It’s 11:55 p.m. on a Monday, and most of Kansas City’s restaurants have been put to bed. With one big exception: The lights are still on at the Rieger Hotel Grill & Exchange in the Crossroads Arts District, where 32 of the city’s culinary night owls perch at the bar waiting for an after-hours dinner series known as the Crossroads Social Club to get rolling.
Sometimes you can have your steakburger and eat it, too. That’s what Winstead’s offers. Here you have a really terrific burger from a local restaurant with a tradition dating back to 1940 and you can get it 24 hours a day from a drive-through window (at the Plaza location).
Woodsweather II Restaurant and Lounge on Vivion Road has a different look but offers breakfast, lunch and dinner just like the original West Bottoms restaurant.
Downtown Kansas City has two new side-by-side restaurants. Barbosa’s Mexican Restaurant has entered the Kansas City market with Barbosa’s Express at 1124 Oak St. The Original Wing Busters & More opened at 1128 Oak St. in late July.
Magnolia’s Contemporary Southern Bistro is a tiny, hideaway gem of a restaurant in a low-slung tan brick building on Cherry Street, a few blocks south of Hospital Hill. The dishes are controlled, dainty and precise even if the dining is leisurely.
The Kansas Department of Agriculture cited these restaurants for six or more critical health code violations. Most critical violations are corrected at the time of the inspection.
Jimmy Lynch is so sold on Park Place he will soon have three restaurants in the Leawood center.
Affäre opened in May in the Crossroads Arts District, and it seems to be building a growing fan base of diners who like owner/chef Martin Heuser’s strategy of turning fresh and seasonal ingredients into dishes made — delicately composed — from scratch.
La Parrilla pulls from a grab bag of Latin American cooking techniques and traditions to create a melting-pot menu. So the KC strip is garnished with chimichurri, a parsley-olive oil sauce from Argentina. But what makes the restaurant most irresistible is how it uses seasonal ingredients at an affordable price.
Happiness is a hot plate of food for $5 at lunchtime. Especially when it’s prepared with fresh ingredients and served in a cozy family-run establishment. Poco’s Latin Cuisine is one of the best midday meals in the metro because it feels like eating at Grandma’s house: You don’t know what you’re going to get, but you know you’re in good hands.
America’s car culture has always created a need for pit stops to re-fuel. In the early days of the nation’s highways, drivers pulled off into parking lots of roadside diners or drive-ins with carhops. Today, gas station gastronomy continues to evolve.
When Anton Kotar says his food will be locally sourced, in some cases that will mean walking down the stairs or out to the backyard. His Anton’s Tap Room is set to open in about 30 days at 1610 Main St. One side, a restaurant. The other side, a butcher shop,
We are sipping a round ordered off of EBT’s new cocktail menu when strains from the vocalist at the lounge piano catch me off guard. Instead of the smooth jazz standard I expect, she is singing the lyrics to Gotye’s smash summer hit “Somebody That I Used to Know.”
Colby and Megan Garrelts, the owners of Westport's Bluestem, will open a new restaurant called Rye this fall in Leawood. The Garrelts said they wanted to celebrate their Midwest heritage so the new restaurant will play homage to dishes that they have enjoyed with several generations in their families.
Despite a still sluggish economy, Aaron Confessori and Richard Wiles are wasting no time creating restaurant concepts. The Boot, a hip yet rustic Italian restaurant, opened early this year, next door to their initial venture, the French bistro-themed Westport Cafe & Bar, which opened in 2010. And they recently added a food truck on the same street.
A new cocktail lounge featuring live music is set to open in the former Peachtree restaurant space in the Power & Light District. The Kill Devil Club is a collaboration between local restaurateur and mixologist Ryan Maybee and ECi, an affiliate of Power & Light District landlord and developer the Cordish Co.
I used to be a grilled-cheese purist: Roman Meal bread, two Kraft Singles and loads of Land O’ Lakes butter is hard to improve upon. But the Garden Grilled Cheese at Snack Shack, a retro diner near the roundabout just outside downtown Overland Park, has led my taste buds astray.
Port Fonda now has a home. The popular Mexican restaurant inside a 36-foot vintage Airstream trailer will open its new full-service restaurant next Tuesday in Westport. The new restaurant, at 4141 Pennsylvania Ave., will serve Port Fonda favorites and new items.
With a name like Bonefish Grill, you might expect a place to be draped in angler’s nets and stuffed to the gills with antique tackle and lures. But Bonefish Grill wraps itself in refined wood finishes and suburban restraint.
Often, light-sounding chicken salad is a leaden disappointment: too much mayo and not enough crunch. That’s why the Chicken Salad Croissant at Sugar Mamma’s Bakery is a fresh, feel-good revelation, especially for what is building to be a long, hot summer.
Bo Lings has longed for a place on the Country Club Plaza. Now it has one. But in an interesting twist, it bypassed its longtime Board of Trade building landlord — Highwoods Properties, which also owns the Plaza — and leased space in one of the few Plaza buildings not owned by Highwoods: the Skelly Building.
The Des Moines-based owner of 801 Chophouse is launching a new seafood concept in Leawood. Jimmy Lynch plans to open 801 Fish in Park Place, at 117th Street and Nall Avenue, by the end of the year. It will serve “pristine seafood and crustaceans from the waters of the world,” according to promotional materials.
Who knew the new “Avengers” movie would create a shawarma buzz? After one of the movie’s ferocious battle scenes, Iron Man craves one of those Middle Eastern wraps, a street-vendor staple.
In the realm of local French restaurants, Tatsu’s is reliable, comfortable and unwavering in its commitment to a kind of traditional satisfaction, a comfortable spot halfway between steak frites and creative high style. Call it the immovable feast.
Haus, now open on Martini Corner at 3044 Gillham Road, is a bar, restaurant and beer garden with a limited menu of wurst, bier and fritten (sausages, beer and fries). Chris Seferyn partnered with Desmond Carr, Shawn Fahey and four other investors in Haus. Carr and Fahey also will be managers.
