Tag: Beloved-On the Go

How the relaunched Classic Cookie plans to craft KC’s best breakfast sandwich (without overcomplicating it)

By Tommy Felts / November 27, 2021

A longtime Waldo restaurant and sweets shop is under new ownership, Chef Bryan Sparks announced, serving up a plan to fix the broken restaurant industry he thought he’d left behind. But a more immediate and daunting task awaits ahead of the Classic Cookie & Cafe’s relaunch in December: crafting the best breakfast sandwich in Kansas…

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Bryan Sparks and his daughter, Esme

How restaurant fatigue, staffing shortages pushed one KC chef to reinvent ‘to-go’ as high-end eats at home

By Tommy Felts / June 29, 2021

An ongoing health crisis forced many people to rethink aspects of their lives in 2020, said Bryan Sparks, but for members of the hospitality industry specifically, the sustained pressure of a lingering pandemic and its leftovers prompt even greater self-reflection.  For the experienced Kansas City chef, that meant leaving his restaurant home this spring for…

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