Subject: Seafood

• With its move into downtown, the Bristol makes a triumphant return to Missouri

  December 11, 2008

• Culinary School Diary: Week Eight

  October 22, 2008

• To the Manor Born

  Tuscany Manor might not be Italian, but we're not complaining.

  August 3, 2000

• East Side Story: Papa Lew's Soul Delicious

  You know how I am about soul food buffets: an army of crazed armed Taliban insurgents couldn't drag my ass away from a buffet table heaped with fried chicken and macaroni-and-cheese. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about restaurateur Lutfi Khalifa's new fish-and-buffet restaurant in the back of The Landings shopping center at 63rd and Troost. It's a nice place, but the buffet -- thus far, anyway -- can't hold a candle to the tasty array of deliciousness set out at Papa Lew's Soul Delicious b

  June 2, 2009

• Morsels

  March 2, 2000

• Filling Stations

  March 29, 2001

• Best Place For a the-Hell-With-It Carbohydrate Binge

  October 9, 2003

• Best New Salads

  October 9, 2003

• Best Crab Cakes

  October 7, 2004

• Best Intimidating Entree

  October 7, 2004

• It's Lent. Bring on the fish.

  Flickr: Whitch KittenThe black marks on hungover foreheads this past Wednesday meant one thing. Lent is here and Catholics can say sayanora to meat on Fridays for the next seven weeks. In addition to lowering the carbon footprint, Lent's meat ban is a windfall for seafood restaurants. As an undercover Red Lobster server points out, it's no coincidence that Red Lobster timed its Lobsterfest exactly for Lent. For non-seafood restaurants, the results can be different. "I'd say we see sales go

  February 27, 2009

• Shrimp Vote

  September 22, 2005

• Guilty Pleasures: Lobsterfest at Red Lobster

  My friend Franklin has a secret. Franklin's really fussy about fresh seafood, but he has this thing for Red Lobster, though he won't admit that to just everyone. You see, Red Lobster is considered very lowbrow among the foodie set. And that's exactly the reason I like it. Admittedly, I don't eat at Red Lobster restaurants very often because there's almost always a long wait for a table and the joint's typically loaded with screaming kids; I do have my limits. And despite the percep

  March 30, 2009

• Happy (Chinese) New Year!

  January 22, 2009

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

  April 10, 2008

• Hold the Jokes

  December 13, 2007

• New on New Hampshire

  A move to downtown Lawrence gives Michael Levy's bistro a fresh start.

  September 20, 2007

• Ego Trip

  June 21, 2007

• Things Go Swimmingly

  September 14, 2006

• Dish-approval Ratings

  July 27, 2006

• Grease Is the Word

  July 13, 2006

• Snap Snap

  Three years after opening in a risky location with a confusing name, Casey Chao's place is popping.

  June 15, 2006

• Bring the Herb

  May 4, 2006

• Lotus Position

  February 23, 2006

• Box Set

  Don't be afraid of Japan's version of the lunchbox.

  February 9, 2006

• Don Survivor

  December 15, 2005

• Telling Tails

  Moby's Fish Tales casts the bait well but doesn't always hook.

  November 17, 2005

• City, Slicker

  At City Tavern, it's possible to dine like a modern Diamond Jim Brady.

  September 22, 2005

• An Uphill Climb

  August 4, 2005

• Recession Relief: M&S Grill

  I couldn't mention the new summer drink menu at M&S Grill without mentioning one of the best things about the restaurant -- happy hour. Its menu bills it as the "best happy hour this end of the Plaza!" but that's selling itself short.Flickr: KeithiusThe menu is set up in four $1 increments starting at $1.95. For that, you get a choice of four different items including fried artichoke hearts or bruschetta with tomato salad on top. For $2.95, there's a plate of cheeseburger sliders and french

  April 17, 2009

• The Yuan and the Restless

  Kuo-Ching Chao's Red Snapper swims upstream.

  December 4, 2003

• Calling All Cowboys

  The classy, old-looking City Tavern just needs a little true grit.

  September 25, 2003

• Lobster Risk

  If Red Lobster is good enough for Ben and J. Lo, then it's the new chic place to get crabs.

  September 18, 2003

• Mission Impossible?

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

  June 19, 2003

• Déjà Vu

  The Michael Forbes Grill gets a second chance at life in Prairie Village.

  February 27, 2003

• Going Coastal

  After all these years, the Bristol remains a seafood classic.

  December 5, 2002

• Easy Street

  Danny’s Big Easy spices up the edge of downtown.

