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A low-frills, cash-friendly taquería on the historic Southwest Boulevard Mexican corridor, where street-style tacos are built on a cart set into the front wall — pastor, asada, chorizo, and barbacoa at $2.75 apiece on the house catalog, served with three house salsas and finely diced onion.

| Corporate parent | None — independent, single location || | Notable features | Street tacos built on a front-wall taco cart; al pastor; three salsas (hot, mild, tomatillo); BYOB; taco-eating challenges ||

Description

Rico’s Tacos — listed on signage and online as Rico’s Tacos “Lupe” — is a casual, authentic taquería at 802 Southwest Boulevard in Kansas City, Missouri, on the city’s historic Southwest Boulevard Mexican-restaurant corridor at the edge of the Westside neighborhood.12 It is a low-frills, locally beloved spot known for street-style tacos cooked on a taco cart built into the front wall of the dining room.3

The menu centers on small street tacos — a soft corn tortilla with meat, finely diced onion, and cilantro — offered across proteins including pastor, carne asada, pollo, chorizo, barbacoa, carnitas, molida, and deshebrada, at $2.75 each on the restaurant’s own MenuStar catalog.4 The Pitch (May 2025) reported a $1 al pastor special on Tuesdays; that special is not listed on the live MenuStar specials page as of 2026-08-30.14 Diners choose from three house salsas — hot, mild, and a green tomatillo — and the kitchen rounds out the offering with tamales, tortas, huaraches, taco salads, a burrito supreme, guacamole, shrimp ceviche tostadas, and dessert.12 The Pitch singled out the finely diced onion as a standout, “the crispiest crunch yet a gentle flavor,” alongside richly seasoned chicken and carne asada.1 The spot is also known locally for a BYOB policy and informal taco-eating challenges documented on its walls.3

Ownership and history

Rico’s Tacos appears to be an independently owned, single-location taquería with no corporate parent.23 The “Lupe” in the business name and Instagram handle (ricos_tacos_lupe816) strongly suggests a family or personal name — most likely Guadalupe (“Lupe”) — but the owner’s identity is not documented in any public source reviewed.

The seed founding year is 2010, but no reviewed source confirms a founding date; this should be treated as provisional. The Pitch noted in a May 2025 feature that the business operates “with no website and scant social media presence,” relying instead on word-of-mouth reputation — consistent with a long-standing, owner-run neighborhood taquería rather than a marketing-driven newcomer.1

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Last verified: 2026-08-30 · Source: first-party MenuStar ordering catalog (pickup; item prices unchanged after setting order type to pickup) · URL(s): https://themenustar6.com/webspace/menus.php?code=orderricostacoslupe.com · Confidence: High on names, prices, and operator-printed descriptions (POST function=get_items to functions/restaurant.php for restaurant_id 12240). Spellings (totilla, gaucamole, ship beans, Deshebrada) are as published.

Online-order hours printed on the MenuStar location page: Mon–Fri 11:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. (delivery 11:00 a.m.–1:30 p.m.); Sat–Sun closed. Delivery fee $4.99 and up; delivery minimum $15.00. Yelp still lists evening windows on Tue/Thu/Fri — treat MenuStar figures as the online-order card, not a reconciled in-house schedule. The specials page is empty. Aggregator-only items from the prior pass (quesabirria taco, huarache, breakfast burritos, half-dozen/dozen tamale packs, tres leches / chocolate cake / cheesecake) are not on this catalog and are omitted rather than priced from DoorDash/Grubhub/Uber Eats.

Category headings below are the catalog’s own names. Popular Items duplicates tacos/burritos and is not repeated.

Appetizers

  • Queso Dip — Melted jack cheese and salsa, served with chips ($6.99)4
  • Guacamole — Served with chips ($7.99)4
  • Meat Quesadilla — Served with pico de gallo and sour cream ($6.50)4
  • Cheese Quesadilla ($3.00)4
  • Tostada with Meat ($4.50)4
  • Nachos Supreme — Chips, beans, choice of Meat, cheese dip, pico, guacamole and sour cream, jalapeño ($12.00)4

Burritos

Choice of protein on items that require it (as printed on the Burrito Supreme modifier sheet): Asada Grilled Steak; Barbacoa Beef Cheeks; Carnitas Orange Braise Pork; Chorizo Mex Pork Sausage; Desherbada Shredded Beef; Molida Ground Beef; Pastor Marinated Pork; Pollo Chicken.4

