If I had to pick five:

Port Fonda
Pig and Finch
Korma Sutra
Elsa's
BRGR

Martini corner has some pretty good restaurants for the most part.

Haus is the best. The best hole in the wall joint is around the corner Kittys.

I'd like to take the wife for a nice dinner date at least one night while I'm there. Coopers Hawk is something I'll look into. Thanks.

Also the best dessert place in the city is Andre's Chocolates. 50th and Main. Stays open til 9 on weekends.

nah, Joe's is better. I thought the burger was average as well.

Not even close. Their onion rings are dinky little shrimp-dicked things.

BRGR serves the best onion rings on the planet. Titans of crunch and flavor.

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For me it'd be:

Bluestem
The Rieger Hotel Grill & Exchange
The American Restaurant
Justus Drugstore (well, its in Smithville, but still)
El Camino Real (unless you can get superb al pastor tacos with handmade to order tortillas where you live, then I would put Novel or Julian or Rye in the 5th spot.)

Le Fou Frog - French
Korma Sutra - Indian
Anthony's - Italian
Town Topic - Burgers and diner food
Grunauer - German

I really enjoyed Tannin Wine Bar, always love Bluestem and the Rieger Hotel, and though I have heard it can be a bit hit or miss, the three meals I have had at The Farmhouse were stellar.

Everyone I know loves Afarre, but I wasn't that excited by it. I will try again in case it was a fluke. It is the favorite restaurant of someone I know who generally has impeccable taste.

I'm actually craving BRGR now. I want to try their BLT, build your own mac and cheese and short rib tacos. I'm guessing their fish and chips out of this world, too.

Great milkshakes, too.

lol They aren't as big as BRGR but they aren't small either.

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Ooooh, is that place less than a year old? I haven't been & I so want to now. Modern German is capable of some really neat food; I live a few blocks away from a restaurant called Brauhaus Schmitz, whose chef (Jeremy Nolan) literally wrote the book on modern German cuisine.

Everything is pathetic compared to BRGR's onion rings. They're a meal on their own.

I will ****ing go to war over this.

Whew, look at all this good eating in my home town. I have been wondering if Port Fonda was good. What do you recommend? Is there a specialty? I'm in town in a week for a few days.

Everything is good, but I highly recommend you start with the house made chips and salsa, definitely try the deep-fried quesadillas, and end with the mexican donuts and hot chocolate.

And don't go on Friday or Saturday night unless you have a reservation. And you probably need to make such a reservation 3 days in advance.

The sauce was not even good :D

Yeah, we've got wonderful pastor, barbacoa, and carnitas tacos down here. My buddy opened up a shop adter we got out of the military. Super legit stuff. His wife though, she cooks us authentic mexican dishes when we go to their house. Unbelievable stuff. That woman is amazing in the kitchen.

If you are crying about sauce when discussing onion rings you are doing it wrong.

You are wrong. So very, very wrong.

Torta ahogada is one of my favorite sandwiches in the world and Port Fonda's is the best I've had, even over Bayless's Xoco.

It's somewhere around that length of time I think. I was there in March and the entree I had isn't even on the menu ever anymore so maybe it just was a bad choice on my part. It was a stuffed pork chop with butterspatzle, and it looks like the similar dish now is a jagerschnitzle with same. What I had wasn't bad it was just a bit bland, which is silly in a German restaurant!

Oh dang, that's high praise. That's also one of the things I never managed to order at Port Fonda, so I'll have to remember this post next time I'm in KC.

It is all part of the dish. Listen I am not saying they were bad just not the best. We will just have to agree to disagree.

Start a poll. With pics. We will settle this.

The sandwiches are nearly identical, down to the presentation and both are great. Rick's sauce has a more subtle heat and Port Fonda's sauce is upfront, bold, and slightly smokier.

Well, what happened is it became a hipster place, but then it got so popular and successful that hipsters started to hate it. And then found a new place that was disgusting and shitty, and told people it was good, because nobody else goes there. That's what hipsters do, they hate things that are good, efficient and successful.

If you guys are ever in Vegas, and need some BBQ to hold you over. Rollin Smoke BBQ is pretty good, all the rest of them I've tried were trash.

I'd like to know how many guys from KC actually eat BBQ when they're out of town. If I lived in KC, I wouldn't even bother eating it elsewhere unless it was one of the staple cities.

Hipsters love this post.

Wait...so the people that are calling it bad are the hipsters?

I am still confused.

Agree with this though have not done The American yet. I am not that into Julian personally I think it is too cute for its own good but this list is legit. Despite its location Cork and Cleaver is doing some interesting things worth checking out.

Fish Tacos at Sol Cantina are good...its been a while though I need to stop in.

Does Korma Sutra have a buffet?

No, hipsters find things that suck, then convince themselves they are cool, because they are different, and the ones who thought of it.

I like Bryant's a lot its just one of those things they have good days and bad days the consistency isn't where I like for paying the money.

Ok.

Huh.

Like....so where is a hipster place in KC then by that definition.

I agree with this definition but think its funny because nobody uses it like that anymore. Its like....totally lost meaning.

Yes.

Yes it's true. Hipster has lost it's meaning, because it is just virtually anyone between the ages of 17 and 24 years old.

Taqueria Mexico on rainbow (right on the corner of rainbow and southwest blvd) is pretty good.

El Fogon has great meats, as well.

El Salvadoreno is also awesome.

