My mission: get KC named one of America’s favorite cities

Against my better judgment, I’ll sometimes thumb through Travel + Leisure magazine to get a better sense of all the exotic islands and wild destinations I’ll never visit.

But Travel + Leisure has been making me mad. Like most magazines, it puts together annual lists ranking this or declaring the best of that. This month, it put together a list of the 50 best new restaurants in America and Kansas City was nowhere to be found.

No Justus Drugstore (I know it technically opened in 2007), no Extra Virgin, no Mandarinism. Nothing! Even more indefensible is leaving Kansas City off this article of the best baseball stadium food. Oh Kansas City is mentioned all right, but only in reference to the style of ribs served at the Mets’ new ballpark.

But there is a way to get Travel + Leisure to notice us.