Megan Garrelts, Part Three: KC needs German food, not wet naps

This week we learned that Bluestem’s Megan Garrelts can be won over with a classic meat-and-potatoes dish. She also wishes that savory chefs would stop stealing her ring cutters. (Parts one and two of Fat City’s talk with Garrelts are here and here.) Today, our interview focuses on the food of Kansas City, and Garrelts gives her advice on where and what she likes to eat.

What would you like to see more of in Kansas City from a culinary standpoint? There are killer German restaurants in Chicago. My maiden name is Schultz, and I would always go out to eat with my grandparents at Chef Paul’s [Bavarian Lodge]. You have crazy women in bibbed aprons serving huge steins of beer.

We don’t have a saturation of Indian restaurants or Little Italy like in New York. Maybe a Koreatown or a couple of oompa-pah bands. I miss those kinds of places. I love restaurants that are kind of obnoxious, where the experience is the biggest thing. I want people to go out and have fun. We can take food too seriously. I want to go to Tasso’s and see belly dancers and eat kebabs.