The Border Cafe
32 Church St, Cambridge, MA 02138 (617) 500-2878Main
Vegetarian Appetizers
Fresh vegetable medley in steaming cheese quesadilla.
Ripe avocados blended smooth and seasoned exactly as in old mexico, with fresh tortilla chips.
Vegetarian Salads
We fill a crisp flour tortilla with lettuce, black beans, cheeses, vine ripened tomatoes and scallions garnished with mushrooms, pepper rings, red onions and guacamole, a meal in itself.
The traditional caesar salad, crisp romaine lettuce tossed with caesar dressing, croutons and parmesan cheese, garnished with anchovy fillets on request.
Vegetarian Entrees
A medley of vegetables tossed with seasonings, sauteed and served fajita style with black beans and white rice.
Fresh flour tortilla stuffed with black beans, peppers, onions, monterey jack cheese and jose's famous blackened corn, cently fried and topped with roasted red pepper sauce.
Straight up from jose's garden is a medley of fresh vegetables and rice, lightly tossed in our spicy ranchero sauce, a vegetarian delight.
A large mexican poblano pepper stuffed with cheese and fried in a delicate batter, our ranchero sauce makes this dish truly authentic.
Delicately fried eggplant topped with a blend of cheeses and cajun spices.
Appetizers - Cajun
Shrimp stepped in a hearty new orleans style sauce and accented with negra modelo beer, cooked to form a rich sauce it is then placed atop grilled french bread with an extra piece to dunk with.
Made fresh daily, mozzarella quarters, seasoned, breaded, fried and served with a spicy ranchero sauce.
Crawfish tails sauteed with fresh vegetables, herbs, seasonings, combined to form a rich brown gravy over white rice.
Another insiders favorite, using a time honored cajun technique, boneless chicken fingers are marinated, spiced, seared on a cast iron skillet and served with a cajun marinade sauce.
Seasoned catfish bites deep fried in corn breading, served with honey mustard sauce.
Crawfish tails seasoned and cooked to a golden brown, served with bayou sauce.
Floyd's famous homemade cajun sausage served in a flour tortilla with bubbling monterey jack cheese and creole seasonings, straight from the bayou teche.
Shrimp fried, spiced with cajun seasonings and served golden brown with our own bayou sauce.
A cold, spicy seafood salsa, made with lump crabmeat, blackened shrimp, cusine in a remote fishing village along the southern gulf of mexico.
Louisianna style gumbo, chicken and sausage.
Appetizers - Mexican
Authentic mexican chorizo with green chilies, tomatoes, and baked with monterey jack cheese, served with fresh, hot flour tortillas, guaranteed you'll love it or your money back.
Dip our crisp, fresh made corn tortilla chips in this hot spicy cheese dip and you're hooked.
Ripe avocados blended smooth and seasoned exactly as in old mexico, with fresh tortilla chips.
A hot and spicy tenderloin fried and dipped in our secret texas sauce, accompanied by bleu cheese dressing and celery sticks.
Fresh vegetable medley in a steaming cheese quesadilla.
Melted monterey jack cheese salsa, stuffed in border's homemade flour tortillas. Available with fresh guacamole $.50.
A delicious blend of two worlds, a fresh flour tortilla is stuffed with shrimp, crawfish, monterey jack cheese, green onions and our cajun chef floyd's secret sauce (floyd says he had to wrestle and alligator to get the recipe).
Mexicana sausage, tomatoes, onions, and mushrooms blended with poblano jack cheese, served with fresh warm flour tortillas.
Salads
The traditional caesar salad with a cajun twist, with sauteed gulf shrimp and louisianna crawfish.
Grilled fresh tuna over our lettuce mixture with monterey jack cheese, tomatoes, red onions and our fresh mango salsa, jose recommends your try the tuna blackened.
The traditional caesar salad, crisp romaine lettuce tossed with caesar dressing, croutons and parmesan cheese, garnished with anchovy fillets on request.
Marinated chicken or beef, mesquite grilled and placed on top of crisp lettuce with vine ripened tomatoes, shredded cheese and sauteed onions.
We toss our greens with crumbled bleu cheese, mushrooms, red onions, tomatoes, and red peppers, then top it off with mesquite grilled steak, a texas taste combination.
Fresh lettuce mix with tomato wedges, smokey bacon, and two chooses.
Our special chicken or shredded beef with black beans, cheeses, lettuce, tomatoes, gucamole, red onions, mushrooms, scallions and peppers piled in to a crispy tortilla shell.
Fajitas
All of our fajitas aer served with your choice of black beans and jose's or jambalaya. *Served with pico de gallo, sour cream and shredded cheese.
First we marinate the beef or chicken in a secret blend of spices, then we grill it over mesquite wood and serve it sizzling hot.
Our fresh blackened catfish served line dancing under a fresh mango salsa.
10 oz of the choicest filet mignon is mesquite grilled and served sizzling hot.
A medley of vegetables are tossed with seasonings, sauteed and served fajita style with black beans and white rice.
Boneless breast of blackened chicken and your choice of tender marinated beef or chicken fajitas grilled mesquite logs.
