Yahooz, which began serving "contemporary cowboy cuisine" in February of 1998, when PB&J opened the venue, has reportedly seen too many months of flat sales. The restaurant will close for a few days to re-vamp the interior, remove all vestiges of the Yahoo brand, and re-open in mid-February as the Coyote Grill.
If the name Coyote Grill has a ring to it: It's the Southwestern-style restaurant that PB&J founders Paul Khoury and Bill Crooks opened in the new Mission Center Mall in 1989. It was the second restaurant in the Kansas City-based chain and one of my personal favorites. After a decade of popularity, the Coyote Grill closed a few months before Mission Center Mall was shuttered -- and ultimately razed -- in 2006.
Although there will be traditional Tex-Mex style dishes on the Coyote Grill menu, there won't be any references to the restaurant as serving Mexican cuisine since Town Center already has a Mexican restaurant on the property: an outpost of powerhouse corporation Brinker International's modestly priced On the Border Mexican Grill.
There's another Mexican restaurant across the street from the new Coyote Grill. Right across Roe, in the Camelot Court shopping complex, there's the small, unpretentious Cactus Grill. The names of the two restaurants might sound a little similar, but trust me, no one will ever get the two mixed up.
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Very disappointing meal.
They can't seem to decide what they want to be - old Yahooz favorites or Mexican and frankly don't seem to be doing either very well (we were patrons of both previously). Food lacked flavor and was just generally "blah". Even after being asked by management about how we liked the food, and honestly told them what we thought, substitutions were offered and provided which were somewhat better than what was originally ordered, but only marginally so. But we had to ask why the waiter had told us "Great selection" initially when we ordered if he later said something else when we commented negatively that he considered something else preferrable.
Currently there is far better Mexican food in the area at Guadaljara on 103rd near State Line, offering far superior food and margaritas, and also at Cactus Grill across Roe from Coyote Grill. Coyote Grill needs to seriously consider their concept and recipes.
Wine was probably a far better selection than the house margarita which is over-priced considering the lack of taste. I prefered my water.
We went in last weekend and it was fantastic. They still had a few items from their old Yahooz menu, but all the additions looked wonderful. And it was much more reasonably priced than before. I never thought I would have ordered wine with a mexican dish but out server made a suggestion and it was a perfect combination.
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