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100-14 Northern Blvd. Flushing, NY 11368

718-446-4622

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Satan's Last Meal
Award Winner 2007

Cuisine(s): Ecuadorian

Hours: Daily 9am-6pm

Price: $$
Payment Types: All Major Credit Cards

Features: Delivery

Serving: Dinner, Lunch
Alcohol: Full bar

Reservations: Accepted, Not Necessary

Parking: No Parking

Description

Stick-to-your-ribs platters of Ecuadoran food are the forte of this former diner on busy Northern Boulevard, which reminds us of Los Angeles. Goat stew (seco de chivo) is a good bet, and so is the intensely yellow tripe stew (guatita). You can get both with a serving of oniony shrimp ceviche on the omnibus platter, which resembles the national flag, called bandera ecuatoriana, offered with copious sides. The most recommended platter, though, features the moist and salty pork roast known as hornado.

2007 | Satan's Last Meal

The Dark Lord is often portrayed as a goat. Until goat lib comes along, we're allowed to play with the idea. Now, it would be easy to get him a goat roti at one of Flatbush's excellent roti shops, but let's go for something more unusual: How about a serving of the lovely Ecuadorian goat stew at El Patio, which comes strewn with scallions He can enjoy it on the outdoor patio with a cold beer. As Mark Twain says, "We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at... More »
2006 | Liveliest and most livid llapingachos

Llapingachos (which doesn't really alliterate with "Liveliest," since the LL is pronounced as a Y) are the potato-cheese pancakes of Ecuador, colored bright yellow and fried to a golden brown. Find them at El Patio, a former diner clad in flagstone on Northern Boulevard that has been turned to South American usages. While you can order the llapingachos separately, why not try one of the omnibus platters like bandera ecuatoriana ("Ecuadorian flag"), which, in addition to a couple of potato... More »

Capture the Flag

By Robert Sietsema | Tue, August 16, 2005

With its low-rise mix of used-car lots, small manufacturers, storefront churches, and especially Ecuadorian, Colombian, Dominican, and Mexican restaurants and bodegas, Northern Boulevard is our Los Angeles. Swooping westward from Shea Stadium, it'... More »

Dinner Menu

Appetizers

$15.00

El Patio Sampler
four chicken quesadillas, four beef fajita nachos, two chicken flautas and two chicken empanadas, served with guacamole, pico de gallo and cilantro dressing

Large $8.00
Small $6.00

Felix Queso
world famous queso.

12 $7.75
8 $6.25

Nachos Compuestos
blend of mexican cheeses with beans, topped with jalape–os

12 $9.00
8 $7.00

Nachos Juan
cheddar cheese, refried beans, topped with jalapeños, served with guacamole, sour cream and diced tomatoes. named for the man “who never met a nacho he didn’t like” - john h. smither

12 $11.00
8 $9.00

Nachos Con Fajitas
chicken or beef, blend of mexican cheeses, beans, jalapenos, guacamole and sour cream

12 $9.00
8 $7.00

Nachos Villa Sana
house specialty for decades, loaded with beans, chile con queso, taco meat, jalapenos, guacamole and sour cream

Large $12.00
Half $6.00
Shrimp Add $2.00

Quesadillas
grilled flour tortillas filled with your choice of chicken, beef or spinach, served with guacamole, pico de gallo and sour cream

$8.00

Queso Flameado
queso chihuahua fired tableside with 151 rum and melted together with poblano rajas and your choice of chorizo, fajita, grilled chicken or adobo mushrooms. gulf shrimp or blue crab add $2.00

$8.00

El Diablo Dip
our chili con queso topped with seasoned taco meat, guacamole, a hint of sour cream, and pico de gallo

Small $5.00
Large $7.00

Chili Con Queso
our creamy cheese dip (add taco meat $1 fajita/chicken $2)

Small $5.00
Large $9.00

Guacamole Dip

$10.00

Ceviche "acapulco"
chilled marinated seafood cocktail

$8.95

Shrimp & Calamari
fried shrimp & squid with spicy marinara sauce

$6.95

Stuffed Jalapeños (6)
tequila battered jalapeños stuffed with cream cheese

$8.25

Empanadas
three stuffed with chicken and roasted corn sauce

$15.95

Parilla Mixta
from the grill, four bacon wrapped quail legs and fourbacon wrapped jumbo shrimp

Soup and Salad

Chicken $9.50
Beef $10.50
Combo $10.00

El Patio Salad
fresh garden salad with avocado and tomato topped with your choice of beef, chicken or combo fajitas (dressings: patio dressing, creamy cilantro, light ranch dressing & honey mustard)

$8.75

Taco Salad
fresh shredded lettuce with avocado, black olives, tomato, seasoned ground beef or shredded chicken, grated cheese and our own special mexican dressing

Small $3.75
Large $6.50

Chicken Tortilla Soup

Fajita Platters

$16.00

Fajitas Asadas
charbroiled skirt steak with one cheese enchilada and a flauta de pollo topped with guacamole, served with pico de gallo, rice and refried beans

$15.00

Fajitas Rancheras
charbroiled skirt steak topped with ranchera sauce, served with guacamole, pico de gallo, rice and frijoles a la charra

Tacos, Chalupas & Flautas

$9.00

Flautas De Pollo
three fried tortillas stuffed with chicken and topped with guacamole and sour cream, served with rice and refried beans

