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Carlos O'Kelly's

(515) 232-1500

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  • 631 Lincoln Way, Ames, IA 50010
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  • Mexican
  • $$$$$
  • Carlos O'Kelly's

  • (515) 232-1500
  • Main
  • Lunch
  • Starters
    • Naked Nachos Grande

      Layers of refried beans, ground beef, and chili con queso. Topped with guacamole, cheddar cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, sour cream, chives and jalapenos. Served with crisp carlos o'kelly's chips on the side for dipping. Grande jr.

    • Chips & Salsa

      The warm crispy chips you love, and the made from scratch salsa you crave! 1 pound bag of chips, 1 pint of salsa, 1/2 pound bag of chips, 1/2 pint of salsa.

    • Guacamole & Chips

      Fresh guacamole, paired with a full bag of carlos o'kelly's tortilla chips-1 pint of guacamole with a large bag of chips 1/2 pint of guacamole with a small hag of chips

    • Chili Con Queso & Chips

      Our premium mexican-style cheese dip - creamy, spicy, and dclicioso. 1 pint of chili con queso with a large bag of chips add meat 1/2 pint of chili con queso with a small bag of chips add meat

    • Fajita Cheese Crisp

      A fried flour tortilla topped with tender pieces of grilled fajita chicken, monterrey jack, and butter garlic sauce. Baked pizzeria-style and garnished with diced tomatoes and chives.

    • Chipotle Cheese

      Crisp-a spicier version of the fajita cheese crisp

    • Quesadillas

      Soft hour tortillas folded around cheese, green chilies, and tomatoes, grilled to golden perfection. Served with sour cream and freshly prepared guacamole. With spiced chicken or shredded beef.

    • Fajita Chicken Quesadillas

      The cadillac of quesadillas with grilled fajita chicken plus cheese, green chilies and tomatoes. Served with sour cream and freshly prepared guacamole.

  • Salads & Pasta
    • Chicken Fiesta Salad

      Fresh mixed greens, with sliced avocado, diced tomatoes, black beans, sweet bell peppers, red onions, and kernels of sweet corn bringing color to the canvas. Topped with catlos' new green chile ranch dressing and served with your choice of grilled fajita chicken or crispy chicken tenders.

    • Chicken Santa Fe Salad

      Fresh mixed greens with slices of grilled marinated chicken breast, shredded cheese, black beans, tomatoes, marinated red cabbage, pico de gallo and our colorful southwestern croutons.

    • Super Tostada

      A large flour tortilla fried flat and covered with ground beef, beans, lettuce, cheese, and diced tomatoes. Topped with fresh guacamole, sour cream, and chives.

    • Taco Salad

      A crisp tortilla bowl filled with fresh mixed greens, shredded cheese, and your choice of spiced chicken or ground beef. Topped with tomatoes, sour cream, chives, and southwestern croutons. Add grilled fajita chicken

    • Pasta Diablo

      Tender pieces of grilled fajita chicken, sauteed green peppers & onions, and rotini pasta mixed with our diablo sauce - a butter garlic sauce laced with the smoky flavor of chipotle peppers. Topped with monterrey jack, tomatoes, chives, and sour cream. Mildly spicy.

  • Carlos Favorites
    Carlos favorites served with free chips & salsa.
    • Chicken Picado

      Tender pieces of marinated chicken breast, sauteed green peppers 6* onions, and melted monterrey jack in butter garlic sauce. Topped with tomatoes & chives and ready to roll in warm flour tortillas. Served with your choice of two sides.

    • Enchiladas San Carlos

      Two spiced chicken enchiladas made with flour tortillas, one covered with poblano cream sauce and the other with diablo sauce. Your chance to try two of our most distinguished sauces. Served with your choice of two sides.

    • Sancho/Monterrey

      Two of our most popular entries - a sancho especial with seasoned ground beef and an enchilada de monterrey with spiced chicken, both made with flour tortillas and cheese enchilada sauce. Served with your choice of two sides.

    • Navajo Taco

      Out of the american southwest comes this wonderfully unique marriage of native american and mexican cooking. Indian fry bread covered edge to-edge with refried beans, shredded lettuce, cheddar cheese, and tomatoes and topped off with guacamole, sour cream, and chives. Our navajo taco is served with your choice of either: seasoned ground beef, spiced chicken with poblano cream sauce.

  • Fiesta Platters
    Fiesta platters served with your choice of two sides and free chips & salsa.
    • Prairie Fire Steak & Enchiladas

      A charbroilcd 8-oz sirloin steak, tightly basted with the smoky flavor of chipotle peppers and served with two ground beef enchiladas covered with red enchilada sauce. Garnished with sour cream & chives. Spice up your enchiladas with corks tuego sauce - just ask your server.

