It’s 2 a.m. and, damn it, you want a crepe!
I’ve never actually sat down to ponder this pressing question: Where in Kansas City would I put a late-night creperie? The Crossroads? Westport? The Power & Light District? How about, say, 38th Street and Broadway?
It’s not an unlikely location for after-hours dining: The venerable Chubby’s is a block away at 3756 Broadway, and there’s a 24-hour McDonald’s in between. But if you didn’t already know that Dirk Knoedler and Craig Klein were selling sweet and savory crepes out of a tiny kitchen inside a loud and none-too-glamorous nightclub called Gusto, you would probably never make the connection. Broadway Crepes, tucked inside Gusto Lounge at 3810 Broadway, may possibly be the most unusual marriage of location and food in Kansas City history.
But it makes a lot of sense once you talk to Knoedler and Klein, who first met in New York City’s East Village: “You can find something great to eat at any hour of the day or night there,” Klein says. “It’s not so easy in midtown Kansas City. One night, Dirk and I were talking and decided what this city needed and didn’t have was a creperie that served late.”
Really late. Broadway Crepes opens for business each night at 10 p.m. and serves freshly made crepes until 3 a.m. and sometimes a little later.
