Ixtapa Grille Family Mexican Restaurant Menu (Update 2025)
Welcome to Ixtapa Grille Family Mexican Restaurant, where vibrant flavors and warm hospitality collide! Located in Hamden, CT, this family-friendly eatery showcases a wide-ranging menu that celebrates authentic Mexican cuisine. On your visit, begin with their Fiesta Platter, a delightful mix of cheese quesadillas and taquitos, perfect for sharing. Don’t miss the signature Oceano Burrito, a seafood sensation packed with crab meat and shrimp, drizzled with tomatillo sauce.
The charm of Ixtapa lies in its fresh ingredients and traditional recipes. The Taco Salad offers a refreshing blend of flavors, while the Loco Burrito envelops marinated carne asada in a delicious tortilla embrace. Each dish is not just a meal but a feast for the senses, beautifully presented and bursting with authenticity. Come, indulge your taste buds in a vibrant dining experience that is truly unforgettable!
Appetizers
Idaho Potatoes
Potato skins with melted jack and cheddar cheeses with your choice of chicken, ground beef, or shredded beef. Topped with pico de gallo.
Taquito Bites
Rolled and deep fried corn tortillas filled with your choice of chicken or shredded beef. Topped with a savory salsa roja and cheese.
Fajita Nachos
House made tortilla chips melted cheese, marinated peppers and onions with your choice of chicken or steak. Topped with pico de gallo.
Chicken Wings
Buffalo wings with bone. Ranch dressing and hot salsa on side.
Super Nachos
House made tortillas chips, melted jack cheese with your choice of chicken, ground beef, or shredded beef. Topped with pico de gallo.
Queso Dip
Creamy rich cheese sauce with a little kick of jalapeños.
Camarones De Ajo
Sautéed chrimp with mushrooms and crushed garlic. Served with a side salad.
Fiesta Platter
A sample of everything. Cheese quesadillas, nachos, taquitos, and house wings.
Chicken Avocado Salad
Sliced grilled chicken in a taco bowl over a bed of fresh lettuce, topped with tomatoes, cheese, sour cream, and avocado slices.
Chicken Ceasar Salad
Romaine lettuce, tomatoes, cheese, sliced grilled chicken, and croutons.
Taco Salad
Taco Bowl with your choice of chicken, ground beef, shredded beef or pork over a bed of fresh lettuce topped with tomatoes, American cheese and sour cream.
Fajita Salad
A choice of fajitas-style chicken, or steak in a taco bowl served over a bed of fresh lettuce, topped with tomatoes, marinated peppers, and onions. W/shrimp
Shrimp Caesar Salad
Grilled shrimp served over black beans and romaine lettuce, topped with cheese, tomatoes and avocado slices.
Sopa De Albondigas
A classic Mexican meatball soup made with house made pork and beef meatballs, mint, rice and served in a vegetable broth with slices of fresh carrots, potatoes, and zucchini.
Tortilla Soup
A Mexican chicken soup with tortilla strips, avocado slices, and jack cheese.
Soups and Salads
Burritos
Ixtapa Burrito
Your choice of chicken, ground beef, shredded beef or pork with rice and refried beans wrapped together in a large flour tortilla. Topped with our savory salsa roja, shredded cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, guacamole, and sour cream.
Asado Burrito
Choice of marinated steak or chicken wrapped in a flour tortillas, topped with our salsa roja, pico de gallo, cheese, sour cream and guacamole. Served with black beans and rice.
Fajita Wrap Burrito
Your choice of grilled steak, chicken, or shrimp wrapped in a flour tortilla with marinated peppers, and onions. Served with lettuce, tomato, cheddar cheese, guacamole, sour cream, rice, and refried beans. W/ shrimp
Loco Burrito
Carne asada prepared with our house made seasoning, wrapped in a flour tortilla with black beans, and rice, topped with cheese, salsa roja, and guacamole.
Chicken Parrilla Burrito
Grilled chicken, black beans, withe rice and mixed vegetables wrapped in a flour tortilla. Topped with our salsa verde, pico de gallo, cheese, and sour cream.
Mole Burrito
A shredded chick burrito smothered in our special mole sauce made with Tia Maria, a dash of sesame seeds and served with rice and beans.
Oceano Burrito
A seafood medley of crab meat, scallops, shrimp, and white fish wrapped in a flour tortilla, topped with our tomatillo sauce and melted jack cheese. Served with refried beans, rice, sour cream and avocado slices.
