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Tweet After months of development, Prairie Villagers will at last get a look at the Village Shops’ highly anticipated new restaurant and movie theater concept this weekend. STANDEES – The Entertaining Eatery opens for business Friday in the space formerly occupied by Macy’s Home Store and Einstein Brothers Bagels STANDEES, which has three movie screens, [...]
Tweet Corinth Square patrons have been sending us questions of late on the status of the SPIN! Neapolitan Pizza location that had been tentatively slated to open early this year. And here’s the update: SPIN! is most definitely still coming to Corinth. And Prairie Villagers are likely to see significant construction work begin later this [...]
Tweet If you want the full al fresco experience on the Blue Moose Bar & Grill’s 71st Street patio, better hurry. The restaurant is in the process of a major renovation — its first in more than a decade — that will transform the open air dining area into an all-season area with space for around 60 [...]
Tweet The people have spoken, and Story’s Carl Thorne-Thomsen is the best new chef in the Midwest. Food and Wine magazine closed voting for its people’s choice awards last week, and when they did, Thorne-Thomsen led the field of 10 regional restauranteurs, which included Kansas City’s Patrick Ryan as well. “I was surprised to win [...]
Tweet A “Taste of Prairie Village” is coming to Brighton Gardens next week featuring a number of Prairie Village restaurants providing taste samples and Rimann Liquors providing a signature drink. The event will be held Friday, March 22 from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Brighton Gardens is located at 7105 Mission Road. Restaurants participating in the [...]
Tweet The gastronomical glory continues at The Village Shops. Story restaurant’s Carl Thorne-Thomsen is among the nominees for Food & Wine magazine’s “The People’s Best New Chef” award in the Midwest division. (Port Fonda’s Patrick Ryan made the list as well, and is the only other Kansas City-area chef among the 10 nominees). Thorne-Thomsen recently [...]
Tweet Tomorrow, people dining in more than 70 restaurants in the Kansas City area will be helping the victims of the JJs explosion. The Greater Kansas City Restaurant Association (GKCRA) has organized the effort. Participating restaurants will donate 10 percent of sales tomorrow, Saturday, February 23, to support employees injured in the fire. The association [...]
Tweet Zagat, the prestigious international ranker of fine dining, just keeps dishing out love for Prairie Village’s Cafe Provence. Zagat on Sunday unveiled its list of the top restaurants for service in 25 major American cities — and Cafe Provence got the nod in Kansas City. In November, Zagat listed Cafe Provence as the top [...]
Tweet The popular local pizza restaurant set to open in the coming months at Corinth Square recently received a nod as one of the hottest concepts in the restaurant business. Nation’s Restaurant News named SPIN! Neapolitan Pizza one of its top 50 “Breakout Brands” of 2013. Citing its differentiated service and hot culinary niche, the [...]
Tweet Five Prairie Village eateries are among the 125 throughout the metro participating in Kansas City’s fourth annual Restaurant Week, which kicks off Friday. The Blue Moose, Story and Tavern in the Village at the Village Shops, and BRGR and Urban Table at Corinth Square will be offering special menus and pricing as part of [...]
Tweet A decades-old Village Shops building met its demise yesterday as construction crews demolished the old Waid’s Restaurant to make way for new retail spacethat will be funding in part by the Community Improvement District. Bulldozers knocked down the building Tuesday, leaving piles of twisted metal and crumbling concrete. LANE4 Property Group president Owen Buckley [...]
Tweet The parade of accolades for Village Shops restaurants continues. Cafe Provence, which last month received a Top Restaurant rating from Zagat, has been named to OpenTable’s Diner’s Choice Top 100 Restaurants list. The Capital Grille on the Plaza was the only other Kansas City area restaurant to make the list. Cafe Provence’s neighbor across [...]
Tweet The latest chapter in the saga of the Slab n’ Pickle restaurant at Ranchmart North was written Monday when the Leawood City Council gave its stamp of approval to a deal that will keep a restaurant out of the old post office building in the development. The agreement was worked out between the property [...]
Tweet Cafe Provence isn’t the only Village Shops’ restaurant getting national attention this month. OpenTable, the popular online restaurant reservation and review service, this week released its list of restaurants serving the Best American Cuisine, based on more than five million review submitted by OpenTable diners. Among the top 100 in the United States: Story. [...]
Tweet A Prairie Village fine-dinery has found its way onto an elite list of national restaurants. Zagat Guide this month released its annual Top American Restaurants Survey, featuring the renowned ratings guide’s top food-rated restaurants in the country’s 46 largest markets. For the Kansas City metro, Zagat tapped the Village Shops’ Cafe Provence. It’s an [...]
Tweet This weekend the mister and I are indulging in a little R & R, and we couldn’t be more ready. Between two kids and three jobs our daily interactions rarely get past who’s picking up the girls and whose turn it is to empty the dishwasher. Luckily, we have amazing friends and relatives who will [...]
Tweet Prairie Village restauranteur Kelly Manning is hoping his Tavern concepts will attract a loyal following in north Leawood as quickly as it did at its initial Village Shops location. Manning and operating partner Anthony Zarate were joined by a cadre of staff and local elected officials Wednesday as they cut the ribbon on their [...]
Tweet Two Northeast Johnson County restaurants were cited for health code violations during August inspections by the Kansas Department of Agriculture. Mission Hills Country Club in Mission Hills and Tatsu’s French Restaurant in Prairie Village were cited for “critical” violations. Mission Hills Country Club was cited for milk and cream cheese stored at improper temperatures [...]
Tweet A controversial zoning decision on a building in the Ranchmart North shopping center near 95th Street and Mission Road will be decided October 15. The Leawood City Council this week postponed its final action on the zoning question and the final plan for a proposed Slab N Pickle barbecue restaurant. The plan to turn [...]
Tweet The owners of the popular high-end pizza restaurant scheduled to take over a soon-to-be-vacated spot at Corinth Square felt the need Tuesday to stop a rumor before it spun out of control. SPIN! Neopolitan Pizza co-owner Gail Lozoff confirmed in a statement that the restaurant is, indeed, moving into Corinth Square — as announced last [...]
Tweet Here’s a Story local wine lovers will enjoy. When the August issue of Wine Spectator magazine hits shelves next week, readers across the nation will get a favorable introduction to the Village Shops’ Story restaurant and proprietor Carl Thorne-Thomsen. Story’s wine list won a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence, an honor that’s been bestowed [...]
Tweet Paying his respects to the recently shuttered Waid’s at the Village Shops in the Pitch yesterday, food critic Charles Ferruzza notes that the neighborhood diner chain had a long tradition in the Kansas City area — and its attrition to a single metro-area location is worth lamenting. But, Ferruzza notes, the food… well, it [...]
Tweet Whelp. Turns out Charles Ferruzza was on to something. Waid’s Restaurant, a Village Shops fixture for decades, closed its doors for good Sunday. LANE4 Property Group, which owns the property, will likely redevelop it as part of the Village Shops Community Improvement District renovations. We’ve got a call in to LANE4 for comment — [...]
Tweet After a week and a half of being closed for renovations, Johnny’s Tavern at Corinth Square reopened Friday with an updated, darker look. Construction crews refinished the wood and repainted the walls throughout the space, adding darker tones that proprietor Pat Roberts said were intended to give the venue a more pub-like aesthetic. The [...]
Tweet If you’re hungerin’ these next few days, you might consider swinging by Corinth Square to order up a mess of food. BRGR, Johnny’s Tavern and Urban Table are holding a four-day fundraiser to support the 2012 Prairie Village Jazz Festival and Heartland Habitat for Humanity. (Note that Johnny’s will likely be closed through the [...]
