Subject: Leawood

• Breakfast Buffet: Monday, 8/18

  August 18, 2008

• What You Missed In Pitch Forks

  October 8, 2008

• Guilty Pleasures: Michael Smith

  November 17, 2008

• Eating out on Thanksgiving: the nice places

  By OWEN MORRIS In Pitch Forks this week I included a list of some nicer restaurants that will be open on Thanksgiving. Unfortunately I made an error in one of the listings -- but fortunately someone caught my mistake. Here's the real deal info: McCormick & Schmick's is serving a choice of a ham or turkey dinner for $18.95 and $19.95 respectively along with its regular menu. Also, its hours are from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.As of 3 p.m. Tuesday, the following restaurants still have some openings for

  November 25, 2008

• Star bribes Kansas Citians to read paper

  Crack Pitch clubs editor Berry Anderson snapped this photo at Eighth Street and Walnut. She also spied another sign on Southwest Boulevard across from Manny's. Let's get this straight. The Kansas City Star's answer to falling stock prices, declining circulation and company-wide layoffs isn't providing better coverage of Kansas City -- it's bribing readers with a $25,000 grand prize?

  November 29, 2008

• Now Open: Zest

  It's been three years since Joe DiGiovanni sold Joe D's Wine bar and Cafe and left the restaurant biz. But DiGiovanni is back, baby! "You could take my old place [Joe D's] and fit it all in the kitchen and still have 200 feet left over," DiGiovanni said as he showed me around his new spacious restaurant. He still seemed amazed at all the room. Yes, DiGiovanni has left the cramped confines of Brookside for the spacious pastures of Leawood and, as readers of Pitch Fork already know, Zest is the re

  December 4, 2008

• Mouthing Off

  August 10, 2000

• Best Brother Act

  October 17, 2002

• Best Reason to Add Leawood to Your Running Route

  October 17, 2002

• Best New Law

  October 9, 2003

• Good-bye, Cruel World

  November 20, 2003

• Free tart yogurt this weekend at the new Mochi-Yo

  This Saturday marks the grand opening of Mochi-Yo, a yogurt shop offering the Korean-style tart yogurt that's popular on both coasts. To celebrate, owners Kirk Goza and Wes Bergmann (yes, that Wes Bergmann) are giving away free yogurt the entire weekend. Goza said he got the idea to open a frozen yogurt store while he was a student in New York. "A PinkBerry opened up down the street and I was going there every day. Part of opening this store is I really like the yogurt."Mochi-Yo is located

  April 1, 2009

• Foo'd Me

  January 18, 2007

• Check out Crime Scene KC's 'Morgue File'

  Cool vintage photo from Crime Scene KC's "Morgue File" of a Leawood patrolman inspecting a pellet gun. If you haven't checked out the "Morgue File," it's worth a look. My favorite: This classified ad for the King's Den.

  April 14, 2009

• 810 Zone (

  January 1, 2009

• Bells on bobtail

  December 18, 2008

• Park Place Flower Market

  September 4, 2008

• In Mandarinism, Scott Lin has found a new way to understand Chinese food

  August 28, 2008

• All the good things about 39th Street’s Blue Koi survive the expansion to Leawood

  July 10, 2008

• Boudreaux's Louisiana Seafood & Steaks tries for Mardi Gras but drops too many crab balls

  April 10, 2008

• Leawood's Room 39 might not be as charming as midtown's — but that doesn't matter once the food arrives

  February 28, 2008

• Dancing in the Park

  August 30, 2007

• Art Farm

  April 26, 2007

• Tango Room

  April 19, 2007

• La Vida Coco

  August 31, 2006

• A Currant Affair

  June 29, 2006

• Over and Out

  November 17, 2005

• Where the Boys Are

  Quality Hill Playhouse goes to the movies.

  September 9, 2004

• Park Play

  We always knew Leawood was a little "Lllooppi."

  May 27, 2004

• Case Closed

  Fenton's Bar & Grill leaves few traces of excitement.

  May 20, 2004

• Climbing Harnessed

  You must be at least 30 inches tall to get 43 feet high.

  November 20, 2003

• Doody Calls

  The assembly-line workers at Bravo! Cucina Italiana put out a high-quality product.

  October 16, 2003

• Christmas Eve at Adam's House

  Adam Hamilton's Church of the Resurrection enjoys the fruit of the season.

  December 19, 2002

• Crime Lapse

  Police can't find hatred or clues in a gay man's murder.

  February 21, 2002

• Stock Brokers

  It's a short ride from Western Sizzlin' to the LongHorn Steakhouse.

