lunch

  • Starters

    • Chips and Salsa

      $4
      Tri-colored chips and tomato and tomatillo salsas.
      All home-made here
      Add fresh guacamole $4

    • Maria's Empanadas

      $8
      Fresh pastry stuffed with queso fresco, roasted poblanos & pork carnitas

    • Masa-Crusted Calamari

      $10
      Fried golden and served with an avocado-chipotle dipping sauce

    • Masa-Crusted Oysters

      $11
      With tomato-cucumber pico de gallo on an avocado vinaigrette

  • Salads

    • House Salad

      $6
      Mixed greens with veggies, queso fresco, pepitas and tomato vinaigrette

    • Loco Caesar Salad

      $8
      Crispy romaine hearts, queso cotija & roasted garlic with our house made caesar dressing

    • Jumbo Lump Crab Salad

      $11
      Tossed with watercress, roasted peppers, jicama, and lime-chile vinaigrette

  • Entrees

    • Open-Faced Shrimp Quesadilla

      $9
      With pico de gallo and queso fresco on 2 home-made tortillas

    • Braised Pork in Red Chile Sauce

      $9
      Over black beans and rice
      Add fried eggs for $2

    • Our Fish Taco

      $10
      Fried cod served open face with jicama, cabbage slaw, rice and beans, avocado-jalapeno and chipotle crema

    • Corn Meal Crusted Catfish

      $10
      Over red beans and rice with sweet potato salsa and garlicky spinach

    • Grilled Pork Chop

      $10
      With cilantro mojo, black beans and rice
      Add fried eggs for $2

    • Coconut Crusted Salmon

      $10
      Served over a warm red bean salad

    • Grilled Flank Steak Burrito

      $11
      Rolled up with caramelized onions, queso fresco and roma tomatoes

    • Loco Burrito

      $11
      Your choice of Roasted Chicken, Ground Angus Beef or Grilled Vegetables
      Rolled with rice and beans

    • Roasted Corn and Mushroom Tamale

      $11
      Served with red beans and rice

    • Loco Fajitas

      Mushroom, Chicken, Shrimp or Grilled Steak
      Served with roasted veggies, queso fresco, pico de gallo, flour tortillas, guacamole and rice and beans

    • Roasted Corn and Pork Tamale

      $11
      served with beans and rice

For noontime people-watching, there is no better place in Charlottesville than Mono Loco. Our lunch menu offers a full range of fresh, light Latin favorites from tamales and burritos to fajitas and empanadas, with everything in between. We pride ourselves on a lunch menu that is both exotic and familiar—try our Jumbo Lump Crab Salad or our Coconut-Crusted Salmon and you’ll see what we mean.