KANSAS CITY, Mo. — As the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris approaches, the world’s highlight on the French capital will little doubt spotlight French traditions.
It’s additionally producing pleasure in Kansas City, generally known as the Paris of the Plains.
There are loads of methods for residents and guests to get out and expertise French tradition with out leaving the Midwest.
“It’s completely scrumptious,” a buyer on the French Market and Cafe Provence in Prairie Village informed Scripps News Kansas City. “They change their menu commonly, so I really feel like each time we come again, there’s slightly one thing totally different.”
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Cafe Provence, which opened greater than 20 years in the past, and the French Market, which opened in 2013, provide French imports, classic gadgets, cookbooks and different French merchandise.
“Those are the issues that we deliver to the desk due to who we’re and the place we come from,” French Market proprietor Patrick Quillec stated.
Cafe Provence has been acknowledged as one of many high French eating places not solely in Kansas City, however throughout the United States.
“I all the time stated French persons are very demanding about their product and their life,” Quillec stated. “It places a form of strain on possession of eating places.
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We discovered one other buyer who predicts this summer season’s Olympic Games will draw much more clients to the restaurant.
“I believe it’ll deliver individuals in to these locations simply to allow them to form of really feel the vibe of the Olympics and being in that tradition,” the client stated.
Just a little additional east in Kansas City, Missouri, these seeking to cool off with a French deal with can swing by French Custard within the Brookside neighborhood.
“We actually tried to do issues the French means, which is easy however scrumptious and do-it-yourself and top quality,” French Custard proprietor Jessica Wood stated. “I undoubtedly really feel like we’ll have a lift in gross sales this summer season with individuals wanting to simply strive French custard.”
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Wood, who has visited France and lived in New York, noticed a must deliver genuine French custard to Kansas City by opening up her store in 2023.
“French custard is all about do-it-yourself from scratch,” Wood stated. “Ice cream we make relies in home with simply milk, cream, egg and sugar.”
Wood plans to over a particular Olympic sundae throughout this summer season’s video games.
This story was initially printed by Daniela Leon at Scripps News Kansas City.
