Eats & Drinks
City Barrel Brewing Finds a Home in The Crossroads
“This just feels like a place where you should drink beer,” said James Stutsman, co-founder of City Barrel Brewing. He is standing just inside a set of rolling garage doors at 1740 Holmes St., the future home of City Barrel. Brewery visitors will enter into what will become the beer hall, where exposed brick walls and…
Recipe | America’s Test Kitchen’s Whoopie Pies
Made up of two cookie-like chocolate cakes stuffed to the gills with fluffy marshmallow filling, the whoopie pie is a sweet indulgence. For the cake component, we drew inspiration from devil’s food cake, creaming butter with sugar, adding eggs and buttermilk for tenderness, and using all-purpose flour and baking soda for the right amount of…
Patio Party for Karbon & Other Weekend Possibilities
There’s a patio party from 3 to 7 p.m. Sunday at Sturgis Materials (550 South Packard St.) to raise funds for chef Rachel Rinas, who is opening Karbon in Parlor KC. The party comes with a unique twist: Jarocho’s Carlos Falcon will be cooking with meat, while the Local Pig’s Alex Pope will be using seafood…
Food Halls Are Having a Moment in Kansas City
The Lenexa Public Market may have put downtown Lenexa, Kansas, on the map. It’s one part food hall, one part retail, but it’s the food hall concept you need to hear about, as developers from Atlanta, Denver, and New York City are looking at Kansas City as the next great food hall destination. [FLEX-CONTENT] Food…
Roasterie Opening Cafe in H&R Block Headquarters
The Roasterie is heralding the arrival later this summer of its new cafe inside the H&R Block headquarters Wednesday with a “Block Party” offering free food and coffee. The event, which runs from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the H&R Block lobby, will give people a taste of what to expect when The Roasterie…