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Chuck Munson

Café Gratitude: Healthy Vegetarian Dining in the Crossroads

Café Gratitude offers classic vegetarian dishes, kicked up a notch for restaurant diners.

Chuck Munson

BARBECUE IN KANSAS CITY: NFL DRAFT EDITION

Chuck recently released his first Youtube video, this one being an overview of Kansas City barbecue. Chuck Eats KC will be publishing more reviews and takes on our famous cuisine.

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First Looks: Betty Rae’s Ice Cream

My first visit to this popular local ice cream parlor. The Youth Review Crew helped me try out their ice cream.

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Bygone Kansas City Restaurants: Joe’s Barn

Joe’s Barn was a long running family style restaurant in Stanley, Kansas, a suburb in the southern KC metro. It looked like a barn. Was it a barn?

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Vivilore

If I were taking visiting friends or relatives to a fancy restaurant in Kansas City with excellent food, service and an eclectic atmosphere, I’d take them to Vivilore in Independence.

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Bygone Restaurants: Victoria Station

Do you remember the restaurant where you dined inside actual train cars and the signature dish was prime rib? There were two Kansas City locations of this international chain, which had 97 restaurants during its heyday of the 1970s and 1980s.

Kansas City Restaurant History

Bygone KC Restaurants 3

In my third installment of visiting bygone Kansas City restaurants, I look at Chutes, Waldo Astoria, Mrs. Peters Chicken Dinners, Italian Gardens and other family favorites.

Bygone KC Restaurants 2

In my second installment of visiting bygone Kansas City restaurants, I look at Joe’s Barn, Stephenson’s Apple Farm Restaurant, EBT, Whisker Rivey’s and other family favorites.

Bygone KC Restaurants 1

Annie’s Santa Fe, KC Masterpiece, Mama Tio’s, Putsch’s Cafeteria

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