Late Night Eateries Review

Midnight Snacks

of Your Dreams

BY MOLLY CONWAY PRINT MANAGING EDITOR Take a look at three of the late night eateries found throughout Kansas City. Whether you are looking for a late night snack, early morning breakfast or mid-day treat, Insomnia Cookies, Town-Topic Hamburger and Hurts Donuts and their early morning and late night hours are all worth checking out. (Photos by Molly Conway)

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HURTS DONUT COMPANY

8809 State Line Rd, Kansas City, MO 64114 RATING //

24 hours 1.20-2.50 Slim Shady donut

Upon walking into Hurts Donuts, customers are greeted with the sweet smell of delicious donuts. The new donut hotspot’s grand opening took place at 5 a.m. Aug. 15 at the Ward Parkway shopping center. With a selection of over 25 different kinds of unique flavored donuts, whether customers are looking for something fruity or chocolatey, Hurts Donuts has it all.

The crowd favorite Slim Shady donut is a chocolate cake donut with a fluffy vanilla buttercream frosting with multicolored mini M&M’s sprinkled on top. Another favorite, The Fred Flintstone, is a vanilla cake donut with a vanilla buttercream frosting with Fruity Pebbles cereal on top. The Fruity Pebbles add a nice fruity crunch to the donut. Not only does Hurts Donuts offer freshly baked donuts, but they also serve maple bacon, $3, apple fritter, $3.50, cinnamon rolls, $5, and donut milkshakes, $6.

Hurts Donuts provides customers with an entertaining and lively environment. Customers can watch behind the counter the donuts being freshly made and uniquely decorated, providing entertainment for young children. Hurts Donuts offers delicious treats and a fun experience to people of all ages.

TOWN-TOPIC HAMBURGERS

2021 Broadway Blvd, Kansas City, MO 64108 RATING //

24 hours 3.10-8.50 Cheeseburger

With no more than 18 spots to sit at in the entire diner, inside of Town-Topic Hamburger is noisy and claustrophobic, providing customers with a lively dining environment. Whether in search of an early morning country style breakfast, afternoon lunch or late night snack, Town Topic has it all.

Open 24 hours a day, Town Topic offers a full breakfast menu and a combined lunch and dinner menu. The breakfast menu includes eggs, French toast, hot cakes, cinnamon rolls, biscuits and gravy, all with the choice of bacon, sausage, or ham. The items range in price from $1.25 to $5.75. The most popular breakfast item is the biscuits and gravy, which is served from 5 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., and is freshly made each day.

The lunch and dinner menu is divided into two main sections: sandwiches and hamburgers. Different types of sandwiches include the patty melt, grilled cheese and BLT, and range in price from $2.75 to $5.80. With the hamburgers, you have the option of a single, double or triple with the option of adding cheese on top. Burgers range in price from $3.10 to $7.60. The burgers are far better than Winstead’s, McDonalds, or any other local fast food style hamburger restaurant, and are definitely worth checking out.

INSOMNIA COOKIES

505 Westport Rd, Kansas City, MO 64111 RATING //

9 a.m. - 3 a.m. 1.60-5.90 Bigwich chocolate chunk cookie

Whether in search for a late night study snack, ice cream on a hot afternoon, or a warm cookie on a cold day, Insomnia

Cookies is the place to go.

Insomnia Cookies offers a full menu of cookies, cookie cakes, cookie sandwiches, brownies and ice cream. They offer over thirteen different kinds of cookies, including peanut butter chip, snickerdoodle, white chocolate macadamia, chocolate peanut butter cup and the crowd favorite chocolate chunk, all ranging from $1.60 to $3.20 in price. One of Insomnia Cookies’ most popular items is the bigwich cookie, which for $5.90 is the customer’s choice of any 2 warm cookies with a layer of white buttercream frosting in the middle. Although the calorie count was high, the bigwich was a delicious and filling treat. Insomnia Cookie also serves ice cream which ranges in price from $3.90 to $12.80 and includes flavors such as birthday cake, black cherry, and cookies ‘n cream.

Insomnia Cookies provides customers with a quiet and calm environment and is located in both Westport and the Kansas City Power & Light District. One of the main draws to Insomnia Cookies is that they are open til 3 a.m. and deliver warm delicious cookies right to your doorstep for an extra $2.99.