Barbecue
Chapter 5 | Is This The Ends?
Singers have Broadway. Aspiring pitmasters? They come to Kansas City because if you can make a burnt end that makes Kansas Citians sit down and take notice, you can make barbecue anywhere. Our city’s esteem for barbecue — combined with pitmasters’ desire to perfect their craft — means that even our iconic barbecue dish is…
Chapter 3 | Making Ends Meat
The popularity of burnt ends created an unusual problem for pitmasters in Kansas City. Even with a ready supply of briskets, there wasn’t enough of the ends of those briskets to make the menu item known as “burnt ends.” Briskets taper at both edges — it’s the thinner parts that get crusty and crispy and deliciously charred….
Burnt Legend, our New Digital Series, Will Make You Hungry
Kansas City is known for burnt ends, those charred, crispy bits of beef that are fatty and succulent and rich and… [sorry, we just had to leave the keyboard for the second, things were getting too steamy.] And Kansas Citians know that we’re known for burnt ends. It’s the first dish we tell visitors to…
Sympathetic Vibrations | Sunday Music Funday
Of all the weapons in the weekend warriors’ arsenal, few are more enjoyable, more hallowed or more brag-worthy than a perfectly executed Sunday Funday. And we happen to be right in the middle of its sweetest season, offering the perfect confluence of (arguably) habitable outside temperatures and a cornucopia of live music options. Fundays can…
Blessing the Barbecue
For more international flair, there’s a Middle Eastern grocery and halal butcher shop in Lenexa that’s drawing a crowd. With Ramadan beginning this week, it’s the shop’s busiest month of the year.
Grateful for This Grub
This is the time when we bow our heads and give thanks. When we take a moment to remember why we need an awl in our lives and a stain stick by the laundry machine. When we look at our credit card statements and wish that we worked at a job with an expense account….
Today’s Special | The Z-Man
Customers may not have been able the name the Z-man sandwich, but they’ve convinced Joe’s Kansas City to make more than a few varieties of the iconic barbecue two-hander over the years. In the debut episode of “Today’s Special”, Joe’s Kansas City owner Jeff Stehney talks about how the Z-man got its name and just…
Slap’s BBQ hits the KC Barbecue scene
A few cars trickle into the Slap’s BBQ parking lot at 535 Central Avenue as the clock hits 2 p.m. on a Thursday in summer. Three men walk through the door, pausing briefly to read the sign on butcher paper taped to the front, which informs them that the line forms to the right. But…
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