Celebrities, Pitch

Bieber dined at Blanc. Kids love burgers.

Jonathan Bender — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 09:16:04 -0500

It's hard to take your kids out to eat. You have to find food they like and a place that's kid-tolerant.…

Johnny Iuzzini hit up the Riot Room, Julian last night

Jonathan Bender — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 10:07:08 -0500

Most of us leave our jobs, pack a set of clothes onto the back of a shiny Ducati, and then set out across the country eating and drinking our way through each city's finest for Food + Wine magazine. No, that wasn't how it went when you had that conversation with HR?…

Missy Roe has it all: food blogger, conservative, beauty queen

Charles Ferruzza — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 07:00:00 -0600

Someone needs to give Melissa "Missy" Roe her own reality show. Missy has what most of those babes on the various Real Housewives shows don't have: a real life.…

Tom Watson's Guide to Kansas City will have you at Stroud's and Jess & Jim's

Jonathan Bender — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 14:45:12 -0500

You can tell a lot by where a man chooses to rest his fork and knife. Kansas City's own Tom Watson was recently interviewed by Golf Digest for its My Town series, wherein a pro golfer offers a succinct travel guide to their city.…

Ochocinco will be at the Peachtree today -- you've been warned

Jonathan Bender — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 08:30:39 -0500

Chad Ochocinco is coming back to town and first on his list? The Peachtree Buffet (6800 Eastwood Trafficway).…

Famous Food will attempt to turn 'celebrities' into restaurateurs

Jonathan Bender — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 08:30:01 -0500

An enterprising television executive has rightfully assumed that America has only so large a palate for celebrity chefs. Unfortunately, the answer may not be a lot more palatable.…

Chad Ochocinco eats Oklahoma Joe's, just like us

Jonathan Bender — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 08:15:41 -0500

Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chad Ochocinco's first stop in town? Oklahoma Joe's for a Z-man and fries, courtesy of SportingKC.…

Guy Fieri will bring his version of rock to the Midland in May

Jonathan Bender — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 13:45:05 -0600

Elke Mermis has the details on Guy Fieri's return to our fair city over on our music blog, Wayward.

Fieri -- the spiky-haired food dude from Diners,

Drive-Ins and Dives -- is an unabashed fan of Kansas City. (So far,

the Food Network star has hit up Mama's 39th Street Diner, Grinders,

Happy Gillis, the Brick, and a whole bunch more.…
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Levar Burton, Whoopi Goldberg and Kenny Loggins are coming to Kansas City. Will you dine with them?

Crystal K. Wiebe — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 09:00:53 -0600

That's right, the former host of Reading Rainbow, the star of Sister Act and the man behind Top Gun's theme song are indeed scheduled to make appearances in Kansas City soon. And at least as far as the first two are concerned, if you're willing to spend the money, you could enjoy a meal in their vicinity.…
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Cheril Vendetti, gay stand-up comic and queen of Italian cuisine, coming to Kansas City

Charles Ferruzza — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 12:00:54 -0600

Cheril Vendetti wants you to eat something.
What do you mean you've never heard of kid-noli? Even Paula Deen has heard of kid-noli, because comedienne Cheril Vendetti posted a video of herself -- in a clown costume, no less -- making a recipe for a child-friendly cannoli on the Real Women of Philadelphia website.…
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A perfect concept for the P&L District: Rolling Stone Restaurant & Lounge

Charles Ferruzza — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 17:17:40 -0600

If you're planning to be in Los Angeles next Sunday -- November 21 -- you may want to stop and star-gawk at the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Highland. That's the night when a new restaurant-and-bar concept is officially unveiled as the venue for the after-party for the American Music Awards: the Rolling Stone Restaurant & Lounge.

The venue marks the first time that Rolling Stone founder and publisher Jann Wenner has licensed the magazine's name to an American restaurant.…
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Make Marilyn Monroe's stuffing recipe for Thanksgiving

Charles Ferruzza — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:41:22 -0600

As one of Hollywood's most iconic sex symbols, Marilyn Monroe -- who died at age 36 in 1962 -- has been the subject of numerous biographies, TV movies, screen documentaries, Andy Warhol silk screens and thousands of magazine and newspaper articles.

Is there anything that the American public doesn't know about the former Norma Jean Mortensen?

Well, she cooked. And this week, the New York Times reported that a new book, Fragments (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $30) includes a recipe in Monroe's handwriting for stuffing (along with scribbles on envelopes, rare photographs, poems and intimate personal observations).…
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