La Costa Mexicana, a pink palm tree over orange and blue waves (816) 883-8355

Lunch, eleven to three, Monday through Saturday

$9.99

Six combinations. One price. Rice and beans on all of them.

La Costa Mexicana is on the north side of the Liberty Square, two minutes downhill from William Jewell, and this is the board most of downtown orders from between eleven and three.

Nothing on this page is a promotion or a limited time offer. It is the printed lunch menu, and it has been nine ninety nine for a while.

The numbered six

Order by number. Every one of them comes with Mexican rice and refried beans, and every one of them is the same price.

1

Beef taco and cheese enchilada

9.99

Deep fried beef taco, cheese enchilada, rice and beans

2

Chicken flautas

9.99

Chicken flautas, rice and beans

3

Tamale and beef enchilada

9.99

Pork tamale and beef enchilada, rice and beans

4

Burrito

9.99

Beef, chicken or pork burrito, rice and beans

5

Chimichanga

9.99

Beef, chicken or pork chimichanga, rice and beans

6

Chile relleno

9.99

Chile relleno, rice and beans

Chicken fajitas with peppers and onions steaming on a cast iron comal beside a plate of rice, beans, lettuce and pico
Chicken or steak fajitas are 13.99 on the lunch board, 18.99 at dinner

The rest of the lunch board

Served in the same window, eleven to three, and priced under eleven dollars unless it involves the comal.

Two open faced tacos al carbon with marinated steak, melted cheese and sliced avocado, beside a ramekin of green tomatillo salsa
Taco Al Carbon, 9.99 on the lunch board

Tuesday, all day

Three crispy tacos, five ninety nine.

Chicken or beef. It is the cheapest plate the kitchen sends out and it is the reason Tuesday is busier than Monday.

  • Monday11.99Burrito Supremo. One beef and one chicken burrito under enchilada sauce, lettuce, tomato and sour cream, with rice
  • Tuesday5.99Three crispy tacos, chicken or beef
  • Wednesday14.99Chicken fajita or steak fajita
  • Thursday11.99Pollo Bandido. A bed of Mexican rice topped with shredded chicken and spinach cheese

No Friday or Saturday special

Happy hour, three to six, Monday to Thursday

The gap between the lunch board closing and dinner starting is the other cheap window, and it is the only time the house margarita is six dollars.

The red brick Victorian storefronts of the Liberty Square in downtown Liberty, Missouri, with cast iron street lamps
The Liberty Square. La Costa is at 5 East Kansas Street

Why the board is worth knowing about

La Costa has been family owned on the Square since 2015, in a brick building older than most of the town around it. The full dinner menu runs to about a hundred and ten dishes and the fajitas at the top of it reach twenty six ninety nine, so the lunch board is not the whole restaurant. It is the part you can eat on a Tuesday without thinking about it.

Dine in and carry out, both. There is room for a large party without calling ahead, and the kitchen serves lunch six days a week.