Chicken Fajita
Breast of chicken cut in strips, marinated in citrus juices and cilantro and sauteed with onions, chiles and green and red peppers.
Shrimp Fajita
Sauteed shrimp with red and green peppers, chiles and onions all bathed in a cilantro-parsley and lime based garlic chimichurri sauce.
Tofu Fajita
Locally made tofu cut in strips and marinated in spices and chiles. Sauteed with onions, jalapenos, tomatoes and green and red bell peppers.
Bananachanga with Whipped Cream
A hot banana and melted semisweet chocolate deep fried in a flour tortilla.
Bananachanga with Ice Cream
A hot banana and melted semisweet chocolate deep fried in a flour tortilla.
Bananachanga with Whipped Cream and Ice Cream
A hot banana and melted semisweet chocolate deep fried in a flour tortilla.
Fourless Chocolate Tort
10" knock-out chocolate punch made with a blend of four chocolates and finished with a ganache topping.
Dessert Nachos
A Loco staff favorite! Homemade corn tortilla chips topped with whipped cream, chocolate sauce, chocolate chips and powdered sugar.
Cheesecakechanga
A cheesecake filling wrapped in a flour tortilla and flash fried till warm and crispy on the outside, and cool and creamy on the inside.
Flan
Our homemade traditional Mexican coconut caramel egg custard.
Buenelos with Sugar and Cinnamon
Fried flour tortilla.
Buenelos with Honey and Cinnamon
Fried flour tortilla.
Buenelos with Ice Cream
Fried flour tortilla.
Key Lime Pie
Made with authentic Florida key limes tartly refreshing. Contains nuts.
Churros
Postres
Extras
L.A. Mexican
Lettuce, tomato and sour cream.
Sour Cream
Regular or fat free.
Guacamole Salad
Salsa Roja
Rice
Mexican brown arroz.
Beans
Veggie, pinto or black.
Rice and Beans
Arroz y frijoles.
Jalapeno Chiles
Blue Corn Bread
Steamed Tortillas
Corn or flour.
Soda
Iced Tea
Jarritos Orange Soda
Jarritos Mango
Bebidas
Gluten-Free Corn Tortilla Chips
Gluten Free Green Mountain Gringo Strips
Gluten-Free Green Mountain Gringo Strips with 1 Dip
Gluten Free Green Mountain Gringo Strips with 2 Dips
Gluten Free Green Mountain Gringo Strips with 3 Dips
Gluten Free Guacamole
Avocado dip made fresh daily.
Gluten-Free Guacamole
Gluten-Free Nachos
Gluten Free Classicos Nacho
Green mountain gringo strips topped with melted Jack and cheddar and jalapenos. Served with salsa roja and salsa verde.
Gluten Free Fantasticos Nacho
Layers of green mountain gringo strips topped with melted jack and cheddar cheeses, black beans, salsa roja, salsa Verde, sour cream, tomatoes, onions and jalapenos.
Gluten Free Ancho-Chipotle Chicken and Spinach Quesadilla
Our spinach, artichoke heart and mushroom mix with ancho-chipotle chicken.
Gluten Free Ancho-Chipotle Chicken with Mexican Rice
Our chunked breast of Chile spiced chicken with Mexican brown rice.
Gluten Free Spinach and Portabella Mushroom Quesadilla
Spinach and artichoke hearts with portabellas.
Gluten Free Portabella Mushroom Quesadilla
Strips of portabellas sauteed in garlic and butter.
Gluten Free Ancho-Chipotle Chicken and Portabella Mushrooms
Strips of portabellas with our chile spiced chicken.
Gluten Free Ancho-Chipotle Chicken and Black Bean Quesadilla
Our chunks of spiced breast of chicken layered on black beans.
Gluten Free Frijole Quesadilla
Refried pinto beans or black beans, with green chiles, and scallions.
Gluten Free Ancho-chipotle Chicken Quesadilla in Green Salsa
Our chunked breast of chicken spiced with ancho-chipotle chiles, and covered in tomatillo salsa.
Gluten Free Queso Quesadilla
Jack and cheddar cheese, with green chiles, onions and cilantro.
Gluten-Free Quesadillas
Gluten-Free Sopas
Gluten Free Sopa de Frijole Negro
Vegetarian black bean soup.
Gluten Free Loco Chili Veggie Soup
Our meatless chili.
Gluten Free Ancho-Chipotle Chicken Spinach Enchiladas
Chunked breast of chicken cooked in ancho-chipotle chiles, garlic, spinach, artichoke hearts, mushrooms and red peppers. Wrapped in corn tortillas and broiled with green tomatillo salsa and Jack and cheddar cheeses. Served with Mexican rice and refried black beans.
Gluten Free Tamales con Puerco
Our unusual spicy-sweet shredded pork rolled in cornmeal masa, wrapped in cornhusks, steamed and bathed in a veggie chili garnish. Served with Mexican rice and refried black beans.
Gluten-Free Especiales
Gluten-Free Fajitas
Gluten Free Vegetarian Fajita
A mixture of green and red peppers, jalapenos, garlic, cilantro, potatoes, celery, zucchini, carrots, mushrooms, and onions, pan sauteed.
Gluten Free Chicken Fajita
Breast of chicken cut in strips, marinated in citrus juices and cilantro, and sauteed with onions, chilies, and green and red peppers.
Gluten Free Shrimp Fajita
Sauteed shrimp with red and green peppers, chilies, and onions all bathed in a cilantro-parsley and lime based garlic chimichurri sauce.
Gluten Free Rice and Bean Salad
Black bean or pinto bean.
Gluten Free Veggie Chili Salad
Gluten Free Ensalada
The salad fixings without the beans. Served with fresh grated carrot and our house dressing.
Gluten Free Ensalada with Guacamole
The salad fixings without the beans. Served with fresh grated carrot and our house dressing.
Gluten Free Ancho Chipotle Chicken and Black Beans
Chunked breast of chicken sauteed with ancho chipotle chilies, served over black beans and topped with a salad as above.
Gluten-Free Big Salads
Gluten Free Loco Combos
Gluten Free 3 Soft Tacos
Soft corn tortillas with your choice of 1 filling: cheese, Mexican rice, pinto beans or black beans. Topped with lettuce, tomatoes, onions and cilantro.
Gluten Free 2 Enchiladas
Rolled soft corn tortillas filled with your choice of filling: cheese, Mexican Rice, pinto beans, or black beans. Then topped with salsa roja or salsa verde and melted cheeses.
Gluten Free 1 Soft Taco and 1 Enchilada
1 soft corn tortilla taco and 1 rolled soft corn tortilla with your choice of 1 filling: cheese, Mexican rice, pinto beans, or black beans. Then topped with salsa roja or salsa verde and melted cheeses.
Gluten Free Flan
Our homemade traditional Mexican coconut caramel egg custard.
Gluten Free Fourless Chocolate Tort
A 10" knock-out chocolate punch made with a blend of four chocolates and finished with a ganache topping.
Gluten Free Dessert Nachos
A Loco staff favorite! Our gluten free tortilla chips topped with whipped cream, chocolate sauce, chocolate chips, and powdered sugar.