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El Típico Guate Mix is a Guatemalan restaurant at 402 N 5th St in Kansas City, KS — opened approximately 2024, serving traditional Guatemalan steaks, burritos, and homemade recipes in KCK’s 5th Street corridor. Listed on Travel Kansas and active on TikTok and Yelp. Guatemalan cuisine is otherwise unrepresented in the Registry.**

Description

El Típico Guate Mix is a Guatemalan restaurant at 402 N 5th St in KCK’s 5th Street corridor — one of the densest stretches of immigrant-owned restaurants in the metro. “Guate” is common shorthand for Guatemalan, and “tipico” signals traditional home-country cooking; the name frames this as authentic, not fusion. The restaurant opened approximately 2024 and has built its presence through TikTok (motto: “every dish tells a story of tradition and passion”) and DoorDash delivery. The menu centers on traditional Guatemalan steaks and burritos with homemade recipes. El Típico Guate Mix is listed by Travel Kansas and is active on Yelp (updated November 2025). As of drafting, no owner name has been confirmed from available sources — direct outreach is recommended before publishing.

Last verified: 2026-06-30 · Source: TikTok @eltipicoguatemix1, eltipicoguatemixks.com2 · menu_status: stub · Confidence: Low (Guatemalan steaks and burritos confirmed from TikTok caption; full menu)

Guatemalan

  • Guatemalan steaks — traditional preparation1
  • Burritos —1
  • Homemade Guatemalan recipes —

Pricing

  • Price tier: low

Sources

Footnotes

  1. TikTok — @eltipicoguatemix — Confirms: Active social media presence; Guatemalan restaurant identity (“hidden gem in Kansas City, Kansas”); menu includes steaks and burritos; “every dish tells a story of tradition and passion”; “two years” of operation (approximately 2024 opening); “sharing our culture through food” framing. Yelp — El Tipico Guate Mix, 402 N 5th St Kansas City KS — updated November 2025 (confirms active). (Accessed 2026-06-30.) ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  2. El Típico Guate Mix — official website — Confirms: Business name, 402 N 5th St Kansas City KS 66101; Guatemalan restaurant; online ordering available. (Accessed 2026-06-30.) ↩

See also

  • Registry
Categories
  • Guatemalan
  • Central American

On the record — ks.city/registry/el-tipico-guate-mix · record updated 2026-06-30