The mother of all collaborations is set to begin this Thursday with The Draught Lottery. The brainchild of Double Shift Brewing Co. and iTap Crossroads will see 20 local breweries creating five distinct beers that will drop on August 24. The draft is at 6 p.m. at iTap and that’s where teams of breweries will be picked to create a beer at one of five host breweries (Cinder Block Brewery, Double Shift, Martin City Brewing Co., Stockyards Brewing Co. and Torn Label Brewing Co.). Each team will consist of representatives from four local breweries. The only rule is that the beer may not be a lager, wild ale or barrel-aged. The five special releases are expected to be on tap at the home breweries, as well at bars and restaurants around Kansas City. Tap Notes Free State Brewing Co. has Hazy Age New England IPA (5.9% ABV) on tap. It’s a juice bomb, in the tradition of New England-style IPAs. Servaes Brewing Co. can now add a scoop of gelato to your beer or soda. The Shawnee brewery has partnered with neighboring Aunt Jean’s to let you turn your drink into a float. Casual Animal Brewing Co. has Vipers in the Garden (6% ABV) on tap. The semi-sweet, hard cider is made for summer. Brewery Emperial’s Berliner Weisse (3.3% ABV) is back. Doctor it up with house strawberry syrup. Strange Days Brewing Co. made a limited batch of Holy Mole! (a brown ale with chocolate, chipotle, ancho peppers and cinnamon). Heller Bock, a limited release from KC Bier Co., is…...

Affäre (1911 Main St.) has started serving lunch on Thursday and Friday between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. You can get weinerschnitzel (fried pork cutlet), house-made bratwurst, and zwiebelsuppe (a soup made with caramelized spring onions). The full menu is here. Get a chance to meet Tastemakers and Feast Magazine’s Cat Neville in person at Meet The Makers, a live event featuring Kansas City area artisan food producers, from 2 to 5 p.m. at Plexpod (300 E. 39th St.). Neville will moderate a panel about the Kansas City episode of Tastemakers, which airs on Kansas City PBS, and interview Green Dirt Farm’s Sarah Hoffman, The Rieger’s Howard Hanna and TerraVox’s Jerry Eisterhold. Tickets ($20), include the show and a tasting afterward in a Makers Market. https://flatlandkc.org/farm-field/lucky-ewe-green-dirt-farm-counts-sheep-high-quality-cheese-dairy-products/ After the success of the Miracle Pop-Up (the Christmas wonderland of drinks) at the Rockhille Grille (2000 Grand Blvd.), it makes sense that another pop-up would find a home at the Crossroads bar and grill. The Monarch Bar is hosting a cocktail bar on First Fridays at the Rockhille Grille, kicking off this Friday, through September. The bar will feature a DJ and is open from 5 to 11:30 p.m. It’s not summer without fried dough. Old Shawnee Days, a carnival in Shawnee Town 1929, runs Thursday through Sunday. There’s a parade on Saturday at 10 a.m., live performances from acrobats, dancers and singers, a pie baking contest and all the fair food (read: smoked turkey legs) you could want. On the Missouri side, you can venture out to Lee’s Summit Downtown Days Friday…...

The best way to attend a beer festival is with a brewer at your side. You get insight into the beer and an occasional look behind the taps. Taps & Tastes, a ticketed beer and food pairing session in the Hale Arena, is a bit like attending Boulevardia with Jeremy Danner next to you. The ambassador brewer for Boulevard Brewing Co. has put together the list of breweries in attendance since the festival’s debut in 2014. Danner looks to find breweries that don’t distribute in Kansas City (30 of the 55 confirmed breweries for Taps & Tastes aren’t available in KC), but have a similar ethos to Boulevard. “It’s not enough to make good beer. I’m looking for good people too,” Danner said. “It’s cool to have so many beers that aren’t available. It serves to differentiate our festival.” Flatland got a preview of some of the beers that are headed to Kansas City for the beer festival in the West Bottoms. Modern Times Beer out of San Diego, California, is bringing Critical Band, a juicy, tropical, hazy IPA, Ice (pilsner) and Monsters Park Blackberry Cobbler Imperial Stout that’s been aged on blackberries, vanilla and cinnamon. Weldwerks Brewing Co. (out of Greeley, Colorado) will be pouring Juicy Bits (a hazy IPA), Raspberry Cobbler Berliner Weiss made with raspberry puree, vanilla, graham crackers and lactose, and Ice Cream Sundae Medianoche Imperial Stout (made with vanilla, cherries, milk chocolate and roasted peanuts and aged in rye and bourbon barrels). Switchback Brewing Company, which was started by former Boulevard brewmaster Bill Cherry is…...

