Subject: Mexican Food and Cooking

• Here’s how to make Americanized Mexican food more Mexican

  June 4, 2009

• Taco Bravo

  October 5, 2000

• Best Tacos

  October 19, 2000

• Seven Layers of Sin

  January 4, 2001

• King of Tamale

  July 5, 2001

• Beauty Is As Beauty Does

  December 20, 2001

• Wet Dreams

  January 17, 2002

• Best Way to Go to Mexico Without Actually Going There

  October 17, 2002

• Best Cheap Breakfast

  October 9, 2003

• Goodbye Yahooz, Hello Coyote Grill

  It's official: Before the end of this month, the PB&J "cowboy" restaurant, Yahooz, in Leawood's Town Center, will be known under a different, but familiar name. Yahooz, which began serving "contemporary cowboy cuisine" in February of 1998, when PB&J opened the venue, has reportedly seen too many months of flat sales. The restaurant will close for a few days to re-vamp the interior, remove all vestiges of the Yahoo brand, and re-open in mid-February as the Coyote Grill. If the name&

  February 8, 2009

• Today's lunch special is...

  Yes, I've definitely become more frugal lately, but I never used to be the kind of person who walked by a listing of daily specials in front of a restaurant and thought, "Hey, I think I'll order that." In fact, I was typically the one who refused to order whatever the special du jour might be, if only out of obstinance. Those days are gone. Now that I'm seriously watching my pesos, I'm intrigued by a daily special that's really, you know, special. Today at the cheery Los Tules Mexican Resta

  February 18, 2009

• Mex Appeal

  February 10, 2005

• Official declaration: Frankenstein food wars over

  For some reason, the internet is in crazy recipe mode with Web sites such as This is Why You're Fat drawing one million viewers and the bacon explosion creators landing a six-figure book deal. Every day it seems another food Frankenstein pops up, gets e-mailed about and forgotten a week later (100 stuffed Oreos, anyone?).Saturday Night Live was ahead of the curve when it parodied over-the-top combos three years ago in a skit called Taco Town, featured below. The target wasn't the Internet, but n

  March 12, 2009

• Mex Mix

  September 14, 2006

• You don’t have to wait for the last day of the Mayan calendar to make a trip to Fiesta Azteca

  March 12, 2009

• Cantina del Ray feels comforting in tough economic times

  October 30, 2008

• The Mexican asked for your vote on corn vs. flour, and you gave him a steaming fajita plate full of them

  July 24, 2008

• Vegetarian lovers of Mexican food long for more than beans, rice and cheese

  February 21, 2008

• Kansas City’s Corona Cantina #1 still has some problems to work out, but we’ll raise a few bottles to the concept

  February 21, 2008

• Pretty Pupusas

  El Quetzal serves authentic Guatemalan food in Kansas City, Kansas.

  January 31, 2008

• A Bit Prickly

  The new Cactus Grill in Prairie Village has its sharp moments.

  December 20, 2007

• Queso Question

  C'mon. You don't really think Mexicans eat that yellow cheese, do you?

  December 6, 2007

• Loco for Poco's

  For her second act, Lorenza Gutierrez opens a new restaurant and turns out mesmerizing dinners.

  September 27, 2007

• Tango Room

  April 19, 2007

• Papi Love

  March 15, 2007

• That's Hot

  January 18, 2007

• Disco Cantina

  Kokopelli's gets us dancin' in our chairs.

  November 11, 2004

• La Vida Coco

  August 31, 2006

• Special Food Edición

  August 31, 2006

• Shrimp Shack

  February 16, 2006

• Shoe Inn

  Antojitos Mexicanos Tierra Caliente is a small place with a big footprint.

  January 19, 2006

• Their Casa es Su Casa

  Lisa and Bernardino Lara make a homey little Mexican restaurant and market in a JoCo strip mall.

  May 19, 2005

• Sexless Mex

  Abuelo's Mexican Food Embassy is where the old Annie's Santa Fe crowd might go now that everyone has kids.

