A challenge for Wichita foodies: Name the restaurant this menu came from

I’ve been writing about restaurants in Wichita since October 2000. That’s 26 years ago, which is hard for me to believe.

In the early days, before menus were easy to find online, I used to pick them up wherever I went to help me with my reporting. I’ve had a big stack of them sitting in a folder (paper, not digital) for years and have been thinking about what I could do with them.

I’ve come up with this: I want to see if longtime foodies in Wichita can guess where the menus came from by just looking at some of the dishes. Occasionally, I’ll post snippets of a menu and ask readers to take their best guesses. After a few days, I’ll share the answer, the full menu and a little bit of history about the restaurant it came from.

All the menus I post will be from restaurants that have closed. Most will be from the early 2000s forward, but I do have a few much older menus I may toss in from time to time.

Here are some hints about today’s mystery menu:

1. These snippets came from the restaurant’s “day menu.”

2: A few of today’s best-known Wichita worked at this restaurant earlier in their careers.

Email your guess to dneil@wichitaeagle or enter it in the comments section on my Facebook page, then watch for the answer later this week.

Here’s a peek at the menu:

Here’s a second peek at the menu:

Denise Neil

The Wichita Eagle

316-268-6327

Denise Neil has covered restaurants and entertainment since 1997. Her Dining with Denise Facebook page is the go-to place for diners to get information about local restaurants. She’s a regular judge at local food competitions and speaks to groups all over Wichita about dining.