Succulent louisiana gulf shrimp and your choice of marinated beef or chicken fajitas slowly grilled over mesquite logs to celebrate the big bosses favorite taste combination.
Mexican Specialties
These items need 18 minutes to reach perfection.
A boneless chicken breast stuffed with roasted poblano pepper, spinach mushrooms, and covered with monterey jack cheese and poblano pepper sauce.
A boneless marinated chicken breast filled with authentic chorizo, red peppers and spinach, roasted with poblano jack cheese, guaranteed you'll love it or your money back
An authentic argentinean steak. Flank steak grilled over mesquite wood, sliced and topped with a robust chimichurri sauce, jose proudly presents this indigenous argentinean tresure.
The best of both waters, fresh flour tortillas are stuffed with tasty shrimp, crawfish and poblano jack cheese then covered in a creamy poblano pepper sauce.
Mexican Specialties
The following mexican specialites are served with your choice of: black beans and jose's rice or jambalaya, add made from scratch guacamole $.95, add sour cream $.75.
We delicately fry fresh catfish then stuff it into two flour tortillas along with monterey jack cheese, pico de gallo and red pepper salsa.
Fresh flour tortillas stuffed with your choice of shredded beef or chicken and pico de gallo.
You choose from our tasty shredded beef or tender marinated chicken and we'll stuff it into a large, fresh flour tortilla, add plenty of cheese and bake it in enchilada sauce.
Combine any of our beef, chicken, or cheese enchiladas with beef or chicken taco.
Stuffed corn tortillas baked in cheese and enchilada sauce, stuffed with cheese and green chilis.
Stuffed with jose's special shredded beef.
A large mexican poblano pepper stuffed with cheese and fried in a delicate batter, our ranchero sauce makes this dish truly authentic.
Fresh flour tortilla stuffed with black beans, peppers, onions, monterey jack cheese and jose's famous blackened corn, cently fried and topped with roasted red pepper sauce.
Cajun Favorites
Tri-colored fettucine is tossed with mushrooms, red peppers and green onions in a spicy cajun sauce. We top it off with tender strips of mesquite grilled chicken.
Fresh from the bayou shrimp and crawfish are sauteed with mushrooms, red peppers and diced fajita onions. We toss them with tri-colored fettucine.
Succulent shrimp sauteed with mushrooms and smoked cajun ham. Powerfully seasoned and tossed with fresh tri-colored fettucine
Jim bowie loved exquisite food and fine wine. Jose proudly presents jim's personal new orleans favorite, seared medallions of beef tenderloin covered with a secret shrimp and fresh herb sauce.
An exciting cajun combination of tomatoes, onions and seasonings creates the perfect sauce for chicken, steeped in jose's original marinade, served over rice.
Crawfish tails sauteed with fresh vegetables, herbs, and seasoning combined to form a rich brown sauce over white rice.
Cajun Favorites
The following cajun favorites are served with your choice of black beans and jose's rice or jambalaya.
A fresh catfish fillet seasoned and fried untill tender. Topped with a fresh lemon pepper sauce, savor and taste that made new orleans famous.
A fresh 12 oz swordfish steak dipped in lip searing cajun spices and cooked till perfection on a blackening skillet.
A louisiana specialty, first we apply our secret cajun spices, then char-cook the 12 oz tuna steak on a special cast- iron skillet.
A large fresh fillet of cat fish, royally seasoned, deep fried with a shrimp and basil cream sauce.
A fresh carribean redfish fillet seared in cajun seasonings and covered with crawfish in rich brown sauce. An absolute cacophony of flavors for your palette.
A unique specialty straight out of the bayou. A special coating of cajun spices creates a rare delicacy.
This dish alone made the border famous, grain fed catfish seasoned with exotic spices, deep fried and topped with creole menieuro and shaved pecans.
A sauteed breast of chicken embraced by a tangy lemon pepper sauce.
This is a creole family tradition, as served on "royale" street in new orleans '' french quarter ,'' a bubbling hot blend of cheeses, lump crab meat and cajun spices, served over a delicately fried eggplant.
Our tender marinated breast of chicken, blackened on the outside, spicy and juicy on the inside and served with a cajun marmalade sauce.
A fresh catfish fillet dipped in blackening seasoning and seared on a cast-iron skillet.
Mesquite Grilled
All of our grilled foods are cooked over a live fire built daily, logs imported from northern mexico.
A fresh 12 oz yellowfin tuna steak grilled over mesquite wood and topped with jalapeno butter.
A fresh 12 oz swordfish fillet smoked over piping mesquite coals and accompanied by jalapeno butter.
14 oz certified angus ribeye, blackened to your liking, served with french fries.
Burgers
Hand made daily with certified angus beef. All burgers cooked medium well and served with french fries, add bacon on any burger for $0.50, add cheese on any burger for $0.30.
Made from fresh ground chuck.
Our mesquite broiled hamburger rubbed in cajun spices and covered with poblano jack sauce.
Our mesquite broiled hamburger served with pico de gallo and topped with guacamole.
