Happy Cinco De Mayo Kansas City. It's a great day to celebrate Mexico and the wonderful culture and history of our friends south of the border. May 5th is observed to commemorate a Mexican ass kicking placed onto to French at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862 when Mexican General Ignacio Zaragoza opened a can of whoop ass on an invading French army. Salute to the 1862 … [Read more...]
Pizza Wars: Topp’d vs Pie-Five
Our newest installment of Pizza Wars pits Kansas City's two Chipotle concept pizza places against each other: Topp'd vs Pie Five. So let's head to the mattresses and find out who wins this matchup. We've previously reviewed Pie Five a while ago and I'm pretty much of a regular at their 135th & Metcalf location due to my soon to be middle son's constant request to go. … [Read more...]
A Visit to Meatball District Kitchen & Bar
Peanut butter and jelly. Cake and ice cream. Spaghetti and ….. Right. You know what comes next. What kid doesn’t love meatballs? Heck, what adult who’s a kid at heart doesn’t love meatballs? So when someone opens a meatball restaurant, it’s got to be good, right? Right again. Kal Tandel had a good idea when he opened Meatball District earlier this year. A … [Read more...]
Bangkok Pavilion
When I get a craving for Thai food I like to go to a little place tucked away in the Windmill shopping center behind the Home Depot on Metcalf just south of 95th Street. Bangkok Pavilion, 7249 W. 97th St. in Overland Park, has been a local institution since 1987 when they were one of only a few Thai restaurants in town and even survived a fire in 2005 which closed them down … [Read more...]
Liberty Missouri Hates BBQ
Kansas City is the official barbecue capital of the world but you wont find any BBQ North of downtown in the BBQ Dead Zone. Kansas City has over 80 barbecue restaurants and that is more than most states. Check out our new BBQ Guide Map for the route to your favorite rib joint. Whether you like the traditional classics like Gates or Jack Stack, or if you enjoy the newcomers like … [Read more...]
KC BBQ Guide Map
The Kansas City BBQ Guide Map is here look for the closest BBQ near you. … [Read more...]
Woodyard vs The Stack BBQ
I volunteered to help the guys at KC Food Guys with their BBQ tournament by going to and writing down my thoughts and impressions about the restaurants being pitted against each other in their championship bracket. I know, its a tough job eating all this delicious KC BBQ but I was happy to step up. First off, I don't regularly review restaurants. I am just a KC native that … [Read more...]
2016 KC BBQ Bracket Trends & Awards
KCFoodGuys.com ate a lot of barbecue over the last couple of months and there are some interesting heroes and zeros out there including some barbecue trends. 2016 Kansas City Barbecue Trends & Concerns BBQ Costs: BBQ ain't cheap. Our average bill ranged from $15 to $30 and our total cost of eating our way through the tournament was well north of $1000. We … [Read more...]
2016 KCFoodGuys BBQ Bracket Champion
The results are in and we have a unaimous champion. Both the KCFoodGuys and the People's Choice select Joe's Kansas City as the 2016 KCFoodGuys.com KC BBQ Champion! Take a look below at how things played out. KCFoodGuys Champion <--- Our Bracket Joe's Kansas City (1) vs Q39 (1): First I want to say our meals for the KC BBQ Finals at both Joe's & Q39 were nothing … [Read more...]
2016 KCFoodGuys BBQ Bracket Finals
This is it. Here's your chance to vote for KC's best BBQ. We'll keep the voting open until Monday night 10pm April 4th. We will tally the votes and announce the winner. Poll's Are Closed … [Read more...]