Paleteria La Monarca

Paleteria La Monarca is a locally owned Mexican paletería and ice cream shop at 6928 N Oak Trafficway in Gladstone, Missouri, serving paletas, aguas frescas, and antojitos alongside street food such as elotes, tacos, and menudo.

Description

Paleteria La Monarca pairs a Mexican frozen-treats counter with a full antojitos and breakfast menu. The shop describes itself as locally owned and operated, offering ice cream, paletas (ice-cream bars), smoothies, aguas frescas, fruit cocktails, funnel cakes, elotes, street tacos, and breakfast from its North Oak Trafficway storefront.¹² The operator’s own brand site (now a disconnected Wix domain) listed a second location at 603E Rte 291 South, Liberty, MO 64068 — same menu boards, separate phone (816) 222-4420.² The live Gladstone marketing site still advertises menudo as a category; it is not priced on the published boards.¹²

Ownership and history

Paleteria La Monarca presents itself as a “locally owned and operated” business on its official site.¹ The owner’s name, the family behind it, and the founding year are not disclosed in available sources.

Menu

Last verified: 2026-08-26 · Source: operator brand site paleterialamonarca.com/menu (Wix), via Internet Archive capture 2026-05-21 — live domain is a Wix “ConnectYourDomain” 404 as of 2026-08-26; the priced menu-board JPEGs are still served from the operator’s Wix CDN · URL(s): https://web.archive.org/web/20260521202027/https://www.paleterialamonarca.com/menu · boards https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ · Confidence: High (first-party boards; in-store may have drifted since the domain dropped) · Price tier: $

The live Gladstone marketing site (gladstoneicecreamshop.com) is category-only — ice cream, authentic Mexican food, breakfast, menudo, fruit cocktails — with no item names or prices.¹ Aggregator storefronts (Seamless/DoorDash/Uber Eats/Grubhub, including a Liberty listing at 603E Rte 291) were not used for names or prices.

Boards are shared across the Gladstone and Liberty locations on the operator’s own site. Descriptions below are transcribed from those boards, not invented.²

Breakfast

• Classic Burrito — bacon, potatoes, and cheddar cheese ($8.99).²
• Two Eggs Breakfast — any style; rice, beans, tortilla chips and salsa; side of tortillas or toast ($12.49).²
• Scrambled Eggs & Ham — beans, avocado, rice, and salsa; tortillas or toast ($12.99).²
• Scramble Egg con Chorizo — rice, beans, avocado, salsa, and tortillas ($14.29).²
• Huevos a la Mexicana — scramble eggs with onion, tomato, jalapeño or bell pepper; rice, beans, and tortillas ($13.49).²
• Huevos Rancheros — 3 eggs, rice, beans, special sauce, and tortilla ($14.49).²
• La Monarca Breakfast Special — two hot cakes, two egg, and two slices of bacon or sausage ($11.49).²
• Vegetarian Omelette — spinach, bell peppers, onions, tomatoes, and American cheese; potato cubes and tortillas or toast ($13.99).²
• Supreme Omelette — bacon, chorizo, spinach, green and red bell peppers, and American cheese; potato cubes and tortillas or toast ($14.99).²
• The Cowboy Omelette — steak, onions, bell peppers, cheddar jack cheese; potato cubes and tortillas or toast ($15.99).²
• Create Your Own Omelette — omelette with cheese and potato cubes on the side ($12.49); add spinach, tomato, onion, bell peppers, ham, sausage, bacon, or jalapeños $0.50 each.²
• Bacon Egg & Cheese Sandwich — on white bread or biscuit ($7.29).²
• Chicken Biscuit Sandwich ($6.49).²
• Country Fried Steak — breaded steak, two eggs, potato cubes with sausage gravy, a side of toast ($18.49).²
• Fried Chicken Breakfast — breaded breast, two eggs with gravy; potato cubes and toast ($16.29).²
• Biscuits & Gravy — single $6.99 · double $8.99 · triple $10.99.²
• Hot Cakes (3) — butter and syrup ($9.49); Chocolate Chip Hot Cakes (3) ($10.79); Tres Leches Hot Cakes (3) — tres leches, caramel, and whipped cream ($13.99).²
• Breakfast extra sides: strawberries/banana/pecans/chocolate chips $2.49; bacon (4 slices) $4.99; sausage (2 patties) $4.49; egg $2.49; single hot cake $3.49; white/wheat toast $2.49; plain biscuit $2.49; sausage gravy sauce $3.99.²

