During stay-at-home orders, restaurants push forward with openings. Here are some
With shelter-in-place orders still keeping dining rooms closed, some new eateries are opening, but with carry-out only. Other places are still busy making plans to open later.
▪ Nissi Caribbean Cuisine. Lovelie Artius, a native of Haiti, has a new food trailer that she started parking this week at the northeast corner of East Santa Fe Street and North Ridgeview Road in Olathe.
Artius offers some of her favorite family recipes — black rice, pork, chicken, goat, fish, plantains and legumes.
▪ La Fuente Mexican Street Food plans to open around 5 p.m. Thursday in the Regency Park Shopping Center, 9222 Metcalf Ave. in Overland Park. Pei Wei Asian Kitchen and then Billy Sims Barbecue had previously operated in the space. The center is currently under renovation.
Menu items will include street tacos, quesadillas, burritos and salads.
The Kearney-based company has several locations: two in Independence and three in Lee’s Summit, as well as restaurants in Kearney and Smithville under La Fuente Mexican Restaurant.
▪ Torchy’s Tacos has taken out a permit for 3050 Iowa St. in Lawrence. Longhorn Steakhouse previously operated on the site.
Officials with the Austin-based Torchy’s Tacos declined to comment.
The company is set it open its first area location in the Restaurant Pavilion at Ward Parkway Center.
Under “Damn Good Tacos” on the menu, Torchy’s offers such selections as the Trailer Park with fried chicken, green chiles, lettuce, pico de gallo and cheddar jack cheese with poblano sauce on a flour tortilla. “Get it trashy” by taking off the lettuce and adding queso.
Other menu items include breakfast tacos, salads, burritos, chips and dips, street corn, refried beans, Mexican rice and desserts. It will have a full-service bar.
▪ Emily Kate’s Bakery, formerly in Prairie Village, has reopened its wholesale operation at 3008 S. 44th St., in Kansas City, Kansas. The small batch, gluten-free scratch bakery offers such items as cinnamon rolls, cakes and cupcakes, dairy-free cakes and cupcakes, cookies, cookie sandwiches and cookie cakes, quiches and pie. Consumers can place orders 48-hours in advance for curbside pickup.
This story was originally published April 22, 2020 at 1:37 PM.