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Menu

  • Starters
    • Dips
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    • Fresh Salads
    • Homemade Soups & Caldos
  • Entrées
    • El Jefe Specialties
    • Sizzling Fajitas
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    • Seafood Mexican Style
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    • Burritos
    • Tostadas
  • On the Side
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  • Fiesta Trays to-go Menu
    • Fiesta Trays
    • Fiesta by the one & half dozen
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Seafood Mexican Style


Seafood entrées are served with rice, homemade potatoes, salad and your choice of warm corn or flour tortillas.(No substitutions)


Filete Cancun El Jefe Style
Spicy

Boneless tilapia baked to a golden brown topped with shrimp in our special garlic-spicy sauce garnish with pico de gallo relish. 24


Camarones al Mojo de Ajo

Seasoned shrimp sautéed on white wine and
garlic sauce. 23


Pescado Frito

Whole deep-fried tilapia fish served with pico de gallo relish on the side. 22


Camarones a la Diabla
Spicy

Spicy-deviled shrimp! Seasoned shrimp covered with our red-spicy tomato chipotle sauce. 23


Filete Cancun El Jefe StyleFilete Cancun -El Jefe Restaurant & Mexican Grill, Newark, Delaware

Pescado FritoMexican Fried Fish -El Jefe Restaurant & Mexican Grill, Newark, Delaware

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