Flickr: Kowarski These steaks should be cooked on the shores of KC. We’ve been attempting to soften our edges the past few years in Kansas City, peeling away the crackly bark of barbecue to prove that we are not all meat-inhaling machines. But in the wake of this past weekend’s Meatopia 2012 — the New York celebration of all things…
Flickr: 9/11 photo 9/11 is an event I now see from afar. This marks the first anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that it wasn’t the first thing I thought of when I woke up. I was focused on getting breakfast on the table. Emptying the dishwasher. Making sure my wife didn’t forget her coffee. I thought first…
Instagram: foodiephotog Reams is working on a cooking show of her own. The toughest thing about watching reality cooking shows is that you never get to taste the food. Well, for once, you don’t have to take it on faith as to whether a dish is to your liking. Masterchef contestant Becky Reams (who hails from Stilwell, Kansas) will be…
Twitter: Matt Gourley Hanks was all aboard this weekend. Joy comes in all forms, and today we bring you Fat City’s first ever edition of Celebrities Eating at Fritz’s Railroad. Yeah, that is Colin Hanks and, yes, he did partake of the speak-into-the-crackly-black-plastic-phone-and-receive-food-via-mechanized-toy-train that we Kansas Citians know as Fritz’s. Hanks joined the improvisers/podcast team behind SuperEgo at the Kansas…
The craft cocktails at the Jacobson will feature flask service: served in glass flasks for two or four people. I say you have to love any restaurant that displays the work of only local artists on its walls. And the Jacobson — no connection to the Michigan-based department store that had a short but glorious run in Johnson County —…
Arnold Shelby, Joe Loehr and Maurice Carter were killed in Kansas City over the weekend. The Kansas City Police Department has released the victims’ names in three weekend homicides. Arnold Shelby, 35, was found shot to death in a yard in the 3700 block of East 29th Street around 4:30 a.m. Saturday. Witnesses told police that a black man had…
The steak-cut fries at the Stack are thick potato fingers. Not all starches are created equally. And today’s myriad uses for the potato have me feeling like Forrest Gump listening to Bubba talk about shrimp. In the past week, I’ve been taking folks on a de facto barbecue tour and, in the process, I’ve had waffle fries, sweet-potato sticks, steak…
Today we’re delving into barbecue etiquette — the rules that should govern how you eat the lifeblood of this city. The idea stems from Kevin van Haaren’s tweet (which made the list, but isn’t the top rule for consuming a pile of ribs or enough brisket to equal a small cow). And so, here are Fat City’s five rules for…
Blue Nile If you want these veggie sambusas, you’ll have to go the City Market. The Blue Nile has closed its sister restaurant, the Blue Nile Cafe (13316 Metcalf) in Overland Park . Daniel and Salem Fikru have decided to focus on their original location that serves Ethiopian cuisine in the City Market (20 East Fifth Street). The Overland Park…
Tony was smiling. The Chiefs were not. Tony Gonzalez dunked the football. The crowd booed lustily. And then it was just a case of playing out the string Sunday afternoon. The Atlanta Falcons steamrolled the Kansas City Chiefs 40-24 in a game that played out in familiar fashion for the fans in red. The story, as it has been for…
Ain’t happenin’. I knew it was too good to be true. All tickets will be refunded. But seriously, what the fuck are we supposed to do now? Categories: Music
The Auto-Mat may have the last laugh when all is said and done. With robots cutting noodles, orders being placed via tablet and the ability to pay by phone, restaurants are starting to squeeze real live human hands (other than yours and those that bring you your food) out of the equation. Would it bother you if your server was…
Bishop Finn was given two years of probation, but the sentence was suspended. Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph Bishop Robert Finn was convicted Thursday of one misdemeanor count of failing to report suspected child abuse. Presiding over an hourlong bench trial, Judge John Torrence found Finn not guilty of a second charge. Finn was given two years of probation, but…
Wikipedia Maid-Rite is under fire from a former area franchisee. Eric and Faith Willoughby’s Maid-Rite franchise opened in Maryville, Missouri, in May 2011. By May of this year, the restaurant had shuttered and the Willoughby family felt duped. According to a lawsuit filed in federal court in Kansas City, Missouri, yesterday, the former Maid-Rite franchisees are suing the company, alleging…
No, Superman wasn’t from Hutchinson, Kansas. His alter ego, Clark Kent, was from the fictional town of Smallville — a distinction that several Hutchinson residents (and Superman fans) are hoping to change. Robot 6 has the story of Ben Eisiminger, KC McNeely and Christopher Wietrick, three Hutchinson-ites who have started a campaign to rename their small Kansas town. The comic-book…
Forester Michael My Brothers and Sisters Crosstown Station is no more. (Has it really been only a year since it closed? It feels more like three years.) But Bill Sundahl’s Crossroads Music Festival predated the downtown venue, and this year, its eighth, it officially outlives the station. Things start up Friday night with a preparty at the Grinders stage featuring…
Love & Cupcakes Spanikopita is waiting. Fifty-one is one of those ages where you can start to let yourself go a little bit. So loosen up your belt and hit up the 51st annual Greek festival, Greek Fest, put on by the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church (120th Street and Wornall). Pile a plate high with spanikopita, baklava and souvlaki. The…
Why frontman Yoni Wolf croaks, I want that sharpened steel of truth in every word on “This Blackest Purse,” from 2009’s Eskimo Snow. Rarely are mission statements so affecting, but then Wolf is a pretty rare talent, one of the finest (if overlooked) lyricists of the last decade. Each new Why release — including last month’s Sod in the Seed…
