Well Fed On the Town

Kansas City is not exactly known for its fine cuisine.  Barbecue and steaks, sure.  But fine cuisine?  Not so much.
However, this trend is changing.  Upscale dining is getting better all the time in Kansas City and one of the women making it happen is Chef Debbie Gold from The American Restuarant in Kansas City, MO.  Through its thirty-five […]

Kansas City, a town known for its barbecue and steaks, is going to be hosting an evening of raw cuisine and superfood smoothies on April 23rd from 6-9 pm.
Chef Heidi VanPelt-Belle, who has served raw and vegan cuisine to celebrities in her home in Los Angeles, CA, is now a Kansas City native and is establishing […]

Right near Brookside, between Waldo and downtown Kansas City, lies one of the best restaurants in Kansas City: Aixois, the culinary vision of Chef Emmanuel Langlade.  Chef Langlade, professionally trained as a chef in France, worked all over the world and in the United States including in France, London, New York, and Austin, Texas, before marrying […]

On a recent trip to Tulsa, the same one involving the infamous Cheddar’s Buffalo Chicken Strips, I also had the “opportunity” to try Ricardo’s, a huge Mexican place established in 1975 which, according to their website, has been expanded three times.
I had a lot of hope for this place.  Having been to Oklahoma several times […]

Off I-435 and Holmes in Kansas City, Missouri there sits a non-descript brick building.  It squats next to a fire station, across the street from Gomer’s Chicken and Liquor (that’s two stores, not one…) and bears a distinctly Greek name: Patrikio’s.
However, this plain, Greek-sounding exterior hides something entirely different.  Something that must be experienced to […]

Years ago, before I gave up eating meat, one of the things I did to try to lose weight was install a self-imposed a moratorium on fried foods.  Being human, I knew that going totally fried-foodless with a fable and I gave myself three exceptions:

Tortilla chips
Tempura in sushi
Buffalo chicken strips from Cheddar’s

Tortilla chips and tempura […]

And orders polenta.
Okay, so I am still working on the punch line, but despite that, this type of thing happens to me a lot because I live in Kansas City.  When you live in Kansas City, you have a lot of choices when it comes to steakhouses.  However, I don’t eat meat, so I have […]

I think I have a pretty good argument against chain restaurants.
All in all, there really is nothing wrong with chain restaurants, per se, but I think most people agree that they lack something.  Call it heart, call it oomph, but true excellence rarely emerges from the corporate restaurant where consistency is king.
Make no mistake about […]

Another Italian restaurant chain has launched in Kansas City called Spin! Neopolitan Pizza.  Like many other restaurants popping up all over Kansas City, Spin! works hard to find just the right mix of speed and elegance.  However, unlike Cupini’s which was a no frills, do-it-yourself type hybrid restaurant or even a Pei Wei, Spin! has […]

So I must confess the holiday season has begun to take its toll.  Every morning from Thanksgiving to Christmas Eve, I have to remind myself that it is not Christmas day yet.  That I have another day without presents or seeing my son wade through wrapping paper, etc. etc.
I think it is the realization this […]