Mexican food

• Torta Cubana — beef milanesa, beans, sausage, ham, chorizo, queso fresco, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, avocado, and chipotle dressing; served with Lays chips ($14.49).²

• Torta Especial — choice of steak, chicken, pastor, ham, milanesa, or cochinita pibil; beans, queso fresco, lettuce, tomato, onions, and avocado; Lays chips ($12.99).²

• Pambazo — chorizo, potatoes, queso fresco, sour cream, green sauce, and lettuce; Lays chips ($11.49).²

• La Monarca Burger — Angus beef patty with grilled onions, bacon, ham, American cheese, lettuce, tomato, avocado, and mayo; French fries and tornachiles ($14.49).²

• Mexican Hamburger — Angus beef patty with American cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion, avocado, and mayo; French fries and tornachiles ($12.49).²

• Individual Gorditas — toasted, not fried ($4.99 each).²

• Tacos — steak, pastor, chicken, and cochinita pibil ($3.25 each); Taco Camaron ($3.99).²

• Burritos — flour or spinach tortilla; steak, pastor, chicken, cochinita pibil, chicharon with green sauce, rajas, or veggies; beans, rice, lettuce, tomato, tortilla chips, chipotle dressing, and sour cream ($11.99).²

• Fried Gordita Platter — 2/$13.99; steak, pastor, chicken, cochinita pibil, rajas, chicharon in green sauce, or shredded beef; beans, lettuce, tomato, cotija, sour cream; rice.²

• Empanadas — 3/$13.99; ground beef, chicken, or cheese with ham; lettuce, tomato, sour cream, and cotija; green or red salsa; rice and beans.²

• Flautas — 4/$13.99; shredded beef, shredded chicken, or potato with cheese; lettuce, tomato, cotija; green or red salsa; rice and beans.²

• Meat Quesadilla — flour or spinach tortilla; steak or chicken; lettuce, tomato, pico, sour cream, green or red salsa ($13.49).²

• Veggie Quesadilla — spinach tortilla; bell peppers, celery, spinach, corn, and carrot; lettuce, tomato, pico, sour cream, green or red salsa ($13.49).²

• Tostada de Asada — carne asada, mozzarella, avocado, purple/red onion ($4.99); Shrimp Ceviche Tostada — shrimp, pico, cucumber, and lime ($5.29).²

• Birria plates — shredded beef stew with onion, cilantro, lime, tortilla, salsa; 16 oz $8.99 · 32 oz $16.99.²

• Quesabirrias — 3/$15.49; cheese and shredded beef birria on corn-tortilla quesadillas; onion, cilantro; consome and salsa.²

• Pizza Birria — shredded beef birria and cheese stuffed into flour tortillas, pizza-style; onion, cilantro; consome and salsa ($36.99).²

• Extra sides: rice $2.99; beans $2.99; guacamole $5.49; chips and salsa $4.99; side of 3 spicy salsas $2.99; side of French fries $2.99; full order French fries $3.99; consome de birria individual $2.99; 16 oz $9.49 · 32 oz $19.99.²

