Tacos El Sobrino

Tacos El Sobrino is a family-run taqueria at 3139 State Avenue in Kansas City, Kansas — a sit-down room a notch above a hole-in-the-wall, with table service and beer, that opens at 10 a.m. seven days a week and runs late. It is a KCK Taco Trail stop whose double-layered al pastor and tripa tacos earned a listener recommendation on KCUR’s 2025 best-tacos roundup, and its listing carried over to the KC2026 World Cup dining directory.

Description

Tacos El Sobrino occupies a storefront on State Avenue near 31st Street, on the east–west artery that runs from downtown Kansas City, Kansas out to the Legends. The Kansas City, Kansas convention and visitors bureau describes it this way: “Tacos El Sobrino takes pride in its traditional recipes, expertly crafted with high-quality ingredients. The sizzling carne asada, perfectly marinated pollo, and tender carnitas are just a few of the highlights that keep diners coming back for more.”¹ Kansas Tourism’s listing is plainer — “Local restaurant serving all your favorite Mexican foods, fast and friendly service.”²

Reviewers mirrored from Yelp place it “slightly more upscale than a hole-in-the-wall,” with waitress service and beer, and one calls it a “mom and pop style shop.”³ The tacos come double-tortilla’d. In KCUR’s July 2025 Up To Date roundup of Kansas City’s best tacos, listener Ben Fuentes recommended it for “a hearty portion of meat, and they double-layer the corn tortilla — as any good taco establishment should! I enjoy their tacos al pastor. Their taco de tripa, or intestine, is for you more adventurous types.”⁴ A 2022 Taco Trail travelogue logged the pastor as “delightful,” with “great sauces and options.”⁵

The name means “the nephew’s tacos.” Whether it is a nod to Tacos El Tio (“the uncle”), another Taco Trail taqueria on the west edge of downtown KCK, or simply a family nickname, is not documented.

Ownership and history

No owner is named in any source located. The restaurant’s own Instagram bio, in Spanish, says only that it serves “unos de los mejores tacos in Kansas City Kansas” at 3139 State Ave; the account is tiny (11 followers) and last posted in August 2022.⁶ The Facebook page, linked from the CVB’s records, is the working channel, with about 830 likes.⁷

Third-party review history begins in September 2019, which puts the opening at 2019 or earlier.³ The CVB’s KCK Taco Trail Instagram featured the restaurant on April 13, 2021, when the trail “included nearly 50 local taquerias”; the trail has since grown to nearly 60.⁸⁹ In 2026 the listing was syndicated to the KC2026 World Cup host-city dining directory.¹⁰

Links

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/p/Tacos-El-Sobrino-100068346646072/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tacoselsobrino__/
• Visit KCK listing: https://www.visitkansascityks.com/listing/tacos-el-sobrino/1781/
• Kansas Tourism listing: https://www.travelks.com/listing/tacos-el-sobrino/39735/
• KC2026 listing: https://www.kc2026.com/listing/tacos-el-sobrino/5978/

Menu

Last verified: — · Source: none first-party · Confidence: Low. No official menu is published by the restaurant; a domain “ordertacoselsobrino.com” appears in search indexes but does not resolve (checked 2026-08-28), and DoorDash pricing is not used by the Registry. menu_status: unverified. Dishes named in listings and press: tacos (asada, pollo, carnitas, al pastor, tripa), tortas, burritos, quesadillas, menudo, caldo de pescado, tostadas de ceviche, mojarra.¹⁴³²

Sources

Footnotes

1. Visit Kansas City, Kansas — listing “Tacos El Sobrino.” Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: name; 3139 State Ave, Kansas City, KS 66102; phone (913) 275-7364; hours “Mon-Thurs 10AM-10PM; Fri-Sat 10AM-11PM; Sun 10AM-9PM”; description quoted in text; listing filed under the bureau’s “Taco Trail” category. Read from the listing data object embedded in the delivered HTML. ↩ ↩²

2. Kansas Tourism (TravelKS) — listing “Tacos El Sobrino.” Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: 3139 State Avenue, 66102; phone; description “Local restaurant serving all your favorite Mexian [sic] foods, fast and friendly service”; menu-item list on the listing (caldo de pescado, tostadas de ceviche, mojarra, tacos, tortas, burritos, quesadillas, asada especial). ↩ ↩²

3. Yahoo Local (Yelp data mirror) — “Tacos El Sobrino, Kansas City, KS.” Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: address and phone; hours Mon–Sat 10–10, Sun 10–9; 4.0 stars / 10 reviews dated 2019-09-03 to 2023-07-16; “slightly more upscale than a hole-in-the-wall,” beer and waitress service; “mom and pop style shop”; private-lot parking; budget price tier. ↩ ↩² ↩³

4. Brian Ellison and Claudia Brancart, “Food recs: Kansas City’s best tacos,” KCUR Up To Date, 2025-07-12 — Confirms: Ben Fuentes’ recommendation quoted in text (hearty portion, double-layered corn tortilla, al pastor, taco de tripa); Kansas City, Kansas. ↩ ↩²

5. “KCK Taco Trail,” Van Life KC blog, 2022-07-01 — Confirms: entry for Tacos El Sobrino: “The taco was solid! Great sauces and options, the flavor on the pastor was delightful.” ↩

6. Tacos Sobrino (@tacoselsobrino__), Instagram. Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: bio “unos de los mejores tacos in Kansas city Kansas! estamos ubicados en 3139 State ave…”; 11 followers; last visible post 2022-08-25. ↩

7. Tacos. El. Sobrino, Facebook page — Confirms: page exists for the KCK business (title “Tacos. El. Sobrino | Kansas City KS”); ~830 likes per search-index snippet 2026-08-28. Page body login-walled. ↩

8. KCK Taco Trail (@kcktacotrail), Instagram, 2021-04-13 — Confirms: “Tacos El Sobrino - 3139 State Ave KCK”; trail “includes nearly 50 local taquerias”; free pass by e-mail/text; check-in rewards. ↩

9. Steve Walls, “All New KCK Taco Trail 101,” Visit Kansas City, Kansas blog, 2023-04-19 — Confirms: trail mechanics and “nearly 60 restaurants” by 2023. ↩

10. KC2026 (Kansas City World Cup host-city site) — listing “Tacos El Sobrino.” Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: the restaurant is carried in the 2026 host-city dining directory (page title only; body rendered client-side). ↩