Kansas City Restaurants

[DullesFlyer]

We're relatively new to KC and are interested in restaurant recommendations...

Some of the places we like are:
-The BBQ joints (Oklahoma Joes, Arthur Bryants, Gates, Jack Stacks)
-J. Alexander
-The chains on the plaza (Houston's, Capital Grille, M&S Grill, McCormick and Schmicks, PF Chengs)
-Bolings
-Cactus Grille / Jose Peppers / Baja 600
-Waldo's Pizza
-Yahooz / Yia Yia's

Any other recommendations?

[IceTrojan]

Whatever is decided, please pick me up from MCI on 4/25, 4/29, and 5/13

[lili]

Oklahoma Joe's was a hit with the recent BBQ-Do.

I had lunch that weekend at Mico's (Mi Cocina) on the Plaza. Pretty okay, but not inexpensive. (glass of wine and basic combo plate $18)

Cafe Sebastien at the Kemper Art Museum is supposed to be great, but I didn't make it there. Also for more bbq, have heard BB's Lawnside is great.

Kansas City is an amazingly likeable town. At least in the spring.

[PatrickHenry1775]

Try Stroud's if you like fried chicken. It has been a few years, and I thought I heard the original location closed because of road reconstruction, but I think there is another location in KC area.

[lili]

Originally Posted by IceTrojan

Whatever is decided, please pick me up from MCI on 4/25, 4/29, and 5/13

Rent from Hertz at MCI. 30% AA Plat discount, one free weekend day coupon on website, free parking everywhere. I got a very nice Subaru Outback station wagon for $7.50 a day and some minimal tax.

MWP2Paris also took the BBQ-Do folks to Foo's frozen custard in Brookside (?). Excellent. And the neighborhood looked like a good-eating area.

[IceTrojan]

Originally Posted by lili

Rent from Hertz at MCI. 30% AA Plat discount, one free weekend day coupon on website, free parking everywhere. I got a very nice Subaru Outback station wagon for $7.50 a day and some minimal tax.

MWP2Paris also took the BBQ-Do folks to Foo's frozen custard in Brookside (?). Excellent. And the neighborhood looked like a good-eating area.

Hi lili!

Thanks for the tip! To which website are you referring to? I'm not finding the 30% PLT discount.

[ksucats]

I used to live there. A couple of my favorites that you didn't mention are Jake Edwards BBQ & Minsky's Pizza. There is a bonus with Minsky's, as it is Idine, which I didn't even know about when I lived there. I make an attempt to eat Minsky's every time I am in KC.

[Delta Hog]

High end: Pierpont's Union Station (best restaurant in town in my book); Piropos in Parkville

Chains: Cheesecake Factory (best chain in town in my book), Ruth's Chris (best steak place anywhere in my book)

[homer37]

I second Waldo Pizza & Strouds (right now, the only Strouds location is up north - it is a bit of a drive from OP, but well worth it).

Doughboyz Pizza is also quite good (it's in south Olathe).

Zin, Cafe Trio, and Joe D's are all good as well (all KCMO).

[Jakebeth]

Depending on where you live in OP:

Fortune Wok - There appear to be 2 of them, though I've only been to the one on 135th. A little more 'nouveau' than what I consider to be a bit more 'standard' Bo Lings, but I'm a fan, and everyone I know loves it:

11236 W 135th St - 913-239-8648
14537 Metcalf Ave - 913-681-8863

If you haven't been to them, you should at least try Yia Yia's and Yahooz, which are both owned by the locally based PB&J Restaurants. (They seem kind of like Rich Melman's Chicago-based Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises, which now has something like 50 restaurants, and I've found the quality to be consistently excellent at the PB&J places to which I've been.)

Yia Yia's Euro Bistro
4701 W 119th St
913-345-1111

Yahooz
4701 Town Center Dr.
913-451-8888

Welcome to town!

I'm really sorry and sad that I missed the DO everyone.

Perhaps we should do another 'night out' for drinks sometime, maybe out South given all of the folks who seem to be out that way.

[MCI777]

Not that anyones suggestions were not good, but where is mwp2paris when you need him?/ He is the TRUE Kansas City restaurant aficionado.

[envgeo]

Circe's on West 39th. suckling pig, imo, its had to beat. circeck.com

[Jakebeth]

Originally Posted by MCI777

Not that anyones suggestions were not good, but where is mwp2paris when you need him?/ He is the TRUE Kansas City restaurant aficionado.

My sense is that mwp2paris could tell us authoritatively about restaurants in just about any city in the USA.

[flyinryan]

Which of the above restaurants are close to MCI? I'm coming there (with another FTer) for a same-day MR this weekend, and I'd love to get some BBQ or a steak, but don't want to drop a huge cab fare.
Thanks in advance

[Amicus]

If the OP, Dulles Flyer, is from the D.C. area, then you are probably used to a wide variety of ethnic cuisines that are a little more difficult to find in Kansas City. When we moved to Overland Park from Alexandria, VA, we really missed places like Peking Gourmet in Falls Church, for example.

I highly recommend Malay Cafe, which is up near MCI, or Thai Place in O.P.
Otherwise, I agree with other posters here that Stroud's is fantastic, though you have to travel north of the river, now, and of course Waldo's pizza.

If "flyinryan" is doing a MR to Kansas City this weekend, you can probably do a shared ride on KCI Shuttle, cheaper than a taxi, to say, the Sheraton on the Plaza, and then walk to any of the "Plaza" restaurants listed above for steak. The best BBQ places are not easy to get to without a car.