Fairway Creamery (5938 Mission Road, Fairway, Kansas) -- a new donut shop and soft serve ice cream concept from chocolatier Christopher Elbow -- has opened in the former Pizza 51 West space. The donuts include a spiced old fashioned, raspberry iced, maple buttercrunch, vanilla bean glazed yeast and toasted coconut. On the ice cream side, you can get a float, shake, sundae (the Fairway to Heaven comes atop a donut and is covered in chocolate sauce and sprinkles) or dipped cone. Food truck season is officially rolling. The Business of Food Trucks presents the Food Truck Face-Off from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Friday at the Independence Chamber of Commerce (210 W. Truman Road, Independence, Missouri). Five new food trucks (KC Cajun, Mattie’s Vegan Eats, Nikki G’s SoulQ Bistro, Da Poke Wagon and Caio Bella Ice Creamery & Bakery) will compete to be named the Rookie Food Truck of the Year. Tickets are $35. VIP tickets (admission at 4:30 p.m. and drink samples) are $50. You could eat all of your meals from a food truck this weekend. The Food Truck Frenzy is from 4:30 to 10 p.m. Saturday in Old Town Lenexa (Santa Fe Trail Drive and Pflumm Road). A dozen food trucks (Twisted Taters, Cheesy Street and Torched Goodness, among them) will be onsite and Jerry’s Bait Shop will be running the beer garden. https://flatlandkc.org/eats-drinks/tap-list-wind-shift-brewing-is-open-in-blue-springs/ Plate Restaurant(701 E. 63rd St.), a modern Italian restaurant, has reopened in Brookside two years after a fire destroyed the original location. The restaurant serves pappardelle with pork shoulder ragout, a Caesar salad with…...

Wind Shift Brewing (3421 NW Jefferson St., Suite B) opened this weekend in Blue Springs, Missouri. The new brewery from Tony and Lynne DiPlacito is serving an American Pilsner, oatmeal brown, a coconut coffee porter and double IPA. Cinder Block Brewery’s cider is on tap as well. Wind Shift serves half-pours, pours and flights. The intimate taproom also has small cheese plates from the Local Pig. https://flatlandkc.org/eats-drinks/wind-shift-brewing-offers-a-new-spin-on-making-beer-in-the-garage/ Brewer Tony DiPlacito is working on a New England-style IPA and an English IPA. Wind Shift is the second brewery in Blue Springs, joining East Forty Brewing Co., which opened in 2018. Tap Notes Alma Mader Brewing is leaning in toward collaborations. This Wednesday, you can get its second collaboration brew with BKS Artisan Ales. Starting At The End is a “hazy pale ale.” Brewer Nick Mader notes that no hops were added to the kettle or whirlpool, but instead this beer only uses dry-hopping to add flavor and aroma to the brew, which “pushes the envelope on how hops can be utilized.” Keep an eye out for a future collaboration with Crooked Stave, where Mader was a brewer previously. Cinder Block Brewery is serving blueberry mead. Callsign Brewing Co. has Bi-Coastal Salted Lime Ale (4% ABV) back on tap. Transport Brewing Co. has Trop Queen IPA, a New England-style IPA with plenty of tropical fruit notes and a hoppy finish, back behind the bar. The Brewkery, a kombucha taproom, has new hours. The North Kansas City makers of Lucky Elixir kombucha are open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.…...

