Subject: Barbecuing and Grilling

• The Best Beer With Barbecue

  July 30, 2008

• A Rap to My Rap Snacks

  August 1, 2008

• More of Kansas City on the Food Tube!

  August 7, 2008

• Kansas City Gets a Proper Beer Festival

  August 7, 2008

• The original Fiorella’s Jack Stack Barbecue in Martin City is blessed by angel’s ribs

  February 26, 2009

• American Royal Weekend Roundup

  October 6, 2008

• Top Ten Kansas City foods to eat before you die: Number Eight

  October 8, 2008

• Et tu Trillin?

  By OWEN MORRIS Even if you don't subscribe to The New Yorker, as a person interested in food this may be a good week to pick up a copy from a magazine stand. (Do street magazine stands exist anymore?) It's the annual food issue, and it's got some interesting stuff.

  November 17, 2008

• People: It's spelled barbecue

  DLC of the always entertaining KC Lunch Spots recently held a poll asking readers to vote for their favored spelling of the word barbecue...or is that barbeque or bbq? Just as there's not one dominant version of barbecue, there's not one dominant version of its correct spelling. As DLC notes, no less of an authority than the Oxford English Dictionary lists four different spellings and as shown above, Lay's Potato Chips have used at least threespellings in the past few years. Even though Kansas C

  December 8, 2008

• Best Locally Made Food Item Available in Grocery Stores

  January 27, 2000

• Best Barbecue

  October 19, 2000

• Best Barbecue Specials

  October 19, 2000

• Now open: Daniel's Bar-B-Q

  Daniel Hipsher may not be a household name in Johnson County, but he means plenty to members of the Kansas City Barbecue Society and people who follow the American Royal. Hipsher's barbecue sauce won first place at the Royal in 2003. He's also relatively well-known just west of the Kansas City area, where he opened Daniel's Bar-B-Q's in Tonganoxie and Lansing. He sold the two locations in 2006 but got the itch to get back in the restaurant game.

  January 13, 2009

• Suburban Bawl

  July 3, 2003

• Opening Soon: Adam's Rib Barbecue

  OK, we all know that when a restaurateur says his or her new establishment is going to open "soon," that really means "in this decade." But the hard-working Hope Loehr has been working around-the-clock inside the building -- a former Pizza Hut -- at 9148 Santa Fe Drive in Overland Park to make sure her new business, Adam's Rib Original KC Barbecue, really opens later this month. If the name sounds familiar, it's because Loehr (former manager at Hayward's Barbecue and the New Theatre Restaur

  February 12, 2009

• Where's the Beef?

  May 26, 2005

• Gates most likely gone from Kauffman Stadium

  Flickr: Clever SwineIt's looking as if Gates Barbecue won't have a place at the redesigned Kauffman Stadium.In charge of concession stands and restaurants in the newly redesigned stadium is food giant Aramark, which signed an agreement this past fall with the club to provide food services for the next 10 years. Calls to Aramark office went unreturned but a Royals employee with knowledge of the new concession layouts told me he had not seen Gates in the new plans.

  March 13, 2009

• Healthy barbecue. Sort of.

  Flickr: TtstamIs it true? Can barbecue actually be healthy for you? Yes and no. New research shows that the fat in a certain cut of barbecue may be the good monounsaturated type. The research is by a team at Texas A&M, and thus the focus is on Texas-style barbecue and the famous Texas brisket. According to "meat scientist" Dr. Stephen Smith, brisket contains "tiny reservoirs of healthy monounsaturated fatty acids" with cornfed steer fat containing 50 percent oleic acid, a monounsaturat

  March 24, 2009

• Kauffman Stadium renovates its food

  Let's finally get make this official: Gate's Barbecue is gone from Kauffman Stadium. It's a move widely met with contempt, but don't be so quick to judge. In its place is KC All-Star Barbecue. A much larger, completely new area that might be more appropriately named Fiorella's Jack Stack Kauffman.No, KC All-Star Barbecue is not run by the Fiorella family or associated with the barbecue chain, but its executive chef Michael Slavin spent two years there. As did his sous-chef Steve Muncy. As did th

  April 3, 2009

• Best Barbecue 2008 — East

  January 15, 2009

• Best Barbecue 2008 -- North: Smokehouse Bar-B-Que

  January 15, 2009

• kansas city succulent

  October 2, 2008

• Wild West Hop

  August 14, 2008

• ’Cue With Everything

  May 22, 2008

• 'Cue and sides

  May 15, 2008

• The Department of Burnt Ends smokes out some saucy new beers

  April 24, 2008

• Meat-Eaters’ Paradise

  October 4, 2007

• BBQ Teams Needed

  July 19, 2007

• Smokin' at Chosun

  May 31, 2007

• The Heat

  October 13, 2005

• Purple Haze

  September 29, 2005

• KC Disasterpiece

  Barbecue baron Rich Davis and his saucy sons have left plenty of people feeling burned.

  July 21, 2005

• Toto Moto

  Did the Wizard ride a scooter?

  May 26, 2005

• Rockin' Jake

  Saturday, July 26, at B.B.'s Lawnside Bar-B-Que.

  July 24, 2003

• Roadhouse Blues

  B.B.'s Lawnside Barbecue still swings.

  December 19, 2002

• Burnt-End Offerings

  At Fiorella's Jack Stack Barbecue, all the meat is sacred.

