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Fénix (“Tacos Reborn”) is the Latin American taco kitchen inside Strang Hall, the food hall at 7313 W 80th St in downtown Overland Park, Kansas.12 It launched in spring 2020 as the chef-entrepreneur concept of Kansas City native chef Brett DeHart, replacing the hall’s original taco stall Nida.3 DeHart has since left Strang Hall to open his own restaurant, The Go To, in Louisburg, Kansas — referenced in the past tense by The Pitch in June 2025.4 Fénix continues under the Strang Hall banner with no separately named chef or operator published, and on the evidence available it now reads as a venue-operated house brand of Strang Hall rather than an independent tenant business.

Description

Fénix is one of six kitchens operating inside Strang Hall, the multi-vendor food hall in downtown Overland Park’s Edison District.2 Its own page describes the concept as honoring “the rich flavors and vibrant traditions of Latin American culinary heritage with a modern twist infusion,” under the tagline “Tacos Reborn.”1

The kitchen opened in spring 2020 when Kansas City native chef Brett DeHart took over the stall previously occupied by Nida, another taco concept, and reframed it as “taqueria by day, and elevated Latin cuisine by night.”3 DeHart had spent 27 years in kitchens, including a stint as an executive chef in Salt Lake City, before returning to Kansas City.3 He went on to open a second concept in the same building, the sushi kitchen Tora Zushi, in April 2021.5

DeHart is no longer at Strang Hall. The Pitch, writing in June 2025 about his own restaurant The Go To in Louisburg, Kansas, referred to Fénix and Tora Zushi in the past tense (“You may remember him from the Mexican-infused Fénix and Asian-inspired Tora Zushi in OP”).4 Both brands remained in the hall after his departure, and Strang Hall changed hands in September 2025, when Kansas City restaurant group Culinary Virtue acquired it.6 The current Fénix page carries no chef biography.1

Independent tenant or venue house brand?

Assessment: venue-operated house brand of Strang Hall — inference, not a sourced assertion. No source located states in terms who owns the Fénix brand today. The following first-party evidence supports the house-brand reading:

  • No independent web presence. Fénix’s only website is a page on the hall’s own domain, stranghall.com/fenix/. No separate domain was found.1
  • Shared phone and email. The Fénix page lists the hall’s shared number, (913) 701-7041, and the hall’s contact address; no Fénix-specific line exists.17
  • Shared ordering account. Every “Order Now” / “View Menu” link on the Fénix page resolves to Strang Hall’s single Toast account (toasttab.com/strang-hall/v3), with Fénix appearing as a menu group inside it — not a separate merchant storefront.8
  • The hall rebrands its own kitchens. Strang Hall renamed its pizza stall from Norcini to Pizza Kraft in early 2026 while keeping the same chef and the same page (the old URL 301-redirects to the new one) — venue-level control of the brands rather than tenant turnover.910
  • The founding chef left and the brand stayed. DeHart departed to open The Go To; Fénix continued in his absence and now publishes no named chef.41

Countervailing evidence: Fénix was created as a chef-entrepreneur concept in 2020 and retains its own Facebook page (“Fénix at Strang Hall”), and Strang Hall’s original 2019 model was explicitly a culinary incubator leasing stalls to independent chefs.3116 It is therefore possible Fénix is still a distinct business under a chef not publicly named. This is not resolved. No Kansas Secretary of State filing search was completed — the state’s business-entity search is an interactive portal not retrievable by the tools available here. “

Operating status

Active. Fénix is listed as a current kitchen on Strang Hall’s own site and on every sibling kitchen page as of 2026-08-13, and the hall is open at 7313 W 80th St.12

Last verified: 2026-08-14 · Source: Strang Hall’s own Toast online-ordering account (order.toasttab.com/online/strang-hall), the destination of every ordering link on stranghall.com; Fénix appears there as its own menu group.12 · Confidence: High — every item name, description and price below is transcribed from that first-party storefront. What is not confirmed: which items rotate by day (Toast labels the group “Fénix (Friday)” and the capture was taken on a Friday, 2026-08-14), and the individual taco fillings inside the “Tres Tacos” item, which live in an order-time modifier list the capture did not expand.

The 2026-08-13 verdict of “no recoverable first-party menu” is superseded: the Toast storefront 403s to plain HTTP fetches but renders in full under a headless browser. Do not re-spend effort on the Wayback Machine or Toast’s API for this page.