    • Fiesta Sampler

      An opportunity to try three different sauces, three different fillings, and get a tostada to boot. A shredded beef chimichanga with red enchilada sauce, a spiced chicken enchilada with poblano cream sauce, a ground beef enchilada with cheese enchilada sauce, and a ground beef & bean tostada.

    • Cinco Sampler

      A five item combo: a spiced chicken enchilada and a shredded beef . Enchilada, both with cheese enchilada sauce, and a ground beef enchilada with red enchilada sauce plus a spiced chicken flauta and a shredded beef flauta with a cheese sauce for dipping.

    • Trio Con Brio

      A ground beef enchilada smothered in red enchilada sauce, a shredded beef chimichanga with cheese enchilada sauce, and a fajita cheese crisp.

  • Combination Dinners
    All dinners served with your choice of two sides and free chips & salsa. Beef items come with red enchilada sauce and chicken items come with cheese enchilada sauce unless otherwise noted.
    • A Ground Beef Enchilada

      A cheese & onion enchilada, and a ground beef taco.

    • A Ground Beef

      Bean, & cheese burrito, a cheese &. Onion enchilada, and a ground beef taco.

    • A Ground Beef, Bean, & Cheese Burrito

      A cheese & onion enchilada, a ground beef enchilada, and a ground beef taco.

    • Spiced Chicken Combo

      Two spiced chicken enchiladas and a spiced chicken taco.

    • Ground Beef Combo

      Two ground beef enchiladas with cheese enchilada sauce and a ground beef taco.

    • Shredded Beef Combo

      Two shredded beef enchiladas and a shredded beef taco.

  • Traditional Mexican Dinners
    All dinners served with your choice of two sides and free chips & salsa. Beef items come with red enchilada sauce and chicken items come with cheese enchilada sauce unless otherwise noted. Fuego sauce.
    • Enchilada Dinners

      Classic enchiladas made with com tortillas and your choice of fillings. Topped with enchilada sauce, sour cream & chives. 2-enchiladas add a third enchilada for only am grilled fajita chicken choose from the following: cheese & onion, ground beef, spiced chicken, shredded beef.

    • Smothered Burrito Dinners

      A flour tortilla wrapped around your choice of fillings and topped with enchilada sauce. Add gritted fajita chicken choose from the following: bean & cheese, ground beef, bean & cheese, spiced chicken, ground beef, shredded beef

    • Chimichanga Dinners

      A large flour tortilla stuffed with cheese and your choice of fillings. Deep-fried to a golden brown, covered with enchilada sauce and topped with sour cream and chives. Add grilled fajita chicken. Choose from the following: ground beef, spiced chicken, shredded beef chimichanga dinners.

    • Chimichanga El Dorado

      The ultimate chimichanga - a flour tortilla stuffed with chipotle chicken and a mix of cream cheese, monterrey jack, sour cream, and green chilies - deep-fried to golden perfection and topped with the world s best chili con queso and pico de gallo.

  • Prairie Fire Grill
    We grill to order, please allow a little longer.
    • Prairie Fire Steak & Enchiladas

      A charbroiled 8-oz sirloin steak, lightly hasted with the smoky flavor of chipotle peppers and served with two ground beef enchiladas covered with red enchilada sauce. Garnished with sour cream & chives. Served with your choice of two sides. Spice up your enchiladas with carlos fuego sauce - just ask your server.

    • Margarita Grilled Chicken

      Two charbroiled chicken breasts, grilled and glazed with our legendary margarita sauce - a blend of chili con queso, jose cuervo especial and our margarita mix. The alcohol cxiks away leaving only the flavor behind. Served on a bed of cilantro-lime rice.

    • Baja Chicken Wrap

      A true carlos original: tasty spiced chicken, creamy cilantro-lime rice, crunchy southwestern croutons, and your favorite chili con queso - all wrapped in a warm, grilled flour tortilla and served with french fries. Add grilled fajita chicken

    • Chicken Sandwich

      A charbroiled chicken breast seasoned with garlic & pepper, topped with melted monterrey jack. Served with lettuce, sliced tomatoes, red onion, and french fries. With your choice of honey mustard or mayo. Add guacamole, pico de gallo or jalapenos for only each.

    • Chicken Finger Basket

      Tender strips of chicken breast breaded and lightly fried. Served with french fries & a side of honey mustard sauce for dipping.

    • O Kelly Burger

      Two quarter-pound charbroiled beef patties served with lettuce, tomato, sliced red onion and french fries. Add cheese.

