We celebrate the Plaza's culinary history with this week's Fat City quiz. The first reader to post all five correct answers in the comments section by midnight, March 9, will win a hardback copy of Sharon Tyler Herbst's The Food Lover's Guide to Chocolate & Vanilla.
| Do you remember what took over this location? |
2) What was the name of the little cafe with the shady outdoor deck that served German sausages, potato salad and apple strudel?
3) This very formal French restaurant was a fixture on the Country Club Plaza for many years. What was its name?
4) Long before Bo Lings moved to the Plaza's south end, another Chinese restaurant in the very heart of the Plaza was the place for chop suey and egg foo young. What was the name of the restaurant?
5) This Polynesian-style restaurant was considered part of the Country Club Plaza dining scene, even though it was located at 45th and Main. People still talk about the appetizer assortment, which included puffed shrimp and cho cho. What was the name of the restaurant?
6) This Mexican restaurant at 100 Ward Parkway was named after Kansas City's most famous 19th-century prostitute. What was the name of the restaurant?
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What was the bar called that was in the space before Annies Santa Fe on the Plaza?
Realist: You win the Congeniality prize for that perceptive awareness.
Mo Rage: I thought I was the only one who thought the food at Annie's Santa Fe was third-rate, although it did have the smallest kitchen of any Gilbert/Robinson restaurant. Most people went there to drink.
and Emile's came here from St. Joe, an hour from the North. the potato salad--and everything else, really--was terrific. I still sorely miss it.
Annie's Santa Fe had forgettable, okay food but the location was great fun.
Mo Rage
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I miss House of Toy. Best Chinese food ever. I took my wife there on our first dates.
Do I get a runner-up for pointing out that there are six questions rather than five?
Congratulations JJ! The winning answers, as you guessed, are:
1) Fedora
2) Emile's
3) La Mediterranee
4) House of Toy
5) Kona Kai
6) Annie's Santa Fe
Colby...O'Dowds exactly...By the way...congrats on The James Beard Nomination...well deserved...bring it back to Kansas City.We need to get in soon and enjoy dinner with you...Roberto Donna was so impressed this past fall!
Great Jasper! I knew the first 3. And Annies of course. I barely remember La Mediteran. I think it was still there when I started at Stolen Grill. It was where O'Dowds is now right?
# 1 Fedora
# 2 Emiles AKA The German Butcher and they had to change name.
#3 La Mediteranaie
# 4 House Of Toy
# 5 Kona Kai
# 6 Annies Santa Fe
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