Colorado Burrito
Savory braised beef cooked in a salsa roja with a blend of Mexican herbs and spices. Wrapped in a flour tortilla with rice and refried beans, topped with scallions, lettuce, cheese, and sour cream.
Bowl Burrito
Grilled chicken, or Steak bowl served with Spanish rice and black beans, corn, pico de gallo, shredded cheese, lettuce, guacamole and sour cream. W/ Shrimp
Pork Carnitas Tacos
Tender pork cooked in salsa verde topped with pico de gallo in three soft corn tortillas. Served with rice, refried beans, guacamole, lettuce, and tomato.
Mexico Tacos
Fajita steak or chicken in three soft corn tortillas topped with chopped mangos and cheese.
Chicken Flautas
Seasoned shredded chicken wrapped in a three corn tortillas and deep fried until crispy. Topped with a savory salsa roja and cotija cheese. Served with rice and refried beans.
Tacos Al Pastor
Your choice of marinated pork loin, steak, or chicken, topped with pico de and fresh cabbage in three soft corn tortillas. Served with salsa roja, refried beans and rice.
Fish Tacos
Fresh pan seared cod with shredded cabbage in three flour tortillas. Served with our house made salsa de pescado, refried beans and rice.
American Tacos
Choice of hard or soft tacos. Ground beef or chicken with lettuce, tomato, cheese. Served with refried beans and rice.
Fajita Tacos
Your choice of grilled steak or chicken with marinated peppers and onions served in flour tortillas. Served with refried beans, rice, lettuce, tomato. W/ shrimp
Ixtapa Tacos
Three corn tortilla tacos, Choose a meat: Grilled chicken or marinated Steak with melted Jack cheese and caramelized onions. .Topped with pico de gallo and guacamole, Served with rice and beans.
Birria Tacos
Birria traditional dish in Mexico. Three tacos made with tender shredded beef braised in an adobo, melted cheese in corn tortillas, topped with cilantro and onions, with a consomme for dipping. Served with rice and refried beans.
Tacos
Enchiladas
Enchiladas Jalisco
Three enchiladas, one chicken, one cheese, one shredded beef, served in a corn tortilla each with their own signature sauce. Accompanied by rice and refried beans.
Enchiladas Cancun
A seafood medly of crab meat, scallops, shrimp, and white fish, wrapped in corn tortillas, topped with our mild tomatillo sauce and melted jack cheese. Served with refried beans, rice, sour and avocado slices.
Enchiladas Suizas
Your choice of chicken, ground beef, shredded beef, or pork wrapped in soft corn tortillas topped with melted jack cheese and tomatillo sauce. Served with refried beans and rice.
Mole Enchiladas
Two chicken enchiladas smothered in our special mole sauce made with Tia Maria, a dash of sesame seeds and served with rice and beans.
Shrimp Enchiladas
Sautéed shrimp, tomatoes, and onions wrapped in a corn tortilla. Topped with mild tomatillo sauce and melted jack cheese. Served with lettuce, tomatoes, avocado slices, sour cream, refried beans, and rice.
Fajita Quesadilla
Grilled flour tortilla with grilled chicken or grilled steak, melted jack cheese, onions and peppers. Served with lettuce, tomato, sour cream, and guacamole on the side. Shrimp
Cancun Quesadilla
Grilled flour tortilla with melted jack cheese served with lettuce, tomato, sour cream and guacamole on the side. Shredded chicken, Ground beef or Shredded beef Grilled chicken or grilled steak Shrimp Vegetarian
Shrimp Quesadilla
Grilled flour tortilla with sauteed Shrimp, melted jack cheese. Served with lettuce, tomato, sour cream, and guacamole on the side.
Southwest Quesadilla
Melted cheddar and Jack cheese, grilled barbecue chicken, green peppers, corn and black beans.Served with lettuce, tomato, sour cream and guacamole
Grill Quesadilla
Melted jack cheese in a flour tortilla. Served with lettuce, tomatoes, sour cream, and guacamole. Choose protein Grilled chicken or Grilled steak
Quesadillas
Combinations
Combo Uno
Choose your filling: cheese, chicken, ground beef, shredded beef, or pork. Pick one: Taco, Tamale, Enchilada
Combo Dos
Choose your filling: cheese, chicken, ground beef, shredded beef, or pork. Pick two: Taco, Tamale, Enchilada, Tostada, Chili Relleno, Chimichanga, Burrito.
