I was disappointed to hear that one of my favorite restaurants in Kansas City, Pangea Cafe & Market at 900 West 39th Street, will be closing at the end of the month. If owners Martin and Wendy Rudderforth hadn't decided, this week, to close at the end of December, the World food bistro would have celebrated its third anniversary in February.
"The last couple of months have been awful, really," Martin Rudderforth tells me. "Last Friday night was worse than our Tuesday night. And