Best of KC 2026: Luxuriate in Café Cà Phê’s themed bathrooms
Cafe Cà Phê bathroom // Photo by Jessica Chieu
Earlier this month, we published The Pitch’s annual Best of Kansas City issue. You can take a peek at the results of the readers’ poll here. The issue also included a list, compiled and written by our editorial staff, of some local people, places, and things that we think make 2026 KC life feel like a winner. We’ll be publishing these online throughout June and July.
Everything is so shiny that it’s almost a challenge to locate the toilet paper dispenser in the fractal landscape that is Café Cà Phê’s left bathroom.
The mirrors dance with disco ball glimmers. The whole space is fantastically alive and akin to ping-pong for the attention-deficit brain. What did I need in this room?
Cafe Cà Phê bathroom // Photo by Jessica Chieu
Where usually an above-sink mirror would be, in a room full of mirrors, there is instead a painting of a dragon. Lettered words of “you are infinitely enough” unfurl below it. It makes a declarative statement with no room for argument, a phrasing that doesn’t require profuse affirmative nods to someone’s upward inflection, asking you to validate them.
On a day when you really, painfully understand there is no break from yourself, the whole bathroom can do a great number to uplift the spirit. Local artists Meagan Kilgas and PK Mitchell created it as a tribute to the work of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, citing her name as inspiration on the wall.
Cafe Cà Phê bathroom // Photo by Jessica Chieu
If an overwhelming moment of self-reflection isn’t your move, the right-side bathroom is decked out in a playful Home Alone motif. It’s got movie details down to a hand-drawn, framed map of Kevin McCallister’s Battle Plan and a remake of Little Nero’s pizza box. VHS tapes and posters complete the encapsulation of Macaulay Culkin’s childhood face, but this one does have a mirror for checking your own.