Kids menu

• Kids Breakfast — 1 egg, 1 biscuit, 2 bacon sausage strips, and small agua-fresca ($7.99).²
• Happy Face — 1 hot cake topped with chocolate chips, strawberry, and peach slices; 2 strips of bacon or sausage; syrup; small agua-fresca ($7.99).²
• Waffle — maple syrup, butter, and fruit; small agua-fresca ($7.99).²
• Hotdog — French fries and small agua-fresca ($8.99).²
• Chicken Tenders — 3 strips, French fries, and small agua-fresca ($10.99).²
• Cheese Burger — Angus beef patty and American cheese; French fries and small agua-fresca ($9.49).²
• Grilled Cheese — American cheese sandwich; French fries and small agua-fresca ($7.99).²
• Sincronizada — ham, chicken, steak, or pastor; cheese; French fries and small agua-fresca ($9.29).²
• Salchipapas — French fries and diced hot dog with nacho cheese and jalapeños ($7.99).²

Sandwiches

• Grilled Chicken Sandwich — chicken breast, bacon, chipotle dressing, lettuce, tomato, onion, Swiss cheese, and avocado; French fries ($12.49).²
• Fried Chicken Sandwich — fried chicken breast, lettuce, onion, tomato, and pickles; French fries ($11.49).²
• Hawaiian Burger — Angus beef patty, ham, pineapple, American cheese, lettuce, tomato, avocado, onion, and chipotle dressing; French fries and tornachiles ($12.99).²
• BLT Sandwich — sourdough, bacon, lettuce, and tomato; French fries ($11.99).²

Cravings

• Nachos Supreme — tortilla chips, nacho cheese, ground beef or shredded chicken, jalapeños, and sour cream ($10.99).²
• Nacho Deluxe — tortilla chips, cheddar, choice of meat, lettuce, tomato, guacamole, pico de gallo, jalapeños, and sour cream ($12.99).²
• Papas Locas — homemade potato chips with pico de gallo, jicama, cucumber, pickled pork skin, Japanese peanuts, spicy peanuts, salt, lime, and Valentina ($9.49).²
• Dorilocos / Tostiloco — Doritos or Tostitos with pico de gallo, jicama, cucumber, pickled pork skin, Japanese peanuts, spicy peanuts, salt, lime, and Valentina ($8.99).²
• Elote Entero — corn on the cob with butter, mayo, cotija, and chili powder ($6.49).²
• Corn in a Cup — kernels with mayo, cotija, lime, salt, butter, and chili powder; small $6.49 · medium $7.99 · large $11.99.²
• Chilindrines — rines with sour cream or mayo, cabbage, pico de gallo, pickled pork skin, lime, salt, Valentina, avocado, and cotija ($8.99).²
• Chilindrina — chicharron with sour cream or mayo, cabbage, pico de gallo, pickled pork skin, lime, salt, Valentina, avocado, and cotija ($9.49).²
• Durito Preparado — chicharron with refried beans, cabbage, pico de gallo, sour cream, avocado, and green or red salsa ($8.49).²
• Dorielote / Tostielote — Doritos or Tostitos with corn kernels, mayo, cotija, nacho cheese, and jalapeños ($7.99).²
• Fuego Corn in a Cup — corn kernels with butter, mayo, cotija, and crushed Hot Cheetos ($7.49).²
• Keep-it-simple: homemade potato chips with Valentine only $5.99; nachos with cheese and jalapeños only $6.99; rines with salt, lime, and Valentina $3.99.²
• Extra add-ons: cotija $1.79 · chile/lime $0.79 · mayo $1.49.²

Aguas frescas & juices

• Aguas frescas — small $2.99 · medium $4.99 · large $5.99. Flavors: horchata, jamaica, tamarindo, piña colada, mango cream, agua de frutas, pineapple-cucumber, strawberry cream, pineapple & mango, carrot-melon.²
• Aguas frescas deluxe — large $8.99; served with natural fruit, lime, and tajin. Flavors: cucumber & lime, pineapple & mango, cucumber & pineapple, strawberry & pineapple, strawberry, watermelon.²
• Juices — medium $8.99 · large $11.99. Mango Berry (orange juice, mango, strawberries, spinach, honey, oats); Monarca Juice (orange juice, strawberry, mango, papaya, honey); Freshly Squeezed Orange Juice; Green Juice (orange juice, green apple, pineapple, parsley, celery, cactus); Energy Juice (orange juice, beet, spinach, celery, tomato, parsley); Detox Juice (orange juice, celery, parsley, ginger, cactus, pineapple); Healthy Juice (orange juice or water, aloe, oats, ginger, cactus); The Vampire (orange juice, celery, carrot, beet).²

