Tom Watson’s Guide to Kansas City will have you at Stroud’s and Jess & Jim’s

You can tell a lot by where a man chooses to rest his fork and knife. Kansas City’s own Tom Watson was recently interviewed by Golf Digest for its My Town series, wherein a pro golfer offers a succinct travel guide to their city.

And in between recommending the Negro Leagues Baseball Hall of Fame and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Watson showed, with a host of feel-good, home-cooking restaurant suggestions, why “he is comfortable in the congenial and plain-spoken Midwestern atmosphere.”