Restaurants

Odin Smith of Lenexa shares a smile with Stella Musongong, who owns African Dream Cuisine with her husband Neba Ngwa. It was Odin’s first time dining at the food stall in Lenexa Public Market.

Dreams Come True at Lenexa Public Market

By Jill Wendholt Silva | October 28, 2022

Lenexa Public Market has become an incubator for emerging restaurant concepts such as African Dream Cuisine.

Baba’s Pantry, a Palestinian delicatessen, is Chef Yahia Kamal’s (right) most recent food venture with family: son Omar, wife Yusra and daughter Yasmine. Not picture: Son Kamal Kamal and Hannah Kamal Nsenki.

KC’s Hummus King Turns to Family to Create Baba’s Pantry

By Jill Wendholt Silva | August 11, 2022

Baba’s Pantry, a Palestinian-American deli, is a labor of love for a family that has lived the high and lows of Kansas City’s food and restaurant industry.

A postcard depicting Putsch’s 210, circa the early 1950s.

‘Iconic Restaurants of Kansas City’: New Book Offers a History of Kansas City Eats

By Jill Wendholt Silva | July 6, 2022

Andrea Broomfield, an English professor at Johnson County Community College, has written “Iconic Restaurants of Kansas City,” a history of local dining culture.

Nika Cotton makes a drink at Soulcentricitea, which she opened on Troost Ave. last July. Cotton applied for a grant from the Restaurant Revitalization Fund, but did not receive any money.

In Kansas City, Restaurant Revitalization Funds Flowed to Whiter, More Affluent Areas

By Celisa Calacal, KCUR 89.3 | August 18, 2021

Local businesses received a total of $53 million from the Restaurant Revitalization Fund. But few of those dollars flowed east of Troost.

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curiousKC | Here’s a List of Farm-to-Table Restaurants in Kansas City

By Emily Woodring | November 23, 2020

The curiousKC team takes a tour of Kansas City restaurants that emphasize local and natural foods on their menus.

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