Eat tacos. Help folks. Guadalupe Center is throwing a taco dinner between 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. Friday. It’s four fried tacos and Mexican rice for $7. The taco sale benefits the center’s youth recreation program. Place your order by calling 816-421-1015. A tradition that started on the West Side has come to the Crossroads. Ibis Bakery is holding a Friday Cheese Slipper night -- warm, gooey cheese and toppings (think mushrooms or egg or tomatoes) atop ciabatta fresh out of the oven -- at Messenger Cafe (1624 Grand Blvd.). The sale starts at 6:30 p.m. and goes until they sell out. You can now drink your S’mores. Limitless Brewing Co. (9765 Widmer, Lenexa, Kansas) is releasing S’Morter at 4 p.m. Saturday. The porter is made with six pounds of S’mores cereal. https://flatlandkc.org/eats-drinks/tap-list-fields-ivy-brewing-opens-in-lawrence/ The McFadden’s patio may never be the same. The Power & Light sports bar is holding a Catio Party, where owners can bring their cats between 1 and 4 p.m. Saturday. They’ll have cat-themed cocktail, beer specials, cat treats and an artist to create portraits of you and your cat. Pokè is coming, Overland Park. Freestyle Pokè (7108 W. 135th St., Overland Park, Kansas) is holding the grand opening for its second area location -- the first is in the River Market -- at 11 a.m. Friday. The concept works like Chipotle. You pick your size of bowl, a base (rice, quinoa, zoodles), protein (raw ahi tuna, tofu, shredded chicken), mix-ins (snow peas, edamame, mung beans), marinade (rosemary tamari, sriracha ponzu), toppings (spicy cashews, pickled ginger) and…...

Fields & Ivy Brewery (706 E. 23rd St., Lawrence, Kansas) has an ambitious plan to be a farm-to-table brewery. The new Lawrence brewery opened its taproom over the weekend with guest beer on tap. The brewery hired Daniel Chivetta to be brewmaster, and will be serving pizzas, salads and a hot chicken sandwich. This week, Fields & Ivy will open at 4 p.m. daily through Friday. The brewhouse is still being built out and Fields & Ivy is likely a few months from serving its own beer, which will be made with local grains from Great Plains Custom Grain. The transformation of the former hardware store and lumber yard has taken nearly two years. https://flatlandkc.org/eats-drinks/tap-list-fields-ivy-searches-brewer/ Tap Notes Grains & Taps Brewery & Taproom has a new school lunch-inspired pizza: the Sloppy Joe Pizza (made with plenty of sauce) is topped with crushed potato chips. Snag a glass of Puppies With Lasers, a rye New England-style IPA, at the Lee’s Summit brewery. Strange Days Brewing Co. is releasing the eighth edition of Episodes pale ale on Friday and this version will be made with Citra hops. Strange Days will also have Blonde & Confused, a blonde stout, on tap. Double Shift Brewing Co.’s Power Moves, a hazy IPA, will return to the taproom this week. 3 Trails Brewing Co. is now open every day of the week. The Independence brewery is open from 4 to 10:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 4 p.m. to midnight Friday, noon to midnight Saturday, and noon to 7 p.m. Sunday. 3 Trails Brewing Co. is making…...

Empty houses are still full of stories. The Rector House sits at 2000 E. 12th St., a two-story brick home with bright swirls of paint on plywood nailed across the windows and doors. The century-old house built for Sarah Rector, once called the “richest Black girl in America,” has been abandoned for nearly a decade. It’s a building that’s been slowly receding from memory over the last century. Deidre Anderson, the executive director of neighboring United Inner City Services (UICS), wants to make sure it is not forgotten entirely. Anderson is looking for a new beginning with a symbolic splash of color -- murals by artist JT Daniels installed on March 22. “Whatever we do, I think the history here needs to be preserved,” Anderson said. “It’s a question of what’s the best way to honor [Rector’s] story and legacy.” A closer look at the murals painted by JT Daniels for the Rector House. (Jonathan Bender | Flatland) Sarah Rector was a millionaire by the time she turned 18 years old. A member of the Creek nation, she captivated the country because of her enormous wealth at an early age. Rector’s fortune came from oil rights on land in Oklahoma granted to her by the Treaty of 1866. After graduating from Tuskegee University, she moved to Kansas City, Missouri, in 1920. “Early on when Sarah lived at 12th and Euclid she lived large and out loud. She spent money quite freely on the finer things in life, from clothing to cars,” said Tonya Bolden, the author of “Searching for Sarah…...

