The 10 best diners in Kansas City

Kansas City has had terrific diners — little, unfussy, Mom-and-Pop restaurants serving traditional American comfort food — for as long as this town has had restaurants. There are listings for lunch counters, luncheonettes, cafes and buffets in some of the earliest city directories. And two of those diners, the legendary Sanderson’s Lunch on Eighth Street and Nichol’s Lunch on Southwest Trafficway, lasted through most of the 20th century.

Last week’s Cafe review of the new Neighborhood Cafe in Lee’s Summit celebrated it as both a survivor — there were many other diners in this location before the new owners took over in January — and a kind of museum of culinary history.