Chain closes Johnson County breakfast/lunch restaurant. But another one is coming in

After nearly a decade of operations, Leawood’s Corner Bakery Cafe closed at the end of business Sunday.

The Camelot Court breakfast and lunch operation opened in late 2013 at 11705 Roe Ave., Suite A.

But another breakfast and lunch operation, Wichita’s HomeGrown, plans to take its place. After remodeling, a spring 2023 opening is scheduled.

HomeGrown came to the market in mid-2021 with a Brookside location and then opened in Liberty in July.

“We love Kansas City,” said Dave Phillips, director of marketing. “This will not be our last. Brookside and Liberty have been so well-received, we can’t wait to open more in Kansas City.”

It has three locations in Wichita. A Des Moines, Iowa, restaurant is scheduled to open in December.

Menu items include strawberry pop tarts, sweet potato pancakes, curried Brussels sprouts and sweet potato bowls, croissant French toast, omelets, Benedicts, sandwiches, salads, soups and fresh-squeezed juices.

The Camelot Court restaurant was the first area location for Corner Bakery Cafe, and it planned multiple spots, even one on the Country Club Plaza.

But Frank Westermajer, president of Cafe Foods Inc., the Overland Park-based franchisee of Corner Bakery Cafe, said the last two years have been “kind of tough with COVID. The landscape isn’t what it used to be.”

“We had a pretty hefty lease there and getting close to the end of the lease so our landlord let us out of it,” he said of the Leawood site. “We appreciate all the customers over the years and look forward to seeing them in Corbin Park.”

The Corbin Park restaurant, at 6721 W. 135th St. in Overland Park, opened in 2014. The menu includes power breakfast egg bowls, bacon and cheddar panini, turkey avocado Cobb salads, shrimp scampi linguine and roasted tomato basil soup.

“It’s a great concept. You just have to find the right space for it,” Westermajer said.