Johnny Tamales - Pasadena Menu (2025 Update)
Johnny Tamales - Pasadena offers a wide range of Tex-Mex and Mexican dishes with a variety of options to cater to different dietary preferences. The restaurant provides a casual and vibrant atmosphere, perfect for groups, families, and even solo diners. With options for vegan and vegetarian dishes, as well as wheelchair accessibility, Johnny Tamales aims to accommodate all guests.
From homemade guacamole and fajita nachos to seafood enchiladas and combination plates like the El Paso Burrito, the menu is filled with flavorful choices. The attention to detail in each dish, such as the stuffed quesadillas and crispy tacos, showcases the commitment to providing an authentic dining experience. The restaurant also offers amenities like outdoor seating and a full bar, making it a versatile and enjoyable dining destination. Johnny Tamales truly delivers a taste of Mexico in the heart of Pasadena.
Antojitos
Homemade Guacamole
Fajita Nachos
Topped with your choice of beef or chicken fajita, served with refried beans, melted cheese, guacamole, sour cream, and jalapeno.
Quesadillas
Flour tortillas stuffed with beef or chicken fajita and melted cheese, served with guacamole, sour cream, and pico de gallo.
Chile Con Queso
JT Tacos
3 chicken or ground beef taco with crispy flour tortillas or corn tortillas.
Fajita Taco
Beef or chicken fajita served in a flour tortilla with pico de gallo, guacamole, and chile con queso.
Seafood Enchilada
Cheese enchiladas topped with sauteed shrimp and a creamy white sauce.
Beef Enchiladas
Pick any two homemade sauces, meat sauce, chile con queso, sour cream, or rancherro sauce.
Chicken Enchiladas
Pick any two homemade sauces, meat sauce, chile con queso, sour cream, or rancherro sauce.
Ponderosa Enchiladas
Beef or chicken fajita meat topped with rancherro sauce, melted cheese, and diced avocado.
Cheese Enchiladas
Pick any two homemade sauces, meat sauce, chile con queso, sour cream, or rancherro sauce.
Tacos and Enchiladas
Combination Plates
El Paso Burrito
Your choice of fijita beef, chicken, or mixed smothered with chili gravy or chili con queso and served with rice and beans.
Bailito
"LilJohny's favorite" cheese quesadilla, taquito, and chile con queso with two fajita quesadilla and rice and beans.
Clasico
Cheese enchilada, tamale, beef, taco, guacamole, chile con queso, and rice and beans.
Ivannita
"Una chula nina" one cheese enchilada, one beef enchilada, one tamale, one beef taco, beans and rice.
Mariachi
Chicken flauta, beef enchilada, fajita taco, guacamole, chile con queso, beans, and rice.
Lolita
"Chiquita" one cheese enchilada, mini beef, burrito, tamale, beans, rice, fresh guacamole, and a crispy taco
Pacifico
Fresh guacamole salad, beef taco, puffy queso, and bean chalup.
Flan
Homemade silky Mexican custard topped with creamy caramel sauce.
Tres Leches
Rich homemade vanilla cake laced with three sweet creams, topped with a light meringue, and garnished with chopped fresh pineapple and strawberries.
Sopapillas
Enjoy fuffy Mexican pastries sprinkled with cinnamon sugar and honey for dimmping.
Cinnamon Churros
Warm churros with cinnamon sugar.
Postres
Iron Skillet Fajitas
Chicken Fajita
Served with rice and beans, pico de gallo, guacamole, and cheese.
Mixed Fajita
Served with rice and beans, pico de gallo, guacamole, and cheese.
Beef Fajita
Served with rice and beans, pico de gallo, guacamole, and cheese.
Stuffed Avocado
Large avocado stuffed with your choice of beef or chicken fajita with Monterey Jack cheese rolled in seasoned bread crumbs.
Cabo
Four jumbo brochette-style shrimp, grilled chicken, or beef fajitas, and much mas!
Tacos Al Carbon
3 fresh flour tortillas rolled and filled with beef or chicken fajitas, served with guacamole, chile con queso, and pico de gallo.
Johny Tamale Dinner
Three pork tamales, chili gravy, guacamole, and melted cheese on the side.
Mains
Pollo A La Parrilla
El Dorado Style
Grilled chicken breast, sauteed shrimp, crawfish tails, fresh mushrooms, and bell peppers in a creamy white wine sauce served with sliced avocado.
Rio Grand Style
Grilled chicken breast topped with grilled onions, melted Cheddar, and Monterey Jack cheese, guacamole, and sour cream.
Con Queso Style
Grilled chicken breast topped with chile con queso, fresh pico de gallo, guacamole, and sour cream.
Poblano Chicken
Grilled chicken breast topped with poblano peppers, crispy bacon, and melted Monterey Jack cheese on a bed of rancherro sauce.
Mahi Cancun
Grilled mahi topped with pico de gallo and avocado light lime butter, served with 3 grilled brochette shrimp. Served with cilantro white rice and black beans.
Del Mar
Eight brochette shrimp stuffed with cheese, jalapeno, and wrapped in bacon.
Seafood Specialties
Sopas and Ensaladas
Fajita Salad
Mixed greens with grated cheese, roasted corn, cucumber, sliced avocado, sliced tomato, and our beef, chicken, or combo fajitas.
Taco Salad
A crispy flour tortilla bowl with refried beans, a bed of lettuce, grated cheese, tomato, sour cream, guacamole, and spicy ground beef or shredded chicken.
Chicken Cobb Salad
Grilled chicken, crispy bacon, chuncks of avocado, roasted corn, roma tomatoes, black olives, chopped boiled eggs, and grated Cheddar cheese and Jack cheese.
Tortilla Salad
Fajita Bowl
Diced fajita meat, refried beans, rice, and dash of chili con carne, smoothered in queso.
El Dorado Bowl
Sauteed shrimp and crawfish tails, refried beans, rice, and smoothered in white wine sauce.
Bowls
Johnny Tamale Favoritos - Family Style Platters
Family Style Platters
Johnny Tamale Cantina favorite: Our ribs, sausage, brochette shrimp, beef and chicken fajitas served with rice, beans, guacamole, pico de gallo and cheese.