Guadalupe is not the hill in Bogotá and it is not a village bakery. It is the Mexican restaurant Andrés Molina Betancur opened in Bello, in La Obra 2000, with two employees and a Tex-Mex card at neighborhood prices. The name is for the Virgin, the one on the wall and the one in the emblem. A Colombian family cooks the food. Say that first, because people arrive looking for a chef from Puebla and find well-made flautas and a margarita in a room painted with Frida and skulls.

The house story now talks about five rooms: two in Bello, one in Belén, one in Laureles, and one in Itagüí, and a menu that at some point passed a hundred dishes. This page gathers what is actually written in public. Antojito prices come from a Medellín Guru visit in February 2019, when the two Bello rooms and Belén existed. Do not pay with them in 2026. Use them to see the shape of the card. The see menu sheet puts that year in the title on purpose.

How you eat here

The easy order is three tacos. In 2019 there were four combinations from $13,900 to $18,900. Enchiladas, three pieces, were $12,900. The quesadilla, the chimichanga, and the burrito were $13,900 each. Flautas, four of them, were also $13,900. The kids' plate was nuggets at $12,900, the least Mexican thing on the card, and it exists because tables in Bello arrive with small cousins.

If you want to sit and eat, not just snack, there were eleven meat, chicken, or seafood plates from $14,900 to $24,900, and seafood that jumped to $35,900–$45,900. Starters were eight, from $13,900 to $25,900, including garlic prawn skewers that showed up in the house photos. Carta.menu, for the Calle 55 branch, names flautas, a California sandwich, tacos, fajitas, and quesadillas. Four sauces, mild to hot. Ask for the hot one in a ramekin the first time, not poured over everything.

A Guadalupe burrito should not arrive drowned in BBQ sauce. I say that because Medellín has mall Mexicans who put BBQ on anything wrapped and call it Tex-Mex. The idea here, from the first room, was different: a real portion, a tortilla, and a room that feels like Mexico without charging El Poblado prices.

The bar is not an annex

The check arrives in a little wooden box. That is part of the theater and it is fine, as long as they do not take half an hour to bring it. In 2019 beer ran from $6,000 to $8,000, margaritas and other cocktails from $13,900 to $19,900, a pitcher of sangria at $45,900, and juices, sodas, and malted drinks from $4,500 to $8,000. The Calle 55 bar is the one they reviewed with the Virgin behind it. In Laureles and Itagüí the room is bigger and more of a Friday place, but the emblem is the same: green mantle, red roses, black oval, gold edge. That is the logo on the cover of this page, on the dark green of the cards.

If you are drinking, order the margarita after the starter, not before you have read the card. Hungry plus tequila means you over-order, and Guadalupe serves a real portion. If you are not drinking, a limeade or a juice is enough. This is not a craft-cocktail bar. It is a restaurant with a rail.

The five branches, each with a page

Guadalupe menu in Obra 2000, Bello is the first one. Calle 55 #52-27. It sits a few minutes from Bello's park and church, and Bello station on the metro is a short walk or a minimum taxi. The phone that circulates for that branch is 301 493 3887. A Carta listing publishes reference hours: Monday and Tuesday 17:00 to 22:30, Wednesday until 23:00, Thursday and Friday from noon until 23:30, Saturday night. Confirm at the door. That listing skips Sunday, and the house has changed since 2019.

Guadalupe menu in Madera, Bello is the second Bello room, Carrera 55 #24A-06. The wayfinding reference is Madera station on line A: about a ten-minute walk, according to the review from when it opened. Use it if you live in south Bello and Calle 55 with 52 is a hike.

Guadalupe menu in Belén, Medellín is Carrera 76 #32-128. It opened in June 2018. It is two blocks from Parque Belén and a short walk from Parque Belén station on the Metroplús. The older chain number, 604 448 8958, shows up attached to the Medellín operation. On Friday in Belén there is a line. Arrive before seven or accept the wait.

Guadalupe menu in Laureles, Medellín is Circular 76 #39-6. This is the branch foreigners find, because Laureles is on the map of people who do not live in Bello. Listings call the room a Mexican grill and bar. The card is the house card, not a lighter version for the neighborhood.

Guadalupe menu in Itagüí is Carrera 50A #46-7, around Fátima. It is the south-of-the-valley room, for anyone who is not riding up to Bello on a Thursday. Reviews talk about large portions and owners in the room. Each page's map carries the real address and a button to Google Maps.

How to sit down without regret

Two people: flautas or the skewers to start, and one main to split, or three tacos each if you want variety. Four people: two starters, two mains, and a pitcher only if you will actually drink it. A pitcher of sangria is not a drink for one. Kids can have the nuggets without the rest of the table having to eat nuggets.

Ask for sauce on the side. Try the mild, then go up. The house hot sauce is Colombian-restaurant hot, not neighborhood-market-in-Guadalajara hot. If you want more, say so. If you do not, do not let an enthusiastic server cover the tacos.

Friday and Saturday mean a line in Belén and Laureles. On a weekday in Obra 2000 you eat more quietly and you understand why the neighborhood lent construction materials when the room started: it was their restaurant, not a branch that landed. Itagüí works for a south-side office lunch if that day's hours open at noon. Ask, because several rooms live at night.

What this page is not claiming

It is not claiming that $13,900 is still the taco. Years have passed and five rooms do not survive on 2019 prices. It is also not listing 150 dishes one by one without a full current card in hand. What is here is the structure: antojito, main, seafood, sauce, margarita, and one branch per neighborhood.

If it is your first time, go to Obra 2000 on a weekday or to Belén early on a Friday. Order flautas and three tacos. Look at the Virgin in the oval, the same one on the cover. And if the server offers the hot sauce, take a little on the edge of the plate. The rest of the table will thank you, or steal it. At Guadalupe both things happen.

What changes from one neighborhood to another

The card travels with the brand. The room does not. Obra 2000 is still the original, closer to the park and to the people who watched it open. Madera is the second Bello room, useful if you get off the metro there and do not want to cross half the town. Belén is Medellín proper, with the park around the corner and the Metroplús as an excuse not to drive. Laureles is the circular, the one that comes up when someone from out of town says “good Mexican that is not in El Poblado.” Itagüí closes the map in the south, on 50A with 46, for anyone working in Fátima who is not riding up to Bello for tacos on a jammed Thursday.

In all of them the emblem is the same, and the cover of this page uses that oval on the card green. If one room is full, do not switch brands. Ask the wait and, if it is more than twenty-five minutes, look at the sibling. A full Belén at eight on Saturday does not mean Itagüí is the same, or that Obra 2000 has closed the kitchen. Guadalupe is a family of rooms, not one line.

Bring cash in case that day's card machine is slow, and do not arrive with a movie to catch. Flautas come out when they come out, the margarita is built at the bar, and the little box with the check is the ending, not a trick to overcharge you. Eat, keep the sauce on the edge, and walk out into the neighborhood you picked. That is the whole plan.