Magnolia’s Shanita McAfee is looking to kickstart Southern cuisine in a new space
In a small office at the back of Magnolia’s Contemporary Southern Bistro, owner Shanita McAfee bounces 11-month-old Jorja on her lap and prints out…
Chefs
Mickey Priolo is now cooking at Gram & Dun
Chef Mickey Priolo is now cooking at Gram & Dun (600 Ward Parkway). The former executive chef at The Corner Restaurant (4059 Broadway) recently…
Rob Magee is reimagining barbecue with Q39
A timer dings as the Wednesday lunch crowd begins to thin at Q39 (1000 W 39th Street) – the new barbecue joint on 39th…
Uberdine’s Joe Shirley is working on the softest restaurant opening in KC history
Chef Joe Shirley may be having the softest restaurant opening in Kansas City history. If all goes according to plan, his 10-month-old pop-up concept,…
Story’s Carl Thorne-Thomsen is Food & Wine’s People’s Best New Chef
Carl Thorne-Thomsen is officially the people’s champion. The executive chef and co-owner of Story in Prairie Village has been named Food & Wine’s People’s Best New…
Thorne-Thomsen, Ryan & Brazeal up for The People’s Best New Chef
It’s another kind of March Madness. Food & Wine’s The People’s Best New Chef contest returns today with Story’s Carl Thorne-Thomsen looking to repeat…
A James Beard Award will not go to a Kansas City chef this year
A James Beard Award will not be given to a Kansas City chef this year. The finalists were announced this morning and none of…
Chef Alex Staab wants to bring a little bit of Italy to Kansas City
Gavoi is a small town of 2,000 people in the center of Sardinia. Santa Rughe is the restaurant in town, a low-slung stone building…
Voltaire’s Wes Gartner is building a kitchen family in the West Bottoms
‘Timili’s Café & Market,’ reads the small rectangular sign that sits on a shelf well above eye level in the back of Voltaire (1617…
Nick Wesemann, Ted Habiger & Howard Hanna are James Beard Award semifinalists
The semifinalists for the James Beard Awards (the Oscars of the chef and restaurant world) have been announced and three Kansas City chefs are…