The 15th annual Troost Festival is from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday on Troost Avenue between 31st Street and Linwood Boulevard. The outdoor fest features live musical acts, dance troupes, art activities, food and crafts for sale. The Littlest Bake Shop (645 E. 59th St.) is just that, a tiny bakery serving gluten-free and vegan cupcakes and treats. The boutique bakery, which also serves coffee, has opened in the former Pirate's Bone space. As Feast reported, Chef Iris Green has partnered with Pirate's Bone's Zaid Consuegra and Lydia Palma on the new bakery. The Littlest Bake Shop is open from noon to 7 p.m. Friday, and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. It’s not often you get to party under an art exhibit, but Union Station is throwing an opening reception for Reflecting Motion -- the swirling, dynamic piece from Kinetic Motion that hangs above Haverty Family Yards. The outdoor cocktail party is from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. Saturday. Tickets ($100) include an open bar, small bites and performance by Quixotic. VIP admission ($150) is at 7 p.m. and comes with an opportunity to meet Patrick Shearn, the artist behind the piece. Kansas City PBS has been busy filming a behind-the-scenes documentary, #ArtInTheAir, about the making of Reflecting Motion and the art of Poetic Kinetics. The 30-minute documentary airs on Kansas City PBS at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 11. Many novels have been written in coffee shops. Meet some of the people who have written them with a Local Authors’ Book Fair from 9 a.m.…...

We’re in the midst of American Craft Beer Week, but unlike many marketing holidays, this comes with some very intriguing possibilities. You can drink not one but two pancake-inspired beers, attend a pizza pop-up by a brewery in a barbecue joint, or head out on a pub crawl with your pup. A number of local breweries will be playing around with limited releases and adding funky ingredients to beers that are part of the regular lineup. I’ve created the start of the list for you, but this is the week you should immerse yourself in Beer Twitter to catch the rare kegs and weird kegs and kegs that taste like pancakes. Tap Notes Double Shift Brewing Co. is pulling out all the kegs, looking to drop eight beers in six days. Friday night is the one to circle on your calendar. Stout Night! will feature three beers: a baklava, honey-infused stout with cinnamon, vanilla and walnuts, Pancake Mafia Stout (made with blackberry, maple and vanilla) and Aggressively Sarcastic Stout (flavored with cardamom, coffee and orange blossom water). Keep an eye out for Strawberry Field Trip (7.1% ABV), a sour with lime, mint and strawberry, which drops on Thursday. Strange Days Brewing Co. has a pair of new beers out this Friday. Mango Habanero Gose is back and Counter Ruck is a “rugby-inspired” American ale -- a piece of proceeds goes to the KC Jazz, a local women’s rugby team. Beers of The Future Big Rip Brewing Co. celebrates its sixth anniversary with the Get Ripped Beer Fest on Saturday, June…...

Always thought of candy as an art form? The Vanessa Lacy Gallery (1600 Genessee St., Unit 161) is hosting an opening reception from 5 to 9 p.m. Friday for “Candy,” a collection of pieces inspired by confections. The gallery will have cotton candy from Cottontale and beer from Stockyards Brewing Co. The world is better with a few bubbles. Just down the street from the Vanessa Lacy Gallery, Amigoni Urban Winery celebrates the release of its first sparkling rose with parties from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. The winery in the West Bottoms will have dessert specials and a portion of the profits will go to Susan G. Komen, a non-profit looking to eradicate breast cancer. Get ready for sushi burritos. Komotodo Sushi Burrito (13713 Metcalf Ave., Overland Park, Kansas) is holding its grand opening from 10:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday. You start by ordering a burrito, rice bowl or lettuce wrap, which is stuffed with everything from raw tuna to grilled steak and then drizzled with jalapeno ranch, peanut sauce or sweet chili sauce. One customer will win burritos for life and 50 more will win burritos for a year at the grand opening.   Everyone tells you to have wine and chocolate, but the pairing you truly seek is cheese and beer. Green Dirt Farm is holding just such a pairing ($85), featuring Boulevard Brewing Co. beer, from 3 to 5 p.m. Saturday. Try five beers and cheese combinations in a tasting led by Boulevard’s Kyle Hopkins -- who oversees…...