Smoothies & licuados

• Banana Oat — natural yogurt, condensed milk, banana, oats, and ice ($9.49).²
• Banana Berry — natural yogurt, strawberry, banana, condensed milk, and ice ($9.99).²
• Triple Berry — strawberry, raspberry, blackberry, orange juice, honey, and ice ($9.99).²
• Hawaiian — banana, pineapple, strawberries, natural yogurt, condensed milk, and ice ($9.99).²
• Piña Colada — natural yogurt, condensed milk, pineapple, coconut ice cream, pineapple ice cream, and ice ($9.99).²
• Raspado Smoothies ($8.49) — milk-based: coconut, nuez, mango, strawberry, or vanilla cream; water-based: vanilla classic, strawberry, or mango.²
• Caramel Frappuccino — condensed milk, caramel ice cream, coffee, milk, and ice ($9.49).²
• Coffee Latte — condensed milk, coffee, coffee ice cream, milk, and ice ($9.49).²
• Strawberry Banana Licuado — strawberries, banana, sweet condensed milk, 2% milk, vanilla, and cinnamon; medium $8.99 · large $10.99.²
• Papaya Licuado — papaya, sweet condensed milk, 2% milk, vanilla, and cinnamon; medium $8.99 · large $10.99.²

Specialty drinks (all 32 oz)

• Tornado — green apple, orange, pineapple, chamoy, Squirt, and ice ($10.99).²
• Jarriloco — Jarrito soda, chamoy, tajin, lime, diced fruit, tamarindo, and ice ($10.99).²
• Redbull Preparado — Red Bull, pineapple, mango, tajin, chamoy, tamarind, and ice ($10.99).²
• Monster Preparado — Monster, pineapple, mango, tajin, chamoy, tamarind, and ice ($10.99).²
• Sweet Naranjada — honey, orange juice, mineral water, grenadine, and ice ($9.99).²
• Sweet Limonada — honey, lime juice, mineral water, and ice ($9.49).²

Fruit & chamoy cravings

• Fruititacos — 3/$8.49; tamarindo candy “tortilla” filled with diced strawberry, pineapple, mango, jicama, and cucumber; Japanese and spicy peanuts, chamoy, lime, and salt.²
• Manzana Loca — green apple slices in tamarind; diced pineapple, strawberries, and mango; Japanese peanuts, Mexican candies, chamoy, and tajin ($7.99).²
• Piña Loca — half pineapple filled with diced cantaloupe, mango, watermelon, cucumber, jicama, and orange; chamoy, salt, lime, tajin, and a tamarind straw ($11.49).²
• Whole Mango — covered in chamoy, tajin, and lime ($6.99).²
• Chamoyada — strawberry, pineapple, lime, or mango sorbet with chamoy and tajin; single $5.99 · double $7.99.²
• Deluxe Mangoneada — mango sorbet with diced mangoes, chamoy, tajin, tamarind straw, and tamarind candy; single $7.99 · double $9.99.²

Fruit cocktails

• Mango Cocktail — 16 oz $8.99; mango chopped and topped with salt, lime, chamoy, and tajin.²
• Cocktail Fruta — watermelon, pineapple, melon, mango, cucumber, jicama; salt, lemon, tajin, chamoy, and chili powder; medium 16 oz $9.79 · large 32 oz $11.79.²
• Fruta Hawwiana — 16 oz $9.49; mango, apples, strawberries, banana, pineapple, and granola in milk cream with whipped cream and a cherry (board spelling).²
• Escamocha — 16 oz $10.49; mango, melon, pineapple, apple, strawberries, raisins, coconut, and pecans; condensed milk, whipped cream, and a cherry.²
• Dulce de Leche — 16 oz $9.99; melon, strawberry, pineapple, apple, mango, and banana; caramel cream, granola, whipped cream, and a cherry.²
• Bionico — 16 oz $8.99; mango, melon, apple, strawberry, pineapple, granola, and honey in yogurt; whipped cream and a cherry.²
• Strawberries and Cream — natural or frozen strawberries, house cream, sweet condensed milk, whipped cream; fresh small (12 oz) $7.99 · medium (16 oz) $9.99; frozen (16 oz) $7.99.²

