Five restaurants to get your pickling fix

I can still remember walking by a white bucket outside a summer cottage on Lake Michigan and hoping it was the day my grandmother’s half-sour pickles would be ready. Crisp and salty, those pickles formed the underpinnings of my adolescent diet alongside fat chunks of sweet watermelon.

For me, summer is about pickling and trying to find a use for a gardenful of cucumbers. But even if you don’t have your own white bucket, you can still find a number of other delicious pickled dishes around Kansas City. Here are five that might entice you.