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What would Waldo look like today if the Great Waldo Fire of Twenty Aught Seven had been averted — if that mischievous cow hadn’t kicked over a deep fryer at Kennedy’s, igniting a day-long conflagration consuming a half block of aging retail space? We wouldn’t have the 75th Street Brewery beer garden. We wouldn’t have [...]

When life gives you a never-ending, acne-inducing heat wave, you can do one of two things: complain about it on Facebook or shut the hell up and drink your dinner. Sorry. The heat makes me grumpy. I already provide plenty of reasons to hide or unfriend me on social networking sites. So, when it’s hot [...]

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 [...]

There’s a restaurant doing barbecue chicken better than anybody else in the entire metropolitan area and it’s called El Pollo Rey. I think it’s in a barn. It’s tucked away in Armourdale (or Argentine or Rosedale – I never really know the difference), KCK, in a place you might be able to drive by without [...]

(Note: I tried to post this awhile ago, but every time I go buy one of these sandwiches it somehow finds its ways into my mouth before I have time to take a usable picture. Finally I waited long enough to get an actual picture.) Emily talked sandwiches in the radio a few Fridays ago. [...]

Dear Californos, I’m sorry I’ve lived in Kansas City for three years and never visited you because I assumed you were merely a moderately-priced wedding venue and a restaurant with a not-very-defined menu that was frequented only by newly-engaged couples and middle-age gay men. The thing is, you are a moderately-priced wedding venue, and your [...]

I’m a big fan of everything Aaron Confessori is doing in Westport. After the Wilco concert at The Uptown Theater in December, I single-handedly (mouthedly?) ate about $40 worth of food from his food truck, Westport Street Fare, (full disclosure: I may or may not have purposely or not-so-purposely breathed in the fumes of some funny [...]

I got takeout from Taj Palace last night, and all I have to show for it is this crusty bowl. That’s what happens when you’re so excited for Tikka Masala that you forget to snap a picture before you eat it. Here’s a little review I wrote of Taj Palace last year for a now-defunct [...]

In a pine nut shell (keep reading for the reference): the food is good, the decor is over the top and the service is uncomfortably formal. It’s good, but gimmicky. First, the food (if you can make it past the stream-of-consciousness concepting blabber that is the intro to the menu): Everything we had was really [...]