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Slim Chickens opens first local restaurant in Independence
As I discovered last month when writing about the newest Stroud's restaurant, you can never get enough fried chicken in the Kansas City metro. A young entrepreneur, 30-year-old Adam Herndon, is on a...
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Foodoo is open, but no longer serving dinner
Don't believe those rumors: Foodoo, the five-month-old vegan cafe and juice bar at 3605 Broadway, is not closing. It has, however, stopped serving dinner. Co-owner Carlos Mortera, who opened the...
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Murray's Ice Cream & Cookies ends season Sunday with big sale
For the last 30 years, Murray Nixon has operated Murray's Ice Cream & Cookies (4120 Pennsylvania, 816-931-5646). For most of the last 29 years, she has closed the store in the fall for a...
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The Drop has a new chef and part owner: Hope Dillon
When the Drop — a combination saloon and bruschetta bistro — opened in late 2006, at 409 East 31st Street, the creative team behind the venue was Ernesto Peralta, Eddie Crane and Josh Eans. None of...
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Popeye's: Tearing down, rebuilding, adding new local restaurants
The commercial sign in front of the construction site at 6330 Troost still advertises a business that's no longer there: the Popeye's Chicken & Biscuits restaurant that was razed earlier this...
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Grate Spatula is Vijay Malik's latest invention...but wait, there's more
Yes, I do own a vintage Veg-O-Matic. And a set of Ginsu knives.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Luigi's Italian Restaurant in Liberty: great food, good prices
A lot of new restaurants opened in the Kansas City metro in 2014, including the eight-month-old Luigi's Italian Restaurant & Wine Bar at 8 East Franklin in downtown Liberty. I'm sorry that it took...
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Prospect Avenue evolves into a dining destination
It’s easy to find lots of good things to eat on Prospect Avenue. Last week’s Pitch cover story, “Comeback Street,”detailed the restaurant resurgence going on along the historic East Side thoroughfare,...
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Tasty Thai's American fried rice mixes up Bangkok and baseball
The staple dishes on most Asian buffets are, traditionally, more American in spirit than they are reflective of the foods of China (or Thailand, Vietnam, Korea). Certain such popular options —...
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Chef Michael Smith ends venture with Cocobolos restaurant
The idea was a good one: Open a local outpost of a popular Manhattan, Kansas, restaurant and hire one of Kansas City's most celebrated chefs to create a new and imaginative menu. The result was...
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Room 39 remodels its original dining room … and ownership
When chefs Ted Habiger and Andrew Sloan opened the first Room 39, at 1719 West 39th Street, in 2004 (taking over the storefront previously occupied by a melancholy coffeehouse), they turned the space...
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Cafe Sebastienne manager Keith Goldman moving to American Restaurant
Keith Goldman, who has been the general manager of Cafe Sebastienne — the restaurant inside the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, at 4420 Warwick Boulevard — will be joining the staff of the American...
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Restaurant Week: four more nights, lots of choices
Restaurant Week, the popular fundraising event presented by US Foods, has been filling 150 local restaurants over the last seven days and continues through Sunday, January 25. There's an impressive...
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Blue Grotto has some big changes ahead, including a new name
Fintan Molloy, owner of Brookside's Blue Grotto, says the seven-year-old restaurant is turning its focus away from pizza. The new menu will emphasize steak, fish and burgers.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe...
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Hungry Monkey wins The Pitch's Sugar Rush
The recently incorporated Kansas City snack-food company Hungry Monkey won the "KC Sweetheart" award at last night's Sugar Rush, having swayed a majority of the 400 attendees that its popcorn was the...
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Bloom Baking Co. reportedly changing ownership
A sign on the front door at Bloom Baking Co. (15 East Third Street) says the five-year-old River Market bakery is hiring sales clerks and a full-time bread baker. A former Bloom employee tells The...
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Up-Down Arcade Bar is going through the ups and downs of renovation
The color purple is almost gone. The vibrant shade of violet paint that had covered the two-story Crossroads building at 101 Southwest Boulevard during its five-year tenure as Hamburger Mary's is...
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Goodbye, Vandals Punk Rock Club, hello...Jock Bar?
It's official: Vandals Punk Rock Club is on its way out, despite the game attempt by that venue's bartender and manager, Michelle Wyssman, to buy the bar and music venue at 3740 Broadway through a...
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After a short closure, Westside Local refines its look and its flavors
When a restaurant calls a century-old building home, everyone expects a little wear and tear. But at the successful bistro at 1663 Summit — the six-year-old Westside Local — the leaks and creaks can...
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Happy Gillis owner Josh Eans to open ramen shop in Columbus Park this summer
Chef Josh Eans, one of the founders of Blanc Burgers, purchased the popular Columbus Park restaurant Happy Gillis Cafe & Hangout in 2013. Previous owner Todd Schulte had also operated his Uncommon...
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The Q Hot Pot is boiling up tasty business at Zona Rosa
If you know Q like we know Q — Kieu (pronounced Q) Cao, the owner of the one-month-old Q Hot Pot restaurant at 8610 N.W. Prairie View Road in Zona Rosa — you would understand why the Vietnamese...
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Teresa's Drive-In is still in the fast lane after 47 years
Pop quiz: What are the oldest drive-ins still operating in Kansas City? Answer: Winstead's on the Country Club Plaza (1940), Mug's Up Root Beer Drive-In at 700 East 23rd Street (1957), Harold's...
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Bizou food truck is now serving real Breton-style crepes
The only true crepes, says master crepe maker Frédérique Guette, are the ones utilizing recipes from the region of France where, historically, the crepe — a light, paper-thin pancake — originated:...
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Lawrence's Ladybird Diner set to reopen in July
Meg Heriford, the owner of the temporarily closed Ladybird Diner, at 721 Massachusetts in Lawrence, may not be able to prepare pies for her restaurant right now, but she's still rolling out that pie...
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Summit Grill owners will turn historic Lee's Summit building into restaurant
If things had gone differently, restaurateurs Andy Lock and Domhnall Molloy, the owners of the Summit Grill & Bar in Lee's Summit and in Waldo, would have announced their plans to turn the...
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