Overland Park's Newest Places to Eat Are Moving Into Storefronts You Already Know

Tanner's Bar & Grill opened on 119th Street in 1988, a few weeks before KU won the men's national basketball title. It stayed in the Highland Plaza shopping center for 38 years, until the company and the landlord could not agree on a new lease. That location closed for good on Feb. 28, 2026. The new Tanner's is about two miles away at 12520 Quivira Road. It sits next to the KU Edwards Campus and across the street from Sykes/Lady Overland Park Golf Course, in a space that was a KU Bookstore branch and a Lamar's doughnut shop before that.

In February the company hoped to open by June. The latest target, from Joyce Smith's KCinsiders openings list dated Oct. 24, is late November or early December.

Tanner's fits a pattern that runs through this fall. Most of Overland Park's new food isn't going into the new mixed-use districts. It's going into older storefronts along Shawnee Mission Parkway, Santa Fe Drive, Metcalf, Quivira, 119th and 135th, spaces most residents have driven past for years. Those spaces are filling up faster than the new district at 115th and Nall.

Nearly Every New Spot Has a Former Tenant

Here's where the fall's announced openings stand, as of the most recent reports published in late October 2026.

The Johnson County Post reported that Pho & Boil will serve long-simmered beef pho alongside Cajun-style seafood boils with shrimp and crab. Its planned hours are 11 a.m. to 8:30 p.m., Wednesday through Monday.

Flight Crew Coffee began in Manhattan, Kansas, and the Santa Fe Drive shop is its second location. The Post's September report listed planned hours of 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily and a seasonal menu with a pumpkin latte and an apple-caramel chai.

The Grateful Bagel is a family-run shop making kettle-boiled bagels. In April, the Post reported likely hours of 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, plus breakfast and lunch sandwiches with Taylor ham and cream cheese spreads such as veggie and scallion.

Kata Nori is a locally owned hand roll bar expanding from its Crossroads flagship. Its Overland Park menu includes sashimi, crudo and cocktails such as lychee martinis. It's taking the Hawthorne Plaza space André's Confiserie left in 2025.

Two Indian Kitchens Opened Without a New Building

The places already serving fit the same pattern.

Urban Eats opened in July 2026 at 11832 Quivira Road, next to JS Taj Grocers. Both are owned by Jaspal Singh and Manjit Kaur, and the Johnson County Post's July story describes the restaurant as their first. The menu runs from tandoor dishes and street food to fusion items like chicken or paneer tikka pizza, plus goat biryani. Hours are 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and 4:30 to 9 p.m. daily, with a gap in the afternoon that's worth knowing before you drive over.

Jala Indian Cuisine opened in September at 13386 Metcalf Ave., in Deer Creek Woods near 135th and Metcalf. According to the Post, it's the second location of a concept that started in Florida. The menu covers curries, biryani and gold-dusted dishes.

Further north, Graze Craze moved into 8025 Metcalf Ave. with charcuterie-style boards, boxes, appetizers and sandwiches. The October 24 KCinsiders list shows it as open. That address is on Metcalf. Flight Crew's 8025 is on Santa Fe Drive, so check the street name before you program a map.

Within a few miles of each other, Quivira and Metcalf have picked up two new Indian restaurants, a board-and-sandwich shop and, soon, a relocated sports bar, all in centers that already existed.

A Ready-Made Space Still Runs on a Permit Clock

An existing storefront skips the ground-up construction a new district needs, but it still has its own wait. In February, Tanner's general manager Matt Brentano described that stage to the Johnson County Post: "We had [demolition] done on the inside, and I'm just waiting on permits to come back." The June target he gave then has since moved back about six months.

Pho & Boil's timeline moved the same way. An August report projected September, and by Oct. 24 the owners were aiming for a soft opening on Oct. 25. The KCinsiders list said it would follow up on whether that happened. Bojangles at 12005 Metcalf Ave. has the longest slide on the list. Its opening has been pushed back several times, and the chain now says February 2027. The list's own header says it plainly: "Dates can change - and sometimes addresses."

For anyone planning a breakfast at The Grateful Bagel or a first coffee at Flight Crew in early November, check each shop's own page or social accounts the morning you go. "Late October or early November" is still a target, not an announced grand opening.

The Planned District Is Still Waiting on Its Restaurants

The contrast is clearest at the Aspiria campus near 115th and Nall, where Yard House and The Capital Grille are planned. In November 2025, the developer told Fox4 that the two restaurants might open at the very end of 2026. The Kansas City Star reported at the time that they were about nine months from completion. It described The Capital Grille as a steak and seafood restaurant and Yard House as a beer, pizza and wings spot.

A July 2026 Kansas City Business Journal report on revised Aspiria plans mentions a hotel opening in 2027 but gives no restaurant date. As of late October 2026, the "very end of 2026" target is almost a year old and hasn't been confirmed since. Meanwhile, a few miles away, the old Legacy Frame Shoppe, Unique Finds and KU Bookstore spaces all have opening targets measured in weeks, and the old Smoke Town BBQ was aiming for a soft opening in late October.

The Storefronts Going Quiet This Fall

Reuse works both ways, and several familiar spots closed or announced closings this season. Each one adds an empty space to the same corridors that are filling up.

• Rock & Brews at 5701 W. 135th St. in Prairiefire closed after 12 years, the Kansas City Star reported in August.
• Chatime's boba shop near 119th and U.S. 69 planned its last brick-and-mortar day for mid-October, the Johnson County Post reported. The owners plan a Chatime trailer for metro events next year, serving many of the same drinks, and they still run their Popping Pearl pop-up and catering business.
• The Golden Scoop, a nonprofit, set Oct. 31 as the last day for its ice cream shop at 9540 Nall Ave. The 103rd Street shop stays open, the Nall staff are moving there, and a new food truck is on the way.

Tanner's old Highland Plaza space on 119th is in the same position, empty after 38 years with one tenant.

A November Week Built Around the New Addresses

If the announced targets hold, here's one way to spread a first week across the new spots, sorted by when their doors are scheduled to open each day.

1. Early breakfast on 135th. The Grateful Bagel's planned 6 a.m. start makes it the earliest stop on the list, for a Taylor ham sandwich before work.
2. Coffee downtown. Flight Crew's planned 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. hours on Santa Fe Drive cover both a morning run and an after-school stop.
3. Lunch on Quivira. Urban Eats serves lunch from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., and JS Taj Grocers is next door if you want to pick up ingredients for later.
4. Dinner on Shawnee Mission Parkway, any day but Tuesday. Pho & Boil's planned schedule runs Wednesday through Monday, closing at 8:30 p.m.
5. A sit-down night at 135th and Metcalf. Jala is already open at Deer Creek Woods.
6. Game day, later in the season. Tanner's on Quivira is aiming for late November or early December, in time for part of basketball season.

Kata Nori fits wherever its Hawthorne Plaza opening lands in the fourth quarter. Its hours were still being finalized as of the Post's Oct. 1 report.

If you own a storefront, a small commercial building or a redevelopment site along one of these Overland Park corridors and want to know what it could support next, Kirk Home & Land can walk through zoning, timing and the likely tenants with you. Schedule a consultation to discuss your land or commercial opportunity.