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This Hole-In-The-Wall Restaurant In Missouri Is Worth The Drive From Anywhere In The State

Some restaurants earn their reputation through marketing budgets and Instagram filters, and then there’s LC’s Bar-B-Q in Kansas City, Missouri, which earns its reputation the old-fashioned way: through smoke, patience, and meat so good it makes you question every life choice that kept you away this long. If...

Kansas City, MO · 2d
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The Kansas Buffet That Was Just Named One Of The Top All You Can Eat Spots In The State

Fourteen cooking stations. More than 60 Italian dishes. A cobblestone piazza built right inside a restaurant, with fountains and flower-covered balconies overhead. That combination sounds like a fever dream after too much pasta. Yet it’s real, and it sits in the Kansas City suburbs. Kansas diners recently helped push...

Overland Park, KS · 13d
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USA Today list ranks the best of Kansas City BBQ. Which joint is No. 1?

Declaring the very best version of Kansas City barbecue coming out of the many beloved joints in the metro area is often a futile and controversial task — it depends on one’s preference and the day and time a diner goes to a restaurant, and you best be prepared to defend it. But each year, publications, influencers and anyone online with an opinion tackle the scary job of ranking our barbecue and sharing their findings. USA Today, the national media company that owns newspapers across the country, including in Missouri and Kansas, published the 2026 readers’ choice list of 10 best Kansas City-style BBQ restaurants on Oct. 28. Last year the publication’s readers voted, strangely, to award a non-Kansas City joint (Stateline Road Smokehouse in Napa, California) with the No. 1 spot on a Kansas City BBQ list — though to be fair, owner Darryl Bell is originally from Kansas City. But it seems those readers righted their wrongs, with a Kansas City-based barbecue restaurant earning the most votes to claim the top spot. That best barbecue restaurant is Slap’s BBQ , a KC spot that’s often considered one of the best to ‘cue and has produced a loyal following

Kansas City, MO · 1d

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This Giant Kansas Grocery Store Has An Endless Selection Worth Traveling For

Duck eggs, quail eggs, lychees, and Dubai chocolate strawberry cups all share one roof here. That’s a pretty wild shopping list for a single grocery run. The bakery greets shoppers first, with cakes, baklava, and knafeh lined up near the entrance. Farther in, the aisles stretch toward halal meats,...

Overland Park, KS · 11h
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New ‘best’ KC barbecue spot named according to national poll

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (KCTV) - There could be a new king of Kansas City-style barbecue. The results will be controversial. Fans just named Slaps BBQ in Kansas City, Kansas, the best Kansas City-style barbecue spot in the country, according to a USA Today 10Best Readers’ Choice poll. “To everyone...

Kansas City, KS · 4d

The Kansas City Star

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Mice droppings on shelves, gnats under sink: Latest KC-area restaurant inspections

From moldy food on grocery displays to roaches under a soda machine, health inspectors in Missouri and Kansas found numerous violations at Kansas City-area restaurants last week. Dining establishments like sit-down restaurants, drive-thrus, gas stations and grocery stores are required to get food inspections, and governments have to release those inspections to the public. In Kansas City and Independence, each city’s health department enforces the food code while in Kansas, the state’s Department of Agriculture handles inspections. The lower the number of violations, the better. Most restaurants correct violations at the time of the original inspection or shortly after. The full inspections show how each establishment has corrected or is working to correct any remaining violations. They are available for Kansas City at inspectionsonline.us/foodsafety/mousakansascity/search.htm and Johnson and Wyandotte counties at portal.kda.ks.gov/Food/FoodInspectionSearch. Here are the restaurants in Kansas City, Johnson and Wyandotte Counties that received seven or more priority and priority foundation ​violations from Oct. 25-31. No eateries in Independence met the threshold during this time period. Midtown Market-Desi Dhaba 3967 Main St. Nine violations found during Oct. 26 inspection Roaches were seen on a wall, while dead roaches were seen in paper towel dispenser. An employee was seen cutting cilantro

Kansas City, KS · 1d

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10 Highly Rated Restaurants In Overland Park, Kansas, That Actually Live Up To The Hype

One barbecue menu in this suburb lists a dish called Best Wings on the Planet, with a completely straight face. Bold move. A few miles away, a small Mediterranean kitchen serves baklava cheesecake. Another spot serves Italian cream cake and tiramisu for dessert. Overland Park, Kansas, clearly takes its plates...

Overland Park, KS · 3d

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The Fresh Cheese And Ice Cream At This Missouri Dairy Farm Will Have You Coming Back For More

There are places you visit once and forget, and then there are places that quietly rearrange your expectations of what a good day looks like, and Shatto Milk Company in Osborn, Missouri is firmly in that second category. You don’t stumble onto Shatto by accident. You hear about it...

