Snack Bar

Snack Bar is a Mexican street-food and cocktails spot in Lenexa, Kansas, opened at the end of December 2024 by veteran KC-area restaurateurs Oscar Romero and Norberto Romero, serving tortas, elote, aguas frescas, and ice cream in a grab-and-go format at 7789 Quivira Road.

Description

Snack Bar is a “bar and bites” concept serving Mexican street food and cocktails in the Lenexa Plaza shopping center, just off West 79th Street and Quivira Road.¹ The menu features casual bites like tortas (Mexican sandwiches), elote (Mexican street corn), burritos, wraps, and salads, alongside sweets including ice cream, crepes, and homemade aguas frescas.¹ On the cocktail side, it offers margaritas, sangria, palomas, and micheladas.¹ While the location features some seating, the primary concept is grab-and-go.²

The owners say the concept reflects the casual street-food style that has become popular in Mexico, inspired by their families’ history working as street vendors.¹² Hours are 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday.¹

Ownership and history

Snack Bar is co-owned by Oscar Romero and Norberto Romero, who are not related despite sharing a surname.¹ Both are originally from Turitzio, Michoacán, Mexico, and their families worked as street vendors in Houston.¹ Oscar Romero also owns and operates AR’s Breakfast and Brunch, a popular breakfast eatery with locations in Overland Park and Olathe.¹² Norberto Romero previously managed O’Neill’s Restaurant & Bar in Leawood for 23 of its nearly 25 years in operation.¹

The restaurant softly opened at the end of December 2024, taking over the space formerly occupied by Papagallo Gyro Cafe, an Italian and Mediterranean cafe that closed in 2024.¹²

Menu

Last verified: 2026-06-23 · Source: Yelp business listing (updated June 2026) + Johnson County Post opening coverage · Confidence: Partial — categories well-corroborated; itemized pricing largely unverified (only one item price confirmed). The former official site (snackbarkc.com) is no longer a usable menu source (see Disputes).

Snack Bar is a Mexican street-food, sweets, and cocktails counter — a “bar and bites” grab-and-go format with limited seating.¹ The menu skews toward casual snacks and a deep sweets selection alongside a short cocktail list.¹³

Savory / street food

• Tortas (Mexican sandwiches), tacos, and taco platters.¹³
• Burritos — e.g., chicken burrito (reviewer-confirmed).³
• Elote (Mexican street corn).¹³
• Wraps and salads — including The Mascot Salad (white chicken, avocado, greens, dressings), $10.99.³
• Tostilocos and fruit / fruit salads.³

Sweets & frozen

• Ice cream (multiple flavors), crepes, and shaved ice.¹³
• Paletas / Mexican ice cream-style treats.¹³

Drinks

• Aguas frescas — house-made, rotating flavors (e.g., cucumber).¹³
• Cocktails — margaritas, sangria, palomas, and micheladas (made-to-order).¹³

Note: aside from the Mascot Salad ($10.99), individual menu prices are not verifiable from a current first-party source — the official website is defunct. Yelp positions the venue in the inexpensive/casual range, consistent with a street-food counter concept. Prices and exact offerings should be re-verified before publication.

Links

• Official presence: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/snack_bar_kc/ ⁴ (use this as the official-website reference; the brand has no working website)
• Website: snackbarkc.com — DEAD / repurposed as a gambling site as of 2026-06-23; do NOT link (intentionally un-hyperlinked).⁵
• Phone: (913) 232-7857¹

Sources

Disputes

• Official website is dead (2026-06-23): The former official domain snackbarkc.com lapsed and now serves a gambling site as of 2026-06-23; do not link. Re-verified this date: subpages order.snackbarkc.com and snackbarkc.com/menus both render the Indonesian-language slot/casino site “RAJAHOKI123: Situs Raja Dewa Slot Gacor Naga Mahjong,” with no restaurant content; the root domain returns HTTP 403 to direct fetch.⁵ Live presence: Instagram @snack_bar_kc⁴ (the official-website reference on this page has been repointed there). The business itself remains open (Yelp listing updated June 2026 with current hours and recent reviews).³ This is a lapsed/repurposed domain, not a business closure, but it removes the first-party menu source. (Editorial flag for Strategist: confirm current first-party menu source — in-store menu, active Instagram, or delivery platform — and scrub the dead domain from the Registry + ks.city. Note: a second handle, @snackbarkc (no underscores), also surfaces in search; confirm which is canonical before publishing.)
• Owner relationship / shared hometown: Some secondary aggregators (Facebook restaurant-listing repost; herekansascity.com) state the two Romeros are from “the same town in Mexico.” The primary source (Johnson County Post) states they are “not related despite shared surname” but both originally from Turitzio, Michoacán. This page follows the primary source: same hometown, no family relation.

Footnotes

1. Johnson County Post, “Snack Bar opens in Lenexa, serving Mexican street food” (Jan 17, 2025). https://johnsoncountypost.com/2025/01/17/snack-bar-lenexa-open-251090/ — asserts: exact name, address (7789 Quivira Rd, Lenexa Plaza), owners Oscar Romero and Norberto Romero (no relation), origins Turitzio Michoacán / Houston street-vendor family, Oscar owns AR’s Breakfast and Brunch, Norberto managed O’Neill’s 23 years, menu, cocktails, hours, soft open end of Dec 2024, took over Papagallo Gyro Cafe. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹ ↩¹² ↩¹³ ↩¹⁴ ↩¹⁵ ↩¹⁶ ↩¹⁷ ↩¹⁸ ↩¹⁹

2. Johnson County Post, “Owner of popular Mexican eatery is opening a new snack bar” (Oct 1, 2024). https://johnsoncountypost.com/2024/10/01/snack-bar-lenexa-243079/ — asserts: concept (grab-and-go Mexican street food), Oscar Romero / AR’s connection, planned location at former Papagallo Gyro Cafe space, family street-vendor inspiration. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴

3. Yelp, “Snack Bar — Updated June 2026” business listing. https://www.yelp.com/biz/snack-bar-lenexa — asserts: currently-operating status (listing updated June 2026), address 7789 Quivira Rd, categories (Mexican; Desserts; Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt), current hours (Tue 2:30–9, etc.); menu coverage via reviews/photos: tortas, tacos, taco platter, chicken burrito, elote, salads incl. The Mascot Salad ($10.99), tostilocos, fruit/fruit salads, ice cream, crepes, shaved ice, aguas frescas (cucumber), micheladas. Full page retrieved 2026-06-23 (Firecrawl). ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹

4. Snack Bar Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/snack_bar_kc/ — asserts: active brand social presence, Lenexa KS location, Mexican-inspired snacks/drinks. not deep-fetched; surfaced via search-result metadata 2026-06-23. ↩ ↩²

5. Snack Bar former official website. snackbarkc.com — DEAD / REPURPOSED — DO NOT LINK. As of 2026-06-23 the domain no longer hosts the restaurant; it serves an Indonesian-language online-gambling/slot site. Subpages confirmed live as gambling content: order.snackbarkc.com and snackbarkc.com/menus both render “RAJAHOKI123: Situs Raja Dewa Slot Gacor Naga Mahjong” (re-verified via web search 2026-06-23; root domain also returns HTTP 403 to direct fetch). Previously cited as the brand’s live menu; the domain has lapsed or been repurposed. Link is intentionally not hyperlinked here to avoid sending traffic to the gambling site. (Replaced as the official-presence source by the Instagram account, ^5.) ↩ ↩²