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District Biskuits – E 63rd Street is the second location of Guroux Khalifah’s biscuit-sandwich restaurant, opened in June 2026 at 1664 E. 63rd Street — the same East Side strip-mall storefront where District Biskuits began in 2017 as a morning pop-up inside his uncle’s Lutfi’s Fried Fish. It serves the full biscuit menu (the Wonder, the Crown, the Charlie Hustle, biscuits and gravy, Troost Juice lemonades) plus the Howlin’ Fowls fried-chicken menu, and, unlike the North Kansas City original, stays open into the evening with added dinner plates like Cajun pasta with blackened shrimp. Khalifah calls it a homecoming: “we’re here, we’re back and we’re ready to serve them.”

Description

The 63rd Street District Biskuits is a small room — roughly 20 seats along a single long red booth — in a strip mall on East 63rd Street just east of The Paseo, with a plywood service counter that Khalifah asks customers to sign and walls lettered with his love for the city and for “damn good biskuits.”1 Troost Juice lemonades in their fruit colors line the register; they cannot yet be spiked here, because the location has no liquor license.1

The biscuit menu is the same one served in North Kansas City: the Wonder (fried chicken, fried egg, American cheese, beef bacon), the Charlie Hustle (Nashville-hot chicken, hot honey, slaw, dill pickles), the DB Mac (mac and cheese, fried chicken, bacon jam, hot honey), biscuits and gravy, hash-brown coins.21 The surprise best seller, as at the original, is The Crown, a double smash burger inside a biscuit, discounted to $7 on Wednesdays.1 “It doesn’t matter what you put in (the biscuit),” Khalifah told the Star. “Who would have thought of putting a smashburger patty inside of a biscuit? But it really works.”1

Because a morning crowd has been harder to draw here than in NKC — on a recent weekday most trade was to-go — Khalifah has leaned the location toward dinner. The Howlin’ Fowls fried-chicken menu, a sister concept he began developing about two years earlier, runs from noon to 9 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, and he has added dinner entrées aimed at neighbors who remember the seafood at his family’s earlier restaurants in the space: Cajun pasta with blackened shrimp and chicken, a hot-honey shrimp dish, loaded fries with chopped fried chicken, spicy cheese curds, a fried-or-grilled chicken wrap and a chicken salad.12 He has said morning hours may be trimmed if breakfast business does not pick up.1

Ownership and history

Guroux Khalifah is a Kansas City native, a Le Cordon Bleu (Atlanta) graduate who cooked at Bristol Seafood and Lidia’s before deciding he wanted to make food that “resonated with more people, like a biscuit.”13 The full founder biography is on the Armour Road page.

This storefront is where the brand started. In 2017, in the couple of hours before his uncle’s Lutfi’s Fried Fish opened for the day, Khalifah turned out chicken-and-egg biscuit sandwiches for a morning line that stretched out the door of 1664 E. 63rd St.14 He remembers being told, “Who builds a business off of a biscuit?”1 The pop-up ran until 2020; after a pandemic detour through catering and a stand at the Adam’s Mark hotel, District Biskuits opened its own restaurant in North Kansas City in December 2022.43 In the interim the 63rd Street space housed his brother’s District Fish & Pasta House for a shorter run.1

The return was announced on Instagram in spring 2026 — “Full circle. We’re back where it all started” — with a grand-opening weekend first set for May 30 and then pushed to June 6–7; the Star’s August feature places the opening in “late June.”51 Khalifah describes it as reconnecting with an East Side community his family has fed for decades: “I’m just trying to reconnect with the people of the community and let them know we’re here, we’re back and we’re ready to serve them.”1 Plans include expanding into a neighboring bay for more seating and applying for a liquor license; longer term he would like District Biskuits to become a regional brand.1

Last verified: 2026-08-28 · Source: the restaurant’s own website menu (one menu published for both locations) · Confidence: High for the shared biscuit and Howlin’ Fowls menus; the 63rd-Street-only dinner additions reported by the Star (Cajun pasta, hot honey shrimp, loaded fries, cheese curds, chicken wrap, chicken salad) are not on the website and are unpriced here.21 The full itemized transcription lives on the Armour Road page; highlights:

  • Districts: The Wonder ($13.95) · The Crown ($13.95; $7 on Wednesdays per the Star) · The KC Live! ($11.95) · The Cure ($12.95) · The Charlie Hustle ($13.95) · 816 Chicken Biskuit ($11.95) · 913 Biskuit, veg.
  • DB Originals: Biscuits + Gravy ($10.95) · Jumbo Tenders ($11.99) · DB Mac ($13.99) · DB Hash ($13.00) · DB Breakfast ($15.50)
  • Howlin’ Fowls (South: Tue–Sat noon–9, Sun noon–5): fried chicken 2/4/8 pc with sides ($10.95/$14.95/$26.95) · Hot Honey Chicken & Waffles ($17) · Howln’ Hot Mac ($13.95) · Howln’ Hot Tenders ($14.95) · Howln’ Hot Chicken Biskuit ($13.95) · sides $4.95–5.75 · The DBP cinnamon biscuit dessert ($4)
  • Drinks: Troost Juice lemonades ($4; not spikeable at this location) · milkshakes ($6.95) · coffee ($3.50)

Sources

Footnotes

  1. Katelyn Umholtz, “KC restaurant was built off biscuits. 10 years later, it’s back in its first home,” The Kansas City Star, 2026-08-08 (syndicated via AOL). Retrieved 2026-08-28 (original: kansascity.com) — Confirms: 2017 pop-up inside his uncle’s Lutfi’s Fried Fish at 1664 E. 63rd St.; second location opened there in late June 2026, in the storefront that was more recently his brother’s District Fish & Pasta House; Le Cordon Bleu, Bristol Seafood, Lidia’s; slow weekday mornings, mostly to-go; Howlin’ Fowls begun two years earlier, dinner entrées added (Cajun pasta with blackened shrimp, hot honey shrimp, loaded fries, spicy cheese curds, chicken wrap, chicken salad); later hours than NKC and possible reduction of morning hours; The Crown as a surprise hit and $7 Wednesday special; Troost Juice not spikeable here; expansion into a neighboring space, liquor-license and regional-brand plans; ~20 seats on one long red booth, signed plywood counter; hours Tue–Wed 8–3, Thu–Sat 8–9, Sun 8–5, closed Mon; pickup and delivery. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13 ↩14 ↩15

  2. District Biskuits — official website, “Our Menu” (Drinks, Menu, Howlin’ Fowls tabs). Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: all items and prices cited; “District Biskuit – South” hours Tue–Sat 8 AM–9 PM, Sun 8 AM–5 PM (conflicting with the Locations page); Howlin’ Fowl – South hours Tue–Sat noon–9, Sun noon–5. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  3. District Biskuits — official website, “About us.” Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: KC-native chef; Le Cordon Bleu (Atlanta); 2017 pop-up at Lutfi’s; Adam’s Mark hotel stand closed by COVID; NKC brick-and-mortar opened December 13, 2022. ↩ ↩2

  4. Channa Steinmetz, “District Biskuits in North Kansas City has lines out the door for food ‘crafted for the culture’,” Startland News, republished by KCUR, 2023-02-26. Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: 2017 start as a concept inside Lutfi’s Fried Fish on 63rd Street, serving 7–10:30 a.m.; Lutfi’s pop-up closed in 2020; NKC restaurant opened December 2022. ↩ ↩2

  5. “District Biskuits to open second location where it began on East 63rd Street” [headline paraphrased], The Kansas City Star, spring 2026 (undated in the retrieved copy; editor’s note records a one-week delay). Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: second location at 1664 E. 63rd St. where Khalifah started the concept while working at Lutfi’s Fried Fish; Instagram tease “Full circle. We’re back where it all started”; grand opening moved from May 30 to the weekend of June 6–7, 2026. ↩

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