Tequila’s Mexican Bar and Grill Menu
Welcome to Tequila’s Mexican Bar and Grill, a vibrant culinary gem nestled in East Peoria, IL. This unclaimed bar and grill offers a mouthwatering blend of traditional Mexican flavors, making it an ideal spot for takeout or dinner with family and friends. With a casual yet lively atmosphere, Tequila’s caters to groups and is perfect for kids, boasting an outdoor seating area and a full bar.
- Signature Dishes: Indulge in favorites like Arroz con Pollo, featuring charbroiled chicken over rice with homemade cheese sauce, and savory Chimichangas, fried to a golden perfection.
- Combos Galore: Opt for one of Tequila’s combos, including delicious enchiladas or tacos, satisfying even the biggest appetites.
- Quick Service: Customers rave about the prompt and friendly service, ensuring that you enjoy your meal without long waits.
Whether you're stopping by for a casual dinner or to enjoy a margarita during a lively night out, Tequila's promises a delightful dining experience that will leave you returning for more.
Appetizers and Dips
Melted Cheese
Melted cheese is made with our premium chihuahua style cheese, finely sliced pieces of poblano peppers, mushroom and chorizo, and 3 warm tortillas on the side.
Chori Queso
Our cheese sauce mixed with mild chorizo.
Cheese Dips
Guacamole Dip
Bean Dip
Chicken Wings
Try our delicious lightly breaded chicken wings with your choice of hot or BBQ sauce.
Tortilla Soup
Made from scratch chicken broth topped with crispy tortilla strips, cheese, and avocado.
Carne con Queso Dip
Ground beef with our homemade cheese sauce.
Famous Taco Salad
Large crisp fried tortilla bowl filled with lettuce, shredded cheese, tomato, sour cream, tortilla strips, and your choice of shredded chicken or ground beef.
Rancho Chicken Salad
Tender pieces of grilled chicken breast over a bed of fresh romaine lettuce, tomato, cucumber, croutons, and ranch dressing.
Ensalada Tequila's
Selected hearts of romaine lettuce, topped with grilled red and green peppers, portobello mushrooms, asparagus, tomato, and dressed with vinaigrette. Add chicken for extra.
Taco Salad Fajita
Served with your choice of grilled chicken or steak in a flour tortilla bowl with beans, lettuce, tomato, shredded cheese, sour cream, and tortilla strips.
Ensaladas
Burritos
Burrito San Jose
Burrito filled with steak or chicken, grilled with onions and bell peppers rolled up and topped with cheese sauce. Served with rice, lettuce, guacamole, pico de gallo, and sour cream.
Burrito ay Caramba
Jumbo burrito filled with choice of shredded chicken, shredded or ground beef, rice, refried beans, lettuce, cheese, tomato, and sour cream. All inside 1 big burrito.
Burrito Blanco
Burrito filled with tender grilled chicken, then smothered with cheese sauce. Served with rice, lettuce, sour cream, and pico de gallo.
Burrito Traditional
Filled with marinated pork then topped with cheese sauce. Served with rice, refried beans, lettuce, sour cream, and pico de gallo.
Burrito Bandera
Ground beef or chicken burrito smothered with 3 salsas, red, green, and cheese sauce over a bed of rice. Served with refried beans, lettuce, pico, and sour cream.
Burrito Steak and Cheese
Big burrito filled with grilled steak, bell pepper, and onion, covered with our own cheese sauce. Served with rice and refried beans.
Burrito Carne Asada
Sizzling on a skillet, big burrito over a bed of grill onion and bell peppers filled with skirt steak, refried beans, rice, lettuce, cheese, and mild salsa all inside 1 jumbo burrito topped with sour cream and tomato.
Shrimp a la Diabla
Served with your choice of spicy or mild, grilled shrimp cooked in our own salsa a la diabla. Served with white rice, steamed and lightly grilled vegetables, lettuce, pico, sour cream, and flour tortillas.
Shrimp Fajitas
Grilled shrimp served sizzling at your table over a bed of grilled onions, green and red bell peppers, with rice, beans, lettuce, sour cream, pico de gallo, and flour tortillas.
Fajitas Mazatlan
Grilled shrimp, tilapia, imitation crab meat over a bed of onions, bell pepper, and zucchini. Served with rice, refried beans, lettuce, sour cream, pico de gallo, and flour tortillas.
