El Muchacho Alegre Menu (Update 2025)
Welcome to El Muchacho Alegre, a vibrant haven for Mexican cuisine located at 6222 N 72nd St, Omaha, NE. Known for its bustling atmosphere and exceptional service, this restaurant offers a menu that delights every palate. From the flavorful Tacos La Taquiza to the refreshing Michelada cocktails, each dish is crafted with care and creativity.
Customers rave about the generous portions and reasonable prices, making every visit fruitful. Signature offerings like Chili Verde and Ceviche are crowd favorites, consistently praised for their taste and presentation. The staff, exemplified by outstanding servers like Thomas and Carlos, embody the essence of warm hospitality, ensuring that every dining experience is memorable.
- Exceptional margaritas to complement your meal.
- Inviting patio and cozy indoor seating.
- Quick service without compromising quality.
With a commitment to customer satisfaction and delectable food, El Muchacho Alegre is the perfect destination for any occasion!
Soups/ Sopas
Shrimp Soup
Red tomato broth with zucchini, onion and tomatoes, combined with shrimps.
Chicken Tortilla Soup
Red tomato broth with zucchini, onion and tomatoes. Served with chicken, fried slices of tortilla, and pico de gallo.
Caldo De Mariscos
Shrimp, octopus and seafood mix cooked in a light tomato based broth. Served with bread.
Shrimp Salad
A fresh romaine lettuce topped with grill shrimp, shredded cheese and tomato. Served with dressing.
Taco Salad Fajita
A crispy flour tortillas shell, filled with lettuce, melted cheese sauce, sauteed bell peppers, onion, tomatoes & your choice of fajita chicken or steak. Topped with lettuce, cheddar cheese, tomato, guacamole & sour cream.
Grilled Chicken Salad
A fresh romaine lettuce, topped with strips of grilled chicken, shredded cheese, tomatoes, avocado croutons. Served with dressing.
Lettuce Wrap
Your choice of chicken, steak or shrimp wrapped in lettuce, topped with red cabbage mixed with pico de gallo. Served with black beans and chipotle cream sauce.
Taco Salad
A crispy flour tortilla shell, filled with lettuce, pico de gallo, shredded cheese, sour cream, guacamole and your choice of seasoned ground beef, shredded beef or chicken.
Salads/ Ensaladas
Molcajetes
Molcajete Alegre
Combines classic flavors of rib eye steak, grilled chicken breast, grilled shrimp, chorizo sausage, grilled onion, queso fresco, cactus, & with spicy house salsa in the molcajete stone.
Molcajete Seafood
Shrimp, scallops, and tilapia grilled with mushrooms, squash mexican onions and nopales, (cactus), marinated in our special red sauce and covered with cheese. Topped with Chile toreado and one cheese quesadilla.
Chori-Dip
Creamy queso sprinkled with chorizo. Served with complimentary tortilla chips.
Corn On The Cob
Lime, mayonnaise, cheese and chile peppers.
Cheese Dip
Creamy queso served with complimentary tortillas chips.
Guacamole Dip
Fresh guacamole served with complimentary tortilla chips.
Texas Dip
Grilled shrimp and crab with cheese sauce.
Spinach Dip
Spinach dip served with complementary tortilla chips.
Dips/ Aderezos
Enchiladas
Enchiladas Verdes
Three corn tortillas rolled and stuffed with your choice of beef, chicken or cheese. Topped with green chili sauce and cheese. Served with rice and beans.
Enchiladas Poblanas
One beef, one chicken, one refried bean and one cheese topped with red enchilada sauce, lettuce, sour cream and tomato.
Enchiladas Mole Poblano
Three cheese enchiladas topped with shredded pork and enchilada mole poblano sauce. Served with side rice, lettuce, guacamole and tomatoes.
Enchiladas Jalisco
Two corn tortillas, rolled and stuffed with chicken, topped with red sauce and cheese. Served with rice, lettuce, guacamole, and pico de gallo.
Seafood Enchiladas
Three corn tortillas rolled and stuffed with shrimp, tilapia, crab, and scallops. Topped with green chili sauce, cheese, sour cream and avocado slices. Served with rice and beans.
