Tyler Shane

1 week ago | kansascitymag.com | Tyler Shane

In the vast world of restaurants, the bistro has a simple job: Don’t stand out. A bistro doesn’t yearn for greatness or feel the need to create a wave of ingenuity and innovation. Its laurels rest on familiarity and the lovely ability to comfortably host diners from all walks of life. At a bistro, the food should be good and the drinks should flow, but neither should attract so much attention that it overwhelms the dining experience. Both should, instead, hoist conversation and spirits.

2 weeks ago | kansascitymag.com | Tyler Shane

OpeningsCafé Corazón (5911 Main St., cafecorazonkc.com)Latin coffee shop, Cafe Corazón, opened its third location in Brookside this past weekend. Café Corazón was recently named one of Kansas City’s Top 10 Best Small Businesses by the KC Chamber of Commerce. For more information about the cafe’s latest spot, read here. Origin Coi Nguon (7711 N Oak Trafficway, Suite A, NKC)There’s a new Vietnamese coffee shop in the Northland. Origin Coi Nguon held its grand opening under owner Nhung Hoang.

2 weeks ago | kansascitymag.com | Tyler Shane

Manny Gomez isshaking up KC’s cocktail scene—literally and figuratively. Over the past decade, while many notable local mixologists were earning their stripes at KC’s cutting-edge speakeasies like Swordfish Tom’s and the late Manifesto (Jay Sanders of Wild Child and Bryan Arri of Fern Bar come to mind), Gomez was trying to break into KC’s cocktail scene at dive bars and restaurants like Mi Ranchito and Longhorn Steakhouse.

2 weeks ago | kansascitymag.com | Tyler Shane

Earl’s Premier owners are opening a market and new Mexican restaurantTodd Schulte and Cory Dannehl, owners of East Coast-style oyster bar Earl’s Premier and Italian restaurant Bacaro Primo, are expanding their fledgling restaurant empire. The duo is expanding Earl’s Premier (651 E 59th St., KCMO) to include a market, which is exciting, but there’s more. They’re also opening a new restaurant in the former Blu Hwy steakhouse restaurant (5070 Main St., KCMO) in the South Plaza.

3 weeks ago | kansascitymag.com | Tyler Shane

Check out our readers’ top picks for feasting and drinking around the metro. Five Mile Farms isn’t just another Kansas farm way south in who-knows-where. It’s family-owned, with Lucas and Ileana Price helming the ship—er, tractor. The husband-and-wife team’s focus is maximizing carbon sequestration, otherwise referred to as regenerative agriculture, to grow grass-fed beef, pastured poultry and forest-raised pigs.