Carlitos Mexican Restaurant

A small, family-run Mexican kitchen at 63rd and Woodson in Raytown, serving home-style Americana-Mexican plates from the same corner storefront since 1987.

• Name: Carlitos Mexican Restaurant
• Type: Mexican restaurant
• Owner: Family-owned; owner identified in restaurant listings as Andrew ¹
• Established: 1987 ¹
• Address: 11541 E 63rd St, Raytown, MO 64133 ²
• Phone: (816) 358-5232 ³
• Signature: Made-fresh tacos, burritos, enchiladas, chimichangas ¹
• Status: Operating ⁴
• Tier: Tier 1## Description

Carlitos is a compact, intimate Mexican restaurant tucked into the shopping center at the corner of 63rd Street and Woodson in Raytown. The kitchen turns out home-style Americana-Mexican standards — tacos, burritos, enchiladas, chimichangas — from ingredients prepped fresh to order, at everyday prices. ¹

Ownership and history

Carlitos has been family-owned and run in Raytown since 1987, approaching four decades on the same corner. ¹ The owner (listed as Andrew) is frequently on the floor working alongside staff. ¹ Exact ownership succession and full family history are not yet documented.

Menu

Last verified: 2026-08-13 · Source: none found — see confirmed absence below · Confidence: n/a

Home-style Mexican: tacos, burritos, enchiladas, chimichangas, and related plates, prepared fresh to order. ¹ No itemized menu with prices is published by the business anywhere first-party.

Confirmed absence of a first-party menu (checked 2026-08-13)

• Own domain is parked. http://carlitosmexicanfood.com resolves but serves only a redirect stub to a /lander parking page — no restaurant content. ⁵
• No ordering storefront of the business’s own. The NetWaiter subdomain carlitosmexicanfood.netwaiter.com/raytown/ is an unclaimed directory-style listing: its /menu/ path resolves to the About page with no menu items, and it carries NetWaiter’s “does any of this information need to be updated” edit prompt. ³
• No Menufy / Toast / Square / Clover / ChowNow storefront surfaced in search.
• Facebook and Instagram are the only live first-party presences and are not machine-readable from here; no menu photo or PDF was reachable outside them. ^{6 7}
• Every menu-with-prices listing found (DoorDash, Uber Eats, Grubhub, order.online, Zmenu, SinglePlatform, MenuPix, Sirved) is a third-party aggregator and is excluded by Registry sourcing policy — prices there are unattributable to the business.

What would settle it: an in-store photo of the counter menu board or the printed takeout menu, or a menu photo posted to the restaurant’s own Facebook page. Prices are reported to be counter-ordered and low (single-digit plates), so a board photo is likely the only artifact that exists.

Links

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carlitosraytown/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carlitosmexicanfood/
• Visit Raytown: https://visitraytown.com/carlitos-mexican-restaurant/

Sources

Footnotes

1. Restaurant Guru — Carlitos Mexican Restaurant listing — asserts: family-owned since 1987, home-style Americana-Mexican recipes, owner Andrew on-site, signature dishes. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷

2. Visit Raytown dining directory — Carlitos Mexican Restaurant — asserts: address 11541 E 63rd St, Raytown, MO 64133; local Raytown business. ↩

3. NetWaiter directory listing — Carlitos Mexican Restaurant, Raytown — accessed 2026-08-13. Asserts: phone (816) 358-5232, address, hours (Tue–Fri 11a–8p, Sat 11a–7p, closed Sun–Mon), “Currently Open.” Caveat: unclaimed directory listing — the /menu/ path carries no menu items and the page shows NetWaiter’s public “edit restaurant information” prompt, so it is not treated as a first-party storefront. ↩ ↩²

4. Yelp — Carlitos Mexican Food, Raytown — asserts: operating status, active reviews (updated April 2026), address. ↩

5. carlitosmexicanfood.com — accessed 2026-08-13. Asserts: the domain resolves but serves only a JavaScript redirect to a /lander domain-parking page; no restaurant content, no menu. ↩

6. Facebook — Carlitos Raytown (official page) — primary live web presence; not machine-readable for menu capture. ↩

7. Instagram — @carlitosmexicanfood — secondary social presence; not machine-readable for menu capture. ↩