El Tejavan

El Tejavan · Amarillo, on I-40

Chilaquiles at 8. Margaritas at 2. Fajitas till close.

Guadalajara family recipes and fresh hand-made corn tortillas, at two restaurants along I-40. Here's what's on, hour by hour.

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El Tejavan dining room: orange stucco wall, a framed photograph of a rider on horseback, a stone archway and a wrought-iron lantern

Doors open at 8 am

Morning on the porch

Breakfast is on the menu from 8 am, with your choice of beans or home potatoes and corn or flour tortillas.

  • Chilaquiles con Huevos$13
  • Huevos Rancheros$15
  • Breakfast Burrito$7
  • Fresh orange juice$6

Prices from the 2025 ET West menu. They may change.

All of breakfast
A plate of street tacos with rice, beans and guacamole in afternoon sun

Monday–Friday · 11 am–3 pm

The $13 weekday lunch

Pick one plate. Every lunch special comes with rice and beans.

  • Two tacos, your protein$13
  • Enchiladas$13
  • Chile relleno$13
  • Burrito, gordita or guisado$13

From the 2025 ET West menu. Prices may change.

See the lunch list
A michelada in a handled glass mug with a chili-salt rim and lime

Monday–Saturday · 2–8 pm

Happy hour

Cocktails and draft beer at happy-hour prices, six afternoons a week.

  • Happy-hour cocktails$3.50
  • Happy-hour drafts$3.50
  • Make any beer a michelada+$2
  • La Classica Margarita$8

Happy hour as printed on the current drink menu. Ask which drinks are included.

All the drinks
Overhead view of a shared table: fajitas, tacos, ceviche, chips and salsa, guacamole and margaritas

Monday–Saturday · until 8 or 9 pm

Dinner off the skillet

Fajitas come with the works: tortillas, sour cream, pico de gallo, cheese, guac, rice and beans.

  • Beef, chicken or shrimp fajitas$20
  • Fajita Trio, for 3$60
  • Mole de Pollo$18
  • Camarones a la Diabla$20

Our two restaurants publish closing times of 8 pm and 9 pm. Call to check.

Fajitas and mariscos
Hands reaching across a table for chips and guacamole, with enchiladas and margaritas

Saturday + Sunday · Sunday 8 am–3 pm

Weekend bowls

Menudo is only on Saturdays and Sundays. On Sunday, both published schedules close at 3 pm.

  • Menudo, small or large$12 / $14
  • Birria de Res$18
  • Caldo de Res, small or large$13 / $18
  • Quesabirria Tacos$20

From the 2025 ET West menu. Prices may change.

Soups and starters

Fresh hand-made corn tortillas, every day.

Tacos come on fresh corn tortillas, and you can take a dozen home for $11.

The menu, by the clock

Seven chapters, breakfast to flan.

Every dish and price from the 2025 ET West menu, typed out so you can read it on a phone. Here's one from each chapter.

Inside El Tejavan: stucco wall, framed photograph of a rider on horseback and a stone archway
Inside El Tejavan, Amarillo.

Why it's called El Tejavan

Tejavan means front porch.

José and Patricia Murguia ran a convenience store on Grand Street and started selling tacos and tortas to earn a little extra. Then they added a front porch, turned the space into a restaurant, and named it for the porch.

The Murguia family and their relatives still cook the recipes they brought from Guadalajara.

The whole story

Two restaurants

Take either exit off I-40.

Both are full-service dining rooms in Amarillo. Hours run 8 am to 8 or 9 pm Monday to Saturday, and 8 am to 3 pm on Sunday.

806-372-5220 806-354-2444

Both numbers are published for El Tejavan. Call either one to ask about hours or food to go.

Friends reaching for chips and guacamole across a table of enchiladas and margaritas

Catering

Feeding a crowd?

Tell the family about your event through El Tejavan's own catering quote form, and they'll take it from there.

Plan catering