Restaurateur Pete Peterman is back in the restaurant business
After weeks of negotiations, chef Ray “Pete” Peterman signed a lease yesterday with developer Greg Patterson to take over the venue at 900 West 39th Street — the location of the former Pangea, Caliente Grill and Amor Picante restaurants. It’s been five years since Peterman, voted “Best Chef” in the 2004 edition of The Pitch “Best of Kansas City” issue, closed his second restaurant, S.O. Redux in Columbus Park. Since then, Peterman has worked at a country club and two hotel kitchens, but has been planning for several years to open a restaurant focusing on regional cuisine.
“The food is going to be about the foods of Missoura — with an a,” he says.
Peterman will own and operate the restaurant with his wife, Heatherrose McBee Peterman. After considering several possible names, the Petermans have decided to call the venue — scheduled to open in mid-May — Peanches. That’s right, peaches with an additional n.
“That was how my mother called peaches,” Pete Peterman says. “The place will be kind of a tribute to her.”
Peterman’s mother, Barbara Dustin, passed away in January. She was always a big supporter of her son’s restaurants, right down to sewing the tablecloths for Peterman’s first restaurant, the Sour Octopus, in the Northland.
