The Yellow Cactus Menu (Update 2025)
Welcome to The Yellow Cactus, a delightful Mexican steakhouse located in Louisville, KY. This vibrant eatery is a haven for food enthusiasts who crave a blend of authentic Mexican flavors and juicy, perfectly grilled steaks. The menu is brimming with enticing options like Guacamole Dip and savory Fajitas, featuring marinated chicken, steak, or shrimp served with rich accompaniments.
Experience the decadence of Queso Fundido, a melted cheese delight, or dive into the Trio Dip for the ultimate appetizer experience. The salads, too, are a feast for the senses, with options like the Taco Salad showcasing fresh ingredients in a crispy shell.
Whether you’re here for a casual family dinner or a fun night out, The Yellow Cactus delivers a vibrant atmosphere and mouthwatering dishes that promise to tantalize your taste buds.
Appetizer
Guacamole Dip
Creamy dipping sauce made from beans.
Queso and Shrimp
Shell fish.
Cheese Dip
Creamy dip made from melted cheese.
Queso and Chorus
Queso Beef
Obeso con Picante
Spinach Dip
Creamy dip made from spinach.
Bean Dip
Creamy dipping sauce made from beans.
Trio Dip
Our favorites : spinach dip, bean die and queso con picante.
Queso Fundido
Melted chihuahua cheese with your choice of steak, chicken or shrimp, bell peppers, onions, tomatoes, and tortillas.
Papa Nachos
French fries instead of chips, cheese, and jalapenos. Choice of steak or grilled chicken.
Chicken Wing
10 perfect wings cooked. Covered with Buffalo sauce with your choice of dressing ranch or blue cheese.
Fajitas
Marinated tender strips of grilled steak, chicken, or shrimp. Served with sauteed onions, and bell peppers. Garnished with lettuce, guacamole, pico de gallo, and sour cream. Served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Fajita Nachos
Fajita-style steak or chicken on a gigantic bed of crispy tortillas chips with bell peppers, onions, and cheese sauce on top.
Quesadilla Fajita
Steak or chicken quesadilla with grilled onions, and bell peppers. Served with lettuce, sour cream, and tomato.
Mushrooms Quesadilla
1 quesadilla with grilled mushrooms, bell peppers, and onions. Served with lettuce, tomatoes, and sour cream.
Crabmeat Quesadilla
1 quesadilla crabmeat with bell peppers and onions. Served with lettuce, tomatoes, and sour cream.
Spinach Quesadilla
Flour tortillas stuffed with spinach and cheese. Server with lettuce, sour cream, and tomato. Add ground beef or shredded chicken for an additional charge.
Chimichanga
1 soft or fried chimichanga filled with ground beef or chicken covered with nacho cheese . Served with lettuce, tomatoes, sour cream, and beans.
Seafood Chimichanga
1 soft or fried chimichanga filled with shrimp or crabmeat covered with nacho cheese. Served with lettuce, tomatoes, sour cream, and beans.
Taco Salad
Crispy flour shell filled with your choice of ground beef or shredded chicken chicken along with beans, lettuce, tomatoes, shredded cheese, sour cream, and guacamole.
Chicken Salad
Crispy flour shell filled with grilled chicken, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, bell peppers, cheese, bacon, and your choice dressing. Add steak for an additional charge.
Taco Fajita Salad
Crispy flour shell with your choice of chicken, steak, or shrimp lettuce, tomato, onions, bell peppers, sour cream, guacamole, and shredded cheese.
Charbroiled Chicken Salad
Grilled chicken on top of lettuce, with tomatoes, onions, bell peppers, melted cheese, croutons and bacon bits. Add steak for an additional charge.
Crispy Chicken Salad
Our breaded crispy chicken on top of lettuce with tomatoes, onions, bell peppers, nacho cheese, croutons, and bacon. Add steak for an additional charge.
Shrimp Salad
Crispy flour shell with grilled shrimp, lettuce, tomato, bell peppers, onions, cheese, and bacon.
