<table> </table> To Michael Kizzee, this was the most important thing about enjoying the most important meal of the day: Breakfast is a cool way to have a date with your wife.</p><p>Actually, the Kizzees often go out for breakfast.</p><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s cheery and I am more awake,&#8221; said Kizzee, sitting with his wife, Alicia, at Browne&#8217;s Irish Market. Their two small children were with the grandparents.</p><p>There&#8217;s a lot to like about breakfast. Many people find it more economical than dinner and less stressful than a lunch that has to be crammed inside a working day.</p><p>During the week many breakfast places have no wait for a table, and for the weekend crowd it&#8217;s a great way to gather with friends.</p><p>You can almost always get the basics: bacon and eggs, hash browns, waffles, biscuits and gravy &#8212; or branch out to casseroles, quiches, crepes and burritos.</p><p>Here&#8217;s a sampling of some of the up and at &#8217;em fare around town, including some relative newcomers. </p><p><hr></p><p><strong><span class="subhead">Happy Gillis Cafe &amp; Hangout</span></p><p>549 Gillis</p><p>816-471-3663</p><p>Breakfast hours: 8-10:30 a.m. Tuesday through Friday; 8-11 a.m. Saturday; and 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Sunday.</strong></p><p>Happy Gillis is a small, comfortable spot in the Columbus Park area that regulars often liken to a living room.</p><p>That&#8217;s partly because one thing that stands out in the middle of the restaurant is a coffee table, a couple of comfortable chairs and a sofa, upholstered in owner Todd Schulte&#8217;s favorite color, orange. The other reason is that sharing tables is common, especially on weekends when bicyclists and the City Market crowd descend on the place.</p><p>Schulte and his wife opened Happy Gillis last year in the former corner sundries store. The building has had many business lives.</p><p>Children are certainly welcome, as evidenced by the crayons and brown paper atop a few tables. Although on a recent morning, one of those tables was occupied by a pair of businessmen having a quiet meeting.</p><p>Breakfast offerings are posted on a chalkboard, and orders are taken at the counter.</p><p>The menu, Schulte says, stays pretty much the same. There is an American breakfast sandwich, with bacon, egg and cheese, for $5. There are bialies, chewy yeast rolls similar to a bagel. The bialy with smoked salmon, egg and a red onion-caper aioli goes for $7.</p><p>Loaf Madame, a grilled meatloaf sandwich with white cheddar cheese and a sunny-side-up egg on white ciabatta bread is $8.</p><p><hr></p><p><strong><span class="subhead">You Say Tomato</span></p><p>2801 Holmes</p><p>816-756-5097</p><p>Breakfast hours: 7-11 a.m. Monday through Saturday and 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Sunday.</strong></p><p>Like Happy Gillis, this is a laid-back eating experience with an eclectic d&#233;cor. It&#8217;s a unique blend of restaurant and small grocery store where you might find a customer complimenting the bright orange Hubbard squash in the produce case while sipping a cup of coffee.</p><p>The tables and chairs, scattered about a large room with massive windows and an old wooden floor, are vintage, mix-and-match. A Formica table hugged by a long booth-like bench is next to a table-and-chair set that must have come from an ice cream parlor.</p><p>Menu items are colorfully written on a large white eraser board, although co-owner Mark Wingard says the breakfast selections rarely vary much. The one exception might be the daily quiche, which changes from vegetarian to meat and back again.</p><p>Some of the standards include a breakfast croissant sandwich with egg, cheddar cheese and either bacon or ham, for $4.95. The very generous egg and sausage casserole is $6.25, and the popular organic granola is $5.75.