No. 42: Apple strudel from Grunauer
| Why get strudel from a local bakery when it can be shipped in from New York? |
To whet your appetite for The Pitch‘s annual Best of Kansas City issue in October, we’re celebrating our favorite 50 dishes from restaurants, bakeries, coffeehouses, bars, drugstores, saloons, and other metro joints. Until October 7, we’ll feature one outstanding dish or beverage each weekday. Agree with us or make your own suggestions — just don’t come between us and these fantastic things to eat or drink.
Although we’re not fans of restaurant desserts that have been shipped in, frozen, from some big corporate commissary or bakery (like many of the pretty pastries at Whole Foods or the local restaurants that serve that big ol’ chocolate layer cake from Costco), there one exception to the rule may be the apple strudel on the dessert menu at Grunauer, the Viennese restaurant in the Crossroads.
Yeas, the strudel is shipped in — but from one of the oldest bakeries in the world.
