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Harold’s Drive-In is a walk-up drive-in restaurant at 1337 Admiral Blvd, north of downtown Kansas City on the edge of Columbus Park, trading since 1958 — originally as Harold’s Dairy Supreme under Harold McBain, in a building that dates to 1948.1 It closed on December 31, 2024 after a 66-year run under owner Deb Walker, and reopened on Friday, April 25, 2025 under new owner Nate Bond, a customer who bought the property and stripped it back toward its original mid-century look.1 The kitchen is a short-order griddle operation — hand-breaded pork tenderloins, double smash burgers, house-made chili, hand-breaded onion rings, biscuits and gravy, and shakes and malts — with only the fries and tater tots arriving pre-frozen.12 Tier 1 — owner-operated, single location, resident owner.
Disambiguation / stale-listing warning: two Yelp entries exist for this address. The older one is flagged CLOSED and describes the pre-2025 operation that ended 2024-12-31; a second, separate entry tracks the reopened business. Aggregator “closed” flags for 1337 Admiral Blvd should therefore be read as referring to the Walker-era business, not the current one. The determinative evidence for current operation is first-party: a live Toast ordering menu under Harold’s 1958 LLC with per-item prices and a real-time out-of-stock flag, plus a live hours line on the business’s own domain, both checked 2026-08-13.32
Description
Harold’s is a small freestanding drive-in building on Admiral Boulevard — the kind of 1940s roadside structure that mostly did not survive urban renewal on the north edge of downtown. It runs a griddle-and-fryer menu across breakfast and lunch, closing mid-afternoon.
Breakfast is the deeper half of the menu: egg-and-cheese sandwiches built up through sausage, bacon, ham, turkey sausage and turkey bacon; a “meat trio” of country ham, bacon and sausage with eggs; an egg plate with hashbrowns and toast; a vegetable omelette; biscuits and gravy in two- and three-biscuit sizes; and a three-biscuit “Bubba breakfast” with eggs and hashbrowns.3
Lunch runs cheeseburgers and bacon cheeseburgers, a hand-breaded pork tenderloin sandwich, chicken tenderloin and chicken fingers, a quarter-pound hot dog and chili dog, grilled cheese, BLT, ham and cheese, an Italian steak sandwich and a chicken parmesan.3
Sides and fountain. Fries, tater tots, chili cheese fries and tots, a cup of chili; onion rings, mozzarella sticks, jalapeño poppers and fried mushrooms; shakes, malts, floats and ice cream cups and mixers.3
Northeast News recorded the kitchen practice at reopening: the tenderloins and onion rings are hand-breaded, the beef is fresh-ground, the chili is house-made, and only the french fries and tater tots come in pre-prepared.1 That is an unusual amount of scratch work for a menu priced at this level.
Ownership and history
The restaurant opened in 1958 as Harold’s Dairy Supreme, owned by Harold McBain, in a building that already stood — the structure dates to 1948.1
Deb Walker was the owner who closed it. Operations ended December 31, 2024, after a 66-year run; Northeast News attributes the closure to lease difficulties and a pandemic-era decline in customers.1 The closure drew metro-wide coverage at the time.4
Nate Bond bought the property and reopened it on Friday, April 25, 2025.1 Bond was a customer before he was the owner, and Northeast News frames the purchase as nostalgia-driven. His renovation was subtractive rather than additive: he removed a wooden deck that had been built onto the structure and painted the floor tiles in a checkerboard pattern, aiming the room back at its 1958 character. In his words to the paper: “I wanted Harold’s to have that simple, drive-in feel, an old school look.”1
The operating entity is registered as Harold’s 1958 LLC, the name under which the Toast ordering account trades.3
Names note: Harold McBain, Deb Walker and Nate Bond are reproduced exactly as Northeast News prints them. No other owner, family member or investor is named in any source read, and none is invented here — “.
Menu
menu_status: verified. Prices below are first-party — read directly from the business’s own Toast online-ordering page (Harold’s 1958 LLC, 1337 Admiral Blvd) on 2026-08-13.3 No delivery-platform or aggregator pricing is carried on this page.
