This downtown Wichita market closed nine months ago, but now it’s ready to return
It’s been closed since February as its owners focused on the pressing business of completely gutting and remodeling their restaurant.
But now, the Doo-Dah Market — the take-and-bake and gift market at 220 E. Kellogg that Doo-Dah Diner owners Patrick and Timirie Shibley originally opened next door to their downtown restaurant in August 2018 — is ready to reopen.
At 11 a.m. today (Friday), the owners will have their food cases filled and their shelves and tables stocked and ready for customers to start shopping again, Timirie Shibley said.
“We’re really trying to focus on fun local gourmet items,” she said.
When they return, customers will find a few changes at the market.
Timirie has reorganized the business to make the main part of the space focused on food. The market’s staples — to-go versions of dishes her chef husband Patrick made famous at the restaurant next door — will be stocked in big glass refrigerator cases for people to grab and take home to serve. Among the choices will be chicken and noodles, mac and cheese, shepherd’s pie, chicken pot pie, chicken salad and green chili. The cases will be full on Friday.
When customers come through he doors, they’ll be greeted by a table full of the diner’s homemade bread items, including fresh loaves, hamburger buns, bread pudding and even monkey bread. The Shibleys are also adding individual hand pies to the list of offerings in lieu of whole pies.
Throughout the rest of the main room are items made and produced in Wichita and in Kansas, including salsa, honey, jams, jellies, dip mixes and more.
Most of the gift-y, Wichita-themed items that used to fill the main area of the market have been moved into their own space in a smaller, adjacent room. There is a big collection of T-shirts, hats, wall hangings, magnets, figurines glassware and other trinkets supplied by Kelly Gentry of ICT Makers.
And a little alcove off to the side of the main room has become a new spot for people to relax and enjoy a cup of coffee from a deluxe coffee machine from Prairie Fire Coffee Roasters.
Starting on Friday, the market’s hours will be 11 a.m. to 6 pm. Tuesdays through Fridays and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays.
The Shibleys temporarily closed their market, which they opened in an old car dealership next door to their restaurant, back in February, shortly after they had relocated the diner to what turned out to be a temporary spot at Harry and Webb. Meanwhile, they did a complete remodel on the diner at 206 E. Kellogg, which they originally opened in 2012.
The new-and-improved diner, with twice the seating, reopened in July.
This story was originally published November 22, 2019 at 5:01 AM.
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