Quesadilla Cancun
Filled with melted cheese and grilled shrimp. Served with white rice, romaine salad with ranch, and chipotle dipping sauce.
Quesadilla Mazatlan
Filled with shrimp, imitation crab meat, grilled onions, bell peppers, and melted cheese. Accompanied with white rice, lettuce, guacamole, pico, and sour cream.
Enchiladas Shrimp Poblano
3 enchiladas filled with diced grilled shrimp, onion and bell pepper, and topped with creamy poblano sauce. Served with rice, lettuce, tomato, and sour cream.
Molcajete del Mar
Another of our own creations. Delicious shrimp and tilapia grilled with onion, bell pepper, squash and zucchini, with our chipotle sauce and cheese. Served with rice and flour tortillas.
Sea Food
Nachos
Nachos Viva Mexico
Freshly fried corn tortilla chips with layers of our cheese sauce, topped with lettuce fresh made guacamole, sour cream, pico de gallo, and jalapenos. With your choice of ground beef or chicken.
Cheese Nachos
Fresh crispy tortilla chips topped with our homemade cheese sauce.
Nachos with Ground Beef
Nachos with Shredded Chicken
Nachos with Cheese and Beans
Nachos with Grilled Chicken and Cheese
Nachos with Steak and Cheese
Fresh crispy tortilla chips topped with our homemade cheese sauce and charbroiled steak.
Nachos al Carbon
Tender steak or grilled chicken or mixed, grilled to perfection over a bed of fresh chips and our cheese sauce with grilled onions and bell peppers. Garnished with lettuce, guacamole, pico and sour cream.
Nachos Casero
Try our authentic creamy home-made salsa and queso over a bed of corn tortilla chips and grilled chicken. Served with lettuce, pico, sour cream, and guacamole.
Nacho Fries
Delicious bed of fries topped with our home-made queso sauce and your choice of grilled steak or chicken, guacamole, pico de gallo and sour cream.
Arroz con Pollo
Charbroiled chicken strips over a bed of rice topped with our homemade cheese sauce. Served with flour tortillas.
Pollo con Chorizo
Grilled chicken breast smothered with chorizo and melted cheese, accompanied with rice refried beans, and flour tortillas.
Pollo Pinon
Grilled chicken breast smothered with melted chihuahua style cheese, sauteed mushrooms, and bell peppers. Served with rice, refried beans, and warm flour tortillas.
Cheese Steak Norteno
Flour tortilla fried and filled with grilled steak, onion, bell peppers, homemade cheese sauce, lettuce, tomato, and sour cream. Served with refried beans and rice.
Quesadilla Fajita
10" quesadilla filled with cheese and your choice of grilled chicken or steak, with grilled onions and peppers. Served with rice, refried beans, lettuce, pico de gallo, and sour cream.
Tacos al Carbon
3 soft corn tacos filled with your choice of chopped steak or grilled chicken or carnitas or chorizo. Served with rice, refried beans, tomatillo salsa, lime, cilantro, and onions.
Chicken and More from the Grill
House Specialties
Molcajete House Special
1 of our own house dishes served on a unique molcajete bowl filled with choice of grilled chicken or steak or carnitas, with choice of green or red salsa, melted cheese, avocado, rice, and corn tortillas.
Gran Chimichanga House Special
1 big chimichanga, 1/2 chicken, 1/2 ground beef, and a ground beef enchilada. Served with rice, refried beans, lettuce, sour cream, and pico.
Carne Asada House Special
Charbroiled skirt steak seasoned and served over a bed of grilled onion and peppers. Accompanied by charro whole beans, 1 cheese quesadilla, rice, pico de gallo, sour cream, and 3 corn tortillas.
Chile Poblano and Picado House Special
1 big poblano pepper stuffed with cheese, 1 ground beef enchilada and your choice of grilled chicken or steak fajita picado. Served with rice and 3 flour tortillas.
Steak and Enchiladas House Special
Skirt steak charbroiled paired with 2 cheese enchiladas. Served with rice and refried beans.
Bistek de Poblano con Queso House Special
Skirt steak grilled over a bed of onion and bell peppers, then topped with slices of poblano pepper and potato with melted cheese. Served with charro style whole beans, rice, sour cream, pico and flour tortillas.
