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El Machetazo Mexican Food is a family-owned taqueria at the corner of 11th and Kansas Avenue in Armourdale, Kansas City, Kansas, named for its signature machete — an oversized griddled masa tortilla folded over melted cheese and a taco filling. Open from breakfast through dinner most days, it is one of the KCK Taco Trail’s Kansas Avenue stops, alongside Tierra Caliente, Las Arenosas and the San Antonio tortilleria a few doors down.

Description

El Machetazo sits on the Kansas Avenue commercial strip in Armourdale, the low-lying industrial and residential neighborhood south of the Kansas River, on the same block ecology as Kansas Avenue Barber Shop (1115) and a few doors from Taqueria Las Arenosas (1203); Tierra Caliente, Carniceria y Tortilleria San Antonio and El Pollo Rey are down the avenue toward the river.12 The convention and visitors bureau’s listing calls it “a family-owned restaurant delivering fresh, modern and creative Mexican food, accompanied by a variety of new drinks”; Kansas Tourism’s version is “a family restaurant specializing in traditional Mexican food, using quality ingredients.”12

The namesake dish is the machete, which the restaurant’s delivery listing describes as “like a huge street taco with melted mozzarella cheese, then wrapped in a tamale like bread” — a long, griddled masa shell folded over cheese and meat, “a cheesy feast big enough for two.”3 Around it are tortas, gorditas, sopes, empanadas and tacos, with the al pastor most often recommended; reviewers mirrored from Google note that the table gets chicharrón pinwheels with hot sauce instead of chips and salsa, that tortillas are handmade, and that the place doubles as a paletería.4 Kansas Tourism lists a “salchipulpo” — a hot dog cut into an octopus — with French fries among the menu items.2

The room is described as a family place, suitable for children, with “amazing customer service from kind and attentive owners”; one reviewer arrived on the KCK Taco Trail and found “the staff welcoming.”4

Ownership and history

The owners are a family, per both tourism bureaus and Google reviewers, but no source names them.124 The Facebook page @elmachetazokc — linked from Kansas Tourism’s listing — posts daily menus in Spanish (“El menú de hoy jueves…”) and is the restaurant’s only working channel; its former website, elmachetazokc.com, has lapsed and as of August 2026 resolves to an unrelated Indonesian-language slot-machine site, a common fate of expired small-business domains.256

The address has a neighbor of note: a Paleteria Chihuahua operated next door at 1103 Kansas Ave and is now listed as closed, which may explain the “combined paleteria and restaurant” description reviewers give El Machetazo.74 Whether the two were one business, or El Machetazo absorbed the space, is undocumented.

Last verified: — · Source: none first-party confirmed · Confidence: Low. The order.online storefront is a DoorDash-hosted white-label page; it could not be retrieved (bot challenge) and it is not confirmed as linked from the restaurant’s own Facebook page, so it is not used for prices. menu_status: unverified. Dishes named in listings and reviews: machetes (the house specialty), tacos al pastor, tortas, gorditas, sopes, empanadas, salchipulpo with fries, paletas.342

Sources

Footnotes

  1. Visit Kansas City, Kansas — listing “El Machetazo Mexican Food.” Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: name; 1101 Kansas Avenue, Kansas City, KS 66105; phone (913) 217-7557; description “A family-owned restaurant delivering fresh, modern and creative Mexican food, accompanied by a variety of new drinks”; listing filed under the bureau’s “Taco Trail” category; no hours given. Read from the listing data object embedded in the delivered HTML. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  2. Kansas Tourism (TravelKS) — listing “El Machetazo Mexican Food.” Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: address and phone; description “A family restaurant specializing in traditional Mexican food, using quality ingredients”; Facebook link facebook.com/elmachetazokc; Wyandotte County; menu items including “Salchipulpo French fries” and traditional tacos. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  3. DoorDash — store listing “El Machetazo Mexican Food, Kansas City, KS.” Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: description of “The Machete” (“like a huge street taco with melted mozzarella cheese, then wrapped in a tamale like bread”); listed hours Wed–Sat 9–9, Sun 9–5, closed Tuesday; the related order.online storefront at order.online. Used for the dish description and hours only — no prices taken from a delivery platform. ↩ ↩2

  4. Restaurantji (Google Maps data mirror) — “El Machetazo Mexican Food, Kansas City.” Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: address and phone; hours Mon–Sat 8 a.m.–9 p.m., Sun 8 a.m.–4 p.m.; former website elmachetazokc.com; 4.3 / 76 reviews; “combined paleteria and restaurant”; handmade tortillas; chicharrón pinwheels in place of chips and salsa; tortas, gorditas, empanadas, sopes, al pastor tacos; “kind and attentive owners”; “a family place”; Taco Trail visitor comment. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  5. El Machetazo Mexican Food, Facebook page — Confirms: page exists (title “El Machetazo Mexican Food | Kansas City KS”); daily-menu posts in Spanish indexed by search engines (e.g. “El menú de hoy jueves…”). Page body login-walled; retrieved 2026-08-28. ↩

  6. elmachetazokc.com — direct retrieval 2026-08-28 returned an HTTP redirect to slotticacasino.org, an Indonesian-language slot-demo site with no restaurant content. Confirms: the former domain has lapsed and is not an official channel. ↩

  7. Yelp — “Paleteria Chihuahua — CLOSED, 1103 Kansas Ave, Kansas City, KS” (listing title “Updated October 2025”) — Confirms: a paletería operated at the adjoining 1103 Kansas Ave address and is now listed closed. Title read from the search index 2026-08-28. ↩

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