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El Paso Del Norte is a family-run Mexican restaurant and panadería operating as one business under one roof at 3430 Independence Ave, Kansas City, MO 64124, in the Historic Northeast. Northeast News described it in 2015 as the first Mexican restaurant and bakery to open in the Northeast community, opened on Halloween eighteen years earlier — i.e. Halloween 1997 — by the Iniguez family, and owned and operated at that date by brothers Mike, Armando and Daniel Iniguez, with their father Saul consulting; a 2023 article names Sal Iniguez as owner. It joined the Northeast Kansas City Chamber of Commerce in March 2015. The kitchen is known for menudo served daily; the attached bakery for pan dulce, pastries and seasonal tamales. Tier 1 — a single-location, immigrant-founded, family-owned Independence Avenue anchor of nearly thirty years.123

Description

El Paso Del Norte sits on the north side of Independence Avenue at Bales, in the densest stretch of Mexican and Central American food businesses in Kansas City. It is not a restaurant with a bakery case bolted on, nor a bakery that also sells lunch: Northeast News in 2015 characterised it as “the first Mexican restaurant and bakery to open in the Northeast community,” and a 2026 corridor feature describes “the attached bakery” alongside “the savory kitchen offerings” as parts of the same visit.13 Municipal food permitting reflects that dual character in its own way — see Current standing below — but the trade name, address and ownership are singular. One business.

The savoury side is anchored on menudo, which the 2026 piece calls “kid-approved” and reports “served daily in generous portions,” alongside street tacos and traditional platters.34 The bakery side runs pan dulce and pastries, positioned as a morning trade — consistent with the 5:30 a.m. opening hour the business kept in 2015.31 In December the operation joins the corridor’s tamal economy, offering pork, chicken, cheese-and-jalapeño and tamales de dulce, with seasonal menu variation and call-ahead holiday ordering.5

The building is also one of the corridor’s mural sites. In October 2022 a mural by Brian Mapes titled Becoming More was unveiled on the east-facing wall of El Paso del Norte, commissioned by the Northeast Kansas City Chamber of Commerce and the Independence Avenue Community Improvement District as part of a pairing with a Kye Benjamin Stone mural on the Express Stop at 3500 Independence. Mapes also rebuilt the alley behind the restaurant into a mulch-lined walking trail with native plantings and fruit-tree seeds set into painted tyres.2

The Independence Avenue CID names El Paso del Norte, with Elvira’s Cakes, as one of the “immigrant owned small businesses” that define Zone 2 of the district against its national-chain tenants.6

Ownership and history

Founding. Northeast News, October 2015: “El Paso Del Norte was opened 18 years ago on Halloween by [the] Iniguez family.”1 Reckoned from that article, the opening date is 31 October 1997. The article states an interval, not a year — the derivation is recorded here as a derivation, and a first-party or documentary confirmation of the founding year is. Non-first-party listings circulating a 1998 founding are not cited and were not relied on.

Ownership. Two dated accounts exist and are both recorded rather than reconciled:

  • 2015 — “The restaurant is owned and operated by Mike and his two brothers, Armando and Daniel Iniguez. Saul, Mike’s father, consults for the business.”1
  • 2023 — “Sal Iniguez, El Paso del Norte’s owner.”2

“Sal” is plausibly the same person as “Saul,” and the 2023 article’s framing may reflect a generational handover, a simplification, or simply which family member the reporter spoke to. No source found this pass states a transfer of ownership..

Growth. Mike Iniguez in 2015: “At first the building was a small little rectangle. We have slowly been adding things.” He described plans for more food options, a repaired parking lot and tightened security, and framed the site’s advantage as location and parking — “We are in a heavy Hispanic community and have the biggest parking lot.” Staff quoted in the same article included cashier Veronica Estrada and employee Angelica Lopez. The business’s stated sourcing practice at that date was to buy its supplies from other Northeast-area businesses: “It’s all local. We are a part of the neighborhood.”1

Chamber. The business joined the Northeast Kansas City Chamber of Commerce in March 2015.1

Legal entity. No Missouri corporate filing or KCMO occupational-licence record under the trade name “El Paso Del Norte” was located this pass; the Missouri Secretary of State business search returned HTTP 403 to automated retrieval. Legal entity name is. Note separately that the KCMO business-licence dataset lists DON PRIME MULTISERVICIOS LLC — business type “Financial Transactions Processing, Reserve and Clearinghouse Activities” — licensed at the same street address, 3430 Independence Ave, valid for 2025.7 That is a co-located, separately licensed entity; nothing found this pass establishes common ownership or any relationship to El Paso Del Norte, and none is asserted here..

menu_status: partial — dish items are sourced from dated local press and district-corridor coverage; no prices are recorded. No first-party menu (printed, posted, or web) was located this pass, and the only priced “menus” in circulation sit on auto-generated aggregator domains — including the fake elpasodelnorte.shop — whose figures are fabricated. Per Registry policy, aggregator prices are never imported; the items below are kept, the prices are “.

Kitchen

ItemPriceSource
Menudo (served daily, generous portions)3
Street tacos4
Traditional platters4

Bakery / panadería

ItemPriceSource
Pan dulce3
Assorted pastries (fresh daily)3

Seasonal — tamales (holiday season)

ItemPriceSource
Tamales: pork5
Tamales: chicken5
Tamales: cheese / jalapeño5
Tamales de dulce (sweet)5

Menu options vary seasonally; holiday tamal orders are placed by phone or in person, in large or small quantities.5 Price tier estimated $ on category and corridor grounds — not verified.

