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Restaurants appear and go. On KCUR’s Central Standard, our Aliment Critics — Charles Ferruzza, Mary Bloch and Jenny Vergara — accept kept up with the latest affaire in our bounded dining arena from over the accomplished several months.
They aggregate some of the highlights with host Gina Kaufmann:
1. The Autocrat Bar opens west of the Plaza. The amplitude is stunning, said Bloch. There’s a huge rectangle-shaped bar — and none of the glasses or liquor bottles are aloft the bar, so you can additionally see through the accomplished room, she added. The bar additionally has a barrow for wheeling about and bond drinks at your table.
According to Vergara, drinks amount amid $12-$15. “Everything in ceremony of these drinks is fabricated in-house,” she said. And the cocktail card follows the clearing aisle of the autocrat butterfly; whatever acreage it passes are represented in alcohol form. While drinks are the capital focus, chef Theresia Ota has created some baby bite plates to accompany those cocktails.
2. Autocrat Coffee opens in Midtown. Unrelated to Autocrat Bar, but it, too, is in a beauteous space, said the critics. “It’s been alleged the best Instagrammable coffee boutique in Kansas City at the moment,” said Vergara.
“This is not a Portlandia blazon of coffee shop,” said Bloch about the accessible and aerial space. “And they’ve got the Rolls Royce of coffee machines.” The coffee was excellent, she said, admitting she warned that the boutique can get loud because of the aerial ceilings.
3. EJ’s Urban Eatery opens in the West Bottoms. This is a Southern-inspired “meat and three” place: aces your best of meat and three sides. The restaurant, which is amid in the above Woodsweather Café space, is accessible for breakfast, cafeteria and blessed hour.
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While its mainly accepted for chef/owner John Smith’s white barbecue sauce, EJ’s additionally offers breakfast ribs with booze hollandaise, absurd chicken, a begrimed apricot sandwich, salads and more, including what Vergara alleged “one of the best aliment puddings.” The “meat and three” abstraction is additionally acceptable accepted as well.
“It provides value; if you appetite to get abundant aliment for your money, this is the way to do it,” said Vergara. “This acclimated to be a workingman’s lunch.”
4. The Ship now serves food. It started as an under-the-radar bar with a abyssal theme; now it has a new bartering kitchen with a smoker and a cafeteria counter. “The aliment is absolutely good,” said Vergara. On the menu: barbecue, salads, sandwiches and breakfast food. “Over the summer, I had a abundant caprese bloom and an absurd Reuben,” Vergara added.
5. canihaveabite opens in East Brookside. While it has a brace of tables, it’s added of a carry-out place, said Ferruzza. It offers amoebic and vegetarian meals: smoothies, sandwiches, soups, salads and some entrees. “I’ve had a back-scratch craven there that was out of this world,” he said. And he alleged the hummus blanket “the best I’ve anytime tasted.”
6. Tiki Taco opens on 39th Street. It bills itself a late-night spot, said Vergara. You airing up and adjustment its Mexican book at a window; there are a brace of barbecue tables on the sidewalk. “They accept some of the best angle tacos in Kansas City appropriate now,” she added.
7. Parkway Amusing Kitchen opens on the Plaza. It’s one of a few non-chain restaurants that’s advancing to the Plaza, said Bloch. The above chef at Houston’s is helming the kitchen, and the card includes Houston’s-style burgers, chicken, salad, sandwiches and ribs.
Vergara calls the amplitude “understated elegance;” it includes a big bar breadth that’s a amusing spot. “People shouldn’t abash this with a accidental place,” she added. “This is nice accomplished dining. If you appetite a nice steak or a nice broiled craven or a allotment of salmon, this is the abode to get it.” Houston’s admirers can apprehend to acquisition a few items that they adulation from the old restaurant, like the French dip.
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8. Brady’s Public Abode opens on Troost. Chef Shaun Brady, who acclimated to assignment at Reserve, opened Brady’s in the architecture that acclimated to abode Mike’s Tavern. The amplitude is absolutely dressed up, said Vergara, with an accessible kitchen. “It’s not high-end, but it’s accidental and balmy with a abounding bar,” she said. The card appearance Irish dishes, like shepherd’s pie, but according to Bloch, the burgers and chips are additionally absolutely good.
9. Michael Smith’s has a new concept, Finding Guido. For the 10-year ceremony of the restaurant, Michael and Nancy Smith absolutely afflicted the card from avant-garde American to Italian. The card includes a area on handmade pastas, which are additionally accessible on a pasta tasting menu.
Don’t apprehend the acceptable red or white booze or pesto, said Vergara. The sauces are added international, she said, such as a squid-ink pasta with a chili aroma sauce, served in a baby allocation from the pasta tasting menu. “I absolved abroad thinking, that about has an Indian aroma acidity to it,” she said.
10. Ad Astra Market opens in Mission. Two best accompany opened this shop, which offers aliment and beginning flowers. One is a chef who makes grab-and-go items. The added is a florist. There’s a common table, coffee and admirable broiled goods, said Vergara.
11. Café Sebastienne hires a new chef. Remy Ayesh came from The Oliver. She’s additionally formed in restaurants in New York City and in Chicago, area she was called one of the Top 12 Tastemakers. She’s starting to adapt the card and add her own touches, said Bloch, such as a little bit added Mediterranean flavor.
12. Andre’s Tea Allowance has been remodeled. The iconic tea allowance at the South Plaza area now appearance aerial roof curve and a coffee bar. The prie-fixe menu, cheese pie and ambrosia tray additionally lives on, said Vergara.
13. Kusshi pop-ups. Chef Joe West afresh larboard Stock Hill to acknowledgment to hosting his multi-course Asian-inspired pop-up dinners, said Vergara.
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14. Lenexa Public Market opens. According to Vergara, the amphitheater aliment anteroom appearance Foo’s Fabulous Frozen Custard, Topp’d Pizza and The Roasterie. Opening soon: Chewology Asian noodles and Mad Jack’s BBQ.
15. Lakewood Bounded opens in Lee’s Summit. Amid abreast Lakewood Lake, this accidental bar-and-grill is by the aforementioned ally abaft Summit Grill, Boru Ramen and Third Street Social, said Vergara.
16. American Slang Avant-garde Brasserie opens in the Intercontinental Hotel. It takes the abode of the Oak Room, said Vergara, and appearance French abstract fabricated from locally-sourced ingredients.
17. Added new openings. Mission Taco and iTap, appearance the affair of bartender Jenn Tosatto. Repeal 18th Bar & Bistro in North Kansas City serves ability affair and baby plates. Scott’s Kitchen and Catering opened abreast KCI and offers barbecue, Mexican, handmade sausages and added for breakfast and lunch. Sierra Grill in Lenexa has wood-fired dishes and a nice bar and wine list, said Vergara. Ignite Wood Blaze Grill additionally opened in Lenexa. Three places additionally opened new locations out south: Q39, Red Door Grill and Jarochos.
18. Closings. Blanc Burgers Bottles bankrupt its aftermost area in Leawood. Aep Thai on 39th Street accidentally closed. Plate in Brookside bankrupt because of a fire. Julian in Brookside, which was chef Celina Tio’s aboriginal attack afterwards she larboard The American, will become Brookside Barrio.
19. Opening soon. A new beginning of Rye will accessible on the Plaza. Additionally on the Plaza: Hogshead, a gastropub amid in the old California Pizza Kitchen space. Messenger Coffee Co Ibis Bakery opens in the Crossroads abutting weekend.
Jen Chen is accessory ambassador for KCUR's Central Standard. Reach out to her at jen@kcur.org and chase her on Twitter @JenChenKC.
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