What is the best restaurant in KC?
 

I'm not super picky about food type - I'm just looking at what restaurant would qualify to you as "the best" in Kansas City.

Give me some examples of food offered, atmosphere, price, etc.

Pasta Brioni if you have $100 to spare

Prime Social -
Great drinks, awesome views, seafood

Rico's- best tacos believe it's still BYOB too

Slaps BBQ- get their before they sell out

Garzazos Italian downtown- best little place good Italian food for KC standards

Stockhill Grill- Pretty good steak nice atmosphere

Majestic Steakhouse

Gracie's Fish House

Specializes in high-end tuna. Some say it's a little bland and lifeless, but the plating is good enough to make your mouth water.

Are they open for lunch?

Taco Via (95th)

Hooters

Jack Stack.

Slaps if you want bbq is fantastic.

The majestic as clay said is fun. Good food good atmosphere jazz in the basement.

Ocean prime was good when we hit it up last weekend. Capital grille is always solid if you want a steak.

All depends what kinda food you want

QT - Best roller grills in town

Eddie v is your typical corporate steakhouse

Piropos is great atmosphere and food and great views up in briarcliffe

I’d vouch for Trezo Marre for Italian as a very nice spot at Briarcliff. Italian and seafood. It’s a cozy setting typical of better than chain dining. You’ll spend 150-200 for two people if you’re buying drinks as well. Wife and I go there for birthdays and special events once a year or so

I’ve been impressed with Summit Grille every time I’ve went. It’s Americana but their seasonal menu is usually money. I know they have a couple locations but I go to the one in Gladstone of all places and it’s a solid environment. You’ll spend somewhere in the 125-150 range for two people with drinks

Drew Locks dad owns summit and he must not be a failure like his son

The Taco Bell across from Arrowhead/Kaufman.

Trezo Marre looks quite good.

Can't believe you losers... How do you not realize the best restaurant is 1587 Prime!

Famous Dave’s

If you like Italian, try Farina

Lordy, I miss the American.

Ray’s Pizza. But the real original one on 11th street.

Funkytown

Grunaeur

I went to Slaps this past weekend and it was just okay. The burnt ends were very good. The brisket was average to below average. The sauces were below average. The mac & cheese was very good; the cole slaw was sub-par. It wasn't a place I'd go out of my way for to be brutally honest.

The uber driver said Jack Stack is way better, the #1 BBQ in town, and Joe's is overrated from being featured on a Guy Frieri TV show episode and also isn't anything special.

Ha. Taco burger is aces!

Jack Stack is good when it's on. I prefer Q39 and KC Joes but it's still good

Oh **** and how can I forget KITTYS! best Tenderloin in the city hamburgers ain't bad either

I stayed at the hotel behind there for the draft last year. Enjoyed it at midnight and shit it out an hour later. 4 stars for the tb. Two stars for the hotel.

Funhouse pizza in independence.

J Gilberts for Steaks

Italian Sausage and Black Olives. FTW

Ate at 801 Chop House some years ago when visiting KC. It was good if memory serves me. They kept bugging me to buy a bottle of wine though. They were relentless.

Q39 is my "must have bbq" when I come into town. Never had anything there that I didn't love. I get the brisket and burnt ends and add a rib. Mouth watering.

Lots of good suggestions but our favorite place is Le Fou Frogs especially weekend evenings.

The new executive chef of Q39 is British so expect the food standards to go downhill MASSIVELY. Disgusting food and even worse people!

I bet he cooks up some ****ing top quality baked beans though. That's just about all those limey pricks are good for food wise.

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That actually is kind of disappointing

I think Bristol is pretty damn outstanding.

Have never had a single thing there that wasn't fantastic and they really do cover all the bases. Seafood, beef, pork, chicken - they don't miss.

That place has been around forever.

Antler Room

Seconding this. The service is damn near world-class, too.

Just saw Jax Fish House on the Plaza is closed forever which makes me sad.

Slaps sauce is disgusting. Like it almost seems like they are trying to make a bad sauce. And agreed the brisket is super meh. I never understand why so many people love this place. I think they pay off online reviewers.

Here's a few more favorites.

Le Fou Frog (the chocolate mousse is to die for)

Aahaa South Indian Cuisine (one of the most amazing weekend buffets you'll experience)

Bamboo Penny's - really good Thai and a lot of hot girls

And last but not least, for more American fare, Rye. Get the fried chicken and pie.

Good point. Elegant without being stuffy; waiters are attentive without being overbearing.

They just do things very well there.

Tanner's /Marty Schottenheimer

I didn't know they serve fod

I've been told I should go to Stroud's for some pan fried chicken when I visit KC. Is it good and worth the trip?

