This popular biscuit sandwich restaurant just expanded in KC
An adored pop-up turned restaurant is heading back to where it began serving biscuit sandwiches nearly a decade ago.
District Biskuits will open a second location on 1664 E. 63rd St. at the location where Guroux Khalifah started his concept while working at Lutfi’s Fried Fish.
News of the second location was teased on District Biskuits’ Instagram page on Friday.
“Full circle. We’re back where it all started,” the post said.
Then on Tuesday, District Biskuits announced a grand opening date of Saturday, May 30, noting that the first customers who arrive at the opening time of 8 a.m. will “get something special.”
The second location comes nearly four years after Khalifah took his concept to a permanent space north of the river on North Kansas City’s Armour Road. When the first District Biskuits opened in 2022, lines formed out the door with diners waiting to try now-popular dishes like The Wonder (a fried chicken biscuit with a fried egg, cheese and beef bacon), The Crown (District Biskuits’ smash burger) and the DB Hash (hash browns covered in chicken sausage gravy, bacon jam and shredded cheese).
But it also marks a homecoming for Khalifah, whose concept was born out of the Lutfi’s in the Metro Plaza shopping center in 2017. That Lufti’s location closed during COVID-19, reported Startland News, and for several years after was District Fish & Pasta House, run by Khalifah’s brother, Kiraameen Khalifah. In February District Fish & Pasta announced on Facebook that the restaurant had shuttered.
Outside of smothered biscuit sandwiches, District Biskuits also sells mac and cheese, chicken tenders with various dipping sauces, waffle fries and other sides. Its beverage menu includes specialty items like milkshakes — all of which can be made boozy for an additional $1.95 — and the Troost Juice, a lemonade drink that comes in strawberry, mango, tropical, peach or two berry flavors and can be made with alcohol.
According to the restaurant’s website, Khalifah’s hot chicken pop-up Howlin’ Fowls will also be available at the new District Biskuits location, but later in the day. The separate menu includes fried chicken — served “Howlin’ Hot” or regular and also as tenders, on a biscuit sandwich or with waffles — and side dishes.
The second restaurant’s hours of operation are 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, the website said. Both District Biskuits locations are closed on Mondays.
Along with its two locations, fans of Khalifah’s two concepts will see some of District Biskuits’ and Howlin’ Fowls’ offerings at Daiquiri District, a restaurant and bar taking over the old Barrio Taqueria space as part of the city’s Open Doors program that aims to fill empty storefronts ahead of the FIFA World Cup. The space will also sell daiquiris from Brain Freeze Daiquiri.