  • House Burrito — Flour tortilla with refried beans, choice of meat, lettuce, and pico de gallo inside. ($5.99)4
  • Burrito Supreme — Flour tortilla with beans, rice, meat, choice, lettuce, pico, sour cream, guacamole, and cheese inside. ($10.50)4
  • Pork Burrito Spread — Flour tortilla with beans pork chile meat topped with red sauce and cheese. ($9.50)4
  • Burrito Loco — Supreme burrito with cheese dip top. ($12.50)4
  • Veggie Burrito — Flour tortilla with black beans, pico, lettuce, and gaucamole. ($5.50)4
  • Chile Relleno Burrito — Flour totilla with chile relleno pepper, beans, rice, lettuce, pico inside ($10.50)4
  • Chile Relleno Burrito with meat ($12.99)4

Tacos

  • Carne Asada Taco — Grilled steak. Served on a soft corn tortilla topped with onions and cilantro. ($2.75)4
  • Carnitas Taco — Orange - braised pork. Served on a soft corn tortilla topped with onions and cilantro. ($2.75)4
  • Pollo Taco — Grilled chicken. Served on a soft corn tortilla topped with onions and cilantro. ($2.75)4
  • Pastor Taco — Marinated pork. Served on a soft corn tortilla topped with onions and cilantro. ($2.75)4
  • Chorizo Taco — Mexicana pork sausage. Served on a soft corn tortilla topped with onions and cilantro. ($2.75)4
  • Molida Taco — Ground beef. Served on a soft corn tortilla topped with onions and cilantro. ($2.75)4
  • Deshebrada Taco — Shredded beef. Served on a soft corn tortilla topped with onions and cilantro. ($2.75)4
  • Barbacoa Taco — Beef cheeks. Served on a soft corn tortilla topped with onions and cilantro. ($2.75)4
  • Veggie Taco — Black beans with lettuce, pico, and guacamole. Served on a soft corn tortilla topped with onions and cilantro. ($2.75)4

Entrees

All Entrees served with rice and beans.4

  • 1. Enchiladas — 3 Red Enchiladas with choice of meat, or with cheese and onions. ($11.75)4
  • 2. House Burrito, Taco, and Tostada ($13.75)4
  • 3. Enchilada, Taco, Tostada ($13.25)4
  • 4. Tamales — 3 Pork Tamales covered with red sauce and cheese. ($12.50)4
  • 5. Tostadas — 2 Meat Tostadas ($11.25)4

A la carta

  • Tostada de Shrimp Ceviche ($4.99)4
  • Shrimp Ceviche — Shrimp mixed with lime pico and avocado served with 3 tostada shells. ($12.50)4
  • Taco Salad — Choice of meat on a bed of ship beans, lettuce, pico, guacamole, sour cream, and cheese. ($12.00)4
  • Torta — Grilled telera, layered with beans, choice of meat, lettuce, pico, and guacamole. ($7.00)4
  • Side of Rice ($2.75)4
  • Side of Beans ($2.75)4
  • Extra Meat ($3.00)4
  • Sides ($2.00)4
  • Enchilada ($3.00)4
  • Tamale Spread — Tamale with red sauce and melted cheese ($3.00)4
  • Tamale — Chicken, Beef, Pork, Cheese with Jalapeño ($2.50)4

Drinks

  • 20 oz Plastic Sodas ($3.50)4
  • Jarritos ($3.00)4
  • Horchata ($3.50)4
  • Limona ($3.50)4
  • Jamaica ($3.50)4
  • Piña ($3.50)4
  • Flavor Teas ($3.00)4
  • Mexicana 1/2 Litro Coke ($4.00)4

Sources

Footnotes

  1. The Pitch — “Eat This Now: Street tacos at Ricos Tacos ‘Lupe’” (2025-05-02) — accessed 2026-05-30 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  2. Yelp — Ricos Tacos Lupe, 802 Southwest Blvd, Kansas City, MO (144 photos, 181 reviews; updated May 2026) — accessed 2026-05-30 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  3. On the Grid — Ricos Tacos “Lupe,” Kansas City — accessed 2026-05-30 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  4. Ricos Tacos Lupe official online-ordering menu (first-party, MenuStar platform, restaurant_id 12240) — accessed 2026-08-30. Item names, prices, and descriptions from POST function=get_items to themenustar6.com (pickup order type; tacos identical after function=choose_payment&payment_type=pickup). Hours/address/phone from themenustar6.com. Asserts: 802 Southwest Blvd, KCMO 64108; phone 816-472-0738; opening hours Mon–Fri 11:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m., Sat–Sun closed; delivery hours Mon–Fri 11:00 a.m.–1:30 p.m.; delivery fee $4.99 and up / $15.00 minimum; 46 priced items across APPETIZERS, BURRITOS, TACOS, ENTREES, A LA CARTA, DRINKS as transcribed above. Custom domain www.orderricostacoslupe.com is NXDOMAIN as of 2026-08-30. Specials page empty. ↩ ↩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

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