A Brit heading a bbq restaurant is enough for me to likely not go back

Not joking either

Seafood buffet

No particular order:

- Cafe Provence
- Seva Indian food
- Piropos
- Prime Social
- Aqua Penny’s

You won’t like it, they season their food

4:00 AM, belly fully of booze, and nothing, and I mean NOTHING is better than a Truck Stop Omelet at Town Topic.

For a chain, Eddie V’s has superb food and service.

But, for local spots, here’s just a few favorites that I highly recommend.

Farina
The Town Company
Lula Southern Cookhouse
Le Fou Frog
Grunauer
Cafe Provence
The Majestic
Novel

I guess if you never eat fried chicken, mashed potatoes, green beans, etc... then sure. I found it to be incredibly basic, especially for the hype and how busy they were all the time.... but sure, if you want deep fried American food (that might be redundant), they have it.

Excuse me? We colonised nearly an entire continent just to enslave the people there for the spices they grew.

Agreed. Probably end up with a Fish and chips on par with a Filet o Fish instead of real Q

I think you can get better fried chicken at Rye, Lula Southern Cookhouse, or even Char Bar.

I found it flavorless and it does not seem to be a minority opinion

It looks bland in the pictures but on YouTube the reviewers seem to be orgasming over it. Maybe I shouldn't rely too much on bellend attention seekers who make their money from over the top takes on things they experience. I guess I just want to try some hearty, traditional American grub, even if it's not really too dissimilar from the stuff we have here in some country pubs.

I'll give them a look. Cheers

no love for Town Topic?

Seems like an awful lot of work when you don’t even use them.

See Post #50

They do salmon really well.

Which was pointless because you clearly have an aversion to using said spices in your food.

Good list here....especially Cafe Provence getting a shout.

I am pretty torn on Lula I know it is popular and I have not had a bad experience there per say but what you get for money is just a bad value propisition. I don't have any problem spending money on a good meal but these are comfort food staples and for the price it is good but nowhere near *that* good.

Le Fou Frog > Cafe Provence

I did not think the Majestic was great, at least for steak.

I'd like to find a new steakhouse since Stockhill changed ownership and is no longer 4 stars. Ive just been going to Em Chamas cuz they have cheap Wagyu.

Does it matter which location?

Correct. My wife and I went once years ago and have never been back even though it’s not far from us at all. Flavorless is exactly what we recall.

There’s a relatively new place (5 years maybe, not sure) in Lenexa at the city center area off I-435, Silo Modern Farmhouse that is actually pretty good. Rye is probably a decent comparison.

Oh yes. It's pricier than Rye if memory serves. But damn is it good. I'd rate it much higher. And they have amazing brunch buffets that are not cheap.

Few people want to be shot while they're eating.

There are better last meals in town for sure.

Haven't been to the Leawood location so can't speak to it. I'm really just speaking only to the Kansas City location down near P&L.

I like Bristol but Bonefish is just as good, if not better.

Asking for a “friend” and his “date”? LMAO

When given the choice of any restaurant in KC, my youngest niece chooses Strouds for the Chicken. I think it's because her mom can't cook and it reminds her of what her Grandmother makes for her.

I think Strouds keeps it a little bland on purpose for families with kids, but you also have to consider the vast majority of the metro area have had their taste buds drowned in corn syrup and sugar for so long so they don't even know what they can't taste anymore.

"Is," not "will be." :)

Man I just don't agree.

I've been to Bonefish in the Northland a bunch of times (just a few minutes from my folks house) and I don't think it's a close call. Bonefish typically comes across as just a fairly standard seafood restaurant. Better than Red Lobster of course, but not a top tier spot either.

Simply a pretty good spot; on any given night maybe a little better or worse than McCormick & Schmick's. Haven't thought it to be on the same tier as Bristol.

See...I actually do agree. And I like Bristol, don't get me wrong. I'll also admit to not having the most refined seafood palate in the world. But I've eaten at Bonefish probably 20 times in my life and EVERY single time the food has been on point and great. I can't say the same for a lot of other seafood places I've tried. I honestly don't even know if McCormick is still open these days because I swore about 5-6 years ago I'd never go back after having another shitty meal there.

I tried that Jax Fish House a time or two, which I understand might be closed now and it was good. I'd compare it to Bristol, which I'm again not saying I dislike. But the consistency of Bonefish just does it for me if I'm in the mood for seafood. I'm pretty much guaranteed to love the meal.

Stroud's exists on a reputation from yesteryear, much the same as Bryant's and Gates both do as well. Nostalgia can sustain a restaurant for a long while. We still get Strouds about once a year and I always thoroughly enjoy it. Feel like shit afterwards but I think I'll always want to keep going even though I'm sure there's a handful of places that probably do fried chicken and mashed potatoes better. I might fight someone if they say somewhere else has better gravy though ROFL

The Bonefish off 64th you’re talking about is dead. Got shut down a month or so ago