Scandinavian food coming to Broadway – not grandma’s meatballs

This building at 37th and Broadway will open in February as Krokstrom Klubb & Market. Scandinavian food is far more than meatballs and pickled herring, but those – rebooted for modern tastes – will soon be included in a huge menu ...

KC and Hy-Vee talking urban ag deal  

If you’re going to grow things on an old jail site, it helps to capture a market. The city council finance committee today approved a resolution for the city manager to negotiate with Hy-Vee Inc. to sell produce and more raised at the old ...

New sports bar comes to Uptown Arts District

Sponsored post A new bar at a historic Midtown tavern site started Saturday with the opening of Woody’s Classic Sports Pub. The space at 3740 Broadway, most recently the Vandals Punk Rock Club, was in past decades Kenny’s News Room, a joint ...

Two Westport restaurants rate among city’s best

Two Westport restaurants, Bluestem and Port Fonda, are among the top 10 in the metropolitan area, according to USA Today. Its 10 best travel section recently listed the restaurants based on those with the most appeal and best reputations. Bluestem ...

Gardening growing even in prisons

The Missouri Department of Corrections gardening program set a record this year by donating 180 tons of fresh produce, the department announced today. The prison in Cameron, Mo., also donated 11,172 plants to the Master Gardeners of Greater ...

Vietnamese-French bistro opens on Broadway

Spike Nguyen on Thursday formally opened his new Vietnamese-French bistro in Midtown. The iPho Tower restaurant at 3623 Broadway expands on his successful Vietnamese restaurant in the Northeast area. The modern and sleek upgrade to what was ...

Jimmy John’s set to build drive-through downtown

The City Plan Commission on Tuesday gave approval for  Jimmy John’s to build a controversial drive-through deli downtown. But the commission also approved a code change that requires all future downtown drive-through restaurants to get approval ...

Bistro opening on Broadway

Spike Nguyen, known for his northeast area restaurant, will soon open one in Midtown. The Vietnamese-French bistro going in at 3623 Broadway will be called iPho Tower. Nguyen, who plans to open it in March, met with reporters there Thursday. ...