Eats & Drinks
West Bottoms Whiskeys Found a Home on 13th Street
A wolf howl splits the afternoon quiet as a truck slowly backs up to a loading bay in the West Bottoms. The garage door at 1321 13th St. rolls up and Alex Lindsey steps out to see what’s happening in the shadows of Kansas City’s haunted houses. There’s chalk drawings on the concrete floor behind…
Tap List | KC Bier Co. is Bringing Oktoberfest to Crown Center
There will be a little more oomph in the oom-pah-pah at KC Bier Co.’s Oktoberfest this year. The festival, now in its fifth year, is moving from the Waldo brewery’s bier garden to the plaza at Crown Center. “We ran out of space at the brewery,” KC Bier Co. founder and managing partner Steve Holle…
Afterword Tavern Brings Fresh Food, Drink and Ideas to Crossroads
By Kevin Collison If there’s one thing Christian Overgaard would like to see happen when people visit his new place, Afterword Tavern & Shelves, its having their curiosity awakened. “We keep coming back to a theme of discovery,” he said. “A place where someone walks in and by the time they leave, maybe they know…
You can get great meaty, bold chili thanks to a multicooker
Great chili should have bold, long-simmered flavor, even if it’s made with convenient ground beef. The multicooker was the perfect way to achieve this with a minimum of hands-on time. A combination of chili powder, cumin, and garlic was all we needed to give the chili great spice flavor. We used crushed tomatoes plus chicken…
Wiener Dog Derby & Other Weekend Possibilities
Strawberry Hill Blocktoberfest is from noon to 9 p.m. Friday on Sixth Street between Ann and Tauromee in Kansas City, Kansas. The festival, put on by Better Block, is meant to re-envision Sixth Street with bike lanes, pop-up shops, a beer garden and street art. The Liberty Fall Festival is in historic downtown Liberty, Missouri, and runs…