Do not link or cite: elpasodelnorte.shop, el-paso-del-norte.res-menu.net — auto-generated SEO pages, not the business.

Sources

Footnotes

  1. Michaela Bishop, “El Paso Del Norte joins the Northeast Chamber,” Northeast News, 6 October 2015 (dateline 7 October 2015) (accessed 2026-08-13; full article body retrieved). Asserts: El Paso Del Norte, 3430 Independence Ave., joined the Northeast Kansas City Chamber of Commerce in March 2015; it was “the first Mexican restaurant and bakery to open in the Northeast community”; it “was opened 18 years ago on Halloween by [the] Iniguez family”; it is “owned and operated by Mike and his two brothers, Armando and Daniel Iniguez,” with “Saul, Mike’s father,” consulting for the business; Mike Iniguez quoted that the building “was a small little rectangle” originally and has been added to slowly, that plans include more food options, parking-lot repair and tightened security, that “we are in a heavy Hispanic community and have the biggest parking lot,” and that supplies are bought from local Northeast businesses (“It’s all local. We are a part of the neighborhood”); cashier Veronica Estrada and employee Angelica Lopez quoted; hours Monday–Saturday 5:30 a.m.–10 p.m. and Sunday 6 a.m.–10 p.m.; photo caption describes an employee stirring menudo before the lunch rush. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  2. Abby Hoover, “Historic Northeast Murals | El Paso Del Norte & Express Stop,” Northeast News, 25 October 2023 (accessed 2026-08-13; full article body retrieved). Asserts: two murals unveiled October 2022 at Independence Avenue and Bales Avenue, commissioned by the Northeast Kansas City Chamber of Commerce and the Independence Avenue Community Improvement District, joining 40+ murals in Historic Northeast; the east-facing mural Becoming More by Brian Mapes is “on the side of El Paso del Norte restaurant at 3430 Independence Avenue”; “Sal Iniguez, El Paso del Norte’s owner” quoted approving the work and noting murals deter graffiti; Mapes also converted the alley behind Iniguez’s building into a shaded, mulch-lined walking trail with native plantings and fruit-tree seeds in painted tyres; the west-facing wall of Express Stop at 3500 Independence Avenue was painted by Kye Benjamin Stone; Chamber President Bobbi Baker-Hughes quoted on the corner’s history of crime and trash. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  3. “The Northeast Taco Trail,” Northeast News (Food and Drink / Independence Avenue CID / Sponsored Content), 8 April 2026 (accessed 2026-08-13; full article body retrieved). Asserts: “El Paso Del Norte, 3430 Independence Ave” described in the present tense as “more than just a restaurant; it’s a community hub,” “famous for its ‘kid-approved’ Menudo, which is served daily in generous portions,” and that “beyond the savory kitchen offerings, the attached bakery serves up fresh Pan Dulce and pastries that are perfect for a morning treat”; described as a clean, family-friendly space. Co-listed corridor businesses include San Antonio Meat Market (2904 Independence Ave), Taqueria Mexico 2 (5920 Independence Ave) and KC Tacos & Wings (5200 Independence Ave). ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  4. “Our Avenue, The World’s Stage,” Northeast News (Independence Avenue CID / Sponsored Content), 15 April 2026 (accessed 2026-08-13; full article body retrieved). Asserts: El Paso del Norte described in the present tense as “a long-standing pillar of the Independence Avenue CID” bringing “the true flavors of Northern Mexico to the heart of Kansas City,” offering “authentic street tacos” and “traditional platters,” and serving as a festive, family-friendly gathering point for the 2026 soccer tournament with Mexico as a host nation. This is district sponsored content, used here as a dated operating signal and for dish categories only. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  5. “Where to Order Tamales Along Independence Avenue This Holiday Season,” Northeast News, 16 December 2025 (accessed 2026-08-13; full article body retrieved). Asserts: “El Paso Del Norte, 3430 Independence Avenue” offers freshly made tamales in pork, chicken, cheese/jalapeño and tamales de dulce; menu options vary seasonally; customers can call or stop in to check availability and place holiday orders ahead; large or small orders accommodated. Co-listed: Elvira’s Bakery (3838 Independence Avenue, (816) 231-3524), San Antonio Market (2904 Independence Avenue, (816) 214-5929), and Frutopia (3737 Independence Avenue). No prices given for any business. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  6. “Independence Avenue CID ZONE 2: Retail & Shopping,” Northeast News, 10 July 2024 (accessed 2026-08-13; full article body retrieved). Asserts: Zone 2 of the Independence Avenue CID spans “multinational corporate entities such as Auto Zone, 7-11 and Sonic to immigrant owned small businesses such as Elvira’s Cakes and El Paso del Norte”; the zone also contains Eleos Coffee, the community’s first craft coffee shop, opened 2011 as a non-profit. ↩

  7. City of Kansas City, Missouri — “KCMO Business License Holders” open dataset, Socrata resource kkhs-93m4. Record — dataset landing page: data.kcmo.org (accessed 2026-08-13). Asserts: a licence at 3430 Independence Ave, Kansas City, MO 64124 held by business name “DON PRIME MULTISERVICIOS,” DBA “DON PRIME MULTISERVICIOS LLC,” business type “Financial Transactions Processing Reserve and Clearinghouse Activities,” valid_license_for 20251231, point (−94.54066, 39.10596). No licence record under the name “El Paso Del Norte” was returned by name queries against this dataset or its sibling resources 96my-yprt and pnm4-68wg. ↩

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On the record — ks.city/registry/el-paso-del-norte · record updated 2026-08-13