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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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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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