  • Lighten Up
    • Lite Fajita Enchiladas

      Two tasty enchiladas high on flavor but low on guilt! Fat-free flour tortillas sniffed with charbroiled chicken breast and onions, covered with our no-fat sour cream sauce, and topped with lite cheddar cheese, tomatoes and chives. Served with mexican rice. Two enchilada dinner, one enchilada dinner

    • Grilled Chicken Tampico

      One or two chicken breasts seasoned with garlic and pepper, grilled, and topped with our no-fat sour cream sauce. Served on a bed of mexican rice. Two chicken breasts, one chicken breast.

    • Charbroiled Chicken Salad

      A bed of crisp iceberg and red leaf lettuce, carrots, red cabbage, onions, lite cheddar cheese, tossed with sweet com, green and red peppers, black beans, chives and tomatoes. Topped with sliced charbroiled chicken breast and served with pico de gallo, fat-free raspberry vinaigrette, and baked no-fat flour chips.

    • Pico Enchiladas

      Fat-free flour tortillas stuffed with fat-free cream cheese, charbroiled chicken breast, spinach, mushrooms, onions, chives, and no-fat sour cream. Topped with pico de gallo and served with mexican rice. Two enchilada dinner, one enchilada dinner.

  • Specialty Burritos
    Specialty burritos served with your choice of two sides and free chips & salsa.
    • Sancho Especial

      Seasoned ground beef, cheese, lettuce, and tomatoes wrapped in a flour tortilla and covered in cheese enchilada sauce. Topped with sour cream, tomatoes, and chives. 4

    • Chipotle Chicken Burrito

      Grilled fajita chicken, sauteed green peppers & onions and cheese wrapped in a flour tortilla covered with diablo sauce - a creamy sauce laced with the smoky flavor of chipotle peppers. Topped with sour cream.

    • Suiza Con Polio

      Grilled fajita chicken and a blend of monterrey jack, cream cheese, and sour cream rolled up in a big flour tortilla and covered with poblano cream sauce.

    • Burro en Fuego

      Bringing the heat in a whole new way! Introducing fuego sauce - a spicy blend of chilies, from mild-to-wild, with tomatoes, garlic, and onions. Shredded beef rolled in a large flour tortilla with fuego sauce inside and out. Topped with sour cream.

  • Specialty Enchiladas
    Specialty enchiladas served with your choice of two sides and free chips & salsa.
    • Enchiladas de Poblano

      Two flour tortillas stuffed with spiced chicken and cheeses and covered with poblano cream sauce.

    • Enchilada de Monterrey

      Spiced chicken and monterrey jack rolled up in a flour tortilla and covered with cheese enchilada sauce. Topped with sour cream & chives. Add grilled fajita chicken

    • Spinach & Mushroom Enchiladas

      Two flour tortillas stuffed with a blend of spinach and sautled mushrooms & onions and covered with our creamy butter garlic sauce and monterrey jack. Topped with sour cream and chives. Add grilled fajita chicken.

    • Seafood Vera Cruz

      A blend of shrimp, crab meat, whitefish & monterrey jack rolled up in a flour tortilla, covered with our seafood sauce, and oven-baked to mouthwatering perfection.

  • Side Orders
    • Refried Beans

    • Mexican Rice

    • Cilantro-Lime Rice

    • Papas O Kelly

    • French Fries

    • Dinner Salad

    • Sour Cream

      Small or large

  • Starters
    • Chili Con Queso & Chips

      Our premium mexican-style cheese dip - creamy, spicy, and dclicioso., 1 pint of chili con queso with a large bag of chips with meat, 1/2 pint of chili con queso with a small bag of chips with meat

    • Quesadillas

      Soft flour tortillas folded around cheese, green chilies, and tomatoes, grilled to golden perfection. Served with sour cream and freshly prepared guacamole. With spiced Chicken or shredded beef or with grilled fajita chicken.

  • Soups, Salads & Pasta
    • Soup Of The Day

      Each day we offer one of our quality, made-from-scratch soups - classic tortilla, chicken enchilada, or white bean chili. Bowl large bowl.

    • Soup & Salad Combo

      One or our made-from-scratch soups - classic tortilla, chicken enchilada, or white bean chili ? paired with a festive, garden-fresh salad.

    • Chicken Fiesta Salad

      Fresh mixed greens, with sliced avocado, diced tomatoes, black beans, sweet bell peppers, red onions, and kernels of sweet corn bringing color to the canvas. Topped with carlos new green chile ranch dressing and served with your choice of grilled fajita chicken or crispy chicken tenders.

    • Chicken Santa Fe Salad

      Fresh mixed greens with slices of grilled marinated chicken breast, shredded cheese, black beans, tomatoes, marinated red cabbage, pico de gallo and our colorful southwestern croutons.

