Niecie's Restaurant

Whenever in Kansas City, Missouri, please go toNiecie's Restaurant WHOEVER IS IN THAT KITCHEN KNOWS HOW TO MAKE TENDERLIVER N ONIONS !! HAVEN'T HAD INBA LONG TIME, ABSOLUTELY DELICIOUS!From the green beans to the mashed potatoes to even the pork chops, the food was amazing!!LAWD if you ever get a chance, please stop by!!"Had to hit that Treadmill right afterwards !

Diner Food, nothing more nothing less.Niecie's has been a staple in Kansas City for YEARS! I finally got a chance to try it out. The place isn't huge but I didn't have to wait, I visited them on a Saturday morning around 8am. I wanted French toast with sausage and eggs, because there isn't a meal like that nor will they let you substitute the pancake breakfast, I got the sunrise breakfast which includes eggs, potatoes or hash browns and your choice of protein.Their plates are a bit strange being the garnish they choose which is parsley and one single carrot... I know very random.The shining star on my plate was the French toast, it tasted like big momma was in the back kitchen whipping these up for me. It had great vanilla and cinnamon flavoring, they weren't soggy nor dry...they were just right. There is a juice that comes with the meal but it's so small you can consider it a shot glass.The second shining star on my plate was their seasoned potato's FANTASTIC! I wish all places seasoned potatoes were like this. The one thing about this restaurant is I didn't feel they were very welcoming, just because you have been in the city for years doesn't mean I know how you operate. They lacked to welcome people when coming in. I stood at the front and didn't know if I should seat myself or wait. They should also explain how things work when it's time to pay your bill. I waited at my table for at least 10 minutes with waitresses looking at me and walking by. I finally got up and went to the counter to speak to a man that visited all the tables in the restaurant but mine. I asked him how I should pay my bill and he said here at the counter. He then proceeded to say he wasn't going to ask me if I liked it cause I ate my plate clean.....The waitress seemed annoyed at me that I didn't know the specials and she just didn't seem like she wanted to be there.I am happy I tried it, but it's not a place I will go out of my way to come back to.

Niecie's has the recipe for the perfect breakfast spot! You are greeted warmly at the entrance, and the restaurant always seems to be packed. Tables turn over relatively quickly, but it's worth the wait on the weekends! They have an extensive menu with tons of breakfast options. The food came out super quick! You pay at the register near the front door. There's a reason the chicken and waffles are "world famous." No gimmicks, no unnecessary additions or frills. Just delicious classic fried chicken and a tasty diner waffle with tons of butter. A hefty portion size! The parking lot is large but gets pretty full during peak hours! Can't wait to come back and try more!

I am so glad we you find this place. It is now my Go To when in KC. The food was good AND affordable!!!The service was stellar, our server was the perfect amount of attentive and the manager/owner I don't know which, made sure to take time out and great every one I. There. It reminded me a lot of an old school diner like the Blue Mirror in DC, so I really dug that. The food is amazing. The portions are just right. Not so huge that it makes you feel some type of way about it, but enough to fill yourself up and have something to snack on later.

At Niecie's, you'll be able to discover & divulge into Kansas City's hidden gem / diamond in the rough that serves the finest soul food that certainly comes with a smile. As a tourist in the KC metro area, as well as a musician attending the 47th Annual National Convention of NPM (National Pastoral Musicians), I definitely wanted to go & explore what's outside of the Sheraton Crown Center neighborhood - and little did I know, I'd end up way down south along the Troost Avenue thoroughfare - and here I am at Niecie's.They have a simple formula to keep customers coming back: serve seriously satisfying, affordable comfort food, and maintain the lightest and quite possibly friendliest atmosphere in town - where the host memorizes your name on first visit, and even the window washer greets you hello, and hopes you enjoyed your meal.Denise Hayes, owner of Niecie's, has been serving soul food to Kansas City for more than 30 years, both from the restaurant's original location on 59th and Prospect, and now from the one I visited at 64th and Troost - which have been open for business since 2009; bears the familiar shape of an old Pizza Hut, but its interior - clean, outfitted in floral wallpaper and with light tile flooring - certainly feels more like Grandma's house than a pizza empire. Traditional counter service (where the best conversations are always had) is available, as well as full table service.Unfortunately, I had gone for breakfast & wasn't able to indulge in Niecie's signature dish, that is Chicken and Waffles. The staff's t-shirts proclaim it the best chicken and waffles in town - and it would be difficult to disagree. A fluffy, inch-thick waffle, sprinkled with powdered sugar and served with a heaping spoonful of butter, is topped with three crispy, fried full chicken wings. You can eat the dish any way you like, but we may humbly recommend at least one forkful of the crispy chicken with skin along with a bite of syrup-coated waffle: savory meets sweet, crunchy and buttery. It is a satisfying portion but not overwhelming, and at under $16, it is also likely the most affordable chicken and waffles available in all of KC.You really could stop at the chicken and waffles and check out the rest of their menu, but the restaurant offers much more, and seems to be a particularly good Sunday breakfast spot. I can imagine throngs of people file in & out in their church finest, savoring hearty full-plate dishes including pork chops, a T-Bone, or even the incredibly-priced $6.99 Sunrise Breakfast, which comes with sausage or bacon, egg, toast or a biscuit that comes with fresh brewed coffee. You know I had to get that, given I went on an early Wednesday morning, and I was the only diner that the hostess didn't seem to mind my low key vibe! Haha! One can also just skip straight to dinner. Niecie's meatloaf is another star: it is tangy, moist and coated with a shimmery brown gravy that is dangerously rich and good. All dinner meals are served with two sides: options include greens, black-eyed peas, navy beans, macaroni and cheese and mashed potatoes, and all are served with cornbread or dinner rolls. You have so many choices that it will be tough to decide! The daily specials board are by the entrance that feature items that you are unlikely to find almost anywhere else in Kansas City: overflowing bowls of navy beans with ham hocks are served on Tuesdays, or come Thursdays for the oxtails and pork neck bones. More conventional, though no less home-style, offerings include salmon croquettes on Mondays, or whole fried catfish on Saturdays.Dessert here is also a must, though it's understandable if you have to take it home. Guests can choose from homemade chocolate and caramel cakes, loaded with hand-swirled icing, or the restaurant's specialty: peach cobbler. Preserved, spiced peaches are baked under a layer of folded, butter-rich pastry, and the dish is served hot at the table. I ordered one for to-go, and I was also told that if dining in to eat right away, ice cream can be served on top by request. I definitely regretted that last part LOL.And the food is just part of the visit (perhaps the most important part, but still not everything). Many of the servers and hosts have worked at Niecie's for decades, and genuine warmth and friendliness is clearly part of the job. The fantastic service and consistently good food have proven to be Niecie's keys to longevity. May it last another 30 years and more - and I definitely would like to dine with them when I get a chance to be in the KC metro again!

I was in KC and decided I wanted to try something local. After playing Top Golf I was ready to eat! My phone landed on Niecie's. DISAPPOINTED!!!! Ugh. But Not a total loss, liver n onions and gravy mash potatoes were good. Yams were missing a little more nutmeg and cinnamon and maybe sugar.... It might be canned!(clutch the pearls! And cuss the devil!!). The corn was BASIC certainly not sweet corn. It is possible this was that steamer bag corn, which is good but don't say it's sweet corn unless it is. I doctored it up at the table with butter, salt and pepper. The roll was room temp and not recently warm in other words day old. Pretty but I would rather it be warmThe Mac n cheese I sent back. Soul food Mac n cheese is baked in an oven, this was some half effort stovetop mixture that was watered..... I would have rather they tried to make the shells and Velveeta at least the sauce would stay on the noodles.The chili was basic and came with two cornbread muffins. I think the owner is trying so no shade, BUT I think training the staff to make even the most basic BAKED Mac n cheese would garner points.

I had heard good things about Niecie's over the years, and they were all accurate.. the food here is fantastic! Lately I'm trying to lay off the heavier foods, but you know what, sometimes you gotta just roll with it. I met an old friend here on a super cold, rainy day and it was nice to get the full experience. It's soul food to the max, and it's done to perfection here.It looks like a traditional diner inside, and the menu is loaded up, including breakfast all day. I opted for a ham & cheese omelette with some veggies thrown in and was just blown away by how well prepared it was. The eggs were velvety (okay, buttery is probably more accurate) and the ham is like a smoked ham you'd get around Christmas.. none of this thin, deli meat nonsense. The crispy fried hash brown potatoes were a star of the show as well. I didn't eat the toast but it looked OK, just a couple slices of white bread. Service was friendly and efficient, and I would definitely come back here. It's going to have way better food than some of the trendy spots.

This is another one of those, "how come it took me so long to come here" reviews. Niecies has been open for 40 years and today was visit #1 (author hangs his head in shame), I've had it bookmarked on Yelp for probably 10 years and I enjoy home cooking / soul food and I love supporting independent shops on the eastside of the city, so I have zero explanation as to why, so I'll just try to forget my past failures and focus on going forward. After the belly bustin brunch here today, going forward or just getting out of the booth is quite a task. I couldn't make up my mind between two of my faves B&G and Chicken and Waffles, so I ordered the C&W and a side bowl of sausage gravy to satiate both of the demonic voices tugging at my internal emotions. Damn good gravy with tons of sausage. I sprinkled the hot sauce on top and alternated between dipping some wonderfully fried chicken wings in it and then just pretending it was a bowl of healthy oatmeal and eating it by the spoonful (author once again hangs his head in shame). The waffle was huge, malty, crisp and covered in a giant dollop of real butter that melted all over the grilled patterns of batter. The spreading of the maple syrup added the sweetness that gave my meal the full complement of all textures and flavors... sweet, spicy, crunchy, creamy, savory, cool, hot... everything but sour; definitely nothing sour about this experience. My wife enjoyed the open faced meatloaf with a mountain of mashed potatoes, smothered in brown gravy with a base of white bread. She loved it and I had a sample just so I could experience the brunch meat trifecta; I concur with her opinion. Our server was a professional. You could tell she was a veteran the way she moved at ease handling multiple tables during a hectic Sunday brunch time crunch. Loved the experience and meal.

Classic spot in KC known for their chicken and waffles. In fact, when I think about chicken and waffles this is the first place that comes to mind. The chicken is perfectly seasoned and juicy and moist. If that wasn't enough, the waffle is perfect addition with that sweet syrupy goodness, topped with large dollop of butter. I can never make it past this dish, but I'm sure the other items on menu are also superb. We finished off with the Boston cream pie, they have a large selection of desserts as well. Service is always excellent and food comes out hot and fresh. 5/5 highly recommend! Solid food that is reliable each time.

Breakfast at Niecie's with friends! Good food & fellowship!!! Our waitress was personable and attentive.