Brisket has been a constant in author and "Project Smoke," host Steven Raichlen's life and now he wants to show you exactly how to get the most out of the versatile cut in his latest book, "The Brisket Chronicles." "I didn't grow up in Texas and Kansas City. I didn't learn to smoke at my daddy's knee using the pit that's been in our family for six generations," Raichlen said. "But I've been eating brisket since I've been eating solid foods and this book enabled me to bring a lifetime of food experiences under one cover." "The Brisket Chronicles" has 50 recipes -- Raichlen found himself hard pressed to stop there -- which let you explore the various methods of prep: thinly sliced (Joe's Kansas City-style brisket), braised (Jewish deli brisket), cured (old school pastrami) and deep-fried (brisket tots). "Brisket is an epic meat. It's so central to so many food cultures and manifests in so many different ways." Steven Raichlen will travel to Kansas City -- he thinks the use of the point for brisket is "ingenious," -- for The Brisket Chronicles Live on Friday, May 17, from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at Smoke 'N' Fire (8030 W. 151st St., Overland Park, Kansas). Tickets ($75) include a copy of the book, a live demonstration by Raichlen, bites based off the recipes in the book, live music and an open bar. The event is a benefit for Kansas City PBS' educational programs. Joe's Kansas City-Style Brisket In a city as barbecue-obsessed as Kansas City, there are many styles of brisket.…...

The Crossroads is really going to the cats. Caturday in the Crossroads, a benefit for KC Pet Project, is from noon to 4 p.m. on Saturday, May 11. The pub crawl, which has nine stops (five breweries and a winery), includes prizes for the best cat-themed outfit. Tickets are $25 until May 10 and $30 on the day of the event. How much cute can you handle? Cinder Block Brewery is holding a Kitten Shower with KC Pet Project from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, May 16. Drink a beer, $1 from each brew goes to KCPP, and cuddle with kittens on the North Kansas City brewery’s patio. Entry is $5 or an item from KCPP’s wish list. Red Crow Brewing Company has Elizabeth, its saison, back on tap. (Contributed | Red Crow Brewing Co.) Tap Notes For those arriving with kids in tow or who want something non-alcoholic, Servaes Brewing Co. has been making sodas the past several weeks. Aaron’s craft soda has been available in four-packs of cans (root beer, mandarin orange) and on tap (root beer and butterscotch cream soda). Callsign Brewing Co. has got summer covered. Bi-Coastal Cerveza Salted Lime Ale (4% alcohol by volume), made with lime juice and sea salt, is a collaboration with brewer Rodney Beagle. Red Crow Brewing Co. has Elizabeth (a saison) on tap. New Axiom Brewing Co. has two new additions to its Beertender series — Cherry Brett Barrel Berliner and The Dregs of NYE — as well as two beers made for Cinco de Mayo: Mango Tamarind Berliner…...

We can’t all afford an island vacation, but you can have a moment when you feel like you’re gazing out at the ocean with an umbrella drink in your hand. TikiCat, the tiki cocktail lounge in the basement of HopCat, celebrates its second anniversary from 2 p.m. to 1 a.m. on Saturday. They’ll have commemorative tiki mugs. Get anything with rum and you should be just fine. https://flatlandkc.org/?p=90415 Call this a TSA: Twinkie Service Announcement. Blip Coffee Roasters is serving house-made Twinkies. The golden ovals are light, cream-filled and eight big bites of nostalgia. The pastries are available at both of Blip’s locations, but they tend to sell out. https://flatlandkc.org/eats-drinks/blip-coffee-roasters-spot-30th-troost/ Percheron, the rooftop bar with a bocce court at the Crossroads Hotel (2101 Central St.), opens today a 11 a.m. Percheron. You can do rooftop yoga at 10 a.m. Saturday. It’s BYOM (bring your own mat) and $5 donation to Girls on The Run is suggested. You can celebrate Cinco de Mayo Sunday with elotes (roasted corn), walking tacos or a michelada (modelo especial with Bloody Mary mix). Eat your way across Liberty, Missouri, with the Downtown Foodie Tour from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday. The tour ($10), put on by Historic Downtown Liberty, Inc., will stop by Ginger Sue’s, Hammerhand Coffee, Sorella’s Deli (get the muffaletta, if you can) and MudHole BBQ. https://flatlandkc.org/eats-drinks/hammerhand-coffee-finds-place-downtown-liberty/ The sixth annual Kansas Food Truck Festival is from 4 to 10 p.m. Saturday in the Warehouse Arts District (9th and Pennsylvania) in Lawrence, Kansas. Try food from more than two dozen food trucks while enjoying…...