Tossed Salad
Salad that has been tossed with dressing.
Guacamole Salad
A fresh salad with an avocado base.
Salads
Chimichangas
Chimichanga Fajita
1 fried tortilla filled with your choice of grilled chicken or steak fajita. Topped with nacho cheese. Served with rice, beans, lettuce, guacamole, sour cream, and tomato.
Molcajete Combo
All the world combination of steak, chicken, shrimp chorizo, bell peppers, and onions. Served in a hard stone bowl rice, beans, lettuce, guacamole, sour cream, pico de gallo, jalapeno teredo, and tortillas.
Ceelo Mar and Terra
The best combination of steak, chicken, shrimp, carnitas, bell peppers, and onions, served in a hard stone bowl rice, beans, lettuce, guacamole, sour cream, pico de gallo, jalapeno teredo, and tortillas.
New Items
Most Popular
Polito con Papas
French fries grilled chicken and covered with cheese souce.
Arroz con Pollo
A bed rice, chicken, covered with nacho cheese.
Arroz con Steak
A bed rice, steak covered with nacho cheese.
Arroz con Shrimp
A bed rice, shrimp covered with nacho cheese.
Fiesta Mix Vegetables
Mixed with your choice of grilled chicken, or shrimp. Topped with melted cheese. Served with rice.
Chicken Tenders
3 chicken tenders. Served with fries and our speciol dip souce.
Chiles Rellenos Poblanos
2 Poblano peppers stuffed with cheese. Topped with red sauce. Served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Chilaquiles Mexicanos
Corn tortillas stuffed with shredded chicken and covered with special sauce. Served with rice and beans. Add 2 eggs for an additional charge.
Hamburger 1/2 lb.
Burger boz, lettuce, cheese, tomato, and french fries.
Chile Colorado
Your choice of chicken, steak, or pork. Cooked with colorado sauce. Served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Tortilla Soup
Chunks of white meat chicken, rice, pico de gallo, avocado, and crispy tortillas strips.
Fiesta Nachos
Cheese nachos with beef, chicken and beans, all covered with shredded lettuce, shredded cheese, tomatoes, and sour cream.
Special Nachos
Beef or chicken, lettuce, tomatoes, sour cream and guacamole.
Beef and Beans Nachos
Chips with cheese and a variety of toppings.
Cheese Nachos
Chips with cheese and a variety of toppings.
Beans Nachos
Chips with cheese and a variety of toppings.
Beef Nachos
Chips with cheese and a variety of toppings.
Chicken Nachos
Chips with cheese and a variety of toppings.
Nachos
Lunch
Carne Asada Lunch
Grilled onions, jalapeno peppers. Served with rice, beans, and turtles.
Pollo Asado Lunch
Served with pico de gallo, rice and 1 cheese enchilada.
Carnitas Lunch
Deep fried tender and juicy pork chunks with onions and bell peppers. Served with rice beans and tortillas.
Burrito Deluxe Lunch
Beef or chicken burrito covered with red sauce and cheese. Served with beans, lettuce, and sour cream.
Burrito Carne Asada Lunch
A flour tortilla filled with skirt steak, cheese, and red sauce. Served with salad, rice, and beans.
Burrito Grande Lunch
A large burrito flour tortilla filled with seasoned ground beef or shredded chicken. Topped with lettuce, sour cream, and tomatoes. Served with rice and beans.
Pollo con Arroz Lunch
A bed rice topped with grilled chicken and cheese dip.
Poillo Mexcali Lunch
Grilled chicken with onions, bell peppers, smoothened with cheese sauce. Served with rice, lettuce, tomatoes, and sour cream.
Pollo con Chorizo Lunch
Grilled chicken breast topped with chorizo Mexican sausage and cheese sauce. Served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Chilaciles Mexicanos Lunch
Corn tortillas stuffed with shredded chicken, rice, beans, and our own special sauce. Add 2 eggs for an additional charge.