Potato Enchiladas
Three corn tortillas rolled and stuffed with potatoes. Topped with red chili sauce and queso fresco. Served with black beans, romaine lettuce and tomatoes.
Picadillo Steak
Grilled chunks of sirloin steak cooked with pico de gallo. Served with rice, beans, lettuce, tomatoes and tortillas.
El Regio
Grilled chicken, steak, and shrimp. Served with rice and beans, guacamole, pico de gallo, one fried jalapeno and tortillas.
Steak Alegre
8 oz ribeye steak, served with one strip of grilled shrimp wrapped in bacon. Served with rice, beans, lettuce, guacamole, tomatoes, and tortillas.
Steak Ranchero
12 oz t-bone steak grilled to your liking. Smothered with our special spicy sauce, served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Carne Asada
8 oz ribeye steak. Served with rice, beans, lettuce, guacamole, pico de gallo, one fried jalapeno, sauteed onion and tortillas.
Steak Jalisco
12 oz t-bone steak grilled to perfection, served in a sizzling platter, in a bed of cooked vegetables and cheese sauce. Served with rice, beans, lettuce, pico de gallo, guacamole and tortillas.
Steaks / Carnes
Desserts / Postres
Flan
Mexican custard baked until creamy and smooth. Topped with whipped cream.
Fried Ice Cream
Vanilla ice cream rolled in a coconut and corn-flake coating, quick fried. Topped with honey, whipped cream, chocolate syrup, cinnamon, and cherry.
Churros
Rolled churros in cinnamon sugar traditional, with side chocolate, caramel syrup and whipped cream.
Cheesecake
Fresh cheesecake slice topped with cherry, chocolate syrup and whipped cream.
Grilled Mexican Street Corn
Fresh com grilled with sauteed vegetables topped with lime, mayonnaise, cotija cheese and tajin.
Sopapilla With Ice Cream
Golden fried pastry dough topped with honey, whipped cream, chocolate syrup, cinnamon, and cherry. Served with ice cream.
Tacos Al Carbon
Three steak tacos marinated in our house salsa. Served on com soft tortillas, topped with queso fresco and pico de gallo. Served with rice, beans, lettuce and guacamole.
Tacos De Carnitas
Three braised pork, pico de gallo, avocado, cilantro, and queso fresco. Served with pinto beans and tomatillo hot sauce.
Chile Colorado
Grilled chunks of sirloin steak cooked with a red chili sauce. Served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Flautas
Rolled, fried tortillas filled with choice of shredded chicken or beef. Topped with queso fresco, sour cream, tomato and avocado. Served on a bed of lettuce.
Sopes
Three circles of fried maza. Topped with your choice of meat: grilled chicken, steak or shrimp, lettuce, sour cream, queso fresco, avocado and tomato.
Carnitas
Slow fried pork shoulder butt. Served with rice, beans, lettuce, guacamole, pico de gallo, pickled jalapenos and tortillas.
Chile Verde
Tender pulled pork cooked with a green chili sauce. Served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Tacos Al Pastor
Three soft corn tortillas stuffed with marinated grilled pork with a hint of sweet onions and pineapple. Topped with fresh cilantro, onion, and avocado. Served with hot salsa and lime.
Chiles Rellenos
Two large poblano peppers stuffed with cheese and your choice of meat, potato, chicken, steak, or shrimp. Topped with our special sauce. Served with rice and beans.
Chimichanga
Flour tortillas stuffed with your choice of shredded beef or chicken, then fried to a golden brown, smothered in a cheese sauce. Served with rice, beans, lettuce, guacamole, pico de gallo, and sour cream.
La Taquiza
Four of our famous mixed taco meat: steak, chicken, onions, jalapeno, pineapple and cheese. Topped with onions and cilantro. Served with two green onion, lime, hot sauce and fried jalapeno.
El Muchacho Especial
8 oz ribeye steak, shrimp, corn, two cheese enchiladas. Guacamole, one fried jalapeno, side rice, beans and tortillas.
Fried Taco Birria
Three com tacos ahogados. Dipped in our beef birria soup fried with melted mozzarella cheese. Topped with cilantro and onions. Served with a small birria soup.
Steak Tacos
Three soft flour tortillas stuffed with chunks of grilled steak. Served with beans, pico de gallo, and hot salsa.