Combo Tres
Choose your filling: cheese, chicken, ground beef, shredded beef, or pork. Pick three: Taco, Tamale, Enchilada, Tostada, Chili Relleno, Chimichanga, Burrito.
Pacifico Chimichanga
A seafood medley of crab meat, scallops, shrimp, and white fish wrapped in a flour tortilla and fried to perfection. Topped with our tomatillo sauce and melted jack cheese. Served with refried beans, rice, sour cream, and avocado slices.
Fajita Chimichanga
Your choice of marinated steak, grilled chicken, or shrimp wrapped in a flour tortilla and fried to perfection. Topped with tomatillo sauce, melted cheese, and marinated peppers and onions. Served with rice, refried beans, lettuce, tomatoes, sour cream, and guacamole.
Cancun Chimichanga
Your choice chicken, ground beef, shredded beef, or pork wrapped in a flour tortilla and fried to perfection. Topped with lettuce, tomatoes, sour cream, and guacamole. Served with rice and beans.
Texana Chimichanga
Your choice of chicken, ground beef, shredded beef, or pork wrapped in a flour tortilla to perfection. Topped with melted cheese and salsa roja. Served with lettuce, tomatoes, sour cream, refried beans, and rice.
El Paso Chimichanga
Topped with chile con queso sauce and sour cream. Deep fried until golden brown and served with Spanish Rice and refried beans.
Relleno Chimichanga
A flour tortilla stuffed with Chile Relleno and fried until golden brown and crispy. Topped with Chile Verde and sour cream. Served with rice and beans.
Chimichangas
Fajitas
Steak Fajitas For One
Sizzling tender pieces of marinated steak with fresh bell peppers and onions. Served with rice, beans, warm tortillas, sour cream and guacamole.
Chicken Fajitas For One
Sizzling chicken with fresh bell peppers and onions. Served with rice, beans, warm tortillas, sour cream and guacamole.
Shrimp Fajitas For One
Sizzling shrimp with fresh bell peppers and onions. Served with rice, beans, warm tortillas, sour cream and guacamole.
Fajitas For One - Combo
Pick Two: Chicken, Steak or shrimp.Served with rice, beans, warm tortillas, sour cream and guacamole.
Fajitas For One - Combo Three
Chicken, steak and shrimp with fresh bell peppers and onions. Served with rice, beans, warm tortillas, sour cream and guacamole.
Fajitas For Two - Combo Two
Pick Two: Chicken, steak or shrimp. Served with rice, beans, warm tortillas, sour cream and guacamole.
Fajitas For Two - Combo Three
Chicken, steak and shrimp with fresh bell peppers and onions. Served with rice, beans, warm tortillas, sour cream and guacamole.
Puerco Adovado
Pork loin marinated in our salsa roja and grilled to perfection. Served with rice, beans and guacamole.
Pork Carnitas
Slow cooked pork braised in our home made carnitas salsa roja served with rice, beans and guacamole. A classic Mexican dish.
Chile Verde
Slow cooked pork braised in our home made tomatillo salsa served with rice, beans, and guacamole.
Pork
Beef and Steak
Carne Asada
Marinated and grilled skirt steak accompanied by fried green onions. Served with rice, beans, and guacamole.
Chile Colorado
Savory braised beef cooked in a salsa roja with a blend of Mexican herbs and spices. Served with rice and beans.
Steak Picado
Marinated steak tips served in our savory homemade salsa roja with peppers and onions. Served with rice and beans.
Tres Amigos
Grilled steak, grilled chicken, Mexican shrimp with vegetables, lettuce, tomatoes, and guacamole.
Steak And Shrimp
New York Strip grilled to your liking topped with peppers, onions, mushrooms and grilled shrimp. Served with rice, beans, guacamole and diced tomatoes.
Cantina Steak
New York strip grilled to your liking topped with peppers, onions, mushrooms. Served with rice, beans, guacamole and tomatoes.
Birria De Borrego
Lamb Shank was marinated overnight in wine and guajillo pepper sauce, baked to perfection, and served with rice and rancho beans, garnished with cilantro, onions, and sliced lime.
Pollo A La Parilla
Savory marinated grilled chicken. Served with rice, beans and sour cream.
Arroz Con Pollo
Sautéed chicken and a medley of vegetables in a homemade salsa roja served over a bed of Mexican rice and cheese. Accompanied with sour cream.
Pollo A La Crema
Tender pieces of chicken served in a creamy sauce with mushrooms. Served with rice and beans.
Pollo Mole
Tender pieces of chicken smothered in our special mole sauce made with Tia Maria, a dash of sesame seeds. Served with rice and beans.
