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Table of Contents Abuelos Affare Aladdian Hotel All Star Pizza American BBQ Anthony’s Backbone Media - New Belgium Br Boulevard Brewing Company Busch Media Group Cafe Europa Cafe Trio Carmen’s Cafe Cascone’s Grill Charlie Hoopers Chipotle Chiusano Brick Oven Pizzeri Clocktower Bakery Cordish Company Crossroads Community Association Door to Door Organics Drum Room EBT Restaurant Edokko Equip-Bid.com Frank James Breadeaux Pizza Genghis Godfather’s Granite City Food & Brewery Green Room Hereford House Howl at the Moon Humpys Irish Pub House Jazz- A Louisiana Kitchen Jerusalem Bakery KC Hopps - The Dubliner KC Originals Kokopelli Mexican Cantina Latin Bistro Little Egypt Lucky Brewgrille Marina Grog & Galley Mazatlan Melting Pot Michaelangelo’s Italian Grill New York Dawg Pound Next Door Pizza North Kansas City Beverage Co. On the Border One More Cup Open Fire Woodburning Pizza Pachamama’s New World Cuisine Papa Bob’s BBQ Papa Keno Pho 2 RA Sushi Red Tail Ranch LLC Renee Kelly Restaurant Rehab Saigon 39 Inc. Sherlocks SPIN Pizza Starkers Stone Pillar Vineyard & Winery Story Sweet Pea Cakes Tamale Wizard Thai Orchid The Fig Tree Cafe and Bakery The Rock Cafe Unforked Waldo Pizza Webster House Wheat State Pizza

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Forks in the Road: Downtown and the Crossroads

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813 West 17th Street 816-785-3454 Each of the dishes was delicious. The fake fish that was folded into the chalupa shell was made from unripened jackfruit (native to Southeast Asia and the national fruit of Indonesia), which is used for savory dishes before it ripens and becomes sweet. The chalupa was slathered liberally with owner Heidi VanPeltBelle’s proprietary cashew cheese, a spicy neon-orange concoction that looks like a cross between Velveeta and finger paint but tastes very good. The fruit looked and tasted stunningly fishy – in the right way. The rice-mushroom blend used for the meatless tostada also looked and tasted like the real thing.

—Charles Ferruzza

Nica’s 320

320 Southwest Boulevard 816-471-2900 Let’s say you’re toying with the idea of ordering a crepe or pan-fried noodles or a filet. That’s merely the first step. Do you want that steak served Thai style?

Italiano? Cajun? Caribbean? There are eight internationally inspired possibilities, and they all sound pretty tasty. Merker knows his beef, and the center-cut filet was very good. Then again, one of my favorite dinners at Nica’s requires no decision making. Instead of choosing a mix-and-match entrée, I ordered the mac and cheese and my favorite starter on the menu, a trio of sliders. One small sandwich is Korean-style barbecued pulled pork, another Thai-spiced chicken, and the third jerk steak.

—Charles Ferruzza

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Forks in the Road:

For a quick lunch or an evening with friends!

The Plaza and Midtown

Seasons 52 Fresh | Grill 340 Ward Parkway 816-531-0052

The Seasons 52 dessert concept is brilliant. The little shot glasses offered as finales here are filled with a variety of pretty, layered concoctions: some with a creamy mousse or soft cheesecake, perhaps with bits of carrot cake, or — in the case of the Rocky Road version — miniature marshmallows. They go fast, but they’re effective (and less than 275 calories) at staving off an aggressive sweet tooth. We tasted the mocha macchiato, the raspberry-cheesecake creation, the chocolate-peanut-butter mousse, and a couple of others before putting down our spoons and declaring ourselves comfortably full.

-- Charles Ferruzza

Gram & Dun

600 Ward Parkway 816-389-2900 As at this restaurant’s sister venue, Urban Table in Prairie Village, the bill arrives in a vintage book instead of on a tip tray. Don’t expect a great work of literature, mind you, but there’s wit in some of these flea-market hardbacks.

One of my checks came presented inside Touched With Fire, by the neverto-be-forgotten John Tebbel. I also got a look at a slim 1950 guidebook called Living With Teeners, by Grace Sloan Overton.

The “tip book” is a delightful eccentricity of this stylish, attractive new restaurant. It calls itself, as a kind of subtitle, a “gastropub.” A gastropub serves food and booze, but a pub this ain’t. This L-shaped restaurant (once home to Parkway 600 Grill and Baja 600) has been gutted and redone for maximum luxe dazzle, with a chandelier dripping crystals in the building’s dome room and a richly stocked bar. The walls are a cool gray, and the floor is made of dark, wide planks. Calling it a pub is sort of like calling actress Helen Mirren a broad.

I found a satisfyingly sharp taste in Gram & Dun’s version of barbecue: an oversized cornmeal bun heaped with tender smoked beef, slices of hot link sausage and pulled pork in a distinctively fiery sauce. It’s a really firstrate sandwich, as is the sassy spin on a roadhouse favorite, a sloppy-Joe-style sandwich made with ground wild boar and a dollop of Carolina slaw.

-- Charles Ferruzza

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Fiesta Azteca

705 Southeast Melody Lane Lee’s Summit 816-524-1290 Andres Orozco has moved his charming little Raytown cantina, Fiesta Azteca, to a bigger, more ambitious location in Lee’s Summit, where the food remains alluringly good. I still love the decadently rich creations that Orozco introduced me to the first time around: grilled chicken and shrimp draped in a silky poblano cream sauce, succulent pork carnitas that arrive slightly crispy on the exterior and gorgeously moist and meaty inside. That dazzling, jade-green salsa verde ladled over diced pork and onions.