Chef's Favorites / Favoritos Del Cocinero
Chicken / Platillos De Pollo
Chicken Primavera
Grilled chicken breast with mushrooms and onions. Covered with cheese sauce. Served with rice, black beans, lettuce, guacamole and sour cream.
Pollo Hawaii
Grilled chicken with ham. Topped with a pineapple ring and cheese sauce. Served with rice and romaine salad.
Pollo Loco
Grilled chicken breast topped with sauteed onion and smothered in cheese sauce. Served with rice, lettuce, guacamole, pico de gallo, and cheese.
Chicken Rice
Grilled chicken served over rice, topped with cheese sauce, and side tortillas.
Chori-Pollo
Grilled chicken breast topped with chorizo and smothered in cheese sauce. Served with rice, lettuce, guacamole, cheese, and pico de gallo.
Chicken Mole Poblano
Chicken breast topped with mole sauce. Served with rice, guacamole, salad and tortillas.
Pollo Pina
Grilled chicken breast with pineapple, onions, tomato, peppers, served over rice. Covered with cheese sauce. Served with rice and romaine salad.
Guadalajara Special
Grilled chicken and shrimp with onions, tomatoes and bell peppers. Served over rice topped with cheese sauce and tortillas.
Chicken Chipotle
Grilled chicken with chipotle sauce. Served with romaine salad and rice.
Steak & Shrimp
Shrimp
Shrimp & Chicken
Fajitas El Muchacho
Steak, chicken, shrimp with mushrooms and grilled onions. Topped with mozzarella cheese and pico de gallo.
Shrimp & Scallops
Fajitas Hawaianas
Shrimp, chicken, pineapple chunks, bacon.
Fajitas Texanas
Steak, chicken and shrimp.
Fajitas Del Mar
Grilled shrimp, tilapia and scallops served on top of onions, bell peppers and pineapple.
Vegetarian
Mushrooms, zucchini, onions, tomatoes & bell peppers.
Fajita Bowl
Grilled onions, bell peppers, your choice of chicken or steak. Served in a bowl with rice, pinto beans, cilantro, tomatoes, broccoli, avocado, sour cream.
Fajitas Alegres
Steak, chicken, shrimp and chorizo.
Grilled Chicken
Fajitas Jalisco
Steak, chorizo and chicken. Topped with queso.
Pork
Steak
Fajitas
Seafood
Camarones Corajudos
Whole shrimp sauteed in fresh lime juice with our special sauce. Served with cucumber slices.
Fish Tacos
Two grilled tilapia, red cabbage, tomatoes, and cheese. Served with white rice, and black beans.
Burrito De Mar
Flour tortilla rolled and stuffed with shrimp, tilapia and crab, smothered in cheese sauce. Served with rice, lettuce. Guacamole, and pico de gallo.
Fried Mojarra
Whole tilapia, served with rice and fresh salad.
Camarones A La Diabla
Sauteed shrimp with pico de gallo and a very spicy red sauce. Served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Shrimp Chipotle
Grilled shrimp cooked with onions, tomatoes, and bell peppers. Served with rice and romaine salad.
Seafood Chimichanga
A flour tortilla stuffed with shrimp, tilapia, and crab, then fried to a golden brown. Smothered with cheese sauce and served with rice, beans, lettuce, sour cream, pico de gallo, and guacamole.
Garden Shrimp
Grilled shrimp with onions, tomatoes, broccoli, and carrots. Served with rice and romaine salad.
Camarones Crema
Shrimp cooked with sour cream. Cheese sauce and mushrooms. Served with romaine salad and black beans.
Aguachile Rojo O Verde
Shrimp cooked in lime juice with a red or green spicy sauce. Mixed with red onion and cucumber topped with sliced avocado. Served in our molcajete stone.
Shrimp Ceviche
Citrus marinated shrimp mixed with diced tomatoes, cucumber, onion, cilantro. Topped with avocado slices, served with tostadas.
Oysters
Tilapia A La Plancha
7-9 oz tilapia fillet grilled and served over sauteed onions, tomatoes, and bell peppers. Served with rice and side salad.
Coctel De Camarones
Refreshing shrimp cocktail with pico de gallo and diced avocado. Served with saltine crackers.