Carnitas Platter House Special
Tender pieces of pork slowly cooked then spiced with herbs. This is an authentic homemade Mexican dish served with rice, refried beans, sour cream, pico de gallo, guacamole, and corn tortillas.
Molcajete Chipotle House Special
Another or our own creations. Grilled chicken smothered in spicy creamy chipotle sauce and cheese, grilled onion, green and red peppers. Served with rice and flour tortillas.
Fajitas Mar y Tierra
Grilled steak strips, chicken, and shrimp. Served sizzling over a bed of grilled onions, bell pepper, with rice, refried beans, lettuce, pico de gallo, shredded cheese, and flour tortillas.
Fajitas al Tequila
Steak strips, chicken, and jumbo shrimp flamed with tequila. This technique takes away the alcohol leaving only the flavor behind. With rice, refried beans, pico de gallo, shredded cheese, and flour tortillas.
Chicken Fajitas
Served sizzling at your table over a bed of grilled onion, green and red bell peppers, with rice, refried beans, lettuce, pico de gallo, shredded cheese, and flour tortillas.
Steak Fajitas
Served sizzling at your table over a bed of grilled onion, bell peppers. Served with rice, refried beans, lettuce, pico de gallo, shredded cheese, and flour tortillas.
Tequilas Ultimate Skillet
Over a bed of onions and peppers, mar skirt steak, chicken, carnitas on a sizzling skillet, accompanied with rice, refried beans, lettuce, sour cream, guacamole, and flour tortillas.
Parrillada Tequilas
Feeds 2 people. Try this unique feast featuring grilled steak and chicken strips, grilled shrimp, sausage, BBQ wings over a bed of grilled onions, and bell peppers. Accompanied with cheese sauce, rice, refried beans, lettuce, pico de gallo, shredded cheese, and flour tortillas.
Fajitas Mixed
Grilled steak and chicken over a bed of grilled onion and bell peppers. Served with rice, refried beans, lettuce, pico, shredded cheese and flour tortillas
Sizzling Fajitas
A La Carte
Enchilada a la Carte
Tostada a la Carte
Tostada Nacho a la Carte
Flat fried tortilla topped with ground beef and cheese sauce.
Burrito a la Carte
Quesadilla 10" a la Carte
Fries a la Carte
Chile Poblano a la Carte
Big poblano pepper stuffed with cheese, egg battered and topped creamy homemade salsa drizzled with sour cream.
Tamale a la Carte
Rice a la Carte
Refried Beans a la Carte
Pinto beans cooked with vegetable oil. Vegetarian friendly.
Frijoles Charros with Bacon a la Carte
Whole pinto beans cooked with bacon, sausage, ham, onion, tomato and spices.
Tacos a la Carte
Taco Especial a la Carte
Grilled chicken or steak on flour tortilla topped with lettuce, tomato, and cheese.
Teeny Taco Salad a la Carte
Small version of our famous taco salad filled with lettuce, shredded cheese, tomato, sour cream, tortilla strips and your choice of shredded chicken or ground beef.
Street Taco a la Carte
Soft corn shell tortilla with choice of meat with chopped onion, cilantro, lime wedge and side of tomatillo sauce.
Tortilla
Shredded Cheese
Sour Cream
Pico de Gallo
Jalapenos
Ranch
Lettuce
Side of Avocado
Salsa de Tomatillo
Sides
Vegetarian Combos
Veggie 1
1 bean burrito, 1 cheese enchilada and rice. Served with lettuce, guacamole, sour cream and tomato.
Veggie 2
2 enchiladas filled with mushrooms and cheese, 1 bean tostada, and rice.
Veggie 3
Bean burrito with cheese sauce, 1 mushroom enchilada, rice, lettuce and sour cream.
Veggie 4
1 mushroom quesadilla, enchilada with cheese, rice and beans.
Veggie 5
2 cheese enchiladas served with rice, refried beans, lettuce, tomato and sour cream.
Veggie Fajitas
Broccoli, mushrooms, carrots, cauliflower, zucchini, yellow squash, asparagus, grilled onions and bell peppers. Served with rice, lettuce, pico de gallo, cheese and tortillas.
Veggie Quesadilla
Filled with melted cheese and mushrooms, lettuce, sour cream and tomato. Served with rice and refried beans.