Speedy Gonzalez Lunch Combo
1 enchilada, 1 take, and your choice rice or beans.
One Burrito, Rice, and Beans Lunch Combo
Flour tortilla with a savory filling.
One Enchilada, Rice, and Beans Lunch Combo
Stuffed tortilla topped with chili sauce.
One Tamale One Taco Lunch Combo
Your choice rice or beans. Dough wrapped around a filling and steamed in a corn husk or banana leaf.
One Burrito, One Taco, and Rice Lunch Combo
Flour tortilla with a savory filling.
One Taco, One Tostada with Nacho Cheese Lunch Combo
Your choice rice or beans.
Two Tacos Lunch Combo
Your choice rice or beans. Folded tortilla with a variety of fillings such as meat or beans.
One Chile Relleno, One Taco, Beans, and Guacamole Salad Lunch Combo
Stiffed chili pepper.
Huevos Rancheros Lunch Combo
Love ranch style eggs covered with sauce, served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Huevos con Chorizo Lunch Combo
2 scrambled eggs with Mexican sausage. Served with rice, beans and tortillas.
Chicken Flautas Lunch Combo
Crispy flour tortillas stuffed and rolled with chicken. Served with rice, beans, lettuce, guacamole, and sear cream.
Lunch Combo
Enchiladas
Enchiladas Super Rancheras
5 different enchiladas, 1 beef, 2 chicken, 1 cheese, and 1 beans. Topped with cheese, ranchero sauce, lettuce, tomatoes, and sour cream.
Enchiladas Acapulco
3 enchiladas with grilled shrimp, crabmeat, onions, bell peppers and covered nacho cheese. Served with rice, lettuce, tomatoes, and sour cream.
Enchiladas Rancheras
2 cheese enchiladas. Topped with enchilada sauce and pork that has been caked with onions and bell peppers. Garnished lettuce, sour cream, guacamole, and tomato.
Enchiladas Potosinas
3 ground beef enchilada. Covered with nacho cheese. Served with rice, beans, and tomatillo sauce.
Las Yolandas
3 chicken enchiladas. Topped with red sauce, lettuce, sour cream, and guacamole. Served with rice.
Enchiladas Mole
3 chicken enchiladas with mole sauce (dark sauce). Served with a side of rice, lettuces, tomato, and sour cream.
Enchiladas Verdes
3 chicken or beef enchiladas covered with our green sauce. Served with rice, lettuce, tomato, and sour cream.
Enchiladas de Espinacas
3 spinach enchiladas topped with nacho cheese. Served with rice, beans, lettuce, sour cream, and tomato.
Enchiladas Suizas
3 delicious grilled chicken enchiladas with salsa verde (green sauce) and sour cream. Served with rice and beans.
Chuletas a la Mexicana
2 grilled juicy pork chops with sauteed onions and bell peppers. Served with rice, beans, pico de gallo, and tortillas.
Carnitas
Seasoned pork sliced into chunks, deep fried, and place on a bed of lettuce with sauteed onions and bell peppers. Served with rice, beans, tomatillo sauce, and tortillas.
Pork
Tacos
Fish Taco
3 tacos stuffed with grilled tilapia fish, tomatoes, and cheese. Served with rice, beans, guacamole salad, and tomatillo sauce.
Tacos de Carne Asada
3 corn tortillas stuffed with strips of beef, pico de galle, and our special source. Served with rice and beans.
Fajita Tacos
3 flour tortillas filled with marinated strips of steak or chicken cooked with onions and bell peppers. Served with lettuce, pico de gallo, and sour cream.
Taquitos Mexicanos
4 fried corn chicken taquitos. Served with lettuce, guacamole, tomatoes, and sour cream.
Quesadilla Roja
Stuffed with ground beef or shredded chicken. Served with rice ,lettuce, sour cream, tomatoes, and ranchero sauce.
Quesadilla Yerde
Stuffed with ground beef or shredded chicken. Served with rice, lettuce, sour cream, guacamole, and tomato.
