Salina311 Exclusive: The Easy Egg Bringing Breakfast, Cocktails, and Coffee to Downtown Salina

A new breakfast and lunch restaurant is planned for downtown Salina, bringing a modern American breakfast concept with Mexican-inspired dishes, cocktails, coffee, and pastries.

The Easy Egg owner Eduardo Gonzalez spoke with Salina311 about the planned Salina location, which will be the restaurant group’s fourth location. The business currently operates three locations in Wichita.

A rendering of the project shows The Easy Egg planned for part of the building. The “HIM” sign shown in the rendering is only a placeholder and does not represent the final signage for that space.

In addition to The Easy Egg, the building is expected to include approximately 1,100 square feet of available retail space.

ComPro Realty is also being recognized for helping make the project happen.

The restaurant will focus on breakfast and lunch service, with planned hours from 7 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. seven days a week. The menu is expected to remain the same throughout the week, including Sundays.

Gonzalez described The Easy Egg as a modern American breakfast-style sit-down restaurant with Mexican-inspired dishes.

One of the dishes the restaurant is known for, especially among Wichita’s Hispanic community, is chilaquiles.

Chilaquiles are a traditional Mexican breakfast dish made with fried corn tortillas, red or green sauce, queso fresco, eggs, sour cream, pico de gallo, and bacon. Customers can also add chicken or steak.

The restaurant also offers American breakfast items with Mexican influences. Another popular item is banana bread French toast, which Gonzalez said has become one of the dishes customers talk about most.

“The main highlight about my restaurant is the Mexican-inspired dishes,” Gonzalez said. “We kind of mix the American breakfast with Mexican breakfast.”

The Easy Egg also plans to offer mimosas, Bloody Marys, micheladas, spiked coffees, and other breakfast cocktails. Spiked coffee options may include drinks such as vanilla lattes with Baileys or Kahlúa.

The business is also exploring whether to offer alcoholic drinks to go in downtown Salina, depending on local rules and how that process works for the location.

Gonzalez said the contract for the Salina location was signed in May, and the buildout was expected to take about seven months. Based on that timeline, the restaurant is currently expected to open near the beginning of next year.

More details, including the exact opening date, are expected as the project moves closer to completion.