Restaurants

Owners and chefs from Latinx Restaurants in KC share what inspires them

8 Kansas City Chefs Share What Latinidad Means to Them

Kansas City’s world of food is vast. We dive into the world of Hispanic and Latinx food makers in the metro, highlighting a few of the city’s restaurants, food trucks and specialty food vendors as we wrap Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month.

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A band on stage

Music Venues, Bars and Restaurants Brace for Long, Hard Winter

Kansas City music venues, bars and restaurants are bracing for a long, hard winter as the COVID-19 pandemic drags on. Among other things, they would appreciate some government help.

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Chefs on a bike ride

KC Chefs Form Mountain Biker Gang to Beat Pandemic Fatigue

A group of Kansas City area chefs have taken up mountain biking to get away from the stresses of operating restaurants during a pandemic.

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Cultivare restaurant

New Bars and Restaurants Open, Defying Pandemic

New bars and restaurants continue to open in the Kansas City area, despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

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Alan Kneeland, operating owner of The Combine

Backers of The Combine Have Appetite for Revival on Troost

The Combine, a new restaurant opening at 30th Street and Troost Avenue late next month, wants to serve as a gathering spot on Kansas City’s longtime racial divide.

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Pandemic Prompts Renaissance in Outdoor Dining

The need for outdoor spaces during the COVID-19 pandemic is prompting restaurants to essentially turn themselves inside out.

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Diametric Brewing Co. taproom.

Age of Coronavirus: Survival Strategies for Restaurants, Distilleries and Breweries

Kansas City restaurants, breweries and distilleries are creating business survival strategies in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Whatever Happened to Smaks?

The elephant on Johnson Drive stopped traffic. “My dad [Bill Fielder] had met a zookeeper and he asked him to bring over an elephant for the opening of Smaks,” Wes Fielder said. “You’d watch the cars out front and people would slam on their brakes to try to figure out what was going on.” The…

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