Minnesota travel writer hypes Broadway Café, Nikita the polar bear

Reading or listening to an outsider’s assessment of Kansas City can be excruciating. The Show-Me State showed me lot of a hot barbecue and cool jazz!

So credit Brian Lambert, a contributor to Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, for recognizing Kansas City as something more than a plate of burnt ends and a place where Charlie Parker developed a taste for narcotics. Describing ways to spend a weekend in our “legendary cow town,” Lambert provides crisp takes on the World War I Museum, the Living Room at the Pearl (2010’s Best New Theater, according to us) and the Broadway Café, said to concoct “the best lattes anywhere.”