The Fix

The Fix is a plant-based comfort-food restaurant near 31st and Gillham/Cherry on the edge of Union Hill in midtown Kansas City, opened in January 2020 by owner Dave Swarts — a longtime KC plant-based advocate and the producer of VegFest Kansas City.

Description

The Fix is a fully plant-based restaurant serving vegan comfort food in midtown Kansas City, located at 600 E 31st Street near the 31st-and-Gillham edge of the Union Hill neighborhood (the space is also described in press coverage as “31st and Cherry”).¹ The menu centers on familiar comfort dishes rendered without animal products — items reviewers single out include a Nashville Hot Chik’n sandwich, smothered biscuit, loaded fries, and cauliflower wings — alongside a popular weekend plant-based brunch.²

Owner Dave Swarts has deliberately positioned the restaurant around accessibility rather than the “vegan” label, framing it as “a restaurant that serves comfort food” meant to welcome plant-based eaters and the vegan-curious alike.³ The restaurant is independently owned and operates a single location.¹

Ownership and history

The Fix was opened in January 2020 by Dave Swarts, in the former Attitude restaurant space in midtown Kansas City.³⁴ As a first-time restaurateur, Swarts (who also has a background in commercial real estate and handles much of the baking himself) built out a kitchen team to run the operation.⁴

Swarts is a fixture of Kansas City’s plant-based and animal-advocacy community: he serves as executive director of the nonprofit VegLife KC and is the producer of VegFest Kansas City, the city’s annual plant-based food and lifestyle festival.³⁴ He has said his preference for plant-based eating stems from his love of animals and advocacy against animal cruelty, and that he wanted to create a place where anyone could find a good meal regardless of their eating preferences.⁴ The restaurant opened just before the COVID-19 pandemic and built early momentum through its plant-based brunch.⁴ The Fix is also described in recent listings as veteran-owned.

Links

• Website: https://thefixkc.com/
• Menu: https://thefixkc.com/pages/menu
• Order online (Toast): https://order.toasttab.com/online/the-fix-600-east-31st-street
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefixkc/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thefixkc/

Menu

Last verified: 2026-08-28 · Source: official site menu graphics + first-party Toast pickup ordering · URL(s): https://thefixkc.com/pages/menu · https://order.toasttab.com/online/the-fix-600-east-31st-street · Confidence: High (first-party). The official /pages/menu HTML has no dollar amounts; item names, operator descriptions, and published prices are on two PNG graphics. Toast is the site’s Order Online link. The 2026-08-28 Firecrawl scrape rendered Pickup fulfillment with one price per item (Delivery tab present; no dual third-party-delivery column). Uber Eats dollars from the 2026-06-21 pass are removed.

Official menu page: “full vegan menu: burgers, sammies, brunch, salads, snacks and desserts, with prices. 100% plant-based.” Burgers and sammies “comes with fries.” House favorites on the graphic: Carolina Chicken Sammie, Fried Burrito, Sausage and Cheese Biscuit.⁵

Prices below are the official graphic unless noted. Toast pickup matches those published prices on the overlapping food items except Caesar Salad (graphic $9 / Toast $8). Two Toast SKUs are the graphic’s smaller size, not a second price: Biscuits & Gravy Toast $6 = graphic half-order (full two-biscuit $12); Pancakes Toast $4 = graphic one pancake (three pancakes $11).⁵⁶

Burgers and sammies

Comes with fries.⁵

• House Burger — Impossible meat or portobello mushroom, lettuce, tomato, grilled onion, paprika mayo; add cheese $1.50 — $15⁵⁶
• Double Cheeseburger — two smashed Impossible patties, chopped onion, pickles, mustard, house-made cashew queso — $15⁵⁶
• Avocado TLT — lettuce, tomato, red onion, smoked tofu, avocado, house-made thousand island — $15⁵⁶
• Nashville Chicken Sammie — house-made fried chicken, Nashville hot sauce, pickles, ranch, mac & cheese — $18⁵⁶
• Carolina Chicken Sammie — house-made fried chicken, Carolina sauce, pickles, ranch, spicy ancho slaw (house favorite) — $18⁵⁶

