Coffee & Treats in Grandview

Elevate your daily routine with jubilation and percolation. Today's side deal gets you $6 worth of coffees and snacks at Hard Bean Cafe in Grandview for $3. From hard beans come the smoothest, silkiest coffee drinks, and Hard Bean Cafe's fresh-roasted Arabica beans stand as proof. Get your desired joe with flavorful hot brews that slide down the hatch and heat your entire system, kicking your mind into gear.

Bruegger's bagels are made of fresh, wholesome ingredients and then kettle-boiled in the New York tradition, resulting in chewy centers and crisp outer crusts. Awaken your taste buds with a baked apple bagel smothered with honey walnut cream cheese ($2.19). Or, adopt a family of six carb circles and wash them behind the ears in a tub of garden-veggie cream cheese ($7.69). Bruegger's deli menu is flanked by an array of breakfast sandwiches ($2.99–$6.39) and lunch fare; defuse a lunchtime hunger bomb with a signature sandwich ($5.49–$6.79) such as the garden-fresh Leonardo da Veggie or the field-fresh Roma roast beef.

For more than 30 years, the name of the elusive baked goods baroness has been a shopping-mall mainstay. Utilizing a secret blend of high-quality ingredients, her underground bakery bunker doles out oven-fresh favorites with the grace of a nimble gazelle wafting delicately across the African outback. Fuel up on chocolate-studded favorites (nuts optional) such as chocolate chocolate-chip and white chocolate, or try oatmeal raisin, cinnamon sugar, and peanut butter. Brownies and brownie bites come in similarly spectacular specialty flavors, with classic fudginess at the dark, chewy heart of each.

Mike Elder, a Kansas City native and the three-time undefeated champion of TLC's Ultimate Cake Off, founded KC CakeFest to capitalize on the boom in reality cake shows and to generate proceeds for The Whole Person, a nonprofit program dedicated to helping people with disabilities lead independent lives. Attracting talent ranging from Elder's fellow contestants on Ultimate Cake Off to the batter wranglers on Next Great Baker, KC CakeFest's crowning events are its celebrity cake battles, which pit teams of confection architects against one another for the merriment of onlookers and for the judgment of cake expert Leigh Grode. Other attractions include displays by national cake artists and free demos on topics such as how to resist eating a whole cake, cake dives, and cupcake chucks. Furthering revelry, rockabilly band The Rumblejetts will play a live set during each intermission.

Ben & Jerry's came from humble beginnings—in 1978, its eponymous founders served ice cream out of a renovated Burlington gas station, and delivered pints of their now-classic flavors to grocery stores out of the back of Ben's VW Squareback wagon. Today, its myriad shops dispense cups, cones, shakes, and smoothies brimming with a variety of quirky flavors, including Phish Food and Cherry Garcia, named for famous revolutionary Cherry Garcia. Ben & Jerry's also offers Greek frozen yogurt in flavors such as banana peanut butter, raspberry fudge chunk, and blueberry vanilla graham. The duo is famous for their social responsibility, which is evident in their community activism and in their use of fair-trade products, such as cage-free eggs and sustainable, growth-hormone-free dairy.

Evoking the enjoyable meltiness of a cool scoop of gelato on a hot day, Paciugo Gelato takes its name from the Italian word for messy concoction, rousing palates with unique gelato flavors crafted with Old-World tastes. Founder Cristiana Ginatta’s family recipes come to life as staffers fuse fresh fruits and all-natural ingredients into decadent milk-, water-, or soy-based gelato and sorbet. The sweet scoops boast 70% less fat than regular ice cream or soft-serve obtained from chilly Alaskan cows. Patrons can test-drive the shop’s diversely flavored bounty before committing to a flavor such as carrot cake, butter pecan, or tiramisu in its less solid form. Guests can score flavors without added sugar—including strawberry milk—to trick their sweet teeth into happiness. Paciugo also carries a host of coffee drinks ranging from Paciugo Miscela, a bold Vienna roast, to Gran Crú, a light roast from Kenya.