Eats & Drinks
Tap List | Prairie Mary Will Add Some Pepper To Your Step
Put this one in your burn book. Border Brewing Co. is bringing some heat to the bar with Prairie Fire Chile Saison (7.5% alcohol by volume) on Saturday, April 13. The farmhouse ale is made with fire-roasted poblano and chipotle peppers. It’s a spicy play on the calm universe that is red beer. Fancy a…
5 Coffee Drinks to Get a Cooler Dose of Caffeine
We all have a day in spring when a barista asks if you’d like a coffee drink iced and you take a moment as the sun hits the counter and then you say yes to the espresso reborn as an iced Americano. With a slate of new cold brew offerings in cans and iced creations…
Cake & Wine, All The Sushi & Other Weekend Possibilities
Don’t overthink Friday. McLain’s Market Lawrence (1420 Crescent Road, Lawrence, Kansas) has Cake & Wine from 6 to 8 p.m. The bakery’s cake decorators lead the class ($65), which includes two glasses of wine, snacks and a two-layer, 6-inch white cake to adorn as you see fit. The flowers are starting to bloom and spring…
Tap List |Are You Ready for “Strong Beer” and Sport Beer?
Beers, like Americans, have been on a seemingly never-ending march toward getting bigger. More booze. More glitter. Just more. But this week could signal drinkers’ desire to press pause on that trend. Boulevard Brewing Co. dropped Easy Sport Recreation Ale ( made with tangerine peel) yesterday. The lower calorie (99 on the nose), lower alcohol-by-volume…
Troost Restaurants Strive, Thrive and Help Revive Downtown Neighborhood
By Jill Wendholt Silva Thelma’s Kitchen is a non-profit, pay-what-you-can café. Ruby Jean’s is a for-profit juicery. What do these two businesses have in common? Try food, an address near 31st and Troost on the edge of greater downtown and a people-centered approach to urban redevelopment. “What we need in order to have a resilient…