The Queen of Leavenworth

By CHARLES FERRUZZA

You don’t need to leave Kansas City to meet a Queen – this town’s crawling with them, especially at Missie B’s on a Saturday night.

You don’t even have to drive all that far for a meal fit for a queen – or, more likely, appropriate for a queen – here in the heartland.

Last Saturday, I stumbled into the Queen’s Pantry (500 Shawnee Street, Leavenworth) while on a day trip to that great city of prisons and antique malls, Leavenworth, Kansas.

Queen’s Pantry is a narrow shop located at the corner of 5th and Shawnee and has a to-go food shop in the back, selling traditional British fare like sausage rolls, scones, Cornish pasties and shepherd’s pie. There’s even a shepherd’s pie wrap – made without potatoes. And on Thursday, Friday and Saturdays only: fish-and-chips.