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34 Years

in Business

Amenities:

Wheelchair accessibleServes alcohol

(562) 923-1013Map & Directions12145 Lakewood BlvdDowney, CA 90242 Write a Review

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Phone: (562) 923-1013

Address: 12145 Lakewood Blvd, Downey, CA 90242

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Best Mexican restaurant in Downey!

General Info

Established in 1970 Veracruz Family Restaurant has been serving family recipes at all three California locations in Santa Fe Springs, Downey, and Whittier. Menu items include Carne Asada, Machaca Con Huevos, Enchilada Del Mar, Menudo, Margaritas, and more!

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visa, all major credit cards, discover, amex, mastercard, debit

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Other Information

Parking: Lot, Self, Private

Wi-Fi: No

Bike Parking: No

Attire: Casual

Wheelchair Accessible: Yes

Cuisines: Mexican, Latin American

Alcohol: Beer, Wine

Takes Reservations: No

Outdoor Seating: No

Price Range : Below Average

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Menu

Taco Beef
Chicken Taco
Cheese Enchilada
Beef Tamale
Special Burrito - Beef
Special Burrito - Chicken
Chile Relleno
Two Beef Tacos
Two Cheese Enchiladas
Beef Taco & Cheese Enchilada
Beef Taco & Beef Enchilada
Chicken Taco & Cheese Enchilada
Chile Relleno & Beef Taco
Chile Relleno & Cheese Enchilada
Chile Relleno & Beef Enchilada
Chile Relleno & Chicken Enchilada
Tamale & Beef Taco
Tamale & Cheese Enchilada
Tamale & Chicken Taco
Tamale & Beef Enchilada
Tamale & Chile Relleno
Two Chicken Tacos
Beef Taco, Cheese Enchilada, & Beef Tamale
Beef Taco, Cheese Enchilada, & Chile Tamale
Two Beef Tacos w/ Guacamole

Beans
Beans with side order rice
Chicekn or Beef with beanss
Chicken or Beef with beans and side order of rice
All Beef or Chicken
All Beef or Chicken with side order of rice
Ensenada (Chile Verde) or Chicken

Bean and Cheese
Additional cost for side order of rice or beans.
Beef with beans
Beef with beans and side order of rice
Chile Colorado or Verde with beans
Chile Colorado or Verde with side order of rice
Add side order of rice and beans for additional cost.
All Beef with rice and beans
Chimichanga
Add rice and beans for additional cost.
Ranchero (Chile Verde)
Grande
REAL BIG! Filled with chile verde, beans, rice, lettuce, cheese, and guacamole.
All Beef
Carnitas
With or without beans (additional cost)

Carne Asada
N.Y. steak with rice and beans, a cheese enchilada, guacamole, tortillas, and soup or salad.
Steak Picado
Cubes of beef simmered, bell pepper, onions, and tomatoes. Served with rice, beans, tortillas, soup or salad.
Fajitas
Your choice of beef or shrimp (additional cost) and vegetables simmered in a delicious sauce. Served on a hot pan with tortillas, beans, and extra hot sauce. Order for one person or two persons (additional cost)
Machaca Con Huevos
Shredded beef cooked with eggs, bell pepper, onions, tomatoes, served with tortillas, rice, and beans.
Taquitos Rancheros
Rolled corn tortillas stuffed with beef. Served with rice and beans. Choose two or three (additional cost)
Chile Verde
Chunks of pork cooked in green sauce. Served with rice, beans, and tortillas
Chile Colorado
Chunks of beef cooked in red sauce. Served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Carnitas
Deep fried pork served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Chilaquiles Con Huevo
Corn chips fried with scrambled eggs with green sauce. Served with rice and beans.
Enchiladas Rancheras
Two cheese enchiladas covered with ranchera sauce, guacamole, rice, and beans. Order just one for a reduced cost.
Enchiladas De Mole
Two chicken mole enchiladas. Served with rice and beans. Contains peanuts.
Enchiladas Verdes
Two chicken enchiladas covered with green sauce. Served with sour cream, rice, and beans. Order one enchilada for a reduced cost.
Enchilada Del Mar
Flour tortillas stuffed with chicken and chorizo. Served with rice, beans, and guacamole.
Enchiladas De Cangrejo
Two enchiladas stuffed with real crab meat. Served with rice and beans.
Child's Plate
Choose one item: taquito, taco, burrito with beans, cheese enchilada, small soup, one egg, small quesadilla. Served with rice and beans.
Arroz Con Pollo
Mexican rice with pieces of chicken on top and ranchera sauce. Order with a salad for additional cost.
Pollo A La Plancha
Piece of chicken marinated and grilled. Served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Shrimp Enchilada
One flour tortilla stuffed with shrimp. Served with rice and beans.
Flauta Dorada
Two flour tortillas stuffed with chicken, green sauce. Served with rice, beans, and sour cream. Order one for a reduced cost.
Pollo a la Mexicana
Piece of chicken simmered in Mexican sauce. Served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
1/2. Pollo en Mole
Piece of chicken covered with mole sauce. Served with rice, beans, and tortillas. Contains peanuts*
Huevos de Puerco
Omelette filled with sliced avocado covered with ranchera sauce and melted cheese. Served with cheese enchilada, tortillas, rice, and beans.
Huevos Rancheras
Two eggs over tortilla chips covered with ranchera sauce. Served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Huevos Con Chorizo
Scrambled eggs with Mexican sausage, rice, beans, and tortillas.
Spanish Omelette
Omelette covered with ranchera sauce and melted cheese. Served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Quesadilla With Guacamole
Add shredded beef, chicken, carne asada, or carnitas for an additional cost.
Nachos
Add chorizo, shredded beef, chicken, carnitas, or carne asada for an additional cost.
Mexican Pizza
Add chorizo or jalapeños for an additional cost. Add a side of rice or salad for an additional cost.
Shrimp Quesadilla
Chalupa
A tostada made with a four tortilla, chunky beef in red sauce, over a bed of beans and rice. Crowned with lettuce, cheese, sour cream, and sliced avocado. Additional cost for Carnitas or Carne Asada.