Combo 1 Tequilas
2 enchiladas, 1 taco, and choice of rice or beans.
Combo 2 Tequilas
1 enchilada, 1 burrito, rice, and refried beans.
Combo 4 Tequilas
2 enchiladas, 1 beef and 1 cheese, rice and refried beans.
Combo 5 Tequilas
1 tamale, 1 enchilada, rice and refried beans.
Combo 6 Tequilas
1 flour chicken enchilada with cheese sauce, 1 crispy taco, rice and refried beans.
Combo 7 Tequilas
1 enchilada, burrito and 1 taco.
Combo 8 Tequilas
1 burrito, 1 taco, rice and refried beans.
Combo 9 Tequilas
1 beef enchilada, 1 taco, rice and refried beans.
Combo 10 Tequilas
1 cheese quesadilla, 1 crispy taco, rice and refried beans.
Combo 11 Tequilas
2 crispy beef tacos, side of rice and refried beans.
Combo 12 Tequilas
1 beef burrito with nacho cheese sauce, rice and refried beans.
Combo 13 Tequilas
2 beef enchiladas with our cheese sauce with rice and refried beans.
Combo 14 Tequilas
Beef burrito, beef enchilada and 1 tamale.
Combo 3 Tequilas
1 taco, 1 enchilada, and 1 tostada nacho.
Tequilas Combos
Enchilada Platters
Enchiladas Rojas Platter
3 enchiladas with choice of chicken or ground beef covered with red enchilada sauce and cheese. Served with rice, refried beans, lettuce, sour cream and tomatoes.
Enchiladas Verdes Platter
3 enchiladas with choice of chicken, ground or shredded beef covered with green enchilada sauce and cheese. Served with rice, refried beans, lettuce, tomato and sour cream.
Enchiladas Don Pollo Platter
2 flour enchiladas filled with chicken and topped with our delicious cheese sauce. Served with rice, refried beans, lettuce, garnished with sour cream and tomato.
Enchiladas de Carnitas Platter
3 enchiladas filled with melted cheese then topped with green salsa and tender pieces of pork, served with rice and refried beans, lettuce, tomato and sour cream.
Enchiladas Mexicanas Platter
3 enchiladas, 1 shredded beef with green sauce, 1 chicken with cheese sauce, and 1 ground beef with red sauce. Served with rice, lettuce, sour cream, tomato and guacamole.
Taquitos Dorados Dish
4 rolled up tortillas fried to a golden brown stuffed with choice of shredded beef or chicken over a bed of lettuce. Served with rice, pico de gallo, sour cream, and guacamole.
Mas Combo Dish
2 crispy tacos, 1 beef tostada, and 1 beef enchilada.
Chimichanga Dish
Big flour tortilla with choice of chicken or ground beef, fried to a golden brown covered with our delicious cheese sauce. Served with rice, refried beans, lettuce, pico de gallo, and sour cream.
Quesadilla Mexicana Dish
10" flour tortilla stuffed with cheese and your choice of shredded chicken or ground beef. Side of rice, refried beans, lettuce, pico de gallo, and sour cream.
Chile Poblano Autentico Dish
Big poblano pepper stuffed with cheese, egg battered and topped with shredded chicken, sour cream and homemade creamy sauce. Served with rice, refried beans and flour tortillas.
Traditional Dishes
Kids Menu
Kids Cheese Quesadilla and Fries
Kids Enchilada With Rice and Refried Beans
Kids Taco
Crispy or soft. With rice and refried beans.
Kids Burrito With Beef and Side of Rice
Kids Mini Taco Salad
With ground beef, lettuce, and cheese.
Kids Grilled Cheese and Fries
Kids Chicken Nuggets and Fries
Kids Cheeseburger and Fries
Kids Corn Dog and Fries
Pepsi
Diet Pepsi
Dr Pepper
Lemonade
Ice Tea
Cherry Pepsi
Sierra Mist
Mountain Dew
Raspberry Tea
Milk
Chocolate Milk
Orange Juice
Kiddy Cocktal
Beverages
Desserts
Flan Napolitano
Mexican homemade vanilla custard.
Sopapillas
Puffy pastries lightly fried, sprinkled with cinnamon, sugar, and drizzled with honey.
Cheesecake Chimis
Creamy cheese cake wrapped in a pastry tortilla fried until golden. Dusted with powdered sugar. Topped with chocolate and strawberry syrup.
