Cinnamon swirl pancakes. Espresso martinis. Bacon jam burgers.
Colorado breakfast-brunch-lunch chain Urban Egg is adding more metro spots.
It plans to open in the Northland’s Valley View Shoppes (Missouri 152 and North Booth Avenue) before the end of the year.
It is a hot intersection with such tenants as Andy’s Frozen Custard, Fareway Meat Market, Meshuggah Bagels, QuikTrip, Starbucks and Whataburger.
Urban Egg founder Randy Price grew up in Overland Park and graduated from Shawnee Mission South High School in 1983. After earning a degree in business and hotel management from Northern Arizona University, he worked for Houston’s on the Country Club Plaza and in Overland Park.
He moved to Colorado Springs in 2000 and opened the first Urban Egg in Colorado Springs in 2012. He now has eight restaurants in Colorado, and hopes to add four or five more in the Kansas City metro, Colorado, and Texas by the end of the year.
Locally, he’s targeting Lenexa City Center, Prairie Village, Overland Park’s Bluhawk, Lee’s Summit and perhaps the Country Club Plaza.
The menu focuses on made-from-scratch items such as cinnamon rolls, corned beef hash, breakfast burritos and tacos, carnitas bowls, Benedicts, chicken and waffles, omelets, “fancy” pancakes (strawberry cheesecake; blueberry streusel; and Hawaiian with super sweet pineapple and toasted coconut), Monte Cristo sandwiches, and specialty cocktails.
Price said he is committed to high-quality ingredients and the company uses many local suppliers, “elevated breakfast, elevated beverage.”
That includes La Bella Prosecco, and Fair Trade Organic Coffee sources in the top mountain regions in Brazil and Costa Rica.
Urban Egg opened in Overland Park’s Hawthorne Plaza (4921 W. 119th St.) in April 2022, its first location outside of Colorado.
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