Fajita Quesadill Grande
Large flour tortilla with cheese. Marinated strips of steak or chicken, cooked with onions, and bell peppers. Served with rice, beans, lettuce, and sour cream.
Quesadilla a la Mexicana
Large flour tortilla with chorizo Mexican sausage chicken, onions, and bell peppers. Served with rice, beans, lettuce, tomatoes, and sour cream.
Shrimp Quesadilla
A large flour tortilla with onions bell pepper. Served with rice, beam, lettuce, sour cream, and tomatoes.
Quesadilla de Light
A large tortilla stuffed with cheese, chicken strips, pico de gallo, rice, lettuce, sour cream, and tomato.
Salmon Quesadilla
A twist on a traditional Mexican favorite featuring fresh grilled salmon, onions, bell peppers, and cheese. Served with rice, and avocado slices.
Quesadilla Texana
In giant flour tortilla, cheese, chicken, steak, shrimp, onions, and bell peppers inside. Served with lettuce, tomato, guacamole, and sour cream.
Quesadilla
Burritos
El Patron Burrito Chicken
12" flour tortilla stuffed with your choice of steak or chicken, onions, bell peppers, and beans. Topped with 5 shrimp, chorizo, and cheese sauce.
Wet Burrito
Your choice of shredded chicken or ground beef, beans, lettuce, tomatoes, and sour cream stuffed inside our big flour tortillas. Topped with nacho cheese and red sauce.
Grande Fajita Burrito
Marinated strips of steak or chicken, onions, lettuce, bell peppers, beans rolled in a flour tortilla. Topped with enchilada sauce and sour cream.
Burrito Gigante
Burrito filled with ground beef, beans, rice, and lettuce. Topped with nacho cheese and sour cream.
Burrito al Carbon
Marinated strips of steak or chicken and sour cream rolled in a flour tortilla. Topped with nacho cheese. Served with rice.
Burrito Carne Asada
Marinated strips of steak. Covered with cheese sauce. Served with rice, beans, lettuce, sour cream, and tomatoes.
Burrito Bravo
1 rolled flour tortilla with ground beef or chicken and cheese. Topped with red sauce, lettuce, and sour cream, served with rice and beans.
Burritos Mexicanos
2 rolled flour tortillas filled with steak and beans, cooked with onions, and peppers. Topped with red sauce, nacho cheese, and guacamole salad.
Burritos Deluxe
2 combination burrito, 1 chicken with beans and 1 beef and beans. Covered with cheese and red sauce. Served with beans, lettuce, tomatoes, and sour cream.
El Gordo
Big burrito stuffed with grilled chicken or steak sauteed onions, and bell peppers. Covered with enchilada sauce and nacho cheese. Served with rice, beans, lettuce, and sour cream.
Burrito del Mar
Crabmeat, shrimp, onions, bell peppers, and cheese. Served with rice, lettuce, and sour cream.
Burrito de Puerco
Burrito de carnitas, beans, and grilled onions, and bell peppers inside. Topped with cheese, and green sauce. Served with rice.
Burrito Texano
In giant burrito stuffed with chicken, steak, shrimp, onions, and bell peppers. Covered with red and cheese sauce. Served with lettuce, tomato, guacamole, and sour cream.
Vegetarian Burrito
Flour tortilla wrapped around grilled peppers, onions, broccoli, tomatoes, cauliflower, carrots, and mushrooms. Covered with nacho cheese.
Salmon and Camaron
Salmon with shrimp. Served with broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, rice, and tossed salad.
Salmon Fillet
Served with rice, salad, and 1 cheese enchilada.
Mazatlan
1 quesadilla with cheese, shrimp, and crabmeat. 1 enchilada crabmeat, and shrimp. Served with rice, lettuce, tomato, and sour cream.
Camarones a la Diabla
Shrimp sauteed with red hot sauce. Served with rice, lettuce, avocado, onions, and tortillas.