Ensalada Especiales

Aguacate Avocado
Camaron Shrimp
Fajitas Salad
Your choice of beef or chicken.

Mariscos - Seafood

Camarones Al Mojo De Ajo
Grilled shrimps with a delightful garlic taste. Served with rice, beans, soup or salad.
Camarones Rancheros
Shrimp prepared with special ranchera sauce, rice, beans, soup or salad.
Camarones a la Veracruzana
Shrimps simmered with tomatoes, onions, chives, and jalapeños. Served with rice, beans, soup or salad.
Camarones a la Plancha
Grilled shrimp served with rice and beans, soup or salad.
Burrito Jarocho
Gigantic burrito filled with flavored shredded beef, beans, rice, and lettuce covered with delicious red sauce and melted cheese. Crowned with Mexican guacamole and green onions.
Caldo de Camarones - 7 Mares
Soup prepared with shrimp, fish, squid, clam, carrots, potatoes, bell pepper, onions, and tomatoes.
Camarones Shrimp Cocktail
Fish Tacos
Order two or one. Served with rice and beans.
Burrito Compadre
Real big burrito stuffed with flavored chicken, rice, beans, and lettuce covered with tasty ranchera sauce and melted cheese. Topped with Mexican guacamole, sour cream, and green onions
Fish Steak
Fried Veracruz style ranchero mojo de ajo served with rice and beans.
N.Y. Steak and Shrimp
Carne asada and camarones a la plancha with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Shrimp Tacos
Order one or two. Shrimp in butter seasoning, pico de gallo, sour cream, all in 2 corn tortillas. Served with rice and beans.

Two Carnitas Tacos
Two carnitas tacos with rice, beans, and pico de gallo.
Taco, Enchilada, Chile Relleno, & Tamal
Add rice and beans for an additional cost.
Omelette of Chile Relleno
Served with rice and beans.
Quesadilla with Rice & Beans
Add carne asada for an additional cost.
Breakfast Burrito
Eggs, rice, beans, and cheese.
Mexican Pizza with rice or salad
Menudo with tortillas
Burrito of Chorizo
Chorizo and egg burrito. Add rice and beans for additional cost.
Tostada of Carnitas (Pork) with beans
Two Carne Asada Tacos
Served with rice and beans. Order one taco for reduced cost.
Burrito Carne Asada
Add rice, beans, and cheese for additional cost. You can order the burrito alone for a reduced cost.
Burrito Chile Relleno
With beans inside.
All Chicken Burrito
Add rice and beans for additional cost.
Just Chicken Burrito

Beef Taco
Carnitas Taco
Carne Asada Taco
Fish Taco
Chicken Taco
Cheese Enchilada
Cheese Enchilada Ranchera
Add beef or chicken for additional cost.
Tamale
Chile Relleno
Tortillas
Flour (2) or corn (3)
Mole Enchilada
Rice or Beans
French Fries
Taquitos (2)
Guacamole
½ Sour Cream ½ Guacamole
Green Salad
Cream or Pico De Gallo
Flan
Mole Sauce
Contains peanuts
1 Egg
Shrimp Tacos
Chicken Enchilada Verde
Flauta Dorada
Chicken
Enchilada Del Mar
Enchilada Del Camaron
Chile Verde or Colorado

Albondigas
Vegetable and beef meat ball soup with sliced carrots, celery, and potatoes. Small bowl is just the soup. Large bowl comes with rice or tortillas.
Cocido
Served with rice and tortillas.
Menudo
Served with choice of tortillas.

Lem - Tea
1/2 Iced Tea 1/2 Lemonade
Tea - 7 Up
1/2 Iced Tea 1/2 7Up
Decaf Coffee
Coffee
Ice or Hotte
Milk
Soda
Choice of cola, diet coke, orange, 7up, root beer
Shirley Temple
Hot Chocolate
Orange or Grape Fruit Juice
Horchata
Tamarindo
Jamaica
Fresh Squeezed Lemonade

Alcoholic Beverages

Beer
Bud, Coors Lite, Miller, Modelo, XX Dos Equis, Bohemia, Tecate, Corona

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