Eats & Drinks
Tap List | The Cosmic Alignment of Beer and Tacos
Tap List features two events this weekend combing tacos and beer.
KC’s Craft Barbecue Scene Heats Up
Since March 2020, three Kansas City area craft barbecue restaurants – Chef J BBQ, Fox & Fire Barbecue and Night Goat – have opened as pop-ups, part of a new generation of young pitmasters using offset smokers and cooking with wood.
Sunday’s ‘Stop Asian Hate KC’ Vigil Offers a Safe Space for Healing
Jackie Nguyen, owner of Cafe Cà Phê, says she’s taking a stand for the Asian American and Pacific Islander community in Kansas City. The vigil she is sponsoring on Sunday is a way for the community to find support and healing.
Tap List | Spring Means New Beginnings for Border Brewing Co.
Spring 2021 offers signs of new life in the Kansas City craft beer scene.
Le Chronic Cafe Serves Aunt Kathy’s Eclairs, Comfort Food
By Kevin Collison In opening Le Chronic Cafe at the City Market, chef Bryan Merker is fulfilling a promise he made to his Aunt Kathy years ago. As a kid in Kansas City, he always enjoyed the wonderful eclairs his aunt prepared. “My aunt was an amazing baker,” Merker recalled. “She always made eclairs so…
The Giving Grove’s Little Orchards Cast Long Shadows
The Giving Grove is empowering communities in Kansas City and several other cities to plant orchards to combat food insecurity.
Tap List | Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, Kansas City Style
Tap List offers tips for a fun and responsible St. Patrick’s Day celebration in Kansas City.
Casual Animal Roams into New, Wide-Open Range
By Kevin Collison There’s much more room for Casual Animal(s) to roam since the microbrewery at 1725 McGee acquired the building next door, allowing it to more than triple its size to become perhaps the biggest beer hall in the East Crossroads. Owner Kyle Gray first learned the cavernous adjoining warehouse space formerly occupied by…
Tap List | Comparing KC Irish Red Ales to the Original, Smithwick’s
Just in time for St. Patrick’s Day, Tap List beer enthusiast Cassie Niemeyer compares two Kansas City Irish ales with Smithwick’s original, which dates back to 1710.
KC Live! Cautiously Welcomes Big 12 Basketball Fans
KC Live! is welcoming fans to the Big 12 Basketball Tournament starting today, but like the event itself, it’s following pandemic health guidelines and won’t host the shoulder-to-shoulder crowds of previous years. The open-air, canopied courtyard that normally can accommodate 5,000 people will require everyone entering to be seated at tables socially-distanced on the main…