Shrimp Tacos
Two grilled shrimp, sweet onions, red peppers, topped with cilantro, queso fresco. Served with white rice and black beans.
Camarones Al Mojo De Ajo
Sauteed shrimp with garlic, onion, mushrooms, and cilantro. Topped with cheese sauce. Served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Fajita Quesadilla
A grilled flour tortilla stuffed with cheese and your choice of chicken or steak fajitas. Served with rice, beans, lettuce, guacamole, pico de gallo and sour cream.
Garden Quesadilla
A grilled flour tortilla stuffed with cheese, mushrooms and sauteed vegetables. Served with rice, beans, lettuce, guacamole, pico de gallo and sour cream.
Quesadilla Alegre
Flour tortilla stuffed with grilled steak or chicken and melted cheese. Topped with cheese sauce and served with rice, lettuce, tomato and sour cream.
Seafood Quesadilla
A grilled flour tortillas stuffed with cheese, shrimps, tilapia, and crab. Served with rice, beans, lettuce, guacamole, pico de gallo and sour cream.
California Quesadilla
Folded tortilla grilled and stuffed with cheese and your choice of meat, grilled chicken, grilled steak, pastor or shrimp. Served with pico de gallo, guacamole, sour cream and rice and beans.
Spinach Quesadilla
Grilled flour tortilla filled with spinach and cheese. Served with your choice of chicken, steak or cheese only. Served with black beans, romaine lettuce, tomatoes, and guacamole.
Quesadillas
Dinner Combinations / Combinaciones De Cena
Dinner Combination
Served with rice and beans. Your choice of 2 items.
Iris Burrito
Flour tortilla stuffed with grilled chicken and mushrooms, cheese, beans, rice, hot sauce. Smothered with cheese sauce and enchilada sauce on the side of guacamole and sour cream.
California Burrito
Large flour tortilla stuffed with rice, beans, lettuce, sour cream, guacamole, pico de gallo and your choice of meat. Topped with green chilli sauce, cheese sauce and red sauce.
Chipotle Burrito
Flour tortilla stuffed with tender pulled pork or chicken cooked in a chipotle sauce with sauteed onions and mild peppers, topped with cheese sauce. Served with rice, lettuce, and tomatoes.
Happy Burrito
A flour tortilla filled with your choice of ground beef or chicken, topped with red sauce, cheese, lettuce, sour cream and tomatoes. Served with rice and beans.
Texas Burritos
Two flour tortillas stuffed with steak and topped with cheese sauce. Served with rice, lettuce, and tomatoes.
Burrito Bowl
Served in a bowl, white rice, romaine lettuce mix, south west style com mix, sour cream, queso fresco, hot sauce on the side and your choice of meat: chicken, steak or pastor.
Burrito Mexicano
A flour tortilla stuffed with tender pulled pork and topped with cheese sauce. Served with rice, lettuce, sour cream, and tomatoes.
Meat & Potato Burrito
Flour tortilla rolled and stuffed with your choice of meat: steak, chicken or chorizo, potatoes, lettuce, white rice, whole pinto beans, and sour cream. Smothered with cheese sauce.
Fajita Burrito
Flour tortillas stuffed with your choice of chicken or steak fajitas, topped with red sauce, cheese, lettuce, sour cream, guacamole and pico de gallo. Served with rice and beans.
Burrito Gordo
A large flour tortilla stuffed with rice, beans, chicken and chorizo (Mexican sausage). Topped with cheese sauce.
Burritos
Appetizers/ Aperitivos
Fresh Guacamole
Diced avocados, tomatoes, cilantro, onion, cheese and lime juice.
Nachos Rancheros
Fresh fried corn tortillas chips topped with steak, Mexican sausage, hot sauce, cheese dip, our special red sauce, guacamole, pico de gallo and sour cream.
Quesadilla
Grilled flour tortillas stuffed with cheese. Served with pico de gallo, sour cream and guacamole.
Nachos Supreme
Fried tortilla chips smothered with cheese sauce. Your choice of seasoned ground beef or chicken. Served with lettuce, guacamole, sour cream and cheddar cheese.
Soft Drinks
Fresh Brewed Tea
Aguas Frescas
Fresh waters.
Jarritos
Bottled Mexican soda.
Mexican Coca-Cola
Bottle.