Eats & Drinks

Brendan Gargano, Micah Weichart, Melissa VanGoethem, Greg Bland, and Ray Kerzner behind the bar at Stockyards Brewing Company. (Photo: Jonathan Bender | Flatland)

A Familiar Space Becomes A Beer Place

Heavy trucks, laden with construction materials, thud down Genessee Street in the West Bottoms. The trucks roll past storefronts covered in butcher paper and the old site of the Golden Ox, which is now set to be reborn in two stages with two businesses. First up is the Stockyards Brewing Company (1600 Genessee Street, Suite…

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Photo of toasted sandwich with egg, cheese and sausage.

Sunny Side up at Sundown

Breakfast for dinner – long a refuge for working parents and college students – is heating up on restaurant menus. Leeway Franks (935 Iowa Street) in Lawrence and Cleaver & Cork (1333 Walnut Street) in Kansas City’s Power & Light District are preparing to roll out egg sandwiches and sweet potato hash to show how…

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Everything bagels from Meshuggah Bagels

KC is About to Get Bagel Crazy

The man opens the glass door to a suite in a Pleasant Valley industrial park. Before the couple seated at a wooden table by the front door can even respond, he’s apologizing and explaining that he just had to visit the space for himself. “I saw your ad on Craigslist,” said the man. “I don’t…

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John Brogan, 35, has been named executive chef at Rye. (Credit: Bonjwing Lee)

New Executive Chef Tapped at Rye

The torch was quietly passed at Rye in January. Co-owner Colby Garrelts – the only name that has ever been at the top of the kitchen ladder at the Leawood restaurant – promoted John Brogan from chef du cuisine to executive chef. It was a quiet move – the fried chicken dinners and hanger steaks still…

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Taking what vegetarians and vegans miss most about eating meat — that would be bacon — local clean eating company Mean Vegan has created baconated coconut. (Photo: Jonathan Bender | Flatland)

Baconate: (verb) To Make Vegans Happy

With our proximity to pigs and tremendous appetite for pork, Kansas City has long been an innovator in the world of bacon. Local barbecue competitor Jason Day invented the Bacon Explosion –a bacon-lattice wrapped sausage. Bacon Fest Kansas City will celebrate its eighth anniversary this summer. And now, thanks to Mean Vegan, you can eat…

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