  November 9, 2000

• New organic market in Leawood

  Flickr: Kater WAn organic market is opening in Mission Farms, the new Leawood development that holds Zest and the Johnson County locations of Blue Koi, Blanc Burger & Bottles and Room 39. "It's a nice fit," Mission Farms marketing director Katie Chalfant told me. "There isn't a market in Leawood. There hasn't been since the one at Barstow, but that's been several years. And with our restaurants, a lot of which buy locally, it made sense."Chalfant says the market is going to start "smal

  April 20, 2009

• Business Time

  May 7, 2009

• Stylin' Suburb

  May 14, 2009

• Two wine events tonight

  If you're looking for some fun tonight, you're in luck. The wine gods have produced two events. Soho 119 in Leawood hosts a dinner focused on Asian wine. The five-course menu features items you might not expect to be paired with wine -- pho noodles, sushi roll of unagi, pad thai -- from relatively ordinary grapes like pinot grigio and zinfandel. The dinner starts at 7 and costs $45 per person; make reservations by calling 913-338-5800.If you need a crash course on wine before attending a pairing

  May 20, 2009

• J.P. Wine Bar

  January 8, 2009

• The June Closed Restaurant List

  When Scott Lin opened his stylish Asian restaurant Mandarinism at 4800 West 135th Street last year, he seemed to be doing everything right. But then, according to servers who work in restaurants in the same neighborhood, everything went wrong. "The food quality slipped and the service got really sloppy," a Leawood waiter confided to me. "I think people just stopped going." Well, something happened, because Mandarinism is now closed: the phone is disconnected and it was shuttered on a Saturd

  July 6, 2009

• Tannahs moves to
  sweeten Leawood

  July 9, 2009

• Happy-Hour Hit list

  July 16, 2009

• Free screening of Food, Inc. tonight at the Tivoli

  If you don't have plans tonight, check out the free screening of Food, Inc. at the Tivoli Cinemas. The film has been getting rave reviews but so far has reached a limited audience, grossing just under $2 million since opening last month on the coasts.Chipotle hopes to change that with this screening, which it's also sponsoring in 31 other cities. Chipotle founder Steve Ells has been promoting the movie in his stores and in interviews, saying he hopes all his customers see it.The screening starts

  July 15, 2009

• Second KC Organics Farmers Market now open on Wednesdays

  ​Not many people can pinpoint exactly where everything on the dinner table came from. But tomorrow night, Leawood residents can purchase everything from their morning coffee to late-night dessert and know where every product originated. KC Organics debuted a second farmers market at Barkley Square in Leawood's Park Place development last Wednesday. The new weekly market (Wednesdays until October 14) joins the more-established offering in Minor Park (Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. unt

  August 11, 2009

• Happy-Hour Hit list: Football

  September 17, 2009

• The new it flavor: Prickly pear?

  ​We seem to go craziest for the foods that require some effort to be palatable. Whether it's Civet coffee beans or the fruits off a cactus, we apparently sometimes need for our food to be a harvesting challenge. Prickly pear looks like a hot new flavor for beverages and candy -- the lightly sweet flesh of the cactus fruit runs from pink to magenta, which often adds interest to drinks. Like with beets, the color runs off onto your hands and acts as a natural dye.  In order to eat the pulp,

  September 16, 2009

• Overland Park drivers, better bite your tongues

  ​Thirty days in jail is a steep price to pay for telling another driver that you fucked his daughter doggy style. But that's what 43-year-old Mike Shahrokhi of Leawood (pictured on the right) is facing after a incident of road rage in Johnson County, according to Fox 4.Shahrokhi told Fox 4: "I pull up along side him, and essentially told him that I had intercourse with his daughter from behind, and she liked it," said Shahrokhi. "And he was on the phone with police." Talk about bad timing. Sh

  October 22, 2009

• Closed: The Coyote Grill

  The coyote howls no more in Leawood​Well, it was a good try. Looking for a great idea to beef up profits at Yahooz, their Leawood "cowboy restaurant," PB&J restaurant group owners Paul Khoury and Bill Crooks closed the venue earlier this year and quickly re-invented the location as a new Coyote Grill. The Coyote Grill was a popular casual dining spot serving Southwestern fare at the now-razed Mission Center. It was an early success for Khoury and Crooks, so the idea of

  October 26, 2009

• Ingredient opens downtown location

  ​Ingredient opened its fourth location on Monday at 1111 Main Street, in the downtown space formerly occupied by the Mango Room. The fast-casual restaurant's concept is defined in the "formulate satisfaction" slogan from the sign: In addition to an expansive menu of salads, sandwiches, soups and pizza, Ingredient offers salads and pizzas made-to-order from a bevy of options.  ​Salads on the menu run from $7.95 (caesar) to $10.95 (Tuna Nicoise with grilled ahi tuna). Grilled sandwiches a

  October 30, 2009