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Kansas City has a diverse dining scene, but many of the trendy restaurants at the moment are pretty meat-centric, including g the latest location of Q39, Stock Hill steakhouse and the meat-and-three EJ’s Urban Eatery.
This second location of a mouthwatering barbecue concept imagined by a former Hilton hotel chef who started cooking barbecue for competition took some of the heat away from the buzzed-out headquarters in Midtown and let them both cook more evenly, low and slow.
Website: q39kc.com
Address: 11051 Antioch Rd. Overland Park, Kan.
Phone number: 913-951-4500
Number of seats: 250 inside, 50 on the patio
Entrée price range: $15-$30
Popular dishes: Competition BBQ Judges Plate with (choose 3) Q spare ribs, sliced smoked brisket, pulled pork, smoked sausage plus apple coleslaw and choice of beans or potato salad; Burnt end Burger with oak-wood-grilled Certified Angus Beef ground brisket topped with sliced burnt ends, spicy pickle slaw and Q39 classic sauce on a toasted bun; wood-fire-grilled salmon fillet with classic barbecue sauce, jalapeño cilantro slaw and seasonal vegetables.
What others say: “Q39 South features a new state-of-the-art smoker that can hold 1,400 pounds of meat, compared to the 500-pound capacity of the original location. This will allow them to cater large-scale parties for up to 3,000 people in addition to supplying the restaurant each day.” — Jenny Vergara, Feast
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Judge's Plate
Steaks from around the area (Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska) are the specialty at this grand steakhouse destination by the local Bread & Butter Concepts.
Website: stockhillkc.com
Address: 4800 Main St.
Phone number: 816-895-8400
Number of seats: 330
Entrée price range: $24-$55
Popular dishes: Hangar steak with black peppercorn crust, gruyère spätzle, herb chutney, sourdough crumble and onion rings; scallops with celery marmalade, scallop chicarron, rutabaga purée, potato croquette and crisp radish; 16-ounce wet-aged bone-in ribeye from Grand Island, Neb.
What others say: “My main was the 14 oz Wagyu Ribeye. I'm generally not particularly excited by steaks as I find most steakhouses to serve up overpriced, unflavorful fare. That was not the case here.” — comment on Yelp
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Hanger steak
In what once served as a neighborhood gas station, this new addition to the neighborhood of Brookside serves up Mexican food with a California spin and a focus on fresh ingredients.
Website: brooksidebarrrio.com
Address: 6227 Brookside Plaza
Phone number: 816-293-9587
Number of seats: 75 inside, 100 on the patio
Entrée price range: $11-$16
Popular dishes: Mexican lettuce wraps with citrus glazed chicken or shrimp and jícama with Mexican mango slaw; beer battered avocado tacos with cabbage, pickled onion, mango, queso fresco and chipotle aïoli; kale and arugula shrimp salad with seasoned shrimp, avocado, jícama, mango and queso fresco with a housemade cilantro-lime vinaigrette.
What others say: “For our entrees, my friends got the tacos and loved them. I had the beef enchiladas and Mexican elotes (yummm). We'll definitely be coming back!” — comment on Yelp
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Duck carnitas tacos
A location of the proudly homey, hokey, Okie fast-casual chain from Oklahoma made a festive home in a recent shopping plaza development called Ward Parkway Center.
Website: eatatthegarage.com
Address: 8811 State Line Rd.
Phone number: 816-731-1455
Number of seats: 130
Entrée price range: $5-$8
Popular dishes: Grilled jalapeño bacon cheeseburger with garlic aïoli, lettuce, tomato, onion, grilled jalapeños, bacon and American cheese; chili cheese dog with Nathan’s 1/3 lb. footlong, chili, cheddar cheese and diced red onion; Baja tacos with breaded cob, pineapple salsa, pepper Jack cheese and chipotle ranch.
What others say: “The first thing customers will notice is the restaurant’s kitschy aesthetic — a sort of souped-up auto garage meets sports bar, with a dozen large, sports-tuned flat-screen TVs filling the space. A mix of vintage and modern neon advertising signs and license plates cover every open surface, and the bar is designed to look almost like a huge Craftsman toolbox. Subtle or understated it is not — but here, that’s not the point.” — April Flemming, Feast
Smitty's Garage Burger
Chili cheese dog
This proudly self-identifying “meat and three” brings the good legacy of down-home Southern cooking to a renovated space in a 100-year-old building in the West Bottoms.
Website: ejsurbaneatery.com
Address: 1414 West 9th St.
Phone number: 816-491-8262
Number of seats: 112
Entrée price range: $12-$16
Popular dishes: Local beef burger with bourbon pickle jalapeños, aged cheddar, smoked bacon and a fried egg on a sesame egg roll; breakfast sausage spice rubbed smoked ribs with red eye hollandaise, bourbon pickle jalapeños and bread and butter pickles; Hot Damn (Nashville Hot Chicken Inspired) Fried Chicken.
What others say: “Everything on the menu sounds terrific, but it was gonna be the 3-meat skillet for me from the moment I saw it. They list brisket, breakfast sausage and ham, but as the server explained it, the dirty rice underneath includes andouille sausage, so that's actually four. And I swear some pulled pork made it in there, too.” — comment on Yelp
Smoked brisket grilled cheese
Hot Damn (Nashville Hot Chicken Inspired) Fried Chicken
