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Nunez Foods is a Kansas City, Kansas birria kitchen that Brenda Nunez started in 2020 from home recipes, then a takeout counter at 2110 N. 18th St., then food trucks, then a sit-down Nunez Foods Eatery at 1623 Genessee St. in the West Bottoms — opened late June 2026 in the former Fortunati Pizza space. The draw is birria used as tacos, ramen, egg rolls, Flamin’ Hot Cheetos-dusted fried balls, and a stuffed-tortilla “pizza.” Family-run; pink-and-black rooms.

Description

Nunez’s kitchen is built around one pot of birria. She told The Star in July 2026 it is “our most sellable food,” cooked slowly, a pot a day, always rotating.1 The West Bottoms menu keeps the viral formats — birria ramen, birria “pizza” (quesadillas formed like a pizza, crisped so they do not fall apart), egg rolls, Flamin’ Hot Cheetos-dusted fried balls — and adds sit-down plates: fajitas, camarones a la diabla, brunch chorizo and eggs.1 She goes through 400 packs of ramen a week.1

Prices below are as reported by The Star from the July 2026 West Bottoms visit, not aggregator menus. They will age.

Item (West Bottoms, July 2026)PriceSource
Birria ramen$10.991
Birria “pizza”$17.99–$27.991
Fajitas$18.991
Camarones a la diabla$18.991
Mexican chorizo with eggs$12.991
Jarritos / soda / Mexican Coke / aguas frescas$2.99–$5.991

A first-party ordering hostname, nunezfoodsks.com, is indexed for the KCK counter (birria ramen listed there at $12.49, pizzadilla $29.99, birria quesatacos $19.99). The page did not load this pass; those KCK figures are not copied onto this page until the URL is opened. Do not mix the two locations’ prices.

The West Bottoms room is about 50 seats, pink and black, with a pink neon “Dial for tacos” sign and a mounted rotary phone. Nunez told The Star pink is not her favorite color — black is — but the flamingo palette is a private metaphor from a book on flamingos losing their color as new mothers, which she connected to starting the business as a single mother.1 The business is family-run: The Star saw her youngest in the room and her oldest daughter serving.1

Ownership and history

Brenda Nunez is the owner on both Star pieces. Origin story, consistent across April and July 2026: a California trip where she ate birria ramen; she could not find it in Kansas City; she cooked it at home; friends asked her to sell it; the KCK takeout counter opened in 2020; two food trucks followed; the West Bottoms dining room is the first full sit-down.12 April 2026: she had been at 2110 N. 18th St. “six years” and was parking a truck outside 1623 Genesee during renovation, aiming to open in about three weeks — a timetable that slipped from May into late June.2

KCK takeout remains open per the April piece; nothing this pass says it closed.2

Legal entity name and Kansas/Missouri filings were not completed this pass. ****

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Footnotes

  1. Katelyn Umholtz, “KC restaurant known for birria fusion dishes opens in the West Bottoms,” The Kansas City Star, updated 6 July 2026, 3:35 PM (originally 7:18 AM). URL (Asserts: Nunez Foods Eatery second location at 1623 Genessee St. opened “last Sunday”; full sit-down vs KCK takeout; Brenda Nunez; started 2020 after people asked for dishes she posted; California birria-ramen trip; 400 ramen packs/week; birria pizza construction; “most sellable food” quote; priced items in the table; liquor license pending; NA beverage range; ~50 seats, pink/black, flamingo/single-mother passage; family on the floor; hoped partnerships with Pole Worx Fitness; hours Sun–Thu 9–11, Fri–Sat 9–midnight, closed Mondays; Instagram link.) ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12

  2. Jenna Thompson, “New Mexican restaurant on its way to Kansas City’s West Bottoms,” The Kansas City Star, 22 April 2026, 3:33 PM. URL (Asserts: owner Brenda Nunez; KCK to-go at 2110 N. 18th St. for six years; West Bottoms at 1623 Genesee St., former Fortunati Pizza, about three weeks from opening; KCK to remain open; food truck parked outside during renovation; California origin; two food trucks.) ↩ ↩2 ↩3

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