KC restaurant of 16 years has closed. Mexican hamburger spot to replace it
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Bad news for fans of Mexican food — a restaurant of 16 years has recently closed in Kansas City.
The good news: Another will soon open in its place.
Longtime food truck business La Hamburguesa Loca is opening a brick and mortar spot in the former Pardo’s location. It expects to begin serving customers out of the 904 Southwest Blvd. spot in mid-October.
Pardo’s had been serving fajitas, burritos, enchiladas and more since 2009. Customers could order from the menu or opt for a buffet-style meal until it closed at least a month ago.
La Hamburguesa Loca, meanwhile, will serve many of the well-known Mexican dishes offered by other restaurants on Southwest Boulevard: tacos, enchiladas, quesadillas and more. But its menu has some entrees that are perhaps unexpected.
The upcoming restaurant’s specialty dish is also its namesake: a massive burger called La Hamburguesa Loca stuffed with ham, bacon, mozzarella and provolone cheese, tomato, lettuce and avocado. Several other burger options are on its menu.
While burgers are generally associated with the U.S., Jose Padilla Galvan, son of the owners, said they aren’t hard to find south of the border, either. There’s plenty of burger joints in Nuevo Leon, where his parents are from.
“Burgers are definitely a popular thing in Mexico,” said Padilla Galvan, son of the owners. “Everybody likes (our) burger because it’s something different.”
He says everything on La Hamburguesa Loca’s menu is made from scratch, right down to the sour cream.
His parents, the elder Jose Padilla and Angelica Galvan, started serving dishes at 3009 Independence Ave. in 2012. At first, it was a sit-down restaurant inside the building. But the family decided a food truck would be more lucrative and began to use the space as a prep kitchen instead.
Padilla Galvan estimates the new restaurant will seat around 40 people. He hopes it will attract fans of his family’s truck. Many of them especially brag about the agua frescas.
“Everytime we go to food truck events … people always ask where our location is,” he said.
La Hamburguesa Loca will join a stretch of Mexican restaurants along Southwest Boulevard, home to Lilly’s Cantina, Acosta’s Taqueria, El Pueblito, Tacos El Gallo and more.
There’s a handful of Mexican restaurants in the metro that also offer burgers — one being Los Compas Burgers at 305 S. Seventh St. in Kansas City, Kansas.