The patties are on the grill and a new "modern burger joint" is now open in Prairie Village.
BRGR Kitchen & Bar (4038 West 83rd Street) had its grand opening Wednesday in the Corinth Square Shopping Center.
"We're really excited about bringing a place that provides fresh and unique culinary creations that won't empty your wallet to Prairie Village and Kansas City," says co-owner Alan Gaylin.
He launched the restaurant with childhood friend Glynn Roberts and Roberts' wife, Jean. Gaylin has extensive restaurant experience, having served as a senior VP of operations at Kansas City-based Houlihan's. His and Roberts' vision was for BRGR to be a modern take on American classics.
The menu was designed by Executive Chef Michael Slavin, previously the executive chef for the Kansas City Royals. Besides sandwiches, salads and comfort food, it features 16 burgers made out of angus beef (with a 75-25 beef-to-fat ratio) that's ground fresh every day.
The signature BRGR ($7) is a half-pound of beef chopped together with caramelized onions and topped with American cheese, pickles and mustard on an onion bun. There's also the Jucy Lucy ($7.50, an American-cheese-stuffed burger mixed with Worcestershire sauce) and the PC ($7, pimento cheese, iceberg lettuce and special sauce on a kaiser bun).
Also on the menu: turkey burgers, with cranberry mayo and pickled cabbage ($7.50); a portabella mushroom burger ($8); and pork au poivre, with fennel-crusted ground pork, brie and anise salad ($8.50).
This is a big menu -- the starters are called snacks and they include chile fondue (seven cheeses, braised tomatoes, smoked chiles and stadium pretzels, $7) and skillet corn bread served with honey butter ($5). You can have your fries either skinny, fat or sweet potato ($2.50), or truffle ($3.50). Onions come as straws ($2.50) or rings ($4).
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Its really good news for all the visitors that they can gets lovely foods nearest to prairie village. Sounds of food quality is also bang on. I heard about it from my colleague who already visited this bar twice.
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Been to BRGR twice now and look forward to continuing being a customer. Both times the service was GREAT and the food was excellent. The atmosphere is fun...we needed a place like this in the village. I was impressed at how busy it was at lunch. Thumbs up for BRGR!
Our first visit was Sunday and I say "first" because I'm sure we'll be back. Our waitress was darling and did a great job of checking back with us. I thought the napkins were nice since they were cloth and not paper(some people can't think outside the box). The food was great and cooked as requested. My issues were with the catsup--didn't care for it and the loudness of the place, but that won't keep us away. I just wish these places offered a 1/3 or 1/4 pound hamburger as well.
We have been to BRGR several times since their opoening and sure missed the experiences some of the other posters here are talking about. I have loved each visit and plan to make this a regular on our "date-night" list.
The service has been wonderful when we've been in. Maybe we lucked out on our trips, but the odds are slim since we've been so pleased all four times.
Our food has always been delicious and we've tried new things each time we've visited. My favorite is the PC Burger with the pimento cheese in it, and my husband's is the Pork au Pouivre, but nothing has been anything but yummy so far.
As for the complainer above, I think the bathrooms are really cool. They are not truly "co-ed": there are two locking stalls with floor-to-ceiling walls for each sex and the space is open enough that it doesn't feel crowded or weird when you're in the sink area. And tacky napkins? Come on "am." Get over yourself and have a little fun.
We love the place and I think it's silly to go comparing it to other burger places. It's got its own charm and its own menu and its own feel. We'll be there this week watching the college bball games and enjoying a really cool new restaurant.
I was very disappointed with our first visit - service was terrible, I ordered my burger medium well and it came cold and pink in the middle - couldn't get the attention of the server and he never came back to ask if everything was OK.
Clearly a manager was in the kitchen area, but they didn't seem to have anyone on the floor supervising the wait staff and checking with patrons.
Back to Blanc for us
We went in on Sunday and grabbed it to go. The hostess with the super short hair was beyond rude and complacent, rolling her eyes and staring people down. She also forgot about our food until we reminded her 35 minutes later. The food was cold when we got home (home is less than 5 minutes from there). They were doing a horrible job of managing the wait list as well. The food was decent, but left something to be desired. Maybe it would be better as dine in, I know some things tend to be. I am sure we will try it again, but at the end of the meal we both found ourselves unfavorably comparing it to Blanc. Oh, and the co-ed bathrooms were just too weird. As a girl, I have no desire to share a bathroom with a bunch of dudes I don't know. No thanks!
Surprised this place was so busy on Friday afternoon with very little publicity about its opening, as far as I can tell. Atmosphere casual and comfortable...except acoustics make it a little too noisy. They're going to need more TVs (this may be a skewed view because it's ncaa bball season). Burger I had was good. And they have sweet potato fries--if there is a just God, sweet potato fries will replace conventional french fries in all food establishments.
To the whiner about the napkins: The wait staff wear garage mechanic shirts (a patch that says BRGR appears where the name patch usually goes), so the red shop towel is part of that theme. Get over your Leawood conception of tacky and remove the stick from your backside: it's just a whimsical touch.
I give this place an OK.
Pros
Food was good. Had a Roundhouse burger and fries.
Reasonably priced.
Didn't have to wait.
Cons
Had 4 different servers.
Water glasses were the size of juice glasses and no ice.
Napkins were red shop towels. If I was in a auto body shop and desperate for a napkin I guess I would use one, but thought it was tacky in an actual restaurant.
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