Build your own sammie — (1) base: house-made chicken $14 · 4oz Impossible patty $12 · 2 Impossible smash patties $12 · portobello $12; (2) bun: brioche · gluten-free bun +$2 · lettuce bun; (3) toppings: freebies lettuce, tomato, pickles; basic +$0.50 (red onion, chopped onion, fresh jalapeños, pickled jalapeños, sauerkraut); grilled onion $1; specialty +$2 (spicy ancho slaw, avocado, mac & cheese); queso $2 · guacamole $2 · sliced cheese $1.50 · egg $3; (4) sauces: freebies buffalo, Nashville hot, Carolina gold, ketchup, mustard; house-made +$1 (garlic mayo, paprika mayo, ranch, tomatillo salsa, sour cream, honey mustard, BBQ, thousand island).⁵⁶

Snacks

• Onion Rings — $7⁵⁶
• Caesar Salad — $9 (Toast pickup lists $8)⁵⁶
• Loaded Fries — add Impossible meat +$2 — $8⁵⁶
• Pretzel Bites — $8⁵⁶
• Fried Pickles — $9⁵⁶
• Mozzarella Sticks — $10⁵⁶
• Chicken Quesadilla — $11⁵⁶
• Cauliflower Wings — buffalo, BBQ, Nashville, or Carolina gold — $13⁵⁶

Entrees

• Beyond Chicken Tenders — six tenders, honey mustard, with fries — $14⁵⁶
• Chicken-Fried Chicken — house-made fried chicken, gravy, mashed potatoes, green beans with shallots and cherry tomatoes — $18⁵⁶
• Fried Burrito — Impossible meat, tofu, black beans, onion, rice, tomatillo salsa, cilantro, smothered in cashew queso, with rice and breakfast potatoes (house favorite) — $16⁵⁶
• Nachos — tortilla chips, cashew queso, pico, olives, black beans, pickled jalapeños, corn, sour cream, green onions; add guacamole $2 · Impossible meat $3 · buffalo chicken $4 — $13⁵⁶
• Chicken Tacos — three corn tortillas, soy curl chicken or portobello mushroom, red cabbage slaw, pico, grilled onion, sour cream, tomatillo salsa, with cilantro lime rice — $14⁵⁶
• The Crunchwrap — Impossible meat, pico, grilled onion, tostada, cashew queso, sour cream, lettuce, black beans, with cilantro lime rice and tomatillo salsa — $16⁵⁶
• Buffalo Chicken Salad — romaine, carrot, tomato, red onion, ranch, buffalo soy curl chicken, parmesan — $16⁵⁶
• Caesar Chicken Salad — romaine, tomato, croutons, house-made Caesar dressing, balsamic, soy curl chicken, parmesan — $16⁵⁶

Kids menu

• Kid’s Beyond Chicken Tenders — three tenders, honey mustard, 1/2 order of fries — $8⁵⁶
• Kid’s Burger — 2oz patty, ketchup & mustard, 1/2 order of fries — $8⁵⁶
• Mac & Cheese — $8⁵⁶

Specialty drinks

• Dr. Turner — double espresso shot and Dr. Pepper over ice — $6.50⁵⁶
• Float — vanilla ice cream and soda — $7⁵⁶
• Milkshake — vanilla, strawberry, chocolate, Oreo; espresso +$2; malt +$1 — $9⁵⁶

Brunch (Saturday and Sunday 10am–3pm)

• Biscuits and Gravy — two biscuits smothered in gravy (with a kick); add sausage $3; half order $6 — $12⁵⁶
• Breakfast Tacos — three corn tortillas, vegan egg, grilled onion, pico, cilantro with tomatillo salsa and breakfast potatoes — $13⁵⁶
• Buffalo Maple Chicken Biscuit — house-made fried chicken, biscuit, buffalo sauce, maple syrup, breakfast potatoes — $12⁵⁶
• French Toast — two slices of battered and fried bread, strawberries, dusted with powdered sugar — $12⁵⁶
• Pancakes — three pancakes, dusted with powdered sugar; add sprinkles; add blueberries +$2; add chocolate chips +$2; one pancake $4 — $11⁵⁶
• Sausage and Cheese Biscuit — two Impossible sausage patties, biscuit, cheese, garlic mayo or strawberry jam, breakfast potatoes; add egg $3 (house favorite) — $12⁵⁶
• Smothered Chicken Biscuit — house-made fried chicken, biscuit, breakfast potatoes smothered in gravy — $15⁵⁶

