A popular restaurant in nearby Garden Plain is about to add a Wichita presence.
Shad and Stephanie Biggs, who three years ago opened Halagains in the town of just under 1,000, are taking over the spot at 1106 S. Seneca where Champ’s 316 Bar & Grill has operated since the 1990s. Champ’s owners Hamendra Bhakta and Jason Bradley, who’d owned the restaurant since 2020, closed it on Tuesday, and the Biggs signed papers for the building on Thursday.
They plan to have the Wichita Halagains open in a couple of weeks, they said. The Garden Plain restaurant will continue to operate, too.
Halagains, which opened at 501 N. Main in Garden Plain in early 2023, serves an eclectic mix of pizzas, sandwiches and skillets, which the owners make by piling pizza toppings onto a bed of seasoned potatoes…