Eats & Drinks
Tap List | 3 Trails Brewing Co. Debuts on Independence Square
Let’s call this one Eastward Expansion. 3 Trails Brewing Co. (111 N. Main St.) opened last Thursday on Independence Square at the corner of East Maple Avenue and North Main Street. [FLEX-CONTENT] This past Sunday, a dad bounced on a baby on one hip next to a group of women casually paying attention to the…
“Estelle’s Diner” Opens in Former Cascone’s in River Market
By Kevin Collison If there’s such a thing as a healthy diner, that’s Anton Kotar’s plan to reinvent the soon-to-close Cascone’s Grill in the River Market. Kotar intends to serve plenty of his trademark grass-fed beef at what he’s calling “Estelle’s Diner,” named after his six-year-old daughter. He raises the cattle on a spread near…
The ‘Mayor of Flavortown’ is Here, KC
Guy Fieri doesn’t just show up overnight in Kansas City, Missouri, park his red convertible and proceed to casually begin selling tacos. When Guy Fieri’s Dive & Taco Joint opens today in the Power & Light District it will have been — surprisingly for a chef-lebrity that covers everything in flames — a slow burn….
Tea Time, A Drinking Circus & Other Weekend Possibilities
Hummus and pita and baklava and oh, why are we not yet eating? Kinzi Mediterranean Cuisine is open at 5329 Johnson Drive in Mission, Kansas. Get gyros, falafel, kabobs or curry. Kinzi is open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily. Genovese is now the 1856 Bar and Grill (941 Massachusetts St., Lawrence, Kansas). The…
City Barrel Brewing Co. Looks to Get Hoppy on Holmes
Shrimp get a quick cure in sour beer at City Barrel Brewing Co. (1740 Holmes St.), which opens this Friday in the Crossroads. The sour beer ceviche is just one of the reasons — a wine-beer hybrid and brews based on Tiki drinks are among the others — that City Barrel is going to alter…
Tap List | Free State Brewing Company Celebrates 30 Years of Beer
Free State Brewing Co. celebrates with one tap for every year of its existence this Saturday when Bier Station puts 30 of the Lawrence-based brewery’s beers behind the bar. Free State, founded by Lawrence native Chuck Magerl in 1989, has been the standard-bearer for craft beer in the Sunflower State. It was the first brewery…
STRETCH Expands Into Former Thou Mayest Space
By Kevin Collison The space formerly occupied by Thou Mayest is about to be reincarnated by the pioneering prince of East Crossroads entrepreneurs, STRETCH. STRETCH, the sculptor who launched the revival of the area when he opened Grinders in 2000, has taken over the space at 419 E. 18th St. and plans to open what…
Party Like It’s 1860 & Other Weekend Possibilities
Do you long for a simpler time when butter was still churned by hand? The Mahaffie Stagecoach Stop & Historic Farm site in Olathe, Kansas, is hosting a dinner ($49) straight out of the 1860s from 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday. Staff in period garb will take you by stagecoach to the historic home and to…
CBD Oil is Kansas City’s Next Big Food and Drink Trend
Cream? Sugar? CBD oil? The Roasterie made a splash last month when it introduced cold brew coffee with CBD oil in cans through a partnership with American Shaman, a chain of local CBD shops. Hogshead, a new American restaurant on the Country Club Plaza, is set to unveil a CBD-infused cocktail menu this Friday. The…
Tap List | Taps on Main Opens & Plenty of Beer To Love
Legendary actor Bill Murray has a reputation for jumping behind the bar in cities across America and taking over drink-slinging duties. For those of us who are not Bill Murray, what if we could pull the tap handle and let the beer flow? Taps on Main (1715 Main St.) opened Monday at 11 a.m. The pour-your-own…