Kansas City miscellany

[Mod. edit, split from Kansas City Index]

Just came back from a conference in Kansas City. I wish I had found this topic before I went. Since I was on business, I hit the tourist type places, but I did enjoy Lydia's, near Union Station. For $13 they provide a 3 pasta all you can eat deal serve tableside by servers carrying the pasta in skillets. Served with a soup or salad, I had the salad, which was good.

Had dinner at Fiorella's Jack Stack BBQ and thought it was good. The group I was with ordered "the ends". A dish served up of all of the ends of the BBQ dishes, very tasty.

Dinner in the Weston at Benton's, which had some positive reviews online was disappointing. I didn't feel as though it was anything near a above average dinner. I should have went to one of the recommendations here.

sicilianos,

Thanks for the feedback. It's funny, I don't think I've ever even heard of Benton's....thanks for the warning.

FYI, I split this off from the index post, which I guess should have been locked, but I never noticed it wasn't.

Cheers,

Aaron

Aaron,

I apologize for posting to the sticky, but since I had just come back I wanted to post on it. Benton's has a Sunday buffet, with a decent carving table, the prime rib was more medium, than medium rare, but tasted good. I have certainly been to better, but it was ok. I was in town for a convention, and the hotel was booked solid, so perhaps the wait staff was feeling the crunch of being busy, but they were friendly. The restaurant has a great view of the liberty memorial and the downtown at night, but they ran out of cuts of steak before 7pm on a Saturday. Anyway, I am glad to get your input from the board and will definitely use it next time there.

sicilianos wrote:I apologize for posting to the sticky

No problem at all, it wasn't marked at all...just seems a little easier to keep track of conversation this way, but I hadn't really thought of it until I saw your post (which I'll also add to the index).

sicilianos wrote:they ran out of cuts of steak before 7pm on a Saturday

Wow. There aren't really nice hotels in KC, maybe one or two sort of modern boutique hotels. The Hotel Phillips has a steakhouse reputed to be pretty good, but its weird, the restaurants at the two old school nice hotels here on the Plaza (and I use "old school" loosely), the Raphael and the Intercontinental, I never think of their restaurants as destination dining. I guess it's not too surprising that the hotel restaurant scene is proportionately subpar.

I did see something, somewhere recently, though, about good cocktail at the hotel bars, so I'll need to follow up on that.

Look forward to your future posts.

Cheers,

Aaron