I reserved a table for my other half and myself on Valentines Day. We ordered the cured meat appetizer and the goat cheese appetizer. The goat cheese was fantastic (goat cheese with the addition of cream cheese.. not entirely creative). The cured meat appetizer was ok.... the included house made pickles were good. She ordered the chicken fried steak and gravy.... Not impressed at all. Somewhat greasy and their effort to make the gravy so non-traditional resulted in just that.... the gravy had an odd flavor and I wasn't all about it. I ordered the shrimp and grits... this was a fantastic combination. The grits were cooked perfectly! The shrimp were small and cooked to the consistency of rubber. (I was most surprised by this simple mistake). We ordered the blood orange/chocolate tart and the banana cream pie. The banana cream was great (but not comparable to the banana cream from the cigarette smoke inundated dive diner in Riverside) and the blood orange tart was good, but not exactly memorable. This is my advice. If you want to try Rye, go to the Blue Stem and order from the happy hour menu on the lounge side. It is Rye's menu, but done SO much better! I'm not sure why. If you want to dine on sub-par, uber-creative, expensive dishes while sitting next to a eccentric psychiatrist in a beanie, then go to Rye. For the record, I am a HUGE fan of Bluestem.
Charles is such a fantastic, creative and talented writer. I love his restaurant reviews as well as his wit!
He is the BEST!!!
Move over, MFK Fischer. Feruzza deserves a spot on the pantheon, too. Marvelous essay.
charlie is so much my favurite writer on this magazine, to bad he doesnt drink no more, otherwise i buy him 50 rounds of jager bombs in vegas!! joke about tucker carlson soo funny!! i spit jagerbomb all over computer screen! one time i meet mr tucker carlson and he tell me woman should never drive car because they are not humanbeings, he is evil man. then i see tucker carlson turn another man into a rock just by looking at him, devil inside FOR SURE, why they let evil person on television. i vote charlie for tv host!!!
Leawood is NOT low rent. It is well educated, upscale, 97% white & priced to keep it that way. The location is solid!
Hi Charles. You mention the chicken @ Rye's is hormone/anti-biotic free (this is not unique, by-the-way, as all chicken is mandated to be by federal law) but do you know the source of the beef they serve? I didn't see it mentioned in your article if the beef is clean.
We went to brunch today and put a decent dent in the menu, but if you get apple fritters, the fried chicken livers and grits, and a slice of lemon meringue pie, after you wake up out of the coma you can be confident you chose some strong dishes. Good prices and a big selection. Brunch doesn't always paint the most accurate portrait of what a restaurant is capable of, but Rye's is damn good.
Charles, a minor point, but Leawood extends to 155th Street. Mission Farms actually is in the northern part of the city, not, as you say, "at the southern tip."
Judging by the fact you can't and haven't been able to get a table there since they opened, I think they'll probably be open far more then a year. The patio alone brings people from all over the neighborhood and it hasn't even opened yet.
$34 for a fried chicken......ha ha ha....the jokes on the morons who buy into the hype. It will be closed in 1 year, like all the other overpriced, tres cool jerkoff run restaurants that have opened there. BFD>
Why did it open in Mission Farms, of all places? I can only imagine the rent must have been low because the last half-dozen restaurants there failed. Best of luck to the Garrelts, but after the novelty wears off, that is a real tough location to manage.
We have been 4 times now. The front of house is getting better with consistency and understanding the menu. Food and bar wise everything is top notch. Only 1 time did the chicken wings taste a little funky and we emptied 1/3 of the hot sauce to zing it up (2 large orders). Everyone we have taken (and we agree) feel very comfortable in the space...its just relaxed.
I'm pretty sure there's a supplemental charge for that.
Unfortunately my dad went out of business but we still sell the food every now and then to our friends and neighbors. I miss spending time in the little restaurant with my dad and friends. oh well thats business for yah.
They better watch out with getting lazy on the smokestack series. This is farmhouse ale and coffee. Doesn't really seem like they are trying as much as they were last year. Grainstorm was decidedly mediocre.
hey I hope they serve chicago style hot dogs, the perfect thing to pair with cheap wine......yeehaw. I guess the hillbillies strolling around the plaza window shopping need somewhere to eat too!
why are you people writing more than one sentence, bored? lonely? want to be heard? haha humans. simple, this place is gross, will be shut down soon, everything comes from a can, id rather eat homeless people food (vienaa sausage, crackers)
werd to yo motha
Re: “Rye is in a field by itself”
I'm always amazed when I go out to dinner on Valentine's Day or New Year's Eve and it isn't the best meal of my entire life. I wish there was a way for restaurants to coordinate one of those holidays with the last night of their Groupon AND Restaurant Week because it would give tedious Yelpers ammo out the ass.