Our Story
Clovis Young, Mad Mex Founder & Head Honcho, tells how Mex got Mad!
I grew up in San Diego but our best family holidays were always in Baja – the small peninsular of California that’s actually in Mexico.
The food was delicious – so fresh & clean. After surfing we would devour grilled steak and fresh pico de gallo rolled into burritos and smothered with salsa – the hotter the better. We’d go fishing and cook up tacos on an open beach fire. I love eating Mexican food, the flavours, the spice, the heat and love cooking it more. I dreamed, for years of opening my own Mexican restaurant to share that Baja style burritos are amongst the best food in the world.
We opened the first restaurant in Australia because the outdoor lifestyle reminded me of Baja. It had that sense of “la familia”, everyone was welcoming and relaxed. Our food is made to authentic Mexican recipes, using authentic Mexican products. We are committed to serving the best flavours and freshest quality produce that you can roll into a burrito. And more than just food we want to share the vibe and sounds of Mexico in our restaurants.
Its all about making the best Baja-style burritos in the world! Check out our Facebook for more info.
We’re incredibly proud of the performance of all our restaurants and business partners. In Australia, we have been voted I love Food Awards’ best Mexican, twice in a row. The New Zealand business is in the top ten Fast Franchises and making waves.
Its exciting but we’re staying focused on one thing, making and sharing the best Baja style burritos in the world.
Our Story
Clovis Young, Founder & Head Honcho tells how Mex got Mad!
I grew up in San Diego but our best family holidays were always in Baja – the small peninsular of California that’s actually in Mexico.
The food was delicious – so fresh & clean. After surfing we would devour grilled steak and fresh pico de gallo rolled into burritos and smothered with salsa – the hotter the better. We’d go fishing and cook up tacos on an open beach fire. I love fresh Mexican food, the flavours, the spice, the heat and love cooking it more. I dreamed, for years of opening my own Mexican restaurant to share that Baja style burritos are amongst the best food in theworld.
We opened the first restaurant in Australia, the outdoor lifestyle reminded me of Baja. It had that sense of “la familia”, everyone was welcoming and relaxed. We have proprietary recipes made to authentic Mexican recipes and products. We are committed to serving the best flavours and freshest quality produce that you an roll into a burrito. And more than just food we want to share the vibe and sounds of Mexico in our restaurants.
Its all about making the best Baja-style burritos in the world!
We’re incredibly proud of the performance of all our restaurants and business partners. In Australia, we have been voted I love Food Awards’ best Mexican, twice in a row. The New Zealand business is in the top ten Fast Franchises and making waves.
Its exciting but we’re staying focused on one thing, making and sharing the best Baja style burritos in the world.
Inspired MEXICAN
SO WHAT INSPIRES MAD MEX?
Freshness – Mexico grows so much fresh produce. It’s packed into every dish, piled high in the markets, sold on every street corner & there’s still enough to feed a monumental 70% of the US. So we use the freshest ingredients & our luchadors’ biceps prove what it takes to smash a 10kg crate of fresh avocados into guacamole each day, in every store.
Colour – It’s healthy to eat a rainbow, right? So we build our burritos with yellow, brown, black, red, white & several shades of green before you’ve even chosen your filling & salsas, just look inside & see!
Flavour – Feel like you’ve been hit around the head with a rosemary bush & half a tonne of peeved pot-roast? We make no apologies for the authentic taste of our 6 hour slow-cooked Carnitas, if it’s too much, try the chicken. It’s marinated overnight in chipotle & grilled fresh. If flavour is not your thing, try a cheese sandwich from the nearest service station.
Vegan? No problemo? Food allergen? For sure! Check out our Allergen information here or ask in store!
Heat – Now, chillies have been cultivated in Mexico for over 6,000 years & we use them by the tonne, from the mildest ancho (poblano) which adds depth & smokiness to our roasted tomato salsa, to jalapenos, chillies de arbol & the hottest habanero for our picante salsa. Then there are guest appearances from the Caroline Reaper chilli – officially recorded on the Scoville scale as the hottest in the World!
Clean – Where possible we avoid preservatives – so you know exactly what you are eating; real, fresh food, combined as simple ingredients to make the best tasting Mexican food this side of Baja.
Our menu
- Burrito
- Small Burrito
- Naked Burrito gf
- Quesadilla
- Nachos gf
- Crispy Corn Tacos gf
- Soft Corn Tacos gf
- Soft Flour Tacos
- Grande Melt
- Ensalada gf
We believe this is the best Baja-style burrito this side of the Pacific. The most complete, satisfying & tasty meal you can hold in one hand.
Piled with brown rice, black beans, fresh pico de gallo, cheese, shredded lettuce for extra fresh crunch, sour cream, your choice of meats or veggie rancheros with tofu and warm salsa, rolled into a toasted flour or charcoal tortilla.
All the hand-held goodness of a burrito, rolled for smaller appetites or that cheeky pre-gym snack.
Toasted soft flour tortilla piled with brown rice, black beans, fresh pico de gallo, cheese, shredded lettuce for extra-fresh crunch, sour cream, your choice of meats or veggie rancheros with tofu & warm salsa.
All the best of the burrito but hold the tortilla & pile a bowl with brown rice, black beans, fresh pico de gallo, cheese, crisp shredded lettuce & sour cream.
Add your choice of slow cooked, fresh-grilled meats or veggie rancheros with tofu & ladle on warm salsa for extra punch.
(translation) "Little Cheesy Thing" or the Ultimate Mexican Toastie...
Choose from meats or veggie rancheros with tofu, topped with fajita (onion & capsicum), packed with grated cheese, toasted to crispy, melting perfection in a soft flour or charcoal tortilla.
Served with cool sour cream and salsa.
