In 1989, when Mike Garozzo opened his eponymous restaurant in Columbus Park, it wasn’t long before his spin on spiedini became a local sensation. After that, things get a little more hazy. Garozzo maintains that other restaurants may have been offering spiedini before him, but no one was doing it with chicken.
Garozzo marinates chicken tenders with olive oil, garlic, basil and breadcrumbs for three to six hours before rolling the strips into chunks and skewering them. At that point, the spiedini gets another coating of breadcrumbs before it’s charbroiled, sauced and served.
Either way, Garozzo’s innovation became ubiquitous in Kansas City, and chicken spiedini even showed up on the menu at Olive Garden. Here’s the story of how spiedini started at three classic red sauce Italian spots in town. In the late eighties, cholesterol-conscious diners were avoiding red meat.
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