Breakfast time!
I'm going out for breakfast today, with an old friend I used to work with. Mel and I get together about every 2 or 3 weeks. Now that he's retired, the lucky stiff, it seems that an early breakfast during the week works out best for our meetings. We've kind of developed a small group of places to eat breakfast:First Watch
We meet at the First Watch at 291 and 40 Hiway. This location is one of the chains newst openings, having been here for maybe less than a year. The food is always good and plentiful, though the coffee isn't the best in town. Why is it that so many great breakfast places don't have great coffee to go along with the meal? My favoarite here is the Bubba's Benny, biscuits topped with sausage patties, eggs, then smothered in grave. I'm a biscuits and gravy lover.
The Big Biscuit
Another 40 Hiway place, this one is run by the folks who do Stephenson's Apple Farm, which is right across the street. Again, I usually opt for the biscuits and gravy, although lately, with my attempts at "cutting back", I sometimes go for scrambled eggs, bacon, and whole wheat toast. A lot of folks like the home-fries here, but they dont do a lot for me. That's a good thing, really, as it helps me to cut back some. What DOESN'T help is that the pancakes here are HUGE and usually very good. I only get them now and then.
IHOP
We often meet at the IHOP over by Independence Center. This is in the new restaurant row on the southside of I-70 at Blue River Parkway. What can you say, it's an IHOP. The food is good, the service is usually pretty good as well. I've come to really enjoy the Vegetarian Chili Omelette, with the multi-grain pancakes. It always leaves me smiling.
If only these places had good coffee... even Starbucks!
Mel and I tend to stay out in Eastern Jackson County, since we both live out this way. I'll be doing another post soon telling you about some of my other favorite breakfast spots.
How about you? What are some of your favorite breakfast places around town?
posted by B.G. Roberts @ 6:34 AM
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Since I live in midtown KC we have quite a few options for breakie. Here's a short list.
Mama's-Bell St. & 39th
Waids- Southwest Blvd.
Succotash-River Market
Georgie Porgie's- Wornall Rd.
I too am a biscuit and gravy fan and I think that out of all those places Mama's has the best.
Thanks for the list. Of the places you've mentioned, I've only been to one - Succotash. That is a GREAT place to have breakast in the River Market area. It's always a toss-up between there and Cascone's, another favorite of mine.
~BG
Georgie Porgie's is now at Gregory and Troost.
Waid's on the Boulevard is no longer Waid's. I drove by the other day and there's a new sign up called Poco's, which is the same sign that used to be up at the space formerly occupied by the Grille on Broadway (confused yet?). Don't know what's up with the place.
And while KC may have LOTS of breakfast joints. NONE of them are any good. Probably the best breakfast I've had in a while is the brunch at Lydia's and even that wasn't much to write home about.
Don't get me wrong, there's TONS of good eating in KC, just not breakfast.
Interesting that you don't find ANY of the breakfast places in KC to be "good".
I find several of them yummy.
What, in your opinion, MAKES a good breakfast?
~BG
FYI - "The Big Biscuit" is NOT run by the folks who did "Stephenson's Old Apple Farm Restaurant". That building used to be "The Red Mule Restaurant" which was owned and run by Stephenson's. Stephenson's closed that restaurant and sold the building to the people who run "The Big Biscuit".
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