Papa Lew’s Soul Delicious is closing on July 7

• Papa Lew’s will end a long run in Kansas City’s Jazz District next month.

One of the most beloved soul-food buffets in Kansas City, Papa Lew’s Soul Delicious – a culinary icon at 2128 East 12th Street for more than three decades – will close July 7. The owners of the restaurant, Dorriss Lyman (the widow of the restaurant’s founder, Lewis Lyman Sr.) and her son, Marvin Lyman, announced the closing on the restaurant’s Facebook page yesterday stating that the Lymans are “ready to give up fifteen hour days and little time off.”