To whet your appetite for The Pitch's annual Best of Kansas City issue, we're counting down our favorite Top 50 dishes each weekday until October 7.
If you've never been to Stroud's, here's the deal: With every dinner comes a pair of steaming hot balls of biscuit dough, doused in cinnamon but less sticky than a mall cinnamon roll. Since they're as sweet as any sweet ending, the server generally asks if you'd like your rolls at the end; you do. And since the standard Stroud's meal could feed middle Africa for months, servers also ask if you'd like to take them home.
Our recommendation: Stuff one down your face at the restaurant, and save the second for the next morning. Because the only thing better than a Stroud's cinnamon roll is a Stroud's cinnamon roll for breakfast, washed down with a glass of milk. (Even better: Strategically place the glass of milk in the freezer for a few minutes while you heat and eat the roll, making said washing down even more pleasurable.)
It's the breakfast of champions, courtesy of a restaurant known for champion fried chicken. God bless America. And animal fat.
Our list so far:
No. 50: Chocolate Malt from Fox's Drug Store
No. 49: Il Parma from Bella Napoli
No. 48: Italian sausage and eggs from Cascone's Grill
No. 47: Orange Roll from Clock Tower Bakery
No. 46: Tacos de cochinita from Frida's Contemporary Mexican Cuisine
No. 45: Barbecued pork bun from 888 International Market
No. 44: Tableside fresh mozzarella from Jasper's
No. 43: Gyro Sandwich from Mr. Gyros Greek Food & Pastry
No. 42: Apple strudel from Grunauer
No. 41: Rice noodle bowl from dim sum at Bo Lings
No. 40: E-Crush from Hi-Hat Coffee
No. 39: Flight of Freshness from Fresher than Fresh Snow Cones
No. 38: Curried chicken salad from Cafe Provence
No. 37: Apple fritter from John's Space Age Donuts
No. 36: Pollo con limone e olive from Lidia's Kansas City
No. 35: Wedding-cake cookie from LattéLand
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Guess I'm the only one in town that can do without the rolls. I'm all over the rest of the meal though. (guess it's because I'd just as soon have a crusty on the outside, flaky on the inside regular old bisquit!!)
Joe Bone own da cinnamon thrown!!!
you know what I'm talkin about BONER!
now people know your high school nickname too!
Uhh, you only eat two? I usually get at least a dozen extra to take home for later (sometimes two dozen).
your food was always worth the wait in fact i was thinking where to eat tonight were on our way chicken/potos/green beans rolls em
alexis
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