This is why you drink on Tuesdays. And why you drink that beer you find in the back of the fridge. This is why you drink out of crowlers, growlers and really whatever beer-filled vessel someone hands you. Welcome to Beer Festival Season. Spend an afternoon in downtown Lee’s Summit with the Strother Beerfest, so named for the Strother District. The brewfest, put on by the Lee’s Summit Downtown Rotary Club, is from 1 to 5 p.m. on Saturday, May 11. General admission tickets are $35, VIP tickets (which include a separate bathroom and $5 coupon toward food vendors) are $50. All breweries have to start somewhere. And that somewhere is often the KC Nanobrew Festival. The celebration of homebrewers is from 2 to 6 p.m. on Saturday, May 18, at Berkley Riverfront Park. The festival, now in its tenth year, features more than 300 kinds of homebrew. Tickets are $40. Tour De Bier is a bicycle tour of Kansas City's beer past and present. (Contributed | Tour De Bier) The Tour De Bier, a benefit for BikeWalkKC, is back on Sunday, May 19. You can take a 15, 35 or 50-mile bike route that starts and ends at Knuckleheads Saloon. As part of the historical bike tour of local beer lore, you’ll get to stop by four to six breweries and then get lunch from a collection of food trucks (Jerusalem Cafe, Urban Cafe, among them). Registration is $50. Big Rip Brewing Co. celebrates its sixth anniversary with the Get Ripped Beer Fest on Saturday, June 1, from noon…...

Tony DiPlacito’s hands and forearms are smudged black, the streaks stretching nearly to the cuffs of his auto technician’s shirt. When he sees a visitor walk into the bays of the Jefferson Service Center in Blue Springs, Missouri, he half-waves and cracks a big smile from beneath a sedan that’s on a lift a few feet above him. “The brewery is right there,” DiPlacito says, walking toward a door in the back corner. Less than 20 feet from the garage where he’s standing is the future home of Wind Shift Brewing Co. (3421 NW Jefferson St., Suite B). Lynn DiPlacito, Tony’s wife, is on the other side of the door. She’s sitting at a folding table -- a makeshift office for the husband-and-wife team behind Wind Shift, which is slated to open in May. “The whole market has gone hyper local, there’s been such a wind shift,” Lynn DiPlacito said of the name. “If [Tony] didn’t brew here, he’d be doing it in our basement,” she added. “So, we sold our house. This is our retirement plan.” A few feet from her is a large mural of Ninkasi -- the Sumarian beer goddess -- holding a mug with a Narwhal spilling out the top by artist Herb Schell. Tony Diplacito walks in, drying his hands with a rag, and explains that his wife wanted a narwhal and he wanted Ninkasi, so Schell found a way to work both into the painting. The couple has been searching for a home for Wind Shift for the past five years, looking at spaces…...

It’s Saturday — the first warm day of spring — and there’s work to be done in the gardens at East High School in Kansas City, Missouri. Eric Person, owner of KC Aquaponics and a community partner with East’s agriculture program, is here with a friend to tend to the grounds just north of the school.  Outside it’s a moderate 67 degrees. But inside the greenhouse, it’s sweltering. On long, knee-high tables, sprouts of elderberry, nasturtium and 30 other plants glisten amidst a small jungle of budding flora. Person leans in and scrutinizes the seedlings. Behind him, along the north wall of the greenhouse, tilapia, bluegill and catfish swim in separate tanks. Their wastewater travels through a series of filters, eventually providing key nutrients to the plants growing on the surface of the catfish tank. The process is called aquaponics. In the balmy conditions of the greenhouse, it can be difficult to keep this delicate ecosystem in balance. Fortunately, Person is committed to seeing something grow. As he sat on a railing near the school parking lot, Person spoke candidly about why he does what he does, musing on everything from his childhood to issues facing the black community in Kansas City. Growing up, Person learned firsthand the value of self-sufficiency in a community facing socioeconomic marginalization. He remembers his grandfather struggling to find a job after returning from service in the Korean War. “It was like a slap in the face,” he said, looking off toward the chicken pen. In order to survive, his grandfather started his own business…...

