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El Pollo Guasave is a family-run, charcoal-grilled chicken to-go spot on Central Avenue in Kansas City, Kansas, built around a Sinaloa-style whole or half chicken with rice, beans, tortillas, and salsa.

Description

El Pollo Guasave is a compact, to-go grilled-chicken restaurant at 1600 Central Ave in Kansas City, Kansas. The menu is deliberately short: a whole chicken (number 1) or a half chicken (number 2), each charcoal-cooked and served with beans, rice, corn tortillas, salsa, and pickled onions — the fixings to build your own tacos.12 The name nods to Guasave, a city in Sinaloa, Mexico, and the style is the smoky pollo asado familiar to northwestern-Mexican cooking. Kansas City Magazine, naming it among the 35 essential KC tacos, described the birds as “butterflied and grilled” over live fire with “complex layers of fruity, spicy and char,” noting Sinaloa’s tradition of citrus-marinated grilled chicken.2

Ownership and history

The restaurant is described in local coverage as a family-owned eatery.2 It operates a single Central Avenue location with its own website and Facebook presence.1 Owner names and the founding year are not published in the sources reviewed and are marked pending a primary-source or on-the-ground check.

Last verified: 2026-07-24 · Source: Official online-ordering menu on elpolloguasave.com (Menufy/HungerRush platform — the restaurant’s own site) · URL(s): https://www.elpolloguasave.com/order · Confidence: High

Full official menu — 10 items across three sections. The menu is deliberately short: two chicken plates plus sides and drinks.

Pollo / Chicken

Incluye arroz, salsa, cebolla morada, frijoles, chile toreado y tortillas de maíz — with rice, beans, salsa, pickled onion, roasted jalapeño, and corn tortillas.3

  • Pollo Entero — whole chicken, 8 pc, with the full fixings — $22.003
  • Medio Pollo — half chicken, 4 pc, with the full fixings — $14.003

Sides

  • Arroz — Spanish rice — $4.003
  • Frijoles — pinto beans — $4.003
  • Ensalada de Papa — potato salad — $4.003
  • Salsa — $4.003
  • Chiles Toreados — 5 roasted jalapeños per order — $2.503
  • Cebolla Morada — extra pickled onions — $4.003

Drinks

  • Agua de Bote — bottled water — $2.003
  • Soda — Coca-Cola or Sprite can; aguas frescas — $2.253

Catering is offered via a dedicated page on the official site (elpolloguasave.com/catering); catering pricing not itemized online.1

Sources

Footnotes

  1. El Pollo Guasave official site. https://www.elpolloguasave.com/ — asserts: address, grilled chicken menu, sides, hours (Tue–Sun, closed Mon). ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  2. Kansas City Magazine — Nicole Kinning, “35 essential KC tacos—we ate hundreds to pick them,” March 2, 2021. https://kansascitymag.com/35-essential-kc-tacos-we-ate-hundreds-to-pick-them-1/ — asserts: El Pollo Guasave’s chicken is butterflied and grilled over live fire with “complex layers of fruity, spicy and char”; Sinaloa’s cuisine includes a style of citrus-marinated grilled chicken; half bird $8, whole bird $15. Also listed among KCK taco-trail gems in “Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with KCK’s taco trail relaunch,” May 1, 2023, https://kansascitymag.com/celebrate-cinco-de-mayo-with-kcks-taco-trail-relaunch/. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  3. El Pollo Guasave official online-ordering menu (Menufy/HungerRush white-label on the restaurant’s own domain). https://www.elpolloguasave.com/order — accessed 2026-07-24. Asserts: full 10-item menu with prices (Pollo Entero $22.00 / Medio Pollo $14.00, sides, drinks); chicken plates include rice, beans, salsa, pickled onion, roasted jalapeño, and corn tortillas; official hours Tue–Sun 10:00 a.m.–10:00 p.m., closed Monday (site structured data); carryout with online ordering active. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11

  4. Yelp — El Pollo Guasave, 1600 Central Ave, Kansas City, KS (updated 2025). https://www.yelp.com/biz/el-pollo-guasave-kansas-city — asserts: address 1600 Central Ave, KCK 66102; phone (913) 621-1515; Mexican category; open/active status; hours Tue–Wed 10:00 a.m.–10:00 p.m., Thu–Sun 10:30 a.m.–10:00 p.m., closed Mon. ↩

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On the record — ks.city/registry/el-pollo-guasave · record updated 2026-07-24