Sweet cravings

• Churros Rellenos — 3/$7.99; sugar and cinnamon; filling caramel, strawberry, chocolate, Nutella, or sweet condensed milk.²
• Funnel Cake — powder sugar, whipped cream, strawberry and chocolate syrup, and a cherry ($8.99).²
• Churro Cheesecake — strawberry slices and caramel, strawberry and chocolate syrup ($6.99).²
• Monarca Sandwich — Mexican sweet bread filled with a chosen ice-cream flavor and toppings ($6.49).²
• Fried Plantain — sour cream, sweet condensed milk, and strawberries ($5.99).²
• Fried Icecream — vanilla ice cream, crunchy shell ($5.99).²
• Tres Leches Cake ($5.99); Chocoflan ($5.79); Flan Napolitano ($5.99); Brownie Square ($3.99).²

Frozen treats

• Ice cream flavors — single $5.79 · double $6.49. Birthday cake, bubble gum, caramel, cheesecake, chocolate, coconut, coffee, cookies & cream, cotton candy, eggnog, Gansito, horchata, pecan, pistachio, strawberry, strawberry cheesecake, vanilla.²
• Ice cream sorbets — lime, mango, strawberry; single $5.79 · double $6.49.²
• Waffle cone — single $6.79 · double $7.79 · waffle cup $6.79 · kid’s cone $3.49.²
• Canasta Sundae — three ice-cream flavors with chocolate fudge, whipped cream, strawberry syrup, chocolate syrup, wafers, rainbow sprinkles, and a cherry in a waffle bowl ($8.99); three-scoop sundae in a cup $9.49.²
• Banana Split — three ice-cream flavors, split banana, chocolate fudge, whipped cream, strawberry syrup, chocolate syrup, wafers, rainbow sprinkles, and a cherry ($10.99).²
• Esquimal Regular — ice-cream bar dipped in chocolate, topped with nuts, coconut, sprinkles, chocolate sprinkles, or cereal ($5.99).²
• Icecream Bars (paletas) — $3.99. Strawberry, strawberry & cream, vanilla, pecan, pistachio, pinon coco, bubble gum (water & milk), pina, mango, mango & chili, grosella, lime.²
• Chocobanana — frozen banana in chocolate fudge and sprinkles ($3.49).²
• Milkshakes — 16 oz $8.99; any milk-based ice-cream flavor.²
• Toppings $0.99 each: gummy bears, sprinkles, choc sprinkles, M&Ms, Fruity Pebbles, fresh fruit, pecans, whipped cream, shredded coconut, granola, chocolate chips, chocolate, strawberry, caramel syrups, and sweet condensed milk.²

Prices transcribed from the operator’s own Wix menu boards (archived 2026-05-21; CDN still live 2026-08-26) and are subject to change. Price tier $ — most antojitos and breakfast plates $8.99–$16.29; tacos from $3.25; aguas from $2.99; scooped ice cream $5.79.