One $9.00
Two $14.00

Tacos Al Carbon
flour tortilla filled with marinated chicken or beef fajitas, served with guacamole, pico de gallo, rice and refried beans. add chile con queso $1.50

$8.00

Crispy Or Soft Tacos
three chicken or beef tacos, stuffed with lettuce, tomato and grated cheese, served with rice and refried beans. with chicken or beef fajitas add $5.00

$9.00

Chalupas Compuestas
two chalupas with taco meat or chicken, beans, chili gravy, shredded lettuce, tomatoes and guacamole

$10.00

Fish Tacos
two fresh mahi mahi tacos, grilled with scampi butter and blackened spices, stuffed in two corn tortillas, topped with creamy cilantro sauce, lettuce, cabbage and pico de gallo, served with seasoned rice

$10.00

Chimichanga
deep fried flour tortilla filled with ground beef, topped with chedder cheese, with rice and beans

Enchiladas
All Enchiladas Served Two (2) To An Order With Onions, Rice And Refried Beans All Substitutions Subject To Additional Charge All Substitutions Subject To Additional Charge

$10.00

Patio Enchiladas
chicken enchiladas, topped with a roasted corn sauce

$9.00

Beef Enchiladas

$9.00

Cheese Enchiladas

$10.00

Enchiladas Villa Sana
chicken enchiladas topped with asadero cheese and sour cream sauce

$10.00

Enchiladas Verdes
chicken filled tortillas covered with our own green tomatillo sauce and topped with sour cream

$10.00

Sunrise Enchiladas
cheese enchiladas topped with fried eggs

$9.00

Spinach Enchiladas
spinach filled tortillas with tomatillo cream sauce topped with asadero cheese

$15.50

Seafood Enchiladas
two flour tortillas filled with red snapper, shrimp and crab meat, topped with avocado cream sauce, served with seasoned rice and frijoles a la charra

$14.50

Shrimp And Crab Meat Enchiladas
two flour tortillas filled with sauteed shrimp and crab meat, poblano rajas topped with poblano sauce and asadero cheese, served with seasoned rice and frijoles a la charra

Traditional Favorites
All Substitutions Subject To Additional Charge

$15.00

Plato No Minor
three vallarta shrimp and one taco al carbon, served with rice and refried beans

$11.00

Carne Guisada
beef tips simmered in an authentic mexican pepper sauce, topped with sliced onions, served with flour tortillas, rice and refried beans

$12.00

Pollo Valencia
breast of chicken topped with mushrooms, monterey jack cheese and onions, served with guacamole, pico de gallo, rice and refried bean

$18.00

Camarones Vallarta
grilled shrimp stuffed with monterey jack cheese and jalapeños, wrapped with bacon, served with pico de gallo, guacamole, seasoned rice and frijoles a la charra

$11.00

Tex-mex Combo
one chicken taco al carbon, cheese enchilada, pico de gallo, rice and refried beans

$10.00

El Jefe
two cheese enchiladas, beef taco, rice and refried beans

$9.00

Mamasita Plato
chicken enchilada, tamale, guacamole, rice and refried beans

$10.00

Deluxe
guacamole salad, chili con queso, beef taco, cheese enchilada, tamale, rice and refried beans

$9.00

Especial
guacamole salad, beef taco, cheese enchilada, rice and refried beans

$8.00

Tamale Dinner
three tamales topped with chili gravy, rice and refried beans

$10.00

Burrito Dinner
one large flour tortilla filled with ground beef and refried beans, topped with chile con queso and chili gravy, served with rice

$12.00
With Shrimp $14.00

Chili Relleno
fried poblano pepper stuffed with chicken, beef or cheese, topped with ranchera sauce, served with pico de gallo, rice and refried beans

Build Your Own

$2.00

Home Made Pork Tamale, Chili Gravy

$3.00

Cheese Enchilada In Chili Gravy

$4.00

Beef Or Chicken Enchilidas In Chili Gravy

$3.00

Crispy Corn Or Soft Flour Beef Or Chicken Taco

$5.00

Beef Or Chicken Al Carbon
pico de gallo

$3.00

Bean Chilupa
chili gravy, lettuce, tomato and cheese

$4.00

Beef Or Chicken Chalupa
chilic gravy, lettuce, tomato, cheese

$2.00

Ccq Puff

$2.00

Guacamole Scoop

$1.00

Rice

$1.00

Beans

Fajita Platters - PATIO FAJITAS
Your Choice Of Charbroiled Skirt Steak, Marinated Chicken Breast Or A Combination Of Both, Served With Pico De Gallo, Guacamole, Rice And Frijoles A La Charra

For One $15.00
For Two Addtwo $12.00

Chicken

For One $15.00
For Two Addtwo $12.00

Beef

For One $15.00
For Two Addtwo $12.00

Combo

For One $17.00
For Two Add $14.00

Shrimp

Desserts

$5.00

Flan

$5.00

Sopapillas

$5.00

Tres Leches

$3.00

Ice Cream

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100-14 Northern Blvd. Flushing, NY 11368

718-446-4622

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2007 | Satan's Last Meal

2006 | Liveliest and most livid llapingachos

Capture the Flag

By Robert Sietsema | Tue, August 16, 2005

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