Closed: Skillet Licker Cafe

​The Skillet Licker Cafe, home of those “hot l’il donuts,” is frying those delectable miniature treats no more. The popular Kansas City, Kansas, diner at 501 N. 6th Street, which was reviewed in The Pitch just a year ago has closed up shop.

The owner of the other small restaurant in the same building, Ellen Hume of the JayWale Bakery & Bistro, was surprised that Skillet Licker’s owner Karen Allred had shuttered the cafe. “It was always busy,” Hume said. “There were Saturdays when customers had to wait for a table.”

But since the Skillet Licker is no longer open to serve breakfast, Hume has stepped into the void and is now serving breakfast at the JayWale Bakery & Bistro each morning at 7:30 a.m.