Wichita’s new crepe shop is having a ‘soft opening’ this week
Wichita’s new creperie is open.
But for now, its owners are operating under limited hours while staff members learn their jobs.
Starting today and running through at least Friday, the new Keeper of The Crepes will be open at 730 W. Douglas from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., said co-owner Pavel Gavrilov, whose business partner in the shop is Iskren Tsvetkov.
Once they’re confident they’re ready, Gavrilov said, they’ll switch to normal hours, which will be 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily. It’s possible, he said, that they’ll be ready by this weekend.
The restaurant, which took over the space on the northwest corner of Douglas and Osage that previously held The Chocolate Fountain Event Rentals, is serving both sweet and savory crepes and a few salads. Eventually, it will serve wine, beer and cocktails and have a patio out front.
Gavrilov, who moved to Wichita from Bulgaria in 2006, said he had previously worked in a crepe shop there for about three years and always wondered why Wichita didn’t have one.
The shop’s savory crepes will be stuffed with things like prosciutto, eggs, Swiss cheese, spinach, artichokes, mushrooms, caramelized onions and brie on the savory side, and ingredients like jam, sour cream, chocolate, pears, almonds, Nutella, bananas, honey and walnuts on the sweet side.
There are also a few unique salads, like The Bonaparte, made with potatoes, peas, carrots, boiled eggs, pickles, onions and mayonnaise, and the Le Jardin, made with tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, olives and feta cheese.
I stopped in today and tried a lemon/sugar crepe, and my daughter had a banana, strawberry, Nutella crepe, and they were both excellent.
The building is owned by Bob Stephen and John Murray of 700 Investments.
Wichita has several restaurant with crepes on the menu, including Georges French Bistro and Lotus Leaf Cafe. But the only dedicated crepe business of late has been LoLo’s Crepes, a food truck that opened in 2016.
You can peruse the new, updated menu here:
Keeper of the Crepes menu
This story was originally published November 18, 2019 at 1:54 PM.
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