Attention, traveling vegetarians, there are plenty of options in Kansas City

It’s time to put the myth to rest that we all drive hamburger-shaped cars and eat a Tomahawk Chop for lunch every day in Kansas City. We’re good at cooking meat. We might be the best. But that hasn’t stopped a burgeoning vegetarian community from springing up here and a host of understanding chefs who are willing to knock out some seriously killer food that is sans meat.

But David Grossman sees KC as a vegan-food desert in his latest column for USA Today. In the piece about the hassles of traveling with diet restrictions, he writes:

In Kansas City, I found few restaurants near the convention center serving items I could eat, so I spent $30 on a taxi ride to and from the nearest supermarket to stock up.