Take a stack of corn chips, ladle on queso (cheese) & top with black beans, fresh pico de gallo, sour cream & crispy shredded lettuce.
Add your choice of grilled or slow-cooked meats or veggie rancheros & a salsa for extra spice.
Don't skimp on the guacamole!
It may not be the most authentic dish on the menu but its hard to resist that crunch before you savour the layers of black beans, pico de gallo, cheese, crisp lettuce, sour cream and your choice of filling & salsa.
"Taco" is said to come from the charge used by Mexican silver miners 400 years ago. Now famous for a tortilla wrapped around explosively delicious fillings of your choice.
These are made with corn maseca for real authentic flavour & served traditional-style, with double tortillas.
Taco 'bout choice, the tortillas for these tacos are made with soft, white flour (like our burrito tortilla) and safely cradle every morsel as you eat.
Pile high with your favourite fillings and put them to the test.
The hand held power-pack of the burrito world.
Low GI black beans, cheese, fajita mix, sour cream & your choice of filling & salsas, rolled like a burrito and toasted to a crisp golden brown.
Fresh Mesclun greens, black Beans, pico de gallo, corn & pineapple salsa, cheese, coriander & onion, and topped with your choice of freshly grilled, slow cooked meats or veggie ranchos with tofu - drizzled with our signature chipotle lime vinaigrette.
OUR Menu
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Burrito
We believe this is the best Baja-style burrito this side of the Pacific. The most complete, satisfying & tasty meal you can hold in one hand.
Piled with brown rice, black beans, fresh pico de gallo, cheese, shredded lettuce for extra fresh crunch, sour cream, your choice of meats or veggie rancheros with tofu and warm salsa, rolled into a toasted flour or charcoal tortilla.
-
Small Burrito
All the hand-held goodness of a burrito, rolled for smaller appetites or that cheeky pre-gym snack.
Toasted soft flour tortilla piled with brown rice, black beans, fresh pico de gallo, cheese, shredded lettuce for extra-fresh crunch, sour cream, your choice of meats or veggie rancheros with tofu & warm salsa.
-
Naked Burrito gf
All the best of the burrito but hold the tortilla & pile a bowl with brown rice, black beans, fresh pico de gallo, cheese, crisp shredded lettuce & sour cream.
Add your choice of slow cooked, fresh-grilled meats or veggie rancheros with tofu & ladle on warm salsa for extra punch.
-
Quesadilla
(translation) "Little Cheesy Thing" or the Ultimate Mexican Toastie...
Choose from meats or veggie rancheros with tofu, topped with fajita (onion & capsicum), packed with grated cheese, toasted to crispy, melting perfection in a soft flour or charcoal tortilla.
Served with cool sour cream and salsa.
-
Nachos gf
Take a stack of corn chips, ladle on queso (cheese) & top with black beans, fresh pico de gallo, sour cream & crispy shredded lettuce.
Add your choice of grilled or slow-cooked meats or veggie rancheros & a salsa for extra spice.
Don't skimp on the guacamole!
-
Crispy Corn Tacos gf
It may not be the most authentic dish on the menu but its hard to resist that crunch before you savour the layers of black beans, pico de gallo, cheese, crisp lettuce, sour cream and your choice of filling & salsa.
-
Soft Corn Tacos gf
"Taco" is said to come from the charge used by Mexican silver miners 400 years ago. Now famous for a tortilla wrapped around explosively delicious fillings of your choice.
These are made with corn maseca for real authentic flavour & served traditional-style, with double tortillas.
-
Soft Flour Tacos
Taco 'bout choice, the tortillas for these tacos are made with soft, white flour (like our burrito tortilla) and safely cradle every morsel as you eat.
Pile high with your favourite fillings and put them to the test.
-
Grande Melt
The hand held power-pack of the burrito world.
Low GI black beans, cheese, fajita mix, sour cream & your choice of filling & salsas, rolled like a burrito and toasted to a crisp golden brown.
-
Ensalada gf
Fresh Mesclun greens, black Beans, pico de gallo, corn & pineapple salsa, cheese, coriander & onion, and topped with your choice of freshly grilled, slow cooked meats or veggie ranchos with tofu - drizzled with our signature chipotle lime vinaigrette.
Inspired MEXICAN
SO WHAT INSPIRES MAD MEX?
Freshness – Mexico grows so much fresh produce. It’s packed into every dish, piled high in the markets, sold on every street corner & there’s still enough to feed a monumental 70% of the US. So we use the freshest ingredients & our luchadors’ biceps prove what it takes to smash a 10kg crate of fresh avocados into guacamole each day, in every store.
Colour – It’s healthy to eat a rainbow, right? So we build our burritos with yellow, brown, black, red, white & several shades of green before you’ve even chosen your filling & salsas, just look inside & see!
Flavour – Feel like you’ve been hit around the head with a rosemary bush & half a tonne of peeved pot-roast? We make no apologies for the authentic taste of our 6 hour slow-cooked Carnitas, if it’s too much, try the chicken. It’s marinated overnight in chipotle & grilled fresh. If flavour is not your thing, try a cheese sandwich from the nearest service station.
Vegan? No problemo? Food allergen? For sure! Check out our Allergen information here or ask in store!
Heat – Now, chillies have been cultivated in Mexico for over 6,000 years & we use them by the tonne, from the mildest ancho (poblano) which adds depth & smokiness to our roasted tomato salsa, to jalapenos, chillies de arbol & the hottest habanero for our picante salsa. Then there are guest appearances from the Caroline Reaper chilli – officially recorded on the Scoville scale as the hottest in the World!
Clean – Where possible we avoid preservatives – so you know exactly what you are eating; real, fresh food, combined as simple ingredients to make the best tasting Mexican food this side of Baja.
