Eats & Drinks
Dive-In Movie & Other Weekend Possibilities
A new food truck season kicks off at Farm to Market Bread Co. (100 E. 20th St.) from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday. Flatland contributor Jill Silva hosts a gathering of trucks with Food Truck Friday in the bakery’s Crossroads parking lot. Magnolia’s on the Move, Cirque du Sucre, Beauty of the Bistro, Crave, and El Tenedor…
Chef Lidia Bastianich’s New Autobiography Recalls Life as a Refugee
As migrant children were recently being separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, Lidia Bastianich’s own refugee story has an eerily familiar ring. The accomplished Italian chef and restaurateur takes a break from award-winning cookbooks to unpack her own immigrant story in the just-released “My American Dream: A Life of Love, Family, and Food.”…
Tap List | Welcome To The Neighborhood Brewery
Kansas City is in the midst of a neighborhood brewery boom — where brewers aren’t looking to make it just a few blocks off Broadway, but are instead opting to build a space that reflects the place they live or the drinkers they think could use a beer a little closer to home. Back in…
Recipe | America’s Test Kitchen’s Flag Cake
A big flag sheet cake is the perfect Fourth of July dessert; and at a time when patriotic-colored berries are at their best, vibrant blueberries and red raspberries are a fitting topping. [FLEX-CONTENT] We knew that our workhorse Yellow Sheet Cake was the ideal base for the cake, so our challenge when developing this recipe…
Boba KC Is Open & Other Weekend Possibilities
Take a moment to admire the llama beach towel or a neon pink minidress. Then walk another hundred feet inside the Midway Shopping Center and discover the newly opened Boba KC (4305 State Ave., Kansas City, Kansas). “We want to welcome everybody in and make sure we have something for everyone,” co-owner Mike Her said….




