KC Bbq Tour

[Third Eye]

Originally Posted by srvy

LCs The tub and Hayes I still get my fix at. I'm so old I remember when Marty's BBQ was the only real game North of the River. All the KC Mafia bosses lived over in the Little Village area and would frequent Marty's. Civela and Bonadonna's other dead men's names I can't remember now. Marty would pull that participant and close them off. Rumor was that high-stakes poker games were going on. It was a good BBQ but always uneasy wondering if there was going to be a pipe bomb tossed in. Bobby Bell opened his BBQ off N. Oak and about 71st it's now Margaritas. Bobby and his wife were so nice Bobby would try visit with everyone when it was off-season. It was a clone of Gates. Even the sauce was the Gates taste just a little thinner. Rumor was Ollie didn't want to open a Gates in KC North and suggested to Bobby and helped him to get it up and running. Smokehouse somewhere along the line opened on North Oak and the end of Marty's and Bobby Bells BBQ was soon out.

I don’t have any memory of Marty’s, but I do remember going to Bobby Bell’s place quite often. I was pretty young though, so I don’t remember the food. I do remember meeting Bobby and my dad would tell me how awesome of a player he was. Smokehouse was definitely our regular place as I got older, though my dad was a Bryant’s guy so we’d head into the city for that quite often too.