Coctel de Camarones
Shrimp, avocado, onions, tomatoes, jalapenos peppers, cilantro in our special sauce. Served with saltine crackers.
Tilapia Acapulco
9 oz. tilapia fish fillet grilled with garden veggies, lettuce, and pico de gallo. Served with rice and cheese enchilada. Add shrimp for an additional charge.
Fish Fillet
Served with rice, lettuce, tomato, onions, and sliced avocado.
Ceviche de Camaron
Shrimp cooked in a lime juice, freshly prepare with onions, cilantro, tomatoes, and avocado. Served with crackers and lime.
Shrimp a la Mexicana
Grilled shrimp with sliced jalapeno, onion, and tomato. Served with rice, lettuce, avocado, and 3 tortillas.
Seafood
Carry Out
Chips and Salsa
Thinly sliced crispy potato.
Tomatillo Sauce
Create Your Combination
All combos include a side of rice and beans. Add extra cheese sauce or chicken for an additional charge.
Vegetarian Combination
Add extra cheese sauce for an additional charge.
Combiations
A la Carte
Beef Taquitos
Individual dish. Not a part of a meal.
Chicken Taquitos
Individual dish. Not a part of a meal.
Beef Tamal
Individual dish. Not a part of a meal.
Tostada
Individual dish. Not a part of a meal.
Chalupa
Individual dish. Not a part of a meal.
Chile Relleno
Individual dish. Not a part of a meal.
Quesadilla Fajita Grande
Quesadilla Ground Beef
1 piece.
Quesadilla Shredded Chicken
1 piece.
Grilled Chicken
Steak Quesadilla
Cheese Quesadilla
A la Carte Quesadillas
A la Carte Burritos
Beef Burrito
Flour tortilla with a savory filling.
Beans Burrito
Flour tortilla with a savory filling.
Chicken Burrito
Flour tortilla with a savory filling.
Fiesta Burrito
Beef tips and beans. Topped with lettuce, tomatoes, and guacamole salad.
Deluxe Burrito
Shredded chicken of ground beef. Topped with lettuce, tomatoes, and sour cream.
Crispy Taco
Beef or shredded chicken.
Soft Taco
Beef or shredded chicken.
A la Carte Tacos
A la Carte Enchiladas
Beef Enchilada
Beef or chicken.
Tostaguac
Beans, chicken, or beef with lettuce, and guacamole.
Tostaguac Special
Chicken, beans, and beef with lettuce, guacamole, and shredded cheese.
A la Carte Tostaguac
Fajitas
Steak Fajita
Cooked strips of meat wrapped in a tortilla.
Chicken Fajita
Cooked strips of meat wrapped in a tortilla.
Pork Fajita
Cooked strips of meat wrapped in a tortilla.
Shrimp Fajita
Cooked strips of meat wrapped in a tortilla.
Vegetarian Fajita
Mushrooms, California vegetables, and tomatoes.
Papa Fajita
Chicken, steak, shrimp, mushrooms, topped shredded cheese, and cheese sauce.
Fiesta Fajita
Steak, chicken, shrimp, and chorizo.
Mixed Fajita
Chicken and steak.
Fajita Trio
Ribeye, shrimp, and chicken.
Hawaiian Fajita
Steak, chicken, shrimp, chorizo, and silenced pineapple.
Texas Fajita
Steak, chicken, and shrimp.
Seafood Fajita
Shrimp, tilapia, and crabmeat.
Cactus T-Bone Steak
12 oz.
Cactus Sirloin Steak
12 oz.
Cactus Ribeye Steak
12 oz.
Cactus Combo Steak
14 oz.
Steak and Shrimp
Grilled steak and 5 shrimp with sauteed onions, and bell peppers. Served with rice, beans, guacamole salad, tortillas.
Carne Asada
Tender skirt steak with sauteed onions and belle peppers. Served with rice, beans, guacamole, and tortillas.
