Another Vagabond restaurant is popping up next week

• Ashford Stamper
• Chef Alex Pope and Test Kitchen guru Jenny Vergera are going Vagabond for the second time.

If you didn’t get the opportunity to sample the pop-up restaurant experience known as Vagabond two months ago — it was the debut temporary restaurant-as-art installation created by chef Alex Pope and food writer and founder of the Test Kitchen Jenny Vergera — the November version will be unveiled on Wednesday, November 2 in a catering hall on Burlington Street in North Kansas City. The August Vagabond, at 15th and Grand, was a great success, serving 435 guests over five days.

Wait, you’ve never heard of Black on Burlington? Well neither did I until Jenny Vergera explained that it’s a catering venue built inside a former battery cable factory at 1327 Burlington.

“The space is incredible,” says Vergera. “The ceiling is about 20-feet high — it’s where the cables used to hang — and the facility has a kitchen, where Above & Beyond Catering operates, which is approved by the Health Department. It had all the components we needed, including a big parking lot in back.”

Pope and Vergera are now taking reservations for the dinners through their website. The two culinary entrepreneurs are calling this second event Vagabond 2.0.