  March 10, 2005

• Roadside Attractions

  On Truman Road, images of the past collide with signs of the times.

  December 16, 2004

• Bet on Dinner

  You’ll have to step outside for a real bite at the new gambling parlor in downtown KCK.

  September 11, 2003

• Mission Impossible?

  The Coyote Grill is on a Mission to bring Southwestern style to a Midwestern mall.

  June 19, 2003

• Turn of the Skew

  A Grandview cantina moves north of the border.

  May 22, 2003

• Do Re Mi Cocina

  Peasant fare makes the scene with high glamour.

  May 2, 2002

• Washed Out

  Baja 600 sounded sexy, but it's totally ho-hum.

  September 27, 2001

• Gringo's Paradise

  Dos Reales specializes in the kind of Mexican food Americans love best.

  July 5, 2001

• Tex Mix

  Alvarado's Casa de Tacos mixes the races.

  October 5, 2000

• Aye yi yi yi

  A strolling guitarist, good food, and the relaxed chaos of Los Chavez bring a taste of Southwest Boulevard to Lenexa.

  June 8, 2000

• J.P. Wine Bar

  May 7, 2009

• Hey there young buc, Long John Silver's got a deal for you today

  Today Long John Silver's is offering customers its newest menu item, the Baja fish taco, free until 2:30 p.m. Wait, Long John Silver's still exists? Apparently it does, with 10 metro locations.According to the company, the baja fish taco contains "fish, crumblies and Baja sauce." Yes, crumblies -- the breaded byproduct of the frying process that most restaurants throws away -- are a featured ingredient in these new tacos. A blogger over at our sister site in Nashville (crumblies are a bit of a d

  July 14, 2009

• C’mon, Caliente Grille:
  Make us hot!

  July 30, 2009

• Kansas City's Top Ten cheap tacos

  ​Tacos may be the best-loved Mexican-American dish served in the United States. The Food Lover's Companion describes a taco as "a Mexican-style 'sandwich' consisting of a folded corn tortilla filled with various ingredients such as beef, pork, chicken, chorizo sausage, tomatoes, lettuce, cheese, onion ... Most tacos in the United States are made with crisp (fried) tortilla shells, but there are also soft (pliable) versions." Over the years, tacos -- which are relatively inexpensive t

  July 29, 2009

• Recession Relief: Taqueria Camecuaro

  The tacos at Taqueria Camecuaro are only a buck on Wednesdays, but always inexpensive.​I'm so sorry that I didn't discover the delectable tacos at Taqueria Camecuaro -- located at 309 N. 7th Street in Kansas City, Kansas -- until after Jonathan Bender and I had completed our list of the Top Ten Cheap Tacos last month. I'm not saying that this combination taqueria and market would have pushed our numero uno choice off the list (El Camino Real, which is at 903 N. 7th Street in Kansas City, K

  August 13, 2009

• Parkville’s Iron Horse bistro is on the right track

  October 8, 2009

• Night of the Day of the Dead

  The night of the living on the Day of the Dead at Club 15-Twenty​This is the first year that Kansas City has hosted the national convention for the Mexican Restaurant Association, a three-year-old non-profit organization whose mission is "to integrate all Mexican restaurants while promoting the vast diversity of Mexican gastronomy and culture." Kicking off the three-day conference was an opening night party last night at Club 15-Twenty, celebrating El Dia de los Muertos (The Day of the

  November 3, 2009

• Grand Street Cafe now open for breakfast

  Grand Street's Monte Cristo looks like a serious sandwich. ​Grand Street Cafe launched its new breakfast menu on Monday with a number of sweet and savory options designed to lure in the Plaza corporate crowd.  "We expect to have a strong business crowd, it's definitely going to be a big component," Chef Ian Hockenberger said when Fat City caught up with him in the dining room earlier this week.The new menu grew out of an informal arrangement. Grand Street Cafe regularly hosts two to three

  November 5, 2009