Pancho Villa offers fresh ingredients and personal recipes

Co-owners Eli and Lisa Santana have been serving up burritos, fajitas and specialty dishes and fascinating prospects since Might 2010.

It hasn’t been straightforward to maintain the restaurant going via the non-public robust instances and lean COVID-19 years, however the Santana household has proven sturdy dedication to make it occur.

Lisa is from the Southwest, has 30 years of expertise within the restaurant trade, and grew up in a household of restaurateurs. Eli has greater than 40 years within the barbecue enterprise, together with time at Lisa’s household eating places in Arizona, which is how the 2 met. Shortly after transferring to Lincoln in 2010 to be nearer to household, the couple opened Pancho Villa.

Santanas stresses that the Pancho Villa fare they provide is totally different from what different Lincoln Mexican eating places provide. In keeping with Lisa, nearly every part that comes out of Pancho Villa’s kitchen is made recent, from the marinara sauce to the grated cheese used within the recipes.

Eli is a kitchen wizard in getting ready the restaurant’s dishes. A number of the recipes are taken from his earlier experiences within the kitchen, some are from Lisa’s household and a few are from his personal visions, the place he takes concepts and places them in…making them private.

Pancho Villa’s menu is in depth, beginning with 11 entrees priced from $6.95 to $16.95 and 5 salads (facet, taco, fajita, garlic shrimp and grilled rooster) priced from $8.95 to $16.95.

Guadalajara and onerous shell tacos are $11.95, torta’s are $9.95, and 12 plate-sized burrito choices from $12.95 to $16.95 embody shrimp burritos, inexperienced burritos and spicy relleno burritos.

Twelve Pancho Villa dishes vary from Hen Ranchero ($15.95), Eli’s Signature Seasoned Hen Breast ($16.95) and Better of Pancho Villa ($19.95) to Eli’s Deluxe Plate ($21.95).

A dozen choices on the set menu value between $14.95 and $19.95 and have totally different enchilada, burrito, taco and relleno choices. Six choices for fajitas are rooster. A chunk of meat; Hen and steak. Shrimp; Shrimp and scallops. Shrimp, rooster and steak value $17.95 to $29.95.

For individuals who desire seafood, there are 10 choices together with Shrimp Quesadilla ($10.95), Camarones a la Diabla ($18.95) or entire fried crimson snapper (market worth).

Tequila, a number of margarita mixes, and native and imported beers can be found at Pancho Villa’s bar.

Lisa stated buyer favorites embody Shrimp, Hen & Steak Trio Fajitas ($22.95); Better of Pancho Villa (enchiladas, Guadalajara tacos, garlic sautéed shrimp with bell peppers and onions, $19.95); and illy marinated rooster breast ($16.95). In relation to Illy Signature Marinated Hen, prospects say they’ve “by no means tasted something like this rooster dish,” she added.

She stated the menu may even see some minor adjustments, with new foods and drinks choices added.

The Santana household admits that operating the restaurant is labor-intensive and private. “Ellie and I are right here on a regular basis with our little children as wait employees. It is actually a household affair.

“We have now had the help of our long-time prospects for years,” she continued. “Our relationship has gone past meals, and has adopted our youngsters’s progress and their youngsters’s progress. It is household each methods. We hope new prospects will expertise Pancho Villa, recognize our eating choices, and be a part of our household of normal friends.”