The menu sampler — a concept that needs to come to KC

There are plenty of small-plates options around Kansas City — Extra Virgin, La Bodega, Avenues Bistro, Carmen’s Cafe, Taste, One80. But you have to work your way through most menus plate by plate.

And since it’s easy to get hung up on favorites and expensive to order the entire right half of the menu, it would be great to see Kansas City restaurants adopt the policy of Percy Street Barbecue in Philadelphia. Slashfood recently profiled the barbecue joint, which offers the “Lockheart”: a family-style sampling of everything on the menu for $24 per person — as long as your table is four diners or more.