    • Charbroiled Chicken Salad

      From our lite section. A bed of crisp iceberg and red leaf lettuce, carrots, red cabbage, onions, lite cheddar cheese, tossed with sweet com^grccn and red peppers, black beans, chives and tomatoes. Topped with sliced charbroiled chicken breast and served with pico de gallo, fat-free raspberry vinaigrette, and baked no-fat flour chips.

    • Taco Salad

      A crisp tortilla bowl filled with fresh mixed greens, shredded cheese, and your choice of spiced chicken or ground beef. Topped with tomatoes, sour cream, chives, and southwestern croutons. Add grilled fajita chicken

    • Super Tostada

      A large flour tortilla fried flat and covered with ground beef, beans, lettuce, cheese, and diced tomatoes. Topped with fresh guacamole, sour cream, and chives.

    • Pasta Diablo

      Tender pieces of grilled fajita chicken, sauteed green peppers & onions, and rotini pasta mixed with ourdiablo sauce - a butter garlic sauce laced with the smoky flavor of chipotle peppers. Topped with monterrey jack, tomatoes, chives, and sour cream. Mildly spicy.

  • 7 Under 7
    7 Under $7 meals are served with free chips & salsa.
    • Quesadillas & Soup Combo

      Our soup of the day paired with cheese quesadillas - tortillas stuffed with cheese, tomatoes, green chilies, and served with sour cream.

    • Ground Beef Combo

      A ground beef enchilada with red enchilada sauce and a ground beef taco. Served with your choice of two sides.

    • Spiced Chicken Combo

      A spiced chicken enchilada with cheese enchilada sauce and a spiced chicken taco. Served with your choice of two sides.

    • Shredded Beef Combo

      A shredded beef enchilada with red enchilada sauce and a shredded beef taco. Served with your choice of two sides.

    • Sancho Especial

      Seasoned ground beef, cheese, lettuce, and tomatoes wrapped in a flour tortilla, covered with cheese enchilada sauce. Topped with sour cream, tomatoes, and chives. Served with your choice of two sides. Lunch-size full-size

    • Enchilada de Monterrey

      Spiced chicken and monterrey jack rolled up in a flour tortilla and covered with cheese enchilada sauce. Topped with sour cream &. Chives. Served with your choice of two sides. Lunch-size add qrilled fajita chicken

    • Spinach & Mushroom Enchilada

      A flour tortilla filled with spinach and sauteed mushrooms & onions, topped with butter garlic sauce, monterrey jack, sour cream & chives. Served with your choice of two sides. Lunch-size add qrilled fajita chicken. Full-size add grilled fajita chicken.

  • Carlos Specialties
    Carlos specialties served with free chips & salsa.
    • Prairie Fire Chicken Fajitas

      25% more charbroiled chicken on a bed of caramelized onions and sweet red & green peppers. Served sizzling with warm flour tortillas, cheese, lettuce, sour cream, pico de gallo - cilantro-lime rice and refried beans on the side. Freshly prepared guacamole on request. Lunch-size full-size

    • Baja Chicken Wrap

      A delicious wrap stuffed with spiced chicken and cilantro-lime rice, all blended with our chili con queso and stuffed in a grilled flour tortilla. Served withfrench fries.

    • Seafood Vera Cruz

      A blend of shrimp, crab meat, whitefish &. Monterrey jack rolled up in a flour tortilla, covered with our seafood sauce, and oven-baked to mouth-watering perfection. Served with your choice of two sides. Lunch-size full-size.

    • Chipotle Chicken Burrito

      Grilled fajita chicken, sauteed green peppers, onions and cheese wrapped in a flour tortilla covered with diablo sauce - a creamy sauce laced with the smoky flavor of chipotle peppers. Topped with sour cream. Served with your choice of two sides. Lunch-size full-size

    • Suiza Con Polio

      Grilled fajita chicken and a blend of monterrey jack, cream cheese, and sour cream rolled up in a flour tortilla and smothered in poblano cream sauce. Served with your choice of two sides. Lunch-size full-size

    • Burro en Fuego

      Bringing the heat in a whole new way! Introducing fuego sauce - a spicy blend of chilies, from mild-to-wild, with tomatoes, garlic, and onions. Shredded beef rolled in a large flour tortilla with fuego sauce both inside and out. Topped with sour cream. Served with your choice of two sides. Lunch-size full-size

    • Chicken Picado

      Tender pieces of marinated chicken breast, sauteed green peppers & onions, and melted monterrey jack in butter garlic sauce. Topped with tomatoes & chives and ready to roll in warm flour tortillas. Served with your choice of two sides. Lunch-size full-size

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