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Tweet Less than a year after it opened to substantial acclaim at Corinth Square, Urban Table’s management has unveiled a series of changes aimed at making the restaurant more welcoming to families with children. Starting last month, Urban Table began offering a children’s menu for breakfast, lunch and dinner. It also brought in booster seats [...]
Tweet Breakfasts are about to get bigger at the intersection of of 95th Street and Nall Avenue. The Big Biscuit owner David Offerdahl says his company is moving toward completion of the chain’s fourth restaurant, to be located in south Prairie Village, and hopes to be open before Memorial Day. “Initially, we’d hoped to be [...]
Tweet As you may recall, with clenched jaw and trembling fingers we typed away a post last week counterpunching Charles Ferruzza’s Fat City jab the Waid’s. Well, with the dust settled and the benefit of a few days of reflection, we’re ready to make up. Mostly because Ferruzza’s Fat City colleague Jonathan Bender published a [...]
Tweet Listen: We’re big Charles Ferruzza fans. But we take exception with his decision to call out good-old Waid’s in a Fat City blog post earlier this week. As we’ve noted before, haute-cuisine, it is not. But sometimes the mood strikes for grilled cheese and probably-not-baked-from-scratch apple pie. Where else are you gonna go? Alas, [...]
Tweet Matt Branstetter hasn’t been with Salty Iguana Mexican Restaurant since it replaced Granny’s Chicken at Corinth Square 20 years ago — but not too many people have been around longer. Branstetter started as a cook in 1997, a year after graduating from SM East, and has done just about every job the restaurant has to [...]
Tweet KC Restaurant Week kicks off today – and you won’t have to travel far to find the event’s special menus at popular prices. Five local restaurants — the Blue Moose Bar & Grill, BRGR Kitchen + Bar, story, Tavern in the Village and Urban Table — are all participating in the event, which benefits Harvesters. A photo [...]
Tweet A little more than a year after it opened at 95th Street and Nall Avenue in Prairie Village, Le Peep restaurant will be closing its doors. Owner Al Hinman said he expects operations to have ceased by the first week of January. “It’s always a hard decision when you have to pull the trigger [...]
Tweet Prairie Village’s restaurant boom continues. LANE4 Property Group announced Monday that SPIN! Neapolitan Pizza will be opening a new restaurant at Corinth Square in late 2012 or early 2013. The new restaurant will occupy 3,500 square feet — or just over a third — of the space currently occupied by CVS Pharmacy. “Our tenants [...]
Tweet Prairie Village’s restaurant boomlet isn’t just bringing in kudos from local food critics. It also appears to be helping fill the city’s coffers. City revenues from the Liquor Excise Tax mandated by state law were up sharply in June and July, the months for which the most recent data are available. Collections in July 2011 [...]
Tweet We regret to report that in our wrap up of local restaurants that got a nice pat on the back in the Pitch’s annual Best of Kansas City issue, we neglected to recognize Stroud’s, which took home “Best Display of Kansas City Portions” honors. But the Pitch isn’t the only publication dishing out props [...]
Tweet After a five month renovation, Pizza 51 is now open for business in Fairway at the corner of Mission Road and 60th Street. The opening completes a process that began back in April 2010, when owner Jason Pryor first approached the city of Fairway about the idea of opening a restaurant on the site [...]
Tweet A year after opening the doors of their popular gourmet burger restaurant, the proprietors of BRGR liked what they saw from the Corinth Square neighborhood so much they decided to open up a second eatery there. Yesterday, that second eatery officially opened for business. Urban Table started serving food and drinks Monday just a [...]
Tweet This Story has officially started. (And don’t worry, I think I’m officially out of Story puns). Story proprietors Carl and Susan Thorne-Thomsen held a formal ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday for the new Village Shops eatery, welcoming Prairie Village city officials and business leaders into their restaurant for a celebration — and a tasting. Guests noshed on [...]
Tweet Tavern in the Village has landed a cherry spot in a national food showcase. The Village Shops restaurant was selected to represent Kansas on national Rainier Cherry Day (that’s today, July 11, if you didn’t have it on your calendar already). An organization representing cherry growers in Washington State selected one restaurant in each [...]
Tweet The ball was just getting rolling with the Planning Commission’s approval of the new CVS Pharmacy building at Corinth Square. Architect Generator Studios filed plans on behalf of Corinth Square owner LANE4 Friday for a new patio addition on the north side of Johnny’s. The renovations would include removing a wall on the north [...]
Tweet Former Michael Smith and 40 Sardines chef Carl Thorne-Thomsen’s new restaurant Story is set to open in the Village Shops before the end of the month. And before it does, local food writers are making sure it’s getting plenty of attention. Late last week, The PItch’s Jonathan Bender wrote a three part series on [...]
Tweet There has been plenty of praise, and a little ribbing, for some local businesses in the media this week. The Pitch’s venerable food critic Charles Ferruzza penned a lengthy love letter to Kelly Manning and Tavern in the Village in this week’s issue. Yes, he worked in a couple of pokes at what he [...]
Tweet People who live near Ranchmart Shopping Center will have a new option for pizza and other Italian fare starting Wednesday. Sarpino’s Pizzeria, a Canadian company that started franchising restaurants in the United State in 2002, will open a location at 3804 W 95th Street in Leawood tomorrow. It will be in the space formerly [...]
Tweet The weather is certainly right for dining al fresco. Tavern in the Village is preparing to open up its patio along Mission Lane for patio dining as early as today. They’ll be setting up about a half dozen tables along Mission Lane, each able to seat five patrons. The full bar and food menu [...]
Tweet The owners of BRGR have set a target open date of July for Urban Table, their new restaurant just a few doors east of the popular Corinth gourmet burger spot. Renovations on the Urban Table space, most recently occupied by EJ’s Boutique, are currently underway. Co-owner Alan Gaylin said the decision to expand the [...]
Tweet Pizza 51 owner Jason Pryor on Thursday told PVPost.com that his company was moving forward with plans to open a new location in the abandoned service station at 60th Street and Mission Road in Fairway. A few weeks ago, Pryor told the Fairway city council the building’s owners had a Feb. 4 deadline for [...]
Tweet Apparently we’re pretty awesome eaters. The Star’s Joyce Smith reported this morning that the owners of BRGR have announced plans to open a new restaurant in Corinth Square this spring. The announcement comes just weeks after the news that Jose Pepper’s was closing to be replaced by an independent restaurant to be called The [...]
Tweet The Pitch’s annual “Best of KC” issue hit stands today, and Corinth Square’s BRGR took home a coveted accolade: Best Burger. Citing the “Big Mock,” which pays homage to McDonald’s Big Mac and the Big Boy burger with its “special sauce,” as “a rare culinary case of an imitator surpassing the originals,” BRGR beat [...]
Tweet Construction crews are busy making a number of renovations, including the construction of a tower over the main entryway, at the building that will house a new LePeep restaurant at 95th Street and Nall Avenue. The restaurant’s developer says the group is hoping to have the restaurant open in early September.
Tweet Gourmet burgers are hot right now. And according to KC Magazine, there isn’t a hotter place to get them than BRGR Kitchen + Bar in Corinth Square. The magazine announced last week that BRGR had beaten out four other nominees to win its “Best New Restaurant” award, as voted on by its readers. BRGR [...]
