The northwest corner of 20th Street and Main emerged in 2011 as a sort of mini culinary epicenter of Kansas City. The Rieger Hotel Grill & Exchange quickly came into its own as a smart destination for fresh, progressive plates. Down in the Rieger’s basement, the pseudo speakeasy and pioneering mixology lounge Manifesto reasserted its reputation for shaking and stirring…
The drink known as a Brass Monkey has several versions, the best-known being the combination of malt liquor and orange juice that inspired the 1986 Beastie Boys song of the same name. A more sophisticated (and potent) Brass Monkey cocktail is made with gin, tequila, triple sec, orange juice, grapefruit juice and a splash of sweet-and-sour mix. So far, not…
Facebook: All Star Pizza Up until last week, you would have needed to embark on a fairly serious road trip if you were feeling like a sip of Deschutes’ Black Butte Porter. You might still have to gas up the car, but the trip will be a lot shorter this evening when All Star Pizza & Pub (6100 NW 63rd…
Liz Connor In the coming months-ish, Ghosty will be releasing its first record in a good many years. Very exciting. In the meantime, you should head over to Bandcamp and listen to the EP by Power and Light, a collaboration between Ghosty frontman Andrew Connor and production guy Nathan Readey. Basically, Readey has taken three songs that’ll appear on the…
The original sign remains, but the business is now called Napoleon’s Pastry Bar. The pastry shop and cafe known as Napoleon Bakery clearly has more lives than Thomasina the Cat. After pastry chef James Holmes bought the venerable Westport-based restaurant and pastry shop from its original owners, the Schanzer family, in 2008, he moved the business out to 119th Street…
//EVERYBODY RUN MUSIC VIDEO// EBONY TUSKS from Micki Hadley on Vimeo. Ebony Tusks, the hip-hop project from Martinez Hillard (oh! mr., Cowboy Indian Bear) and Morri$ (Team Bear Club) debuted its video for “Everybody Run” Monday. The video, directed by Micki Hadley, is a sparsely effective affair, much like the song itself. It will rock your pants. Categories: Music Tags:…
Telegraph Could Jamie Oliver be the biggest thing since Puck’s pizzas? With the news that British-born chef Jamie Oliver has set his sights on conquering America (perhaps following in the famous insteps of footballer David Beckham) with the restaurant Jamie’s Italian — 24 locations currently exist in the United Kingdom — it raises the question of who has been America’s…
The Church of Baseball The Royals are Kevin Kouzmanoff’s fifth major league team. I have to confess that the signing of third baseman Kevin Kouzmanoff might end up being the most exciting part, for me, of the Kansas City Royals’ offseason. You probably don’t share my excitement that the Royals have inked a career .255 hitter, who will turn 31…
Kansas City Restaurant Week Pepita-crusted scallops from Aaron Sanchez’s Mestizo are on the menu this week. The third annual Kansas City Restaurant Week starts this Friday and runs until the following Sunday (January 29). The only way to tackle the 139 restaurants (different locations from local chains are participating) and several thousand meal possibilities is to break this down into…
Police say a man in his 60s is the victim. UPDATE II: The victims of Monday’s triple homicide have been identified as Herschel Pike, 41; his mother, Donna Pike, 62; and Edward Williams, 57, who is a family friend. UPDATE I: Kansas City police searched the home where the man’s body was found and discovered the bodies of a man…
Sama Zama opens tomorrow. Sama Zama, the newest incarnation of the One Bite Japanese Grill, will open in the former Matsu’s space at 425 Westport Road tomorrow. The menu revolves around small plates of food (pot stickers, spring rolls and chicken/beef/shrimp skewers) and plenty of dipping sauces. Sama Zama is one of the few places in the city to feature…
KCAI Of course “Relax” was designed by a KC artist David Ford. Some cities may have to turn to back-alley dealers for Quaaludes or hire an army of hypnotherapists, but Kansas City came by its Forbes’ ranking as the ninth most relaxed city in the United States honestly. According to Forbes, we’ve got the second best commute time, ninth best…
Have you seen this guy? http://www.pitch.com/kansascity/ArticleArchives?tag=David%20LogsdonThe most terrifying story of the weekend came Saturday afternoon when two teens were shot at the Independence Center shopping mall. The shooting victims — a 17-year-old boy and a 17-year-old girl — are expected to recover, KCTV Channel 5 reported. Independence police are looking for two “persons of interest” pictured in the photos attached…
Peter Coombs Katie Reid and Shane Donovan perform “My Girl Back Home” It’s a stellar week for musicals around here. Not only do we have Patty LuPone and Mandy Patinkin performing selections from Evita, Follies and South Pacific (among many others) at the Kauffman Center starting on Tuesday, we’ve got South Pacific in its entirety at the Lied Center Wednesday,…
Gawker Always check your receipt. It’s not a giant leap to suggest that the guy working the fry-o-lator or telling you to pick up your cheesy breadsticks is not exactly engaged by his job. And with boredom comes sad and, at times, unforgivable lapses in judgment. Consumerist and Eater have had a half-dozen stories in the past year of somebody…
Aladdin Cafe’s lentil soup got international attention this week. Fat City’s Jonathan Bender certainly has the last word on the controversial “Meatless in the Midwest” essay by A.G. Sulzberger that ran in this week’s New York Times. The most interesting thing, for me anyway, was Sulzberger’s claim that Kansas City’s Aladdin Cafe at 3903 Wyoming served “the best lentil soup…
