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Caffetteria To Open In The Prairie Village Shopping Center in Fall 2017
Jo Marie Scaglia is getting ready to mix things up a bit.
As the owner of the quality, quick casual restaurant, The Mixx, with three locations in Kansas City, she has now announced plans to open a new restaurant, Caffetteria, located at 71st and Mission Road in the Prairie Village Shopping Center in the former Bruce Smith Drugs location.
The name Caffetteria is something that Scaglia pulled from her Italian roots, as the word is traditionally used in Italy to describe a casual coffeeshop or café. It is a gathering place, morning, noon and night in Italy where the social interaction between people is almost as important as the food and drink that is served.
A Kansas City restaurateur who made quick casual cool by serving soups, salads, wraps and bowls in craveable and customizable combinations at The Mixx, Scaglia is now putting a unique hybrid spin on Caffetteria, blending high-end food philosophy with a quick-casual approach to service.
Caffetteria will serve breakfast, lunch and dinner in Prairie Village with plans to do comfortable, nourishing dishes made with quality ingredients, and everything made from scratch in-house.
She says she is most looking forward to creating the hot entrée items for her new menu, which something that she hasn't been able to do before at The Mixx which serves mostly cold salads, wraps and sandwiches.
"It is important to me to make people feel like they are at home at Caffetteria," says Scaglia. "We cook everything with love and want to make each dish approachable for our guests."
The approximately 4,000-square foot space, about half the size of the original Bruce Smith Drugs, will seat around 100 guests inside and will include a patio with outdoor seating.
Featuring an open kitchen, and a colorful, eclectic dining room, at Caffetteria guests will order at the counter then have the food delivered to their tables.
"Fine dining has its place, but Caffetteria is going to be a quick-causal restaurant, an everyday dining kind of place," she says. "It will be a place where you can grab a meal and take it to go from our market, or have a seat and stay and enjoy a leisurely meal."
The marketplace located inside the restaurant will offer prepared meals, specialty foods and exclusive retail products. Keeping in line with her passion for locally sourced products, Scaglia will partner with local companies to bring in fresh produce and products that will be used not only in her restaurant, but in the market, as well.
Caffetteria is planned to open in the Fall 2017.
Caffetteria, 6920 Mission Rd, Prairie Village, Kansas, caffetteriakc.com.
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