A la carte: biscuit & jam $4 · vegan egg $3 · gravy $3 · sausage $3.⁵⁶

Daily deals & happy hour

• Lil’ Tyke Tuesday — kids 10 and under eat for $5 (dine in and kids menu only)⁵
• Wine Wednesday — $7 glasses of wine⁵
• Thirsty Thursday — $1 off beer and hard seltzers all day⁵
• Happy hour — Tuesday–Friday 2:30pm–4:30pm: $2 off all snacks, $1 off beer and hard seltzers⁵

Also on first-party Toast (pickup) — not on the published graphics

• Street Tacos — $13⁶
• Sides: fries $5 · cilantro lime rice $5 · breakfast potatoes $6 · green beans $6 · mac and cheese $6 · mashed potatoes $6 (out of stock at scrape)⁶
• Rotating specials: crispy mushroom tacos $13 (out of stock) · Inferno Cauliflower Wings $13 · Kimchi Chicken Sammie $17.50 · Filet-o-Tofu $14.50⁶
• Drinks (selection): La Croix $1.50 · kombucha $5 · San Pellegrino $3 · juice $3.50 · bottled water $2.50 · Coke / Sprite / Root Beer / Jarrito $3.50 · Diet Coke / Dr. Pepper $2.50 · espresso $2.50 · Americano $3.50 · latte / cappuccino $5 · cold brew $5.25 · mocha $6 · hot chocolate $4.50 · steamer $4 · Ameri-Cola $7 · hot tea / iced tea $3 · London Fog $4.50; Jamaica tea, cold brew lemonade, and chai latte out of stock at scrape⁶
• Dessert (selection): cookie $2.50 · scone $4; cranberry coffee cake, brownie, donut, puff tart, pie, and pink lemonade donut listed out of stock at scrape⁶

Sources

• Status verified active 2026-06-23 via Yelp — THE FIX KC, Updated June 2026 (accessed 2026-06-23). Corroborated by official site at 600 E 31st St, Kansas City, MO 64109.

Disputes

None known.

Footnotes

1. The Fix — official site (Contact page) — accessed 2026-06-07. Asserts: business name, address (600 E 31st St, Kansas City, MO 64109), phone, current hours. ↩ ↩²

2. Yelp — “The Fix KC — Updated April 2026” — accessed 2026-06-07. Asserts: address, vegan classification, signature dishes, active 2026 review status. ↩

3. The Pitch — “The Fix brings carnivore-confusing cuisine to 31st and Cherry” — accessed 2026-06-07. Asserts: owner Dave Swarts, January 2020 opening, concept/philosophy, 31st-and-Cherry space, VegLife KC / VegFest KC ties. ↩ ↩² ↩³

4. Feast Magazine — “The Fix Offers Plant-Based Comfort Food in Midtown Kansas City” — accessed 2026-06-07. Asserts: Swarts opened in January in the former Attitude space; his real-estate background and baking role; VegLife KC executive director and VegFest KC producer; founding motivation. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵

5. The Fix — official menu page — accessed 2026-08-28. Asserts: 100% plant-based menu framing; two published PNG graphics with item names, operator descriptions, and in-house prices (burgers/sammies including BYO, snacks, entrees, kids, specialty drinks, Saturday–Sunday 10am–3pm brunch, a la carte, daily deals, happy hour). HTML contains no $ amounts. ↩ ↩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

6. The Fix — official Toast online ordering (pickup) — accessed 2026-08-28 (Firecrawl scrape). Asserts: first-party pickup prices at 600 East 31st Street; overlapping food items match the official graphics except Caesar Salad ($8 on Toast vs $9 on the graphic); Toast Biscuits & Gravy $6 and Pancakes $4 match the graphic’s half-order / one-pancake lines; additional Toast-only items (Street Tacos, extra sides, drinks, desserts, rotating specials). Scrape rendered Pickup fulfillment with one price per item; Delivery tab present, no dual 3PO price column. Footer at scrape: closed, opens Saturday at 10AM; phone (816) 800-5000. ↩ ↩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