Kansas City Star: Restaurants http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/dining/index.xml News, sports and entertainment from Kansas City Star en-us Copyright 2008 Kansas City Star Restaurants 60 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:05:37 CDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys feedback@kansascity.com To the delight of Bluestem diners, couple settles into parenthood and kitchen rhythms http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/columnists/lauren_chapin/story/715884.html http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/columnists/lauren_chapin/story/715884.html Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:37 CDT Her corkscrew curls rakishly swept off her forehead with a flowered hairclip, Madilyn Elizabeth Garrelts leaned across the bar at Bluestem, twirling a cell phone, jibber-jabbering to anyone who’d listen. Cocktail shaker style matters http://www.kansascity.com/living/columnists/anne_brockhoff/story/704662.html http://www.kansascity.com/living/columnists/anne_brockhoff/story/704662.html Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:25 CDT Eddie Crane makes shaking a cocktail look easy. Working behind the bar at the Drop in midtown, Crane deftly fills a glass tumbler, caps it with the metal half of his Boston shaker and hoists it aloft in an easy rhythm that creates effervescent and thoroughly cold results. Good & Cheap | Amor Fiery Steakhouse http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/dining/story/716231.html http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/dining/story/716231.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:54 CDT Wielding a frighteningly long knife, the waiter pointed toward the skewer of lombo — brined and seasoned pork loin in a rosemary and Parmesan crust — and asked politely, “Would you like some?” Kansas City Café http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/dining/story/706612.html http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/dining/story/706612.html Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:50 CDT Shielded from the elements by our café table umbrella, a co-worker and I were doing lunch on the Grand Boulevard sidewalk. Books for cook: Putting Up http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/dining/story/704721.html http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/dining/story/704721.html Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:12 CDT I come from a long line of canners, preservers and putter-uppers. But those who are new to the art would do well to pick up a copy of Putting Up: A Year-Round Guide to Canning in the Southern Tradition (Gibbs Smith, $19.99) by Steve Dowdney. Young chef Joe West injects life into Delaware Café in the River Market http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/dining/story/698197.html http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/dining/story/698197.html Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:15 CDT At just 22, Joe West had already assembled an impressive culinary resume. He’s a Shawnee Mission Broadmoor Technical Center culinary scholarship winner and a 2007 graduate of Johnson and Wales University in Denver. He’s also worked alongside some of Kansas City’s top chefs, including Colby and Megan Garrelts of Bluestem and Debbie Gold and Michael Smith when they owned 40 Sardines. Café Song is a Vietnamese song of joy http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/dining/story/688981.html http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/dining/story/688981.html Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:51 CDT One bite of the Imperial Roll and I was hooked. The waiter at Café Sông had warned me that the rolls were really garlicky. I read the ingredient list: ground pork, shrimp, cellophane noodles, cat’s ear mushrooms, carrots and taro wrapped in a rice paper wrapper. I listened to the happy, splattering sound of the finger-sized rolls sizzling in oil. At Bella, good things come in a small menu http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/dining/story/678594.html http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/dining/story/678594.html Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:23 CDT Under a Caribbean-blue Kansas City sky with a few poufy clouds skittering overhead, a co-worker and I decided to take a break from the work day.