Country Club Plaza-area seafood restaurant to reopen with something new: fried chicken

Jax Fish House & Oyster Bar — temporarily closed since mid-March for the pandemic — is reopening soon with something extra.

The Colorado-based company will offer its The Post Chicken & Beer concept at the location, 4814 Roanoke Parkway, just west of the Country Club Plaza.

Like most restaurants in the “hard-hit industry,” it has had time to step back, reevaluate and pivot a bit, said Dave Query, chef and founder at Jax parent-company Big Red F Restaurant Group, in a statement. So while it will still offer sustainable seafood, it wanted to expand its to-go offerings with family meals that will travel well.

The Post Brewing Company opened in Colorado in 2014 and now has four locations with another on the way there. It long looked for a space for a Kansas City location. With fried chicken being a good take-out offering, the decision was made to expand without a new brick-and-mortar spot.

So for now the Kansas City location will offer only to-go, curbside and delivery but will continue to look for its own space.

The limited menu: a four-piece chicken dinner with two sides, sausage gravy and biscuits, and a whole bird with two large sides and four biscuits. Sides will be vegetable fried rice, hush puppies with cayenne sugar, bacon-braised collard greens, and Anson Mills cheddar grits. The chicken can be made Nashville hot style. Prices weren’t available.

Jax Fish House & Oyster Bar also will offer new family meals to eat at home, including a crawfish étouffée for four to six people, a jumbo lump crab cake kit for two, and lobster mac-and-cheese for four to six people.

New items on the dine-in menu include curried shrimp and potato egg rolls with pineapple Tepache dipping sauce.

Jax Fish House & Oyster Bar will reopen on Aug. 5 for take-out, curbside, delivery and dine-in, and the Post for take-out, curbside and delivery.