Housewife

Housewife is Anna Sorge’s scratch-made breakfast and lunch café in old downtown Grandview, open since December 2021 in a historic Main Street building. Sorge is a self-taught chef — the restaurant name came directly from a dismissal: a fine dining owner once said to her, “How can a simple housewife like you cook better food than my executive chef?” She turned the insult into a brand. A wife and mother of four, she spent years cooking for her family at home and previously managed a fine dining establishment before opening Housewife with pastry chef Zoey Ramberg. Feast Magazine and InKansasCity.com both covered the opening.

Description

Housewife is Anna Sorge’s scratch-made café in old downtown Grandview, open since December 2021. Sorge is self-taught — she never went to culinary school — and the restaurant name is a direct response to a dismissal she received while managing a fine dining establishment, when an owner said: “How can a simple housewife like you cook better food than my executive chef?” A wife and mother of four, she spent years perfecting her cooking for her family at home before deciding to go professional. She opened Housewife with pastry chef Zoey Ramberg in a historic Main Street building in Grandview, one of the few daytime food options in old downtown. The menu is scratch-made and seasonal — pastries, croissants, soups, sandwiches, salads, and coffee. Feast Magazine covered the opening; InKansasCity.com and VoyageKC have also featured the restaurant. As of May 2026, Housewife remains active on Instagram.

Menu

Last verified: 2026-08-12 · Source: Housewife official SkyTab online-ordering platform · URL: https://online.skytab.com/s/housewifekc · Confidence: High (first-party ordering platform with full pricing; 2026-08-12 re-scrape)

Housewife is a scratch-made breakfast-and-lunch café open for takeout. The menu rotates seasonally. Breakfast is served all day; sandwich orders are limited to 6 or fewer (catering@housewifekc.com for larger). Bakery: call for availability. Prices below from the official SkyTab ordering platform. Chia pudding, granola parfait, most cookies, and bar drinks remain name-only — first-party publishes no additional prose for those lines.¹

Breakfast (Served All Day)

• Avocado Toast — Avocado, Chipotle Tomato Jam, Cilantro Pepita Pesto, Pickled Red Onion, Cotija Cheese, Micro Greens on Ibis Sourdough — $11.00¹
• Bacon Gouda Breakfast Sandwich — Egg Frittata, Bacon, Gouda, Garlic Aioli, Tomato, Arugula on Ibis Ciabatta Bun — $12.00¹
• House Made Bagels — Sea Salt or Everything Bagel (add Plain or Herb Cream Cheese +$2.00) — $0.00¹
• The BEC (Bacon, Egg, & Cheese) — House Made Sea Salt Bagel, Herb Cream Cheese, Egg Frittata, Cheddar Cheese, Bacon — $10.00¹
• Breakfast Burrito — Yoli tortillas, egg, potato, cheese, onions, pepper; rotating seasonal meat (15 min cook time) — $13.00¹
• California Bagel Sandwich — House Made Everything Bagel, Whipped Cream Cheese, Avocado, Bacon, Tomato, Maldon Sea Salt — $10.00¹
• Chia Seed Pudding — $5.00¹
• Croissant Breakfast Sandwich — Egg Frittata, Cheddar Cheese, Bacon, Tomato, Arugula, Basil Pesto Mayo on Croissant — $10.00¹
• Granola Parfait — $5.00¹
• OG Breakfast Sandwich — Sausage, English Muffin, Egg Frittata, Cheddar Cheese, Chipotle Mayo — $10.00¹
• Smoked Salmon Toast — Smoked Salmon, Herb Cream Cheese, Tomato, Pickled Red Onion, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Maldon Sea Salt, Micro Greens on Ibis Sourdough — $12.00¹

Bakery (Call for availability — fresh baked, limited supply)

• Cinnamon Roll — Friday & Saturday only — $6.00¹
• Chocolate Chip Cookie — $4.00¹
• Chocolate Dipped Peanut Butter Cookie — $5.00¹
• Coconut Macaroon Cookie — $4.00¹
• Lavender Shortbread Cookie — $4.00¹
• Almond Croissant — Croissant with Almond Frangipane, Toasted Almonds, Powdered Sugar — $5.25¹
• Berry Croissant — $5.25¹
• Chocolate Croissant — Croissant Filled with Chocolate Ganache and Powdered Sugar — $5.25¹
• Ham & Cheese Croissant — $7.00¹
• Plain Croissant — $4.25¹
• Seasonal Muffin — Changes twice every season — $4.50¹
• Oatmeal Cream Pie — $5.00¹
• Seasonal Scone — Changes every season — $5.50¹
• Brioche Buns — $8.00¹

All Things Cake (Cupcakes & Thursday’s Cake of the Week)

• Cake Cups — Different cake every Thursday — $5.00¹
• Thursday Cake Special — Different cake every Thursday — $9.50¹
• Specialty Cupcake — Rotates regularly — $5.00¹

Drinks from the Bar

• Latte — $4.00¹
• Blackberry Honey Latte — $5.00¹
• Chai Latte — $4.00¹
• Honey Bear Latte — $5.00¹
• Lavender Honey Latte — $5.00¹
• Matcha Latte — $4.00¹
• Strawberries & Cream Latte — $5.00¹
• Americano — $3.00¹
• Cappuccino — 8 oz — $4.00¹
• Cortado — 4 oz (2 oz espresso, 2 oz milk) — $3.00¹
• Dirty Chai — $6.00¹
• Drip Coffee — $3.00¹
• Flat White — 8 oz — $3.00¹
• Macchiato — $4.00¹
• Mocha — $5.00¹
• White Mocha — $5.00¹
• Hot Chocolate — $3.00¹
• Steamer — $2.00¹
• London Fog — $4.00¹
• Bag Tea — $2.00¹
• Black Iced Tea — $3.00¹
• Espresso Double Shot — $2.00¹
• Arnold Palmer — $5.50¹
• Banana Foster — $6.50¹
• Lemonade — $5.50¹
• Piña Colada Matcha — $5.00¹

Drinks from the Cooler

• Apple Juice — $4.00¹
• Spindrift — $3.00¹
• Orange Juice — $4.00¹
• Poppi — $3.00¹
• Soda — $2.50¹

Sources

Links

• Website: https://www.housewifekc.com
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/p/housewifekc-100075622465052/

Footnotes

1. Housewife — official online-ordering (SkyTab) — full itemized menu with prices. Accessed 2026-07-25; re-scraped 2026-08-12 (Firecrawl). 2026-08-12 scrape confirms breakfast/bakery prose already on this page and that chia pudding, granola parfait, most cookies, and bar drinks still publish names and prices only. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹ ↩¹² ↩¹³ ↩¹⁴ ↩¹⁵ ↩¹⁶ ↩¹⁷ ↩¹⁸ ↩¹⁹ ↩²⁰ ↩²¹ ↩²² ↩²³ ↩²⁴ ↩²⁵ ↩²⁶ ↩²⁷ ↩²⁸ ↩²⁹ ↩³⁰ ↩³¹ ↩³² ↩³³ ↩³⁴ ↩³⁵ ↩³⁶ ↩³⁷ ↩³⁸ ↩³⁹ ↩⁴⁰ ↩⁴¹ ↩⁴² ↩⁴³ ↩⁴⁴ ↩⁴⁵ ↩⁴⁶ ↩⁴⁷ ↩⁴⁸ ↩⁴⁹ ↩⁵⁰ ↩⁵¹ ↩⁵² ↩⁵³ ↩⁵⁴ ↩⁵⁵ ↩⁵⁶ ↩⁵⁷ ↩⁵⁸ ↩⁵⁹ ↩⁶⁰