One night’s dinner special: pork chops in a spicy — but not too fiery — chipotle cream sauce. It was truly transporting: two moist, fork-tender pork chops blanketed in a shiny glaze of smoked chipotle peppers that have been sautéed with mushrooms, onions and green peppers and finished off with a little butter and cream. The provocative sauce tickles the tongue rather than scorching it.

—Charles Ferruzza

Martin City Brewing Company 500 East 135th Street 816-268-2222

Who knew that Martin City (the hamlet annexed by Kansas City in 1963) was so hungry for a Cheers-like bar and café? The owners of Martin City Brewing Company did. For most of the 20th century, this building was the Martin City Pub, a saloon owned and operated by the creator of the iconic Jess & Jim’s Steakhouse and R.C.’s Restaurant & Lounge, the best-known restaurants in south Kansas City for decades. The plan for this updated brewery-restaurant was always to serve upscale pub fare.

It’s working. There’s a truly outstanding macaroni and cheese (side dish or full-sized), and the decent grilled cheese is made with sourdough bread and layered with molten provolone, white cheddar, smoked gouda and gruyere.

The nachos come laden with black beans and a blanket of melted cheddar.

And the bread-and-butter dishes are the basic bar classics: a great burger; and a first-rate Reuben, made with chunks of tender, slow-roasted corned beef, housemade sauerkraut and Parker’s own Thousand Island dressing. The brassy housemade ketchup has become so popular that Moore has arranged to bottle it and sell it to local stores. I’d buy a bottle.

—Charles Ferruzza

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Forks in the Road:

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Shields Manor Bistro 121 Main Platte City 816-858-5557

A hunk of grilled Alaskan salmon comes smothered in a sexy cream sauce laden with bits of crabmeat and lobster. A satiny shrimp étouffée, perhaps the most handsome presentation of this Louisiana dish I’ve ever seen, is equally superb.

But the most scrumptious offering that night was a hefty and succulent slab of beef, beautifully grilled and glazed with a sultry, peppery cognac sauce.

The dish was so addictive that I hesitated before sharing even a bite with my dining companions.

When the dinner plates were cleared away, coowner DeDe Shields appeared in her chef ’s jacket.

She proudly refers to herself as “a businesswoman who just loves to cook.” She’s a first-rate raconteur, telling the story of renovating the old house that’s home to her restaurant, dishing about her neighbors and recalling — in hilarious and ribald detail — her former life in St. Joseph.

It’s her house, and she’s the best hostess.

—Charles Ferruzza

Latin Bistro and Culinary Center 6924 North Oak Trafficway Gladstone 816-420-9333

If you believe, as I do, that dining out is as much a theatrical experience as a culinary one, you’ll agree that the nine-month-old Latin Bistro and Culinary Center is a one-man show. The star? Tito Le Chef.

Chef Tito’s menu includes no Tex-Mex dishes. No crispy tacos, no Cheddar cheese. He prepares three different versions of a chile relleno, but the most popular is his roasted poblano served en nogada: stuffed with sauteed pork blended with dried fruits. It’s divinely sweet, which is ideal if you crave a hint of sugar with your fiery peppers, along with pine nuts and a smooth, creamy pecan sauce.

I was even more impressed with his tender lamb chops, slathered with a gorgeous, supple concoction of tomato, onion and headclearing epazote touched off with a hint of cream. And then there’s Tito’s slow-roasted marinated pork, conchinita pibil, a visually beautiful, almost excessively delicious way to eat pig. The marinated meat is wrapped in a big, shiny, green banana leaf, carefully folded and roasted for more than eight hours until the meat is both tender and just barely crispy. I prefer mine plain – unless I’m in the mood for Tito’s deceptively kicky chipotle cream sauce.

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Mestizo

Thirsty Thursday at the Castle Start your weekend early every Thursday at The Castle from 5:30-9:30. Come enjoy Live Music, Cocktails and Skinny Drinks all for amazing prices!

2070 West 116th Place Leawood 913-752-9025 Carnivores really score here. The six entrées now on the menu include outstanding braised short ribs — some of the best I’ve tasted — in an ancho chile broth. The beef-tongue tacos are extremely tender and really rich.

—Charles Ferruzza

12401 Johnson Drive, Shawnee, KS reneekellys.com/events.html chefreneekelly.com

Story

3931 West 69th Terrace Prairie Village 913-236-9955 The plates here are as beautifully composed as a garden: a foie gras terrine, creamy as cake frosting, is positioned on a white plate with a Wassily Kandinsky-like arrangement of roasted beets, sliced almonds, a streak of bacon honey, and a jumble of brioche crostini. And there may be no soup in Kansas City that matches the Zen-like composition of Story’s English pea soup. It’s a glorious, brothy (not creamy) concoction of vegetable stock (a base of simmered pea pods), chopped green peas, carrots, onion, potatoes and garlic that becomes a sexy jade-green with the addition of a subtle tarragon salsa verde. It’s accessorized with two pork meatballs or, for vegetarian diners, two fried rice arancini balls.

The Pacific halibut was delectably moist and drizzled with a smooth lobster butter, and the rainbow trout was delicate and nearly perfect, with an evanescent crispness complemented by a splash of lemon-jalapeño vinaigrette and mashed potatoes.

—Charles Ferruzza

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August 10............George Angilan Band August 17...................The Radio Flyers August 24...............Garry Lincoln Band August 31.........................Blue Orleans September 7....The Stolen Winnebagos September 14................Harvest Moon September 21.................Chasing Grace September 28.........Garry Lincoln Band October 5....................Hazzard County October 12....................Danger Boogie October 19..........George Angilan Band

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Tatsu’s French Restaurant The American Restaurant The Broadmoor Bistro The Drop Bar & Bistro The Phoenix The Roasterie Cafe Trezo Mare V’s Italiano Ristorante Waldo Pizza Webster House