feed me kc

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 [...]

It’s no secret that I pretty much hate the suburbs. I don’t hate the people who live in them, of course, or even that people live in them; they’re just not for me (though I have recently developed an affinity for Fairway and Westwood in eastern Johnson County). I also hate that someone or something [...]

The fabulous Pitch restaurant writer Charles Ferruzza and I have been trying to do a dinner date at ABC Cafe for months; neither of us have been and it’s supposed to be the most authentic Chinese restaurant in the Kansas City metro area. Unfortunately, life has gotten in the way. There was a death, too [...]

Oh, hey. Remember me? I’ve been “dieting.” Somehow, though, I ended up at SPIN! Pizza today and could not resist the #19. Oops. But it was so damn good. As you know, I really, really like it. I also may have gone back to The Boot on Sunday numbers two and three of the No. 4. [...]

We don’t know what’s more exciting: that our very first feed me kc podcast is finally up on iTunes or that iTunes categorized it as “explicit.” Either way, we hope you’ll listen. If you don’t, you’ll miss us interviewing chef Patrick Ryan about his now-famous Port Fonda food truck, his soon-to-open Westport restaurant (with a projected [...]

Ever since I moved back to Kansas City in 2009, people have told me that Andre’s Confiserie Suisse is “the kind of place you go to lunch with your mom.” Well, today, my soon-to-be mother-in-law invited me to lunch at the Leawood location. The people were right. The no-frills lunch was delightful. I had the [...]

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 [...]