The Kansas City Business Journal has a video of chef Sanchez talking about what diners can expect as the camera pans throughout the interior of the newly opened restaurant. The two-level space features a patio with an outdoor fire pit and sits alongside the outdoor ice rink. A tortilla-making station just inside the front door and a bar stocked with more than 40 different kinds of tequila are the focal points inside.
The starters include house-made chicharrones (pork rinds); a salad of jicama, cucumber and mango dressed in chile, lime and salt; and a pozole soup with braised pork and hominy. The menu is focused on botanas (small plates) like seafood paella fritters, plantanos rellenos (plantains with smoky black beans) and a tamale of the day. Mestizo also serves ceviche, tacos (skirt steak and braised tongue) and a few Sanchez family recipes like his mother Zarela's creamy rice.
Mestizo is open from 11 a.m. to 12 a.m. Monday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to 1 a.m. Friday and Saturday, and 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday. Reservations can be made by calling 913-752-9025.
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Outside of bringing us classic and informative food programming like "Chefs vs. City", is Sanchez really an established figure in Latin American cooking independently of the popularity he's gotten from Food Network? I honestly don't know, and his web presence is so riddled with FoodTV factoids that it's hard to guess if the chicken or egg came first here. BUT the people I know who are most excited about Mestizo are also the least likely to ever venture into a KCK or Independence Ave. taqueria.
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