When it comes to barbecue Kansas City is King, with more than 100 barbecue restaurants in the metro area where visitors and denizens alike delight in finger-lickin’, lip smackin’ barbecue practically 24/7. What follows is just a saucy smattering of what the Barbecue Capital of the World has to offer.
Good Morning, Dear!
Southmoreland on the Plaza
Bed and breakfast guests start the day with grilled croissant French Toast stuffed with grilled peaches and topped with maple pecan bourbon syrup, molasses brined pork chops prepared on the grill and strawberry mango frappes—an amazing combination of sweet, salty, chewy and crunchy—all on one plate.
Rye Restaurant
Try the Burnt End Hash for weekend brunch, made with a spicy tomato sauce and sunny side eggs (also served at their Bluestem Restaurant in Westport). And, their classic Shrimp and Grits plate topped with flavorful, slightly tangy pulled pork, is out of this world.
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Brobeck’s Barbeque
Try the Smokey Joe—a Sloppy Joe-style sandwich made with chopped beef, ham and pork and gently tossed with a delectable barbecue sauce. And, unlike your typical ham salad spread, Brobeck's is a very unusual yet addictive mélange of chopped smoked ham, turkey, brisket and barbecue rub spices, served as sandwich or with their homemade potato chips.
Sol Cantina
The Cowboy Quesadilla transforms the customary flour tortilla filled with cheese, chicken or beef plus fillings by using slow cooked barbecued burnt ends with a spicy barbecue dipping sauce on the side. In the soft tacos, the burnt ends are topped with shredded cabbage, tomatoes, jack and cheddar cheese and a creamy barbecue sauce.
What Time is it? Happy Hour Time!
Smokehouse Barbecue
Folks love the hickory smoked barbecue chicken wings, as well as the scrumptious Porker Sandwich with tender marinated pulled pork on a brioche bun.
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LC’s Bar-B-Que
The line is long for their outstanding, hefty and hearty barbecue rib tip, short and long end rib and sausage plates.
Füd Restaurant
Vegans and vegetarians still get a barbecue fix with the extraordinary Jack Barbecue sandwich made with oven roasted jack fruit (a giant, prickly oval fruit grown in Latin America, India, Africa and Southeast Asia), covered in vegan bbq sauce and glazed with sweet pickle Thrillanaise or spicy Chilinaise, kosher pickles and onions, and served pan-seared or panini style. (Adventurous carnivores, you probably wouldn’t know this wasn’t meat if we didn’t tell ya!)
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B. B.’s Lawnside Blues & BBQ
The night is still young for the Walter’s Mixed Meat Sandwich—a sizeable sesame seed bun piled high with chopped beef, ham, turkey, pulled pork, Italian sauces and burnt ends marinated in sweet barbecue sauce—and The Big One—three pieces of white bread or a sesame seed bun piled high with thinly sliced pit-smoked beef, ham or turkey. (Open until 10 p.m. four nights a week.)
KC BARBECUE
Arthur Bryant's Barbecue
Region: Downtown
Phone: (816) 231-1123
Visit WebsiteChar Bar Smoked Meats & Amusements
Region: Midtown
Phone: (816) 389-8600
Visit WebsiteFiorella’s Jack Stack Barbecue - Plaza
Region: Country Club Plaza, Midtown
Phone: (816) 531-7427
Visit WebsiteFiorella's Jack Stack Barbecue - Lee's Summit
Region: South KC, East
Phone: (816) 621-7427
Visit WebsiteFiorella's Jack Stack Barbecue - Martin City
Region: South KC
Phone: (816) 942-9141
Visit WebsiteFiorella's Jack Stack Barbecue - Overland Park
Region: Kansas, Overland Park, Johnson County/South
Phone: (913) 385-7427
Visit WebsiteFiorella's Jack Stack Barbecue at the Freight House
Region: Crown Center, Crossroads, Downtown
Phone: (816) 472-7427
Visit WebsiteGates Bar-B-Q - Downtown
Region: Downtown
Phone: (816) 483-3880
Visit WebsiteGates Bar-B-Q - Leawood
Region: Johnson County/South, Kansas
Phone: (913) 383-1752
Visit WebsiteGates Bar-B-Q - Midtown
Region: Midtown
Phone: (816) 753-0828
Visit WebsiteGates Bar-B-Q - Southeast
Region: Midtown
Phone: (816) 531-7522
Visit WebsiteJoe's Kansas City Bar-B-Que
Region: Kansas
Phone: (913) 722-3366
Visit WebsiteLocal Pig & Pigwich
Region: River Market, Downtown
Phone: (816) 200-1639
Visit WebsiteQ39 Restaurant
Region: West 39th St, Midtown
Phone: (816) 255-3753
Visit WebsiteQ39 South
Region: Overland Park, Johnson County/South, Kansas
Phone: (913) 951-4500
Visit WebsiteGates Bar-B-Q - East
Region: East
Phone: (816) 383-1752
Visit WebsiteBrobecks Barbecue
Region: Overland Park, Johnson County/South, Kansas
Phone: (913) 901-9700
Visit WebsiteSmokehouse Barbecue - Independence
Region: East
Phone: (816) 795-5555
Visit WebsiteSmokehouse Barbecue - Gladstone
Region: Northland
Phone: (816) 454-4500
Visit WebsiteSmokehouse Barbecue - Zona Rosa
Region: Northland
Phone: (816) 587-3337
Visit WebsiteFiorella's Jack Stack Barbecue - Lenexa
Region: Johnson County/South, Kansas
Phone: (913) 382-4227
Visit WebsiteSlaps BBQ
Region: Kansas, Kansas City, Kansas
Phone: (913) 213-3736
Visit WebsiteMeat Mitch Barbecue
Region: Johnson County/South, Kansas
Phone: (913) 363-6328
Visit WebsiteOurHouseKC
Region: Midtown, West 39th St
Phone: (816) 442-8569
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