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Catrina’s Tacos & Tequilas is a modern Mexican restaurant and tequila bar at 19801 E Valley View Parkway, Independence (Eastland / Valley View). Own domain and Instagram (@catrinas_kc). Not the Tampa/Sarasota Catrinas group (Karol Ortiz / Lisbeth Mejia) — different operators. Independence owner name ****. Tier 1 + watchlist.12

Description

Catrina’s is a full-service Independence Mexican dining room with a tequila program, tableside guacamole, and a modern Day-of-the-Dead / Catrina visual identity (first-party mark). The official site is a short link tree (stamp card, review, directions, apps), not a long menu.1

Yelp (August 2026) lists 134 reviews, Mexican/salad/soup categories, and phone (816) 534-9203 — evidence of ongoing operation, not of ownership.2

Ownership and history

Independence owner is not named in Star, Startland, or Examiner pieces opened this pass. A Facebook Independence group thread asked about a long build-out on Valley View; that is not an opening date. for open year and principals.

Disambiguation: Tampa Bay Catrinas Tacos and Tequila (chef Lisbeth/Tisbeth Mejia, Karol Ortiz, 2012 South Tampa; later Sarasota / West Tampa) is a different company. Instagram posts that name Mejia as “the owner” belong to that Florida group. Do not attach those names to the Independence shop.3

Re-check 2026-09-08 (/compile). Confirmed. The first-party site is a LeadConnector/HighLevel build that ships only bundled JavaScript — /menu and /menus both return 404, and the served HTML contains no menu text, no PDF and no ordering storefront. A JavaScript renderer would not help here, because the menu is not on the site at all. The “documented ceiling” reading below stands.

Last verified: 2026-08-14 · Source: none usable — Catrina’s publishes no first-party menu of any kind; the only first-party web surface is a link-tree homepage with no menu, no PDF, and no ordering storefront1 · Confidence: n/a — zero items and zero prices are recorded on this page, first-party or otherwise.

menu_status stays unverified, not partial and not na. The business plainly has a menu — it is a full-service dining room with a tequila program — but not one item name or price of it is available from a first-party source, so there is no first-party detail to record. This is a documented ceiling, not an unfinished task.

Ceiling: no first-party menu exists to verify (re-tested 2026-08-14 — do not re-spend)

  • Own domain, catrinastacosandtequilas.com — re-fetched 2026-08-14. Still a link tree built on a LeadConnector/HighLevel funnel page. The complete outbound link set is: “Get A Stamp Card” (take.cards/hFFyT), “Leave us a Review” (Google search URL), “Get Directions” (Google Maps URL), and an accessibility statement. The “Apple APP” / “Android APP” buttons carry no external target. No menu link, no PDF, no ordering platform.1
  • /menu path — re-tested 2026-08-14, still returns HTTP 404.1
  • Ordering platforms — searched Toast, Square, Clover and Menufy for an Independence / Valley View Catrina’s storefront on 2026-08-14. Every “Catrina’s”/“Catrina” hit on Toast belongs to a different, out-of-metro business (Catrina’s Cantina on Soco Rd, Catrina’s Mexican Grill, La Catrina Mexican Restaurant, Casa Catrina, Katrina’s). No owner-operated ordering storefront for this business exists.
  • Facebook (@CatrinasKC) — not retrievable; the scraper refuses the domain. Instagram (@catrinas_kc) is likewise login-gated. Neither could be read for a menu image, and a menu photograph would not yield reliable prices in any case.
  • Yelp — a 2026 listing headline advertises “Try Our New Menu,” but Yelp is not first-party and its photo-menu images are undated. Not used.2

Item names and prices circulating on zmenu.com, wheree.com, restaurants-us.com, hello.food and similar scraped-listing sites are third-party aggregations with no stated provenance and are not used here — such sites have both over- and under-stated real prices in past passes. **** stands. Only re-check on a new signal: Catrina’s adding a menu page to its domain, or launching an owner-operated ordering storefront (Toast/Square/Menufy/Clover). Absent that, the only remaining path is an in-person menu photograph or a direct request to the operator.

Sources

Footnotes

  1. Catrina’s Tacos & Tequila first-party site (accessed 2026-08-12). Asserts: brand name; Google Maps pin at 19801 E Valley View Pkwy; stamp-card / review / directions links. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  2. Yelp — Catrinas Tacos & Tequilas, Independence (updated August 2026) — asserts: 19801 E Valley View Pkwy, Independence, MO 64057; (816) 534-9203; Mexican; active listing and review volume. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  3. 83 Degrees Media — “Catrinas Mexican restaurant to reopen in old Fourth of July Cafe building in West Tampa,” Aug. 14, 2018 — asserts (disambiguation only): Florida Catrinas owners Karol Ortiz and Chef Lisbeth Mejia; 2012 South Tampa origin. Not the Independence shop. ↩

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On the record — ks.city/registry/catrinas-tacos-and-tequilas · record updated 2026-09-08