Links

• Official site (live marketing): https://gladstoneicecreamshop.com/
• Brand site (Wix domain currently disconnected): https://www.paleterialamonarca.com/
• Archived menu (2026-05-21): https://web.archive.org/web/20260521202027/https://www.paleterialamonarca.com/menu
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/paleterialamonarca1/
• Phone (Gladstone): (816) 442-8498
• Phone (Liberty, per brand site): (816) 222-4420
• Email (per brand site): LaMonarca2021@gmail.com

Sources

Footnotes

1. Paleteria La Monarca — official marketing site — accessed 2026-07-15, rechecked 2026-08-26. asserts: business name (Paleteria La Monarca), address 6928 N Oak Trafficway Gladstone MO 64118, “locally owned and operated,” product-line categories (paletas, ice cream, aguas frescas, smoothies, elotes, street tacos, menudo, funnel cakes, breakfast, fruit cocktails), daily hours 9 AM–10 PM, phone (816) 442-8498, currently operating; “View Our Menu” points at paleterialamonarca.com; Seamless aggregator link for 6928 N Oak Trafficway. No itemized prices on this domain. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴

2. Paleteria La Monarca — operator brand site menu, Internet Archive capture 2026-05-21 — boards still live on the operator’s Wix CDN as of 2026-08-26 (e.g. static.wixstatic.com). asserts: Gladstone 6928 North Oak Trafficway, phone 816-442-8498; Liberty 603E rte 291 South, phone 816-222-4420; hours Mon–Sat 9:00am–10:00pm & Sunday 9:00am–9:00pm; email LaMonarca2021@gmail.com; full priced itemized menu boards (breakfast, Mexican food, kids, sandwiches, cravings, aguas frescas/juices, smoothies/licuados, specialty drinks, fruit/chamoy cravings, fruit cocktails, sweet cravings, frozen treats). Live paleterialamonarca.com is a Wix ConnectYourDomain 404 as of 2026-08-26 (domain still registered at Wix, created 2021-05-28). ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹ ↩¹² ↩¹³ ↩¹⁴ ↩¹⁵ ↩¹⁶ ↩¹⁷ ↩¹⁸ ↩¹⁹ ↩²⁰ ↩²¹ ↩²² ↩²³ ↩²⁴ ↩²⁵ ↩²⁶ ↩²⁷ ↩²⁸ ↩²⁹ ↩³⁰ ↩³¹ ↩³² ↩³³ ↩³⁴ ↩³⁵ ↩³⁶ ↩³⁷ ↩³⁸ ↩³⁹ ↩⁴⁰ ↩⁴¹ ↩⁴² ↩⁴³ ↩⁴⁴ ↩⁴⁵ ↩⁴⁶ ↩⁴⁷ ↩⁴⁸ ↩⁴⁹ ↩⁵⁰ ↩⁵¹ ↩⁵² ↩⁵³ ↩⁵⁴ ↩⁵⁵ ↩⁵⁶ ↩⁵⁷ ↩⁵⁸ ↩⁵⁹ ↩⁶⁰ ↩⁶¹ ↩⁶² ↩⁶³ ↩⁶⁴ ↩⁶⁵ ↩⁶⁶ ↩⁶⁷ ↩⁶⁸ ↩⁶⁹ ↩⁷⁰ ↩⁷¹ ↩⁷² ↩⁷³ ↩⁷⁴ ↩⁷⁵ ↩⁷⁶ ↩⁷⁷ ↩⁷⁸ ↩⁷⁹ ↩⁸⁰ ↩⁸¹ ↩⁸² ↩⁸³ ↩⁸⁴ ↩⁸⁵ ↩⁸⁶ ↩⁸⁷ ↩⁸⁸ ↩⁸⁹ ↩⁹⁰ ↩⁹¹ ↩⁹² ↩⁹³ ↩⁹⁴ ↩⁹⁵ ↩⁹⁶ ↩⁹⁷ ↩⁹⁸ ↩⁹⁹ ↩¹⁰⁰ ↩¹⁰¹ ↩¹⁰² ↩¹⁰³ ↩¹⁰⁴ ↩¹⁰⁵ ↩¹⁰⁶ ↩¹⁰⁷ ↩¹⁰⁸ ↩¹⁰⁹ ↩¹¹⁰ ↩¹¹¹ ↩¹¹² ↩¹¹³ ↩¹¹⁴ ↩¹¹⁵