Shares & Sides

  • Cheesy Street Corn Dip — $12.00 — esquite, chipotle cheddar, cotija, blue corn chips, salsa verde.12
  • Hand Smashed Guacamole & Chips — $12.00 — Shares & Sides | Freshly made guacamole every day (Gluten-Free & Vegetarian).12
  • Carne Asada Fries — $16.00 — crispy fries topped with queso, carne asada, pico, cilantro, asadero, pasilla cream, queso fresco.12
  • Nachos — $16.00 — Shares & Sides | choice of shredded chicken, ground beef, or carnitas pork, tortilla chips, melty cheese, onions, pico de gallo, pasilla sour cream, pickled jalapeños and salsa (Gluten-free).12
  • Chips & Queso — $10.00 — Side | jalapeño queso blanco & pico with fresh corn tortilla chips (Gluten-free & Vegetarian).12
  • Salsa & Chips — $7.00 — Sides | choice of salsa roja or salsa verde with fresh corn tortilla chips.12
  • Esquite Dip (GF) — $12.00 — ancho pepper, chipotle cheddar, blue corn chips, cotija cheese, salsa verde. Listed OUT OF STOCK on 2026-08-14, and appears only under the hall-wide Gluten-Free menu, not the Friday Fénix group.12

Tres Tacos

Group note as published: “Three of our amazing tacos, mix & match.”12

  • Tres Tacos ⭐ — $14.00 — Tacos | Choose any three of our amazing tacos. The list of individual fillings is an order-time modifier and was not captured. “12

Entrées

  • El Burrito ⭐ — $16.00 — Entree | Choice of carnitas pork, ground beef, beef birria or shredded chicken with refried beans, rice & cheese, rolled in a flour tortilla with salsa. Cali Style (fries + guac) +2 - Smothered +.50.12
  • Birria Quesadilla — $17.00 — Entree | Crispy dipped flour tortilla, braised beef, mixed cheese, onions, with our birria dipping sauce.12
  • Classic Chicken Quesadilla — $14.00 — spiced chicken, onions, cilantro, melty cheese in a 12 inch tortilla. served with salsa roja. Classic.12
  • Fenix Breakfast Burrito — $14.00 — scrambled eggs, tots, cheese, pico, pasilla crema, and choice of protein.12

Kids - Fenix

  • Kids Cheese Quesadilla — $9.00 — Kids | Cheese quesadilla served with choice of rice & beans or french fries.12
  • Kids Beef Taco — $9.00 — Kids | Beef taco with cheese, served with choice of rice & beans or french fries.12
  • Kids Chicken Tenders & Fries — $9.00 — Kids | Crispy battered chicken tenders & fries.12

Sweets

  • Crispy Churros — $8.00 — Special | tossed in cinamon sugar, served with chipotle chocolate dipping sauce & lime whipped cream. (spelling “cinamon” as published)12

Drinks - Fenix

  • Soda 🥤 — $3.50 — [no description published].12
  • Pepino Limón Fresca — $5.00 — Cool, crisp, and incredibly refreshing. Fresh cucumber (pepino), bright lime, cool mint, agave, and a touch of sea salt come together in this vibrant agua fresca, finished with a Tajín-dusted lime for the perfect balance of citrus, sweetness, and a subtle kick of spice. It’s the taste of summer in every sip.12

Day-of-week ceiling (unconfirmed). Toast presents this group as “Fénix (Friday)” alongside “Anousone (Friday)”, “Beer Kitchen (Friday)”, “Pizza Kraft (Friday)” and “Tora Zushi (Friday)” — every kitchen carries the same day label, which is consistent with a single daily-published menu rather than a Fénix-specific rotation. Whether any item above is Friday-only is not established. Treat the list as the confirmed Friday 2026-08-14 menu, not as a permanent one; a second capture on a different weekday would settle it.

Historical (2020–21 press, superseded by the first-party list above and not confirmed current): taco fillings pastor, pollo, carnitas, Americano (ground beef), vegetarian, soft-shell crab, pescado frito, and costilla (beef short rib), on soft corn, crispy corn, or flour tortillas; a 16-spice smoked chicken entrée with corn coulis, fried avocado, and house mole as best-selling entrée.13 A short-rib breakfast burrito on the 2021 weekend brunch menu14 — the breakfast burrito persists on the current menu under a different published description, which governs.

Aggregator listings (DoorDash, Uber Eats, Grubhub, SinglePlatform) exist but are excluded from this Registry for pricing.

Sources

Disputes

None recorded.

