Stroud’s has been gone from Wichita for a year and a half, and people don’t know where to go for good fried chicken, says longtime Wichita chef Jeremy Wade.
And that’s just one of several reasons that Wade is retooling his 4-year-old breakfast-and-brunch restaurant — Magnolia Cafe at 2424 N. Woodlawn. Starting on Friday, Magnolia Cafe will become known just as Magnolia, and instead of breakfast, brunch and lunch, it will operate as a “Southern kitchen and cocktail house.”
Magnolia will have an all-new menu and different hours. Instead of opening for breakfast and brunch during the week, it will open for lunch and dinner and serve brunch on the weekends.
Among the Southern entrées Wade has added to his new menu: buttermilk fried chicken made using an expensive new pressure fryer he purchased for the restaurant…