Osborn, MO · 23h

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This Old-School Missouri Supper Club Has Been Hand-Cutting Steaks Since 1946

A salad named for the year 1957 still lands on tables at one Missouri steakhouse, and people keep ordering it by name. I love when a menu carries its own birthday like that. The prime rib gets talked about more than anything else here. Carrot cake comes in a strong second, which tells you folks save room.

Kansas City, MO · 1d

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This Old-School Missouri Drugstore Counter Still Pours Hand-Mixed Malts Like It’s 1950

A marble bar, a chocolate malt, and a phosphate soda are still waiting on one Missouri town square. Yes, phosphates. The fizzy old fountain drink your grandparents ordered never fully left this spot. The menu reads like a time capsule with a few modern surprises tucked in. You’ll find floats,...

Independence, MO · 4d

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This Unassuming Missouri Eatery Serves Food So Good You Will Want To Tell Everyone

Most great restaurants announce themselves with a whisper, not a shout, and Hayes Hamburger and Chili in Kansas City, Missouri, has been whispering its way into people’s hearts for longer than most restaurants manage to stay open at all. The word “unassuming” gets used a lot to describe places...

Kansas City, MO · 2d

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A Kansas City grocery store thrives where others closed. Now the model is expanding

Deborah Phillips walked up to the automatic sliding glass doors of the Sun Fresh in the Blue Parkway Shops on Oct. 26, only to be disappointed. The grocery store had closed for good the night before, citing “declining sales and rising operating costs.”. Phillips works down the street and...

Kansas City, MO · 3d

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Price Chopper launches value-based offshoot offering groceries at cost plus a 10% charge

SHOPPERS can now buy groceries at cost, plus a 10% charge, through a brand-new version of a discount retailer. The development comes as giants like Kroger and Walmart have recently been forced to detail their pricing strategies. Cosentino’s Food Stores, a regional grocer in the Kansas City, Missouri, area, has...

Kansas City, MO · 1d

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Kansas City’s Town Topic Hamburgers Has Kept Its Tiny Grill Going Around The Clock Since 1937

Some Kansas City restaurants close at night, and one tiny burger counter on Broadway simply never does. Its grill has been working since 1937, through decades of changing streets, changing tastes, and changing neighbors. There are only a handful of seats, a short row of stools, and a parking sign...

Kansas City, MO · 3d

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This Kansas City chef who runs a gourmet butcher shop loves gizzards and burgers

Thanksgiving is, without a doubt, the best food holiday on the calendar. It’s also chef Sarah Nelson’s favorite holiday. This is despite the fact that she is put to work on Thanksgiving, given her skill set. “I actually negotiated with my family this year a way for us to do just family gatherings on Thanksgiving, and then do an actual sit-down meal on Black Friday so I can actually enjoy it and not try to be catching up with family while I’m doing all the food,” Nelson said. The holiday is a favorite, she said, because it brings all the comfort foods she enjoys onto the table for one glorious day of gorging. She happens to have access to some of those foods, given that she runs a butcher shop and gourmet grocery store in the Northland with her husband, Louis Guerrieri, the duo that also used to run the Ombra restaurant before it closed in late 2024. Carne Diem just celebrated its second anniversary of being open in the Village at Briarcliff, providing its customers a whole-animal butchery of Missouri-sourced meats like Angus beef, lamb, duck and more. What it means to be a whole animal butchery is to

Kansas City, MO · 10h

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Blue Parkway Sun Fresh Closes in Kansas City as Linwood’s United Market Reports About 1,000 Transactions a Day

The Sun Fresh at The Shops on Blue Parkway in Kansas City, Missouri, closed permanently on Sunday, Oct. 25, after its nonprofit operator said declining sales and rising operating costs made the store unsustainable, KSHB 41 reported. Community Builders of Kansas City, which owns the shopping center and had run the store since June 2020, said it is working with 25 affected employees on severance and job placement.

Kansas City, MO · 3h

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Oldest distillery west of the Mississippi keeps bourbon-making alive in Weston

Inside the oldest distillery west of the Mississippi, still operating in its original location in Weston, Missouri, the history is impossible to miss.

Weston, MO · 22h

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New Chipotle location set to open along Belt Highway in St. Joseph

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (KQTV) -- Chipotle lovers can now celebrate, as a new location looks to open in St. Joseph on Tuesday, Nov. 17. The new location is at 715 N Belt Hwy. This is the second Chipotle location in St. Joseph and will feature the brand’s signature Chipotlane, a drive-thru pickup lane that allows customers to pick up digital orders.

St Joseph, MO · 7h

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Diners Who Work Through The Whole Menu At This Family-Run Olathe, Kansas Spot Say The Enchiladas Win

Some families order one thing and call it a night. Others take on an entire menu, every meat included, and then crown a champion at the end. In one Olathe strip mall, that challenge has been tried, and the winner was the enchiladas. The place also has a little robot that rolls your food to the table, which is a fun bonus for kids and grown-ups alike.

Olathe, KS · 2d