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Rumormongering: Corner Restaurant to reopen, with booze!

Fresh off this morning’s rumor mill: the Corner Restaurant  — that disgustingly delicious, beloved breakfast joint of all-nighters past —is going to reopen soon. With booze! I am all for this development, as long as whoever takes over the space at Broadway and Westport Road can get the smell of greasy zombie out of all [...]

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Ryan Maybee is Maybe Gonna Class Up Power & Light

Ryan Maybee — the business brain behind Manifesto and The Rieger — is teaming up with local developer Cordish to open a jazz club in the Power & Light district. I know what you’re thinking: “What the eff?” I’m thinking it, too, but maybe now we’ll have a reason to go to P&L after dark. [...]

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Not Surprisingly, the Port Fonda Restaurant is Really Cool

From the Department of Not News: The Port Fonda restaurant is cool. I told myself I wasn’t going to brave the early crowds at Port Fonda, which sort of surprise-opened its doors for cocktails and half-price appetizers for the first time last night. As much as I love food — and Patrick Ryan’s food in [...]

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Port Fonda Restaurant Set to Open Tuesday, June 26

Even though he says they don’t, I’m convinced that the chilaquiles that Patrick Ryan serves up at Port Fonda have crack in them. And I’ve been waiting a damn long time to put them in my mouth — since last fall, when the Port Fonda food truck was still parking outside The Rieger. In the [...]

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Put it in My Mouth: Frida’s Pork Tacos

Fact: the pork tacos, or Tacos De Cochinita, at Frida’s have magic sauce in them. This “magic sauce” is actually the sauce they’re roasted in — a combination of achiote, sweet and sour orange juice, and red onions — but for the purposes of this post, we’ll just continue to call it magic sauce. This [...]

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Oklahoma Joe’s Opening in Leawood Early July

This is going to be very good and very bad at the same time: the third metro area Oklahoma Joe’s location is set to open just a few blocks from the place where Jeff and I spend about eight hours a day, five days a week. It will be good because I’m going to PUT [...]

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A Look Inside Local Pig

Good news Kansas City – we now have a boutique butcher shop! Deep down in the East Bottoms, tucked behind Knuckleheads and a maze of railroad lines, Alex Pope’s Local Pig finally opened this Monday. I ventured down this afternoon after a couple months of waiting to see what the shop had to offer. It [...]

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