  June 7, 2001

• State of the Union Café

  If only the vibrancy of Union Station somehow made it into the kitchen.

  June 15, 2000

• Déjà vu and shark tacos too

  McCormick & Schmick's Seafood Restaurant evokes the spirit of the old Bristol Bar and Grill.

  May 11, 2000

• Please don't disappear, tuna

  Flickr: Giant GinkgoLike cows or chickens, tuna seems like something that'll always be around. Tuna sandwich for lunch, sashimi for dinner. That could change drastically in the next five years. Two of the three species of bluefin tuna make up a large portion of the tuna we eat (other species include albacore, yellowfin and bigeye), and it's being fished at unsustainable levels. Last week, the World Wildlife Foundation announced that Atlantic bluefin tuna could be completely wiped out by 20

  April 20, 2009

• NBC Action News smells something fishy

  If you didn't catch the local news last night, KSHB really put it to many restaurants in the area who are serving fish that's not what they claim it to be. The station's reporters tested 20 restaurants who serve expensive fish. Of the 20, only three -- The Savoy, Bonefish and Islamorada -- actually served the fish advertised on the menu. Another five or so restaurants served a variation of the species or had legitimate excuses. The Red Snapper did serve snapper to an undercover reporter, just no

  May 13, 2009

• Lufti, Kansas City's king of fish, opens a buffet

  If you love fried fish, you've heard of Lutfi Khalifah. Lutfi, a tall, broad-shouldered Kansas Citian whose first name means "kind and friendly" and last name means "one who does the will of God" has been associated with fish -- fried, blackened, baked -- since he opened his first namesake carry-out restaurant at 5534 Troost back in 1993.  When fire forced him out of that tiny venue, Lutfi moved around, literally and figuratively: he opened a little place at 35th and Prospect and began

  May 22, 2009

• Cheap Chops

  April 16, 2009

• It's National Catfish Day!

  Yes, today is National Catfish Day! No, not the giant, man-eating catfish that was allegedly discovered in the Guangdang Reservoir or the former Kansas City Athletics star "Catfish" Hunter...but the smaller, whiskered variety that was, before the days of quick refrigerated deliveries, the closest thing Midwestern diners had to "seafood" for many years. Once a staple on menus in the heartland, it's not so easy to find fried catfish on a lot of modern restaurant menus: it'

  June 25, 2009

• Shawnee’s Caribbean-inspired Infused mostly left us confused

  July 2, 2009

• Where is it? It's here!

  ​No, no, this marvelous wall painting is not from Sea World! It's part of the exterior decor of the El Camaroncito Restaurant at 1022 Central in Kansas City, Kansas. One of our food-loving friends in Fat City visited the restaurant for big plates of garlic-grilled shrimp, noting that the camerones were the whole darn crustacean: "The whole shrimp," she wrote to tell us, "with heads, eyes and whiskers intact. We also ate seafood diablo a later regretted we didn't order the ceviche tostadas

  August 10, 2009

• P&L Value Week

  August 20, 2009

• Finding sustainable sushi can be a challenge

  ​For a landlocked city, seafood is a surprising big deal in Kansas City. Everyone has opinions on where to get the best lobster bisque or clam chowder, but a regular point of debate among seafood lovers is where to get the best -- and freshest -- sushi in town. Any discussion of sushi and seafood restaurants might actually be missing the boat -- the real question might be whether the plate you're being served is actually sustainable. What if you found out that bluefin tuna could be extinct in

  August 24, 2009

• The lady and the lobsters

  ​If it were a movie pitch, it would likely be a romantic comedy. But there's nothing funny about Linda L. Bean's ideas for mass-marketing lobster. The New York Times profiled Bean, the 68-year-old heiress to the L.L. Bean fortune, and her plans to shake up the Maine lobster industry:  Her goal, she said, is to save Maine's most iconic industry by ending its dependence on Canadian processors and, under her Linda Bean's Perfect Maine label, to mass market Maine lobster the way Perdue does c

  October 8, 2009

• Breakfast Buffet: Tuesday, October 20

  The Roasterie continues with updates from founder Danny O'Neill, who encounters everything from armed guards to red coffee cherries on the Mexico-Guatemala border. [Life on The Rim]A visit to Lufti's Fried Fish Buffet finds the fried catfish to "be the star of the show." [KC Lunch Spots]With Gourmet ceasing publication, the future of the magazine's Web site is uncertain. Here are the 25 recipes to print out before they potentially disappear into the ether. [Slashfood]The top five beer drinking t

  October 20, 2009