Bunuelos
Fluffy fried cake sprinkled with powder sugar topped with cajeta caramel and vanilla ice cream.
Fried Ice Cream
Vanilla ice cream coated and slightly fried, topped with whipped cream, and chocolate, and cherry.
Lunch Combo 1
Beef enchilada, 1 crispy taco, and choice of rice or beans.
Lunch Combo 2
Burrito beef, enchilada beef, and choice of rice or beans.
Lunch Combo 3
Burrito beef, beef tostada and 1 taco.
Lunch Combo 4
Enchilada beef, tostada beef and cheese quesadilla.
Lunch Combo 5
Burrito beef, 1 taco and rice.
Lunch Combo 6
Flour chicken enchilada with cheese sauce, rice and beans.
Lunch Combo 7
Burrito beef and side of rice and refried beans.
Lunch Combo 8
2 crispy tacos, rice and side of cheese sauce.
Lunch Combo 9
Enchilada beef, tostada beef, choice of rice or beans.
Lunch Combo 10
Enchilada, tamale, and choice of rice or beans.
Lunch Combos
Lunch Menu Specials
Taquitos Dorados Lunch Special
3 rolled up tortillas fried to a golden brown stuffed with choice of shredded beef or chicken over a bed of lettuce. Served with rice, pico de gallo, sour cream and guacamole.
Chile Poblano Lunch Special
Poblano pepper stuffed to the max with cheese rolled in egg batter fried, drizzled with sour cream. Served with rice, refried beans and 3 flour tortillas
Burrito Banado Lunch Special
Smothered in red burrito salsa and nacho cheese, with your choice of chicken or ground beef. Served with rice, pico de gallo and sour cream.
Burrito Blanco Lunch Special
Filled with tender pieces of grilled chicken covered with cheese sauce. Served with rice, lettuce, sour cream and pico de gallo.
Burrito Steak and Cheese Lunch Special
Filled with grilled steak, bell peppers and onion, covered with our cheese sauce. Served with rice and refried beans.
Enchiladas Verdes Lunch Special
2 enchiladas with your choice of chicken or ground beef, then covered with melted cheese and green salsa. Served with rice, refried beans, lettuce, tomato and sour cream.
Enchiladas Rojas Lunch Special
2 enchiladas with your choice of chicken or ground beef, covered with red enchilada sauce and cheese. Served with rice, refried beans, lettuce, tomato and sour cream.
Quesadilla Mexicana Lunch Special
8" flour tortilla stuffed with cheese and your choice of chicken or ground beef. Side of rice, refried beans, lettuce, pico de gallo, and sour cream.
Tequilas Omelet Lunch Special
Filled with chunks of grilled chicken and covered with our cheese sauce. Served with side of rice, refried beans, and tortillas.
Fajitas Lunch Special
Choice of steak or grilled chicken over bed of grilled onions, and bell peppers. Served with rice refried beans, lettuce, pico de gallo, shredded cheese, sour cream and 3 warm flour tortillas.
Pollo Pinon Lunch Special
Grilled chicken breast topped with sauteed mushrooms and diced bell peppers, smothered with chihuahua style cheese. Served with rice, refried beans and 3 flour tortillas.
Tacos al Grill Lunch Special
2 soft corn tacos with your choice of steak or grilled chicken. Lightly seasoned and served with side of tomatillo salsa, cilantro, onions, and side of rice and refried beans.
Chilaquiles Rojos Lunch Special
Fried tortilla chips softened with red mild salsa and topped with chicken and melted cheese. Served with rice, lettuce, beans and sour cream.
Huevos con Chorizo Lunch Special
Eggs scrambled with chorizo. Served with refried beans, rice, lettuce, pico de gallo, shredded cheese, and flour tortillas.
Pollo Chipotle Lunch Special
Chicken breast charbroiled and topped with spicy chipotle salsa. Served with white rice, side of mixed vegetables, and flour tortillas.
Mini Arroz con Pollo Lunch Special
Charbroiled chicken strips over a bed of rice topped with our house made cheese sauce.
Chimichanga Lunch Special
Big flour tortilla with choice of chicken or ground beef, fried to a golden brown covered with our delicious cheese sauce. Served with rice, refried beans, lettuce, pico de gallo, and sour cream.