| The secret? The potatoes are fried in bacon grease |
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.
They say breakfast is the most important meal of the day. And, yes, a bowl of oatmeal or cream of wheat is probably a teensy bit healthier than this sexy combination of fried potatoes (cooked in bubbling bacon grease), sausage and cheese topped with a poached egg. But this casserole trumps oatmeal in terms of flavor, especially sided with a buttered English muffin. No wonder this is one of Classic Cookie's signature breakfast dishes.
Classic Cookie owner Leslie Stockard serves all kinds of interesting breakfast dishes at her storefront bistro in Waldo, including addictively good muffins and thickly iced cinnamon rolls. The potato-and-sausage casserole is filling enough that you probably won't be hungry during the lunch hour. If you somehow are still hungry after noon, buy one of this restaurant's homemade cookies from the pastry case and snack on that instead of another big meal.
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
No. 34: Stroud's cinnamon rolls
No. 33: Smoked Polish from Werner's
No. 32: Burger and frites from Westport Cafe & Bar
No. 31: Paletas from Paleterias Tropicana
No. 30: Goat korma at New Cafe Tandoor
No. 29: Lemon cake from Cafe Europa
No. 28: Chocolate Mousse Torte from Napoleon Bakery
No. 27: Spring rolls from Vietnam Cafe
No. 26: French fries from LC's Bar-B-Q
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