Steak Ranchero Steak
Grilled ribeye steak with sauteed onions, and bell peppers. Served with rice, beans, guacamole salad, and tortillas.
Steak Fiesta
T-bone steak cooked with onions, and bell peppers. Served with rice, beans, guacamole salad, and tortillas.
Vaca Feliz
Steak strips. Topped with cheese sauce. Served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Steaks
Chicken
Fiesta Bonita
Grilled chicken and 5 shrimp on top of rice and smothered with nacho cheese.
Pollo a la Plancha
Grilled chicken breast. Topped with cheese and burrito sauce. Served with rice, beans, lettuce, tomatoes, sour cream, and tortillas.
Pollo Feliz
Grilled chicken. Topped with cheese sauce. Served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Chori Pollo
Grilled chicken breast and chorizo sausage. Covered with nachos cheese. Served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Pollo Tropical
Fresh chicken breast cooked with bell peppers, onions, tomatoes, and pineapple. Served with rice, salad, and tortillas.
Pollo Fiesta
A juky chicken breast seasoned with secant sauce, charbroiled to perfection. Topped with bell peppers, onions, tomatoes, mushrooms, and cheese. Served with rice, beans, lettuce, sour cream, tomatoes, and tortillas.
Pollo Asada
Marinated grilled chicken breast. Topped with pico de gallo. Served with rice, 1 cheese enchilada, and tortillas.
Pollo Veracruz
Grilled chicken breast, crabmeat, and 4 shrimp. Served with rice, and California vegetables.
Pollo Spinach
Grilled chicken breast, topped with spinach, mushrooms, and nacho cheese. Served with rice and California vegetables.
Chicken Flautas
2 crispy flour tortillas stuffed with chicken. Topped with lettuce, guacamole, and sour cream. Served with rice and beans.
Guadalajara
1 chicken burrito, 1 chicken enchilada. Topped with lettuce, sour cream, pico de gallo, and guacamole.
Pollo de Light
Chicken broccoli. Served with rice and fresh steamed vegetables.
Jalapenos
Filled with cheese and fried.
Chiles Toreados
Stew made with chili peppers or powder.
Lettuce
Filled wrap made from lettuce.
Mexican Rice
Slightly browned rice.
Onions
Battered and fried vegetables.
Grilled Onions
Battered and fried vegetables.
Pico de Gallo
Fresh salsa.
Shredded Cheese
Sour Cream
Tangy fermented cream.
Tomatillo
Tomatoes
Unripe tomatoes that have been battered and fried.
Tortillas
3 pieces. Unleavended flatbread.
Refried Beans
Cooked in a sweet and savory sauce.
Loaded Baked Potato
Crisp potato with a soft center with the skin still on.
Side Orders
Adult Meals
Burrito, Rice, and Beans
Flour tortilla with a savory filling.
Enchilada, Rice, and Beans
Stuffed tortilla topped with chili sauce.
Taco, Rice, and Beans
Folded tortilla with a variety of fillings such as meat or beans.
Enchilada and Taco
Stuffed tortilla topped with chili sauce.
Cheese Quesadilla Rice and Beans
Cooked tortilla that is filled with cheese and folded in 1/2.
Pasta Burgers and Fries
Grilled or fried patty on a bun.
Chicken Fingers and Fries
Poultry.
Kid Burrito, Rice, and Beans
Flour tortilla with a savory filling.
Kid Enchilada, Rice, and Beans
Stuffed tortilla topped with chili sauce.
Kid Taco, Rice, and Beans
Folded tortilla with a variety of fillings such as meat or beans.
Kid Enchilada and Taco
Stuffed tortilla topped with chili sauce.
Kid Cheese Quesadilla, Rice, and Beans
Cooked tortilla that is filled with cheese and folded in 1/2.
Kid Pasta Burgers and Fries
Grilled or fried patty on a bun.
Kid Chicken Fingers and Fries
Poultry.
Kids Meals
Desserts
Fried Ice Cream
Sopapilla
Flan
Cow stomach muscles.