Breakfast sandwiches
| Item | Price |
|---|---|
| Egg & cheese sandwich | $5.44 |
| Sausage, egg & cheese | $7.15 |
| Bacon, egg & cheese | $7.15 |
| Ham, egg & cheese | $7.25 |
| Turkey sausage, egg & cheese | $7.15 |
| Turkey bacon, egg & cheese | $7.15 |
| Bacon, sausage, egg & cheese | $9.15 |
| Double cheeseburger with eggs | $7.75 |
| Meat trio — country ham, bacon, sausage with eggs | $10.85 |
Breakfast plates and biscuits
| Item | Price |
|---|---|
| Egg plate with hashbrowns & toast | $6.85 |
| Vegetable omelette with sides | $9.15 |
| 2 biscuits with gravy | $5.15 |
| 3 biscuits with gravy | $7.65 |
| Bubba breakfast — 3 biscuits, eggs, hashbrowns | $13.65 |
Lunch
| Item | Price |
|---|---|
| Grilled cheese | $3.45 |
| Kids burger | $4.85 |
| Hot dog (1/4 lb) | $5.35 |
| Ham & cheese sandwich | $5.45 |
| BLT | $6.45 |
| Cheeseburger | $6.85 |
| Chili dog | $7.55 |
| Chicken tenderloin | $7.85 |
| Chicken fingers | $7.85 |
| Pork tenderloin sandwich | $8.15 |
| Bacon cheeseburger | $8.85 |
| Chicken parmesan | $9.15 |
| Italian steak sandwich | $9.65 |
Sides, appetizers and ice cream
| Item | Price |
|---|---|
| Fries | $3.15 |
| Tater tots | $3.95 |
| Chili cup | $5.15 |
| Chili cheese fries | $5.95 |
| Chili cheese tots | $6.75 |
| Onion rings | $5.85 |
| Fried mushrooms | $6.45 |
| Mozzarella sticks | $6.85 |
| Jalapeño poppers (marked out of stock 2026-08-13) | $6.85 |
| Ice cream cup | $3.29 |
| Float | $4.15 |
| Shake (20 oz) | $5.19 |
| Malt | $5.49 |
| Ice cream mixer | $6.39 |
menu_price_tier: $ — no item on the menu reaches $14.
The own-site menu images were broken placeholders on 2026-08-13, so the ordering page is the only complete first-party menu currently readable.2
Links
- Own site: https://haroldskc.com/
- Online ordering (first-party, Toast): https://order.toasttab.com/online/harolds-1958-llc-1337-admiral-blvd
- Northeast News reopening feature: https://northeastnews.net/pages/new-owner-fresh-look-classic-menu-for-iconic-harolds-drive-in/
Sources
Footnotes
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Dorri Partain, “New Owner, Fresh Look, Classic Menu for Iconic Harold’s Drive-In,” Northeast News, May 21, 2025 (accessed 2026-08-13). Asserts: Harold’s Drive-In, 1337 Admiral Blvd; closed December 31, 2024 after 66 years; previous owner Deb Walker, unable to continue due to lease challenges and pandemic-related decline in customers; reopened Friday, April 25, 2025 under new owner Nate Bond, previously a customer, who acquired the property; Bond removed a wooden deck addition and painted floor tiles in a checkerboard pattern to restore mid-century character; building dates to 1948; originally opened as “Harold’s Dairy Supreme” in 1958 under Harold McBain; menu of hand-breaded tenderloins, fresh-ground beef burgers, house-made chili, hand-breaded onion rings, with only french fries and tater tots pre-prepared; Bond quote “I wanted Harold’s to have that simple, drive-in feel, an old school look”; hours 10 a.m.–3 p.m. Monday–Saturday; phone 816-518-2234; online ordering at order.toasttab.com/online/harolds-1958-llc-1337-admiral-blvd. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8
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Harold’s Drive-In official website (accessed 2026-08-13). Asserts: Harold’s Drive-In, 1337 Admiral Boulevard, Kansas City, MO; phone 816-518-2234; founded 1958; described as serving breakfast favorites, double smash burgers, tenderloins and creamy shakes; takeout and delivery via online ordering; live hours line reading “Open today 7:30 AM – 3:00 PM” on the access date; links to the Toast ordering page. Menu images on the site rendered as broken placeholders on the access date, and no prices or owner names appear in the site text. ↩ ↩2 ↩3
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Harold’s 1958 LLC — 1337 Admiral Blvd, first-party online ordering menu, Toast (accessed 2026-08-13). Asserts: operating entity name Harold’s 1958 LLC at 1337 Admiral Blvd; live ordering menu; all item prices reproduced in the Menu section above; jalapeño poppers flagged out of stock on the access date. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6
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Coverage of the December 2024 closure of Harold’s Drive-In after 66 years (accessed 2026-08-13, syndicated from the Kansas City Star). Asserts: the 66-year-old Kansas City drive-in closed at the end of 2024. This page was not opened and read in full — it is cited only as corroboration of the closure date and tenure already established by Northeast News, and no detail unique to it is asserted anywhere on this page. ↩
See also
- Registry
- columbus-park
- historic-northeast
- Owner-And-History-Research-Toolchain
On the record — ks.city/registry/harolds-drive-in · record updated 2026-08-13