See also

Footnotes

  1. stranghall.com — asserts: Fénix’s tagline “Tacos Reborn”; concept description (“the rich flavors and vibrant traditions of Latin American culinary heritage with a modern twist infusion”); location 7313 W 80th St OP, KS; phone (913) 701-7041; Instagram @fenixkansascity; page hosted on stranghall.com with no independent domain; no chef biography present on the page; Fénix listed as one of six kitchens. (Accessed 2026-08-13.) ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  2. stranghall.com — asserts: Strang Hall’s current kitchen lineup (Anousone, Beer Kitchen, Fenix, Pizza Kraft, Tora Zushi, Strang Bar, Strang Cafe, Strang Catering); hall hours Mon–Thu 11am–9pm, Fri 11am–10pm, Sat 10am–10pm, Sun 10am–9pm, café opening earlier; address 7313 W 80th St, Overland Park, KS. (Accessed 2026-08-13.) ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  3. johnsoncountypost.com — asserts: Fénix introduced May 2020 at Strang Hall with Kansas City native chef Brett DeHart at the helm; DeHart previously an executive chef in Salt Lake City with 27 years’ experience; Fénix soft-launched a few weeks earlier in the space formerly occupied by Nida; concept described as “taqueria by day, and elevated Latin cuisine by night”; Fénix described as one of six chef-entrepreneur concepts inside the food hall, which opened December 2019. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  4. thepitchkc.com — asserts: article dated June 13, 2025 about chef Brett DeHart and his restaurant The Go To; refers to DeHart in the past tense as remembered “from the Mexican-infused Fénix and Asian-inspired Tora Zushi in OP,” establishing that he had left Strang Hall by that date. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  5. johnsoncountypost.com — asserts: Brett DeHart, who also ran Fénix at Strang Hall, launched Tora Zushi as a second concept in the same building on April 20, 2021. ↩

  6. johnsoncountypost.com — asserts: Kansas City restaurant group Culinary Virtue acquired Strang Hall in September 2025 and refreshed the vendor lineup while keeping the multi-stall format. ↩ ↩2

  7. stranghall.com — asserts: a single hall-wide ordering page with a “Select a kitchen to start” selector covering Anousone, Fenix, Pizza Kraft, Beer Kitchen, Tora Zushi and Strang Cafe; hall contact phone (913) 701-7041 and email hello@stranghall.com; third-party delivery via DoorDash, UberEats, Grubhub. (Accessed 2026-08-13.) ↩

  8. stranghall.com (page source, retrieved 2026-08-13) — asserts: all ordering and menu links on the Fénix page resolve to https://www.toasttab.com/strang-hall/v3 (plus toasttab.com/strang-hall/rewards), i.e. Strang Hall’s single Toast merchant account, with no Fénix-specific storefront. ↩

  9. curl -sI -L https://www.stranghall.com/norcini executed 2026-08-13 — asserts: the hall’s former Norcini kitchen URL now returns HTTP 301 to /pizza-kraft/, i.e. the venue renamed its own pizza kitchen rather than replacing a departing tenant. Corroborated by the archived Norcini page at (captured 2026-01-30), which carries the same “traveling butchers of Norcia” copy and the same Chef Doug McNay biography now shown on the Pizza Kraft page. ↩

  10. kctv5.com — asserts: KCTV5 segment dated March 12, 2026 announcing “Strang Hall’s New Pizza Kraft Concept,” presented by Chef Doug McNay and General Manager Ryan Kramer. ↩

  11. facebook.com — asserts: a Facebook page exists titled “Fénix at Strang Hall,” Overland Park KS. ↩

  12. order.toasttab.com — Strang Hall’s own Toast online-ordering account, the destination of every “Order Now” / “View Menu” link on stranghall.com. Rendered in full via headless browser 2026-08-14 (a plain HTTP fetch still returns 403); local capture retained at .firecrawl/strang-hall-toast.md. Asserts: the “Fénix (Friday)” menu group and all Fénix item names, published descriptions and prices transcribed in the Menu section above; group note “Three of our amazing tacos, mix & match.”; the Esquite Dip (GF) listing and its OUT OF STOCK flag under the hall-wide Gluten-Free menu; hall address 7313 W 80th St, Overland Park, KS 66204; ordering-page phone (913) 210-0475. Fénix has no separate Toast merchant storefront — it is a menu group inside the hall’s single account, corroborating the house-brand reading above. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13 ↩14 ↩15 ↩16 ↩17 ↩18 ↩19 ↩20

  13. feastmagazine.com — asserts: (Feast Magazine, 2020) Fénix open inside Strang Hall as a Latin-inspired concept; taco fillings pastor, pollo, carnitas, Americano, vegetarian, soft-shell crab, pescado frito, costilla, on soft corn, crispy corn or flour tortillas; 16-spice smoked chicken with corn coulis, fried avocado and house mole as best-selling entrée. ↩

  14. herlifemagazine.com — asserts: (Kansas City Magazine for Women, September 1, 2021) Fénix served a short-rib breakfast burrito on Strang Hall’s weekend brunch menu. ↩

See also

  • Registry
  • strang-hall
  • Owner-And-History-Research-Toolchain
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On the record — ks.city/registry/fenix-strang-hall · record updated 2026-08-14