Casa Gallardo Mexican Restaurant

Forget run-of-the-mill tacos and boring burritos. At Casa Gallardo Mexican Restaurant, you can dive into aromatic shrimp dishes, house-made tortilla soups and a chunky guacamole prepared right at your table — food that’s sure to get your mouth watering as soon as you step inside.

Casa Gallardo is well-known for its exquisite sizzling fajitas. You can choose from steak marinated in chipotle chiles and garlic ($13.39), chicken marinated in a citrus-chipotle mixture ($12.29), shrimp sautéed in jalapeño-garlic butter ($13.89), both chicken and steak ($13.39) or — if you really can’t make up your mind — the Fajitas Supremas, steak, chicken and shrimp sautéed in jalapeño-garlic butter ($14.39). The fajitas come with refried beans, rice, Monterrey Jack cheese, sour cream, pico de gallo, warm tortillas and a petite sweet corn cake.

You can also get other delicacies you might not at other Mexican restaurants, such as Carne Asada, steak rubbed with mild chile de arbol adobo then grilled and topped with a cheese enchilada and a fresh tomato-jalapeño sauce ($14.29). This and other dinners come accompanied by rice, beans, warm tortillas and a sweet corn cake. Naturally, Casa Gallardo has tacos (steak, chicken or roasted pork), burritos, enchiladas and chimichangas on its menu (see here and here) for the purists. The Mexican restaurant also has some interesting — and inexpensively priced —Combinations on its menu. You can see more of Casa Gallardo’s menu by clicking the Menu tab on the restaurant’s website.

Those who don’t want regular Mexican fare can get a grilled chicken breast sandwich with seasoned French fries and a honey-mustard dip ($7.79 at lunch and $8.49 at dinner).

Casa Gallardo serves lunch from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. with a menu where every item is priced at $9.49 or less. You can get lunch portions of all of the favorites: Fajitas Supremas ($9.49), chicken fajitas ($8.29) and more. Check out the lunch menu here.

Casa Gallardo Mexican Restaurant has five locations, all in the Greater St. Louis area: 11185 South Town Square in the southern end of the county, 462 Westport Plaza Dr. in the Westport entertainment complex in Maryland Heights, 12380 St. Charles Rock Road in Bridgeton, 12796 Manchester Road in Des Peres and 6600 N. Illinois in Fairview Heights, Ill.

HelloSaintLouis Tip: Appetizers are half-priced during the Happy Hours of 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. weekdays at the Missouri locations. (Illinois bans Happy Hours by law.) Grilled chicken or steak tacos drop to 99 cents at all locations on Tuesdays, starting at 4 p.m. 

- by Ivonne Rovira, Saint Louis Reporter for HelloMetro  (Click to leave a message)

Ivonne Rovira

A graduate of the prestigious Columbia University School of Journalism in New York City, Ivonne Rovira worked as a reporter for the Miami News, The Miami Herald and The Associated Press. She has written articles for The National Catholic Reporter and The Courier-Journal. For more than 15 years, Ivonne wrote and edited articles aimed at middle-school children.