On a recent Friday morning in Overland Park, customers were already waiting outside of an African restaurant with an hour to go until it opened for the day.
Inside, co-owners Abertha Reeves and Florence Muni moved quietly and efficiently through the kitchen. Side by side, they chopped, stirred and taste-tested; a rhythm that’s been years in the making.
Reeves and Muni’s friendship goes back more than a decade — long before their restaurant, Tasty African Food KC, existed as anything more than a shared passion for food. The two friends have long dreamed of success for their venture, but they expected the growth to be more slow-cooked, much like the dishes they painstakingly prepare…