Chicken
Seafood
Arroz Con Camarones
Sautéed shrimp and a medley of vegetables in a homemade salsa roja served over a bed of Mexican rice and cheese. Accompanied by avocado slices and sour cream.
Pescado Veracruz
Grilled Halibut accompanied with mixed vegetables cooked in a special house sauce. Served with rice, beans and avocado slices.
Tres Amigos
One of each. Grilled steak, grilled chicken, Mexican shrimp with vegetables, lettuce, tomatoes, sour cream, and guacamole. Served with rice and beans.
Camarones De Ajo
Grilled shrimp served in a flavored garlic sauce accompanied by rice and beans.
Camarones A La Diabla
Shrimp cooked in a spicy salsa roja with mushrooms. Served with rice, beans, lettuce, tomato, and avocado slices.
Camarones A La Mexicana
Sautéed shrimp cooked in a mild salsa roja with cilatro. Served with rice, beans, lettuce and avocado slices.
Steak And Shrimp
A Mexican surf and turf. Grilled shrimp and steak with rice, beans, and guacamole.
Veggie Chimichanga
Onions, peppers, and mushrooms all wrapped in a flour tortilla and fried to perfection. Topped with salsa verde and jack cheese. Served with rice and beans.
Veggie Fajitas
Mixed steamed vegetables over a bed of peppers and onions. Served with rice, beans, sour cream, guacamole, jack cheese, lettuce, and tomatoes.
Veggie Quesadilla
Grilled flour tortilla with melted jack cheese, lettuce, tomato, sour cream and guacamole.
Veggie Fiesta
One enchilada, one burrito, and one chili relleno, all filled with cheese and served with black beans.
Veggie Green Burrito
Onions, peppers, mushrooms, rice and black beans, lettuce wrapped in a flour tortilla, topped with pico de gallo, cheese and salsa verde.
Spinach Enchiladas
Two enchiladas filled with sautéed spinach served with white rice and black beans.
Relleno Chimichanga
A flour tortilla stuffed with Chile Relleno and fried until golden brown and crispy. Topped with Chile Verde and sour cream. Served with rice and beans.
Vegetarian
Huevos
Huevos A La Machaca
A traditional Mexican breakfast of scrambled eggs with seasoned shredded beef, served with rice, beans.
Huevos A La Mexicana
A traditional Mexican breakfast of scrambled eggs with onions. peppers. and fresh sliced jalapeño for an added kick. Served with rice, beans.
Huevos Con Chorizo
A traditional Mexican breakfast of scrambled eggs with spicy Mexican sausage and served with rice and beans.
Huevos Rancheros
Fried eggs smothered in ranchero cheese and salsa roja. Served with rice and beans.
Grilled Chicken Torta
Savory grilled chicken with melted jack cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, and avocado slices served on a toasted. Served with french fries.
Torta Union
Filled with shredded beef and refried beans, topped with lettuce, tomatoes, and avocado slices served on a toasted bun. Served with french fries.
Fajita Melt
Your choice of marinated chicken or steak with melted jack cheese, peppers and onions. Served on a toasted bun with french fries.
Big Burger
Two quarter pound patties customizable with your choice. Served with french fries. Toppings .50 each.
American
Desserts
Flan
Homemade caramel custard made with eggs, milk and coffee liquor. Glazed with a hint of caramel. Served with whipped cream.
Churros Rellenos
A traditional Mexican crispy pastry coated with cinnamon sugar and a drizzle of chocolate sauce. W/ Ice Cream 1.50
Deep Fried Ice Cream
Vanilla ice cream in a crispy coating topped with chocolate sauce and whipped sauce.
Burrito Dessert
Choices of apple cinnamon rolled in a flour tortilla, lightly fried, then covered with caramel sauce. Topped with whipped cream.
Brownie Sundae
A warm fudge brownie topped with vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce.
Quesadilla
Cheese quesadilla served with french fries or rice and beans (refried or black beans )
Chicken Tenders
Three chicken strips with french fries
Burrito
Bean and cheese burrito, cheese and sauce on it served with french fries or rice and refried beans
Enchilada
Corn tortilla with cheese and sauce on it. Served with french fries or rice and refried beans.
Taco
One hard or soft beef taco lettuce, tomatoes and cheese, served with french fries o rice and refried beans.
Cheeseburger
Cheeseburger served with french fries
Grilled Cheese Sandwich
Grilled cheese sandwich served with french fries.