Authentic artisanal Mexican food · South Oklahoma City
The southside kitchen that stays open late.
La Tropicana cooks authentic artisanal Mexican food on Western Avenue: street tacos, platillos big enough to split, weekend menudo, and mariscos that hit the table still steaming. Come sit down, or send one of the apps.
ClosedOpens tomorrow at 10:00 AM
What people order twice
Plates with a reputation
Taco Plate
Three street tacos, rice, and beans. $12.99
Carne Asada
Grilled steak plate with rice, beans, and jalapeño. $18.99
Camarones a la Diabla
The shrimp plate people drive down Western for.
Asada Fries
Cheese, steak, guacamole, sour cream. $12.99
Pozole
Hominy and pork. $15.99. Menudo joins on weekends.
Quesadilla Tropicana
The namesake. Corn tortilla, meat, avocado, crema. $17.99
Why Western
Authentic artisanal Mexican food, from a family kitchen.
Suite A at 3903 S. Western is the kind of room you find because somebody who lives in 73109 sent you. Casual tables, plates that don’t quit, and a salsa reputation that outlasts a single visit.
The menu runs past tacos on purpose — that’s the “y más.” Carne asada and bistec ranchero for dinner, chilaquiles if you got here early, pozole when you want a bowl, fajitas mixtas when the whole table is hungry. Menudo shows up Saturday and Sunday. Shrimp has its own section.
The kitchen is a family, and it cooks like one. The salsas, the carne asada, the menudo on the weekend — those are the plates they grew up making, not a menu borrowed from somewhere else. Stay late and you’ll still see the people who opened the doors on the line, feeding the room the way they feed their own table.