Originally Posted by
cupps
I presume you are referring to Kansas City? If so, you can check out the Westport area for bars and KC is certainly quite famous for a variety of Barbeque places. Crown Plaza area is also quite nice as well.
Westport (40th/ Broadway) can get a bit dicey.
Downtown has some nightlife.
Crown Center (near downtown, about 10 blocks due south around 20th and Grand) is an option -- 1970s urban renewal courtesy of the Hall and Pritzker families.
The Plaza (aka Country Club Plaza) is 35 blocks due south of downtown around 47th and Wornall, in the Brush Creek valley. Built in the 1920s it is an established shopping/ entertainment district courtesy of the Nichols family.