2 new restaurants coming to Kansas City’s Power & Light — one is a popular brunch spot
Two new restaurants are opening in Kansas City’s Power & Light District down the street from each other, and their names may be familiar.
HomeGrown — a breakfast and lunch restaurant with locations in Liberty, Brookside and, most recently, Leawood — will open at 101 E. 13th St. in the spring, the entertainment district announced Thursday.
The brunch spot will move into the former Flying Saucer Draught Emporium, a bar that closed in March 2020 but never reopened post-pandemic.
Wichita-based HomeGrown sells funfetti pancakes, cinnamon swirl French toast, veggie omelets, BLT sandwiches and cocktails. Its Leawood location opened this summer.
In addition, Modern Market Eatery will join the entertainment district in the spring at 1347 Main St.
The Colorado-based health food restaurant is was already planning to open a location in December in Prairie Village at 4046 W. 83rd St. in Corinth Square.
Modern Market Eatery’s Power & Light location will move into a former The Mixx, another health restaurant (this one locally owned) with spots on the Country Club Plaza and in Overland Park.
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On Modern Market’s menu: a curry salmon bowl, Thai coconut salad and build-your-own pizzas. The chain says its offerings are free of trans fats, artificial flavors and hormones.
In a press release, John Moncke, president of the Kansas City Power & Light District, teased more growth to come in the area, saying “exciting reveals” were coming in the final quarter of the year.
The district hosts roughly 1,000 residential units, including the luxury One Light, Two Light and Three Light apartment towers. (One-bedrooms at Three Light run from $1,774 to $3,849.) The Midland Lofts apartments will open next year.
“The immersive downtown lifestyle we have created in the Power & Light District continues to attract more and more residents to the District,” Moncke said in the release. “These new tenants mark the beginning of big news to come.”