JoyceKC: Restaurant news for Crown Center, Martini Corner & Zona Rosa

Longtime restaurant and bar owners, Eddie Crane and Vince Rook, are teaming up on a new concept on Martini Corner.

Rook owns the building at 3044 Gillham Road, former home to Haus. The partners plan to open a ‘yet-to-be-named’ classic American bar in the spot by early May.

“You go to a bar to have alcohol and interact with old friends and new people. It’s not highly complicated,” Crane said. “This won’t be the next new trend. It will be tried-and-true. This will be the American version of the local British bar. Every town had a pub that people would go to but each one had its own personality.”

Crane and Rook have gutted the spot and will put in a stamped tin ceiling to give it that “always been here” feel. It will have four 3-foot long tables to form one long community table on the west side, as well as a patio.

Menu items will include savory hand pies, wings with Zim’s Sauce, and steak sandwiches using meat from local vendors. A Workingman’s Friend special will be a beer and shot for $6.

Haus opened in May 2012 and featured an “Old World style of German/Belgian beers and gourmet, exotic sausages.” It closed in January.

Updates to previous stories:

▪ Spin Neapolitan Pizza is now open in the Crown Center Shops.

It took a 3,800-square-foot space on the first floor of the shops at 2450 Grand Blvd. Kabuki Japanese Restaurant occupied the spot for 28 years before closing in January 2014.

Spin offers Neapolitan-style pizzas, along with salads, soups, sandwiches and gelato, for dine-in or carry-out. James Beard Award-winning chef Michael Smith also collaborated on the Spin menu.

▪ Q Hot Pot Japanese Fondue & Asian Tapas Bar is now open in Zona Rosa, at 8610 N.W. Prairie View Road.

Customers can select from a variety of broth bases, such as Mongolian, pho and kimchi, and from a variety of thinly sliced meats, seafood, vegetables, and noodles and rice.

This story was originally published March 12, 2015 at 1:15 PM with the headline "JoyceKC: Restaurant news for Crown Center, Martini Corner & Zona Rosa."