Pizza Shuttle (12094 W. 135th St.) has landed, Overland Park. Over the past three decades, Pizza Shuttle is the spot that’s been on the other end of many a late night call in Lawrence, Kansas. The new location brought Brobecks BBQ Chicken pizza along for the ride, as well as cheesesticks, sweet sticks (cheesy rectangles of cinnamon sugar that you can dip in icing) and The Wing Shuttle (a pizza covered in chicken, wing sauce and served with a side of ranch). Pizza Shuttle is a sports bar menu where everything just happens to come in pizza form. The Overland Park restaurant is open from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday, and 11 a.m. to midnight Friday and Saturday. The delivery area includes Olathe, Overland Park and Lenexa, Kansas. The Parkville Farmers Market is holding its opening day at 7 a.m. Saturday in English Landing Park. Pick up habanero jam, microgreens and local honey. The market is open from 7 a.m to noon and runs through October. The 16th annual Parkville Microbrew Festival starts at 11 a.m. in the park. The beer begins flowing at 1 p.m. https://flatlandkc.org/eats-drinks/tap-list-an-avengers-beer-and-sandhills-brewing-opens-friday/ Geo Pressed Juice & Wellness is a new spot that’s open at 8126 Floyd St. in the former Simple Science Juices space. The Overland Park juice shop is serving cold-pressed juice like the Icosa (watermelon, mint, Himalayan sea salt and strawberry), nut milks and cold brew coffee drinks. Geo is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Always…...

Sandhills Brewing Co. is set to open its taproom in Mission, Kansas, this Friday. Sandhills has a sister location, the original, in Hutchinson, Kansas. It's a joint project from brothers Jonathan and Charles Williamson, and Joe Cizek (who will run the Mission brewery with Jonathan). Sandhills launched with three brews: Chickadee (Berliner weiss), Sparrow (dark mild) and Barred Owl (Scottish export). In the past few months, they’ve added Wren and Junco (a pair of New England-style IPAs) to its year-round lineup, as well as a few barrel-aged releases, including a tart tequila gose and Chickadee with peaches. Sandhills is focused on its barrel-aging program with a host of beers, like Red Tail (a Flanders-style red ale) aging in oak barrels. The Mission brewery (5612 Johnson Drive) will be open from 3 to 10 p.m. Friday and 1 to 10 p.m. Saturday. https://flatlandkc.org/eats-drinks/tap-list-sandhills-brewing-coming-mission/ Tap Notes Bou Lou isn’t the only pineapple beer on the block. Casual Animal Brewing Co. is serving Pineapple Run (5.8% ABV), a blonde sour with pineapple that’s been dry-hopped. Everybody needs hugs. Hop Cuddle, a New England style IPA, from Cinder Block Brewery is back in cans at the North Kansas City taproom on Friday, April 26. If you’re going for lunch — and they open at noon — you can grab a shrimp roll and a four-pack of tallboy cans. Hop Cuddle from Cinder Block Brewery is out just after Easter this year. (Contributed | Cinder Block) It’s easy to forget that test beers pop up at beer halls every week. The Boulevard Tours & Rec Center…...

Food Truck Friday returns to Union Cemetery (227 E. 28th Terrace) from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. this Friday. The initial lineup for the monthly food truck series, put on by the Union Cemetery Historical Society, is The Waffler, Taste of Brazil and Bop N’ Bowl (Korean bowls, fried rice and potstickers). Krokstrom (3601 Broadway) is a restaurant in a bit of transition. Owners Katee McLean and Josh Rogers have made a few callouts in the past couple months on social media asking for support to keep the business going. They will be closing Vildhast, the Scandinavian sausage and snack shop that they run, in the food hall Parlor on Saturday, April 27. But some of the sausages (the curry Korv, which comes topped with curry mayo, ketchup, chips and cucumber sallad) and lunch favorites from Vildhast will start to appear on the menu at Krokstrom during a lunch and brunch service between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Tuesday through Friday. https://flatlandkc.org/eats-drinks/eat-house-manila-bay-ihaw-ihaws-halo-halo/ Paulie D’s Pizza (5735 Johnson Drive, Mission, Kansas) has opened in the former Dips & Sips space. The pizza spot is run by Jennifer and Paul Doring, who was a co-owner of Pizza Kings and Westwood Pizza. Paulie D’s is open from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Two words: gyro crawl. Sinbad’s Grill (7002 W. 83rd St., Overland Park, Kansas) is open less than a block from Mr. Gyro’s. Sinbad’s serves platters and sandwiches with falafel, kabobs, shawarma or gyro meat (spicy or standard), Greek salads, lentil soup and baklava for dessert. In our house…...