Earlier this week, I issued a challenge to longtime Wichita foodies.
After digging through a folder filled with menus I’d held onto since I first started writing about restaurants for The Wichita Eagle 26 years ago, I shared two snippets of one of those menus and asked people to guess where the menu had come from. One of the snippets I shared listed a tilapia sandwich, a Reuben and a raspberry smoked turkey sandwich on ciabatta. Another listed a grilled kefta on pita and a Santa Fe salad.
Several people responded to the challenge and offered logical guesses, including Piccadilly Grill, which operated at 7728 E. Central from 1989 to 2015 and offered dishes similar to ones on the mystery menu. Another good guess was Cafe Chantilly, which Antoine Toubia ran from 1983 until 1993 at 6921 E. Kellogg…