Chicken & Waffles, Lime Daiquiris & Other Weekend Possibilities
The last eggs will be cracked at Cascone’s Grill (15 E. 5th St.) today. The long-time diner will close after more than 80 years in the River Market. Next up for the space, CitySceneKC reported that Anton Kotar, the owner of Anton’s Taproom on Main Street, will open Estelle’s Diner in the space. [FLEX-CONTENT] It’s a concept…
Revocup to Rev Up Coffee Scene in Underserved Corner of Downtown
By Kevin Collison Coffee lovers in the underserved northeast corner of downtown are about to get a place to call their own: Revocup expects to open by early summer at the historic Pickwick Building at Ninth and McGee. Revocup is a locally-based chain that specializes in Ethiopian coffee, a “high-caliber” bean known for its sweeter…
Downtown’s Revival Fueled by Youthful Energy
GUEST COMMENTARY By Kevin Klinkenberg About nine years ago, I made a decision to leave Kansas City and move to Savannah, Georgia. It wasn’t an easy decision. With so many personal and professional connections here, I knew I’d be giving up a lot. But, I felt I needed a change of scenery in the depths…
Blue Valley Looks To Forge New Path
In the United States of the late 19th century, iron works personified the strength and grit of an emerging industrial power. Pittsburgh became the Steel City, but far to the west, another corner of the industry was growing along the banks of the Blue River — on the eastern outskirts of Kansas City, Missouri. From…
Tap List | 3 Trails Brewing Co. Debuts on Independence Square
Let’s call this one Eastward Expansion. 3 Trails Brewing Co. (111 N. Main St.) opened last Thursday on Independence Square at the corner of East Maple Avenue and North Main Street. [FLEX-CONTENT] This past Sunday, a dad bounced on a baby on one hip next to a group of women casually paying attention to the…
“Estelle’s Diner” Opens in Former Cascone’s in River Market
By Kevin Collison If there’s such a thing as a healthy diner, that’s Anton Kotar’s plan to reinvent the soon-to-close Cascone’s Grill in the River Market. Kotar intends to serve plenty of his trademark grass-fed beef at what he’s calling “Estelle’s Diner,” named after his six-year-old daughter. He raises the cattle on a spread near…
Church Is Ray Of Light In Urban KC Neighborhood
The Sheffield Family Life Center, a 6,000-member Assembly of God church, is a sparkling diamond in an urban coal mine. It’s big, diverse and a key center of life in Kansas City’s distressed Blue Valley area. “We are in a location where we kind of get left out,” says Sheffield’s pastor George Westlake III. “We’re…
Mayoral Candidates Talk Downtown at Neighborhood Forum
By Kevin Collison If there’s one thing voters learned this week at a mayoral candidate forum sponsored by the Downtown Neighborhood Association, Councilman Quinton Lucas is one hard-riding scooter jockey. “I ride the scooters from downtown to Arrowhead Stadium and Kauffman, I’ve done it a number of times so I’m a scooter fan,” Lucas told…
What Makes You Laugh?
Oliver knows that to get through the day-to-day craziness that is life, sometimes you just have to find a reason to laugh. Every Tuesday and Thursday through spring of 2019, Flatland will share stories of Kansas City’s neighbors. Find them online here and on Flatland’s Youtube page — and don’t forget to subscribe.
Convivial Promises Namesake Vibe at New Shop in Former YJ’s Space
By Kevin Collison Chentell Shannon wants to keep the friendly, lively, enjoyable–in a word–“convivial” vibe of the former YJ’s Crossroads space when she opens her shop there May 1. After all, Convivial is the name and spirit of the ceramics design and manufacturing firm she started in 2014. Right now, it’s producing handmade products from…
The ‘Mayor of Flavortown’ is Here, KC
Guy Fieri doesn’t just show up overnight in Kansas City, Missouri, park his red convertible and proceed to casually begin selling tacos. When Guy Fieri’s Dive & Taco Joint opens today in the Power & Light District it will have been — surprisingly for a chef-lebrity that covers everything in flames — a slow burn….
Tea Time, A Drinking Circus & Other Weekend Possibilities
Hummus and pita and baklava and oh, why are we not yet eating? Kinzi Mediterranean Cuisine is open at 5329 Johnson Drive in Mission, Kansas. Get gyros, falafel, kabobs or curry. Kinzi is open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily. Genovese is now the 1856 Bar and Grill (941 Massachusetts St., Lawrence, Kansas). The…
Plans Underway to Reconnect Walnut Street Through City Market
By Kevin Collison The city is planning to reopen Walnut Street to traffic through the City Market on weekdays, reconnecting the original street grid with the goal of bringing more activity to businesses along its east side. Walnut had been a two-way traffic route through the Market up until about 30 years ago. It then…
City Barrel Brewing Co. Looks to Get Hoppy on Holmes
Shrimp get a quick cure in sour beer at City Barrel Brewing Co. (1740 Holmes St.), which opens this Friday in the Crossroads. The sour beer ceviche is just one of the reasons — a wine-beer hybrid and brews based on Tiki drinks are among the others — that City Barrel is going to alter…
How One Kansas City Hospital Treated Segregation in the ‘50s
Queen of the World Hospital was a beacon of unity at a time when black and white citizens were segregated. “Non-white” Kansas Citians – categorized as black and Mexican at the time – had limited options for health services.