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North Kansas City Food Trucks? Maybe Not
During the month of August, neighborhood folks and foodies visiting North Kansas City’s Macken Park enjoyed a more diverse choice of local food than is usually offered in the city. The recent arrival of food trucks transformed the relatively quiet park into a hub of sophisticated lunch options, offering everything from authentic Cuban sandwiches, to colorful upscale tacos, to Asian-fusion cuisine, all made fresh on the spot.
Get in, get your ramen, and get out
Despite its small size, Josh Eans knows that his latest venture comes with big expectations. He’s standing inside the 450-square-foot garage next to Happy Gillis Café & Hangout –the restaurant he owns with his wife Abbey-Jo Eans. A short hallway connects the luncheonette with the future home of the Columbus Park Ramen Shop. “We want…
Can You Use That In A Sentence? Dictionary Adds New Words
Oxford Dictionaries has added a slew of new words, and let’s just say these awesomesauce entries will have you fangirling. Rly. Many entries are food-related: fast-casual, adj.: denoting or relating to a type of high-quality self-service restaurant offering dishes that are prepared to order and more expensive than those available in a typical fast-food restaurant cakeage, n.: (informal) a charge made…
Upside Down-Land: Bitter Harvest
As Cerner and other businesses use TIF to ensure their growth, Kansas and Missouri keep squeezing their poorest citizens.
Upside Down-Land: Cerner's TIF Transplant
Neal Patterson personifies 21st-century Kansas City entrepreneurialism. He is his generation’s Henry Bloch or Joyce Hall, the head of a company he started from nothing — Cerner Corporation — and made KC’s most prosperous business. Cerner, a health-information technology firm, makes more than $3 billion a year. The company’s market capitalization — the value of…