Today’s Special
Discover the tastemakers and tastes defining the Kansas City food scene. Follow KCPT producer Cole Blaise (Show Me) and Recommended Daily‘s Jonathan Bender as they visit the establishments and people who are making the food, drinks, and innovations that are inspiring a local and national following.
Today’s Special | The Hop!Toddy
Editor’s Note: This story has been updated with video. For the entire “Today’s Special” series and other digital productions, follow Flatland’s YouTube channel. When Oddly Correct arrived on the coffee landscape five years ago, the independent roaster and coffee shop made a name for itself because of what it would not serve: cream and sugar. Oddly Correct’s founder…
Today’s Special | The Hemingway Daiquiri
Before Ernest Hemingway was Ernest Hemingway, he was just a young reporter for the Kansas City Star. In 1918, a teenage Hemingway worked a beat that included Union Station and the downtown police station. His time at the daily paper would prove formative, not just in terms of his writing, but for his palate. As current…
Today’s Special | Pork Tenderloin Sliders
It’s not the size of a sandwich that makes it great. There are two-handers and hoagies and superheroes and sammitches with far more meat and heft than The Rieger’s pork tenderloin sliders. There are pork tenderloins that hang precariously over the bun and others that appear to have come from pigs of prehistoric stature. But…
Today’s Special | Boulevard’s Beer Backpacks
This story of craft beer and baseball begins on Opening Day three years ago at Kauffman Stadium. Neil Witte, a training and technical support manager with the Boulevard Brewing Company, made his way through the parking lot as tailgaiting Kansas City Royals fans hoped that the fat grey clouds overhead didn’t put on a damper…
Today’s Special | The Z-Man
Customers may not have been able the name the Z-man sandwich, but they’ve convinced Joe’s Kansas City to make more than a few varieties of the iconic barbecue two-hander over the years. In the debut episode of “Today’s Special”, Joe’s Kansas City owner Jeff Stehney talks about how the Z-man got its name and just…