Bay Boy Specialty Sandwiches – Avoiding the Horror of Nightmare Sandwich Construction

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You’re starving. You’ve been out all morning, you skipped breakfast, it’s past lunchtime–you need a sandwich. You walk into a local sandwich shop. It’s not Subway, so it might not end up in the gutter. You peruse the menu. Exhausted, you identify a sandwich with the meats, cheeses, and additional elements you enjoy. Breathlessly, ready …

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Il Lazzarone – The Only Truly Authentic Neapolitan Pizza in KC (that I’ve found so far)

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I’ve written about some pretty delicious Neapolitan-adjacent pizza from around Kansas City–and contrasted it with the hot steaming garbage served at Minsky’s. By adjacent, I mean outstanding pizza cooked in a hot wood-fired oven with a thinness and consistency approaching the Neapolitan style, but is probably cooked at not-quite-hot-enough temperatures (maybe 700 instead of 1,000 …

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Bella Napoli – Mixing Subtlety with Big Flavors for Italian in Brookside

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If you want perfectly nice Italian food that’s served Kansas City for decades, whose ongoing existence attests to some baseline level of quality and popular approval, and where you might find a massive table of homecoming attendees or the Ruby Tuesday’s crowd on a nice night out, Garozzo’s and Lidia’s are great options. You’ll enjoy …

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Minsky’s Sucks

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Minsky’s is a popular “gourmet” pizza chain in Kansas City. There are nearly 20 locations. Many, many people here love Minsky’s Pizza. They love the pizza itself, they love the dining experience, but more than anything, they love the idea of calling a pizza “gourmet,” and then consuming that pizza, because it is topped with …

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Taco Naco – A Very Nice Place for Tacos (If You Aren’t Driving to KCK)

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If you want great tacos in Kansas City (authentic, soul-melting tacos), you drive to KCK (Kansas Ave. and adjacent). If you want pretty-nice-to-very-good tacos in Kansas City, your options expand considerably. Congratulations! You can probably eat pretty nice or very good tacos tonight, and only drive 10 minutes to do so! If Taco Republic (next …

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Clay & Fire – An Emblem of Kansas City’s (and the Midwest’s) Culinary Transformation

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Over the past few decades, culinary expectations and offerings in America’s midsized cities, particularly in the Midwest, have utterly transformed. The popularity and visibility of celebrity chef culture and global cuisine, popularized by food and travel television and competition cooking, and driven by the demands of a more well-traveled base of potential restaurant patrons and …

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Seeking Transcendence:  An Analytical Framework for Choosing Kansas City BBQ

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You’re an out-of-town traveler.  Maybe you’re a Jets fan, flying in for the weekend to watch your favorite team get slaughtered by the Chiefs.  Maybe you’re a Cardinals fan, braving a mind-numbing I-70 drive across Missouri for a weekend series in your slightly less populated, but culturally and athletically superior, sister city, with nothing to …

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