  January 11, 2001

• LC's represents in LA

  I believe with all my heart that Kansas City-style barbecue is the best. But let's be honest, it's difficult to be unbiased toward one's own region. One of the most enlightening conversations I had at the American Royal barbecue last year was with a pair of contestants who had come from Texas to compete in the invitational and were shocked that their brisket, which had won nearly every award in Texas, didn't even place in the top half.A truly impartial competition must take place in a non-barbec

  May 7, 2009

• Two KC barbecue joints in the top 10

  Just last week I was complaining that LA's Barbecue Festival wasn't a real competition, even though it was the perfect opportunity to test different regions' styles against each other. Little did I realize that Paul Kirk, the "ambassador of barbecue," had done just that in his new book America's Best BBQ.Kirk -- who hails from Kansas City -- is a pit-master (he's won in the open competition at American Royal) and is a certified master barbecue judge. For his new book, which comes out tomorrow, h

  May 11, 2009

• Great American Barbecue Festival has started

  Billing itself as "The Mardi Gras of meat," the Great American Barbecue Festival's mission is to make sure you get the most out of the Memorial Day weekend. It features music, Royals and Wizards players, a kid's zone, a carnival, fireworks tonight and Saturday night, and nearly 300 barbecue teams cooking the entire weekend at Capitol Federal Park at Sandstone in Bonner Springs.Tastings from teams and other vendors will be available the entire event at the barbecue expo. In addition, Saturday is

  May 22, 2009

• Meat Eaters

  May 21, 2009

• 'Cue and Clues

  May 28, 2009

• Olathe's hidden barbecue festival: Har-B-Q

  Brian Harbaugh is just as surprised as everyone else that a small barbecue cook-out he started with friends seven years ago would evolve into an all-day competition with hundreds of guests. "Did I ever expect the event to grow like it has? Absolutely not. It was just me and like 20 friends talking smack back and forth about barbecue. But it's huge now ... last year we had 400 people and we're prepared to handle more this year."All this for an event Harbaugh has never advertised or sought any pub

  May 29, 2009

• Opening Soon: Matchstick BBQ

  Fans of "Restaurant Row" on 39th Street who have wanted an exclusively barbeque restaurant in the neighborhood will probably thrilled when restaurateur Tommy Treccariche opens Matchstick Barbecue later this summer in the former Spitfire Wine Bar & Grill location at 1809 W. 39th Street. According to real estate maven Greg Patterson, who negotiated the deal, Treccarciche -- who has a background in the meat business -- and his partners saw a niche on 39th Street for an intimate bistro that

  June 8, 2009

• Best Barbecue — West, 2008: Quick's Bar-B-Que & Catering Company

  January 15, 2009

• Best Barbecue 2008 -- South: Fiorella's Jack Stack Barbecue

  January 8, 2009

• Kansas City's Top Ten baked beans

  Until today, we just assumed that everyone loved baked beans. But as Charles Ferruzza, Owen Morris and new Fat City blogger Jonathan Bender discovered -- thanks to erudite Pitch music editor Jason Harper -- that no less an authority as Pythagorus opposed the consumption of beans (he wouldn't touch meat either, based on the principles of reincarnation). The poet Callimachus wrote: "Keep your hands from beans, a painful food: As Pythagorus enjoined, I too urge." Callimachus, however, di

  July 3, 2009

• Now you have plans for the weekend

  ​You need plans. Fat City has a recycle bin full of event listings. In this post, all of our problems are solved.The festival circuit continues and there's still something for everybody. Beer lovers, meat lovers, and vegetarians -- get ready to overeat. It's not October, but that doesn't mean your lederhosen can't make an appearance at Oktoberfest. Learn how to properly slide a beer down a bar or go to beer school at Worlds of Fun's annual German Festival the next two weekends. The two beer ga

  September 11, 2009

• Closed: Adam's Rib Barbecue

  ​It's not news, by this point, that restaurateur Hope Loehr's barbecue joint Adam's Rib closed last week -- six months and two days after it opened -- just as we named her Best Barbecue: South in The Pitch's annual Best of Kansas City issue. It was a bittersweet moment for Loehr to read the tribute to her Overland Park restaurant after she decided to shut the doors for good."It was heartbreaking," Loehr tells me. "But we just couldn't hang on any longer. We had a possible investor, but we

  October 6, 2009

• Meet Plowboys BBQ -- The American Royal Invitational Grand Champion

  ​If you're looking for the future of barbecue, you might just head out to Blue Springs, Missouri. That's the hometown of Plowboys BBQ, the newly crowned American Royal Invitational Grand Champion. The team of Todd Johns and his brother-in-law Randy Hinck (who compete as the Pork Pullin Plowboys) bested 123 past grand champions to capture the overall crown. And they did it with a mixture of classic techniques and a bit of technology designed by Johns -- an IT project manager by day.  "We c

  October 13, 2009

• Chef John Besh talks about My New Orleans

  ​It's a weighty task, encapsulating an entire city's food culture inside of one cookbook. But Chef John Besh has grown into the role of the latest celebrity chef to speak for New Orleans, embracing the cultural heritage of the city where he owns and operates six restaurants. And in between the 200 recipes, Besh weaves stories from his own culinary past and the history of the dishes and producers from the region around New Orleans. On Monday, he'll be in Kansas City to sign his new cookbook, M

  October 16, 2009