The Eddytorial Dining Digest: 11/3/25

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Wichita By E.B.
November 03, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 11 minutes

Happy Dining Wichita!
Who’s ready to grub this week?

In today’s email:

  • It’s Back: The ICT 100 List for 2025

  • Coming Soon: Ziggi’s Coffee

  • Community: Big Thanks to Fortune 88 Run Club and friends

  • Closed: BBQ Express

GUIDES
The ICT 100: Wichita’s 100 Best Restaurants

Welcome to The ICT 100.

It’s time to break out this year’s list of The ICT 100: Wichita’s Best Restaurants. This is your annual guide to celebrate the industry’s best in the city.

Check back every day on the website. Twenty new restaurants will be unveiled in no particular order. All this culminating with the ICT 100, along with a new addition we have that covers non-restaurants such as coffee and dessert spots.

Here’s the first 20 restaurants, with 80 more to be named soon!

COMING SOON
Ziggi’s Coffee

8669 W. 29th St. N.

If you’ve been driving in the area of 29th and Tyler Road, you’ve likely seen construction going on with a fenced-off area and are curious as to what it is.

The answer is Ziggi’s Coffee, which is coming to 8669 W. 29th St. N.

COMMUNITY
Special thanks to Fortune 88 Run Club and friends

Picture courtesy of Lets.Eat.ICT

BEAUTIFUL things can happen when people work together to shine a light on the future of our society.

The founder of Fortune 88 Run Club, Cole Thompson, and I had a discussion about how his run club could give back to the community. That's when we came across Wichita Adaptive Sports, an organization that specializes in adaptive sports for adults and youth with physical disabilities. It was the perfect match for a 5K run at Scheels who was also the perfect partner on all this.

Things continued from there. I wanted to give back directly to the kids and found some friends who were willing to match my donation. Alec The Barber, Station 8 BBQ, Matt Magnuson with ICRYO Wichita, Edwyn Aguilar with Buckets Studio, and Emerson Romero all bought into an idea to fund each Wichita adaptive sports athlete with a $100 money market account.

From there, Bradley Dyer with Credit Union of America reached out. They wanted to support the athletes and matched our entire $2,000+ donation. Thanks to CUA who arrived at Scheels and helped open 20 accounts for all the athletes and waived all fees.

It didn't end there. Fortune 88 was able to raise an extra $1,000 to go towards Wichita Adaptive Sports.

And then the cherry on top. Scheels matched all donations and cut a check for $5,000. In all, over $10,000 was given to the organization and their athletes.

Did it end there? No. Scheels then gave every athlete a gift card, opened the store early, and let the kids have a mini-shopping spree.

All this and the kids knocked out 1-3 miles with the Fortune 88 Run Club.

Thanks to DJ Carbon who arrived in the morning and provided the soundtrack. And Ashli with Play & Party Co. who had a sign making station for the families. To Mayor Lily Wu for coming to support. Also to Lets.Eat.ICT for capturing the moment above.

My heart really needed this positivity. Thank you to everyone who showed up and made this possible for the kids in our community.

And honestly, a big thanks to Fortune 88 Run Club. Without them, none of this would have happened.

GIFTED
Kusina Ni Cheska

🎁 Gifted Episode 2.
We stopped by Wichita’s only Filipino restaurant, Kusina Ni Cheska.

Starting out as a food truck in 2024, the owners made the leap to take a chance on a brick & mortar. Their goal was to bring something unique; something the city doesn’t have; and something we personally believe is worth celebrating and spotlighting.

📍 2516 E. Central Ave.

Gifted is a project and video series brought to you by Manage to Create and Wichita By E.B. highlighting local gifts to Wichita who deserve your love and attention. These are free videos we are doing for small mom-and-pop businesses.

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DINING SCENE
Openings and Closings

6249 E. 21st St.

Another eastside restaurant has announced its closure. BBQ Express shared on Facebook that they have decided to close down as of last week.

Openings

Closings

Coming

MOBILE EATS
Food Truck Calendar

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