1834 Central Ave, Kansas City, Kansas · desde 2011
La Vela Taqueria
Somos los Solano. My mom Reyna makes the birria, my dad Efrén runs the trompo, y yo estoy en el counter Friday through Sunday, ask for Maribel. New here? Start with dos de pastor. Si no te gustan, mi amá dice que ella se los come. She has never had to.
El menú, aquí abajo para ordenar: (913) 555-0338
CASH IS EASIEST. La maquinita works pero piensa mucho. ATM inside, no fee.
El menú
lavelakck · Sunday, 11:42am
SE ACABÓ EL MENUDO. 11:42am. Un record. Gracias KCK, los queremos, mañana hay más a las 7. 🙏
Se acabó a las 11:42
That post goes up every single weekend, and every weekend somebody comments that we should just make more. Mi amá hace una olla. One pot, the size she can taste her way through, y cuando se acaba, I take the picture and that is the whole story.
Saturday it usually lasts to early afternoon. Sunday? Do not sleep in and then come blame me at the counter.
La birria es de mi amá, Reyna
She learned it in Tonalá, Jalisco, standing on a milk crate next to my abuela Chelo, and she has been making it since before I was born. She still tastes it every single morning like it's the first time. Los chiles se tuestan, the beef goes in the night before, and she does not change anything to make it faster, believe me, my dad has tried.
Quesabirrias come three to an order, griddled hasta que el edge queda crispy, with the consomé in a REAL cup. Pa' llevar, tacos and consomé travel in separate containers, and we will not dip them ahead of time no matter how nice you ask me. Rules of the house.
Miércoles a domingo, hasta que se acabe.
¿Por qué se llama La Vela?
Mi abuela Chelo kept a veladora lit by her stove in Tonalá her whole life. Not for a saint, not for anything in particular. Es para la cocina, she said. So when my parents opened this place in 2011, my mom lit one on the counter before the first order, and the candle by the register has been lit since that morning.
The green on the walls? My dad will tell you he chose it. La verdad: the hardware store had five gallons of mis-tinted "Garden Gate" at half price, and it turned out to be exactly the green of a tomatillo, so now it's the whole brand and he takes full credit. That's also him arguing about Chivas with whoever's in line, just so you know what you're walking into.
It's a small room, 12 seats and a counter. Table four is where I did my homework from 3rd grade to graduation, and now some little girl from the neighborhood does hers there. No la muevan. Most of what we make goes out the door in a bag, y está bien, that's how the taquerías back in Tonalá work too.
Vengan, aquí estamos
Call it in and it's at the counter when you get here, like 15 minutes. No estamos en DoorDash y no vamos a estar. El consomé no viaja en el carro de un extraño, sorry not sorry.
1834 Central AveKansas City, KS 66102
Parking atrás del building, entrance off the alley, no se estresen. Aquí se habla español, English, and every mix of the two, that's literally this whole website.
Horario
- Lunes
- Cerrado. Mi amá dice que hasta la olla descansa.
- Martes a viernes
- 10am to 8pm
- Sábado
- 7am to 8pm, menudo desde las 7
- Domingo
- 7am to 3pm
El trompo se prende el jueves a las 6am, my dad stacks it himself like it's the space program, he will not let anyone help. Pastor runs jueves a domingo. Asada never runs out.