The French Market in Prairie Village will be serving crepes on Saturdays

Until Chez Elle opened at 1713 Summit in 2009, there hadn’t been a restaurant devoted exclusively to crepes in the Kansas City metro since the Quaker Oats-owned chain, the Magic Pan, operated in Seville Square. That chain closed its local location in 1983. 

But several restaurants in the city — not necessarily exclusively creperie venues like Chez Elle — offer both savory and dessert crepes as part of their regular menus (even that iconic Mission diner the Village Inn!). For crepe lovers who want something completely different, the combination retail-and-food shop in Prairie Village, the French Market at 6947 Tomahawk in the Prairie Village Shopping Center, will be serving three kinds of crepes, Quillec-style, on Saturdays beginning next week, Saturday,  September 6.

It was chef Patrick Quillec’s idea: The founder of the popular Cafe Provence restaurant only serves dessert crepes at that Prairie Village bistro, but he gets so many requests for the traditional crepes sold in shops and from food trucks in Paris, he decided it was time to return to a family tradition.

“My mother was a master crêpière in Brittany,” Quillec says. “It’s been our family tradition for a half-century. My sister, Nadine Millier, has been making crepes for 30 years. She’ll be making crepes at the French Market from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. once we start this up next week. And if Nadine can’t be there, it will be my niece Melanie or my daughter Sophie.”

Three kinds of crepes will be made to order: a sweet crepe (filled with a choice of strawberries, chocolate or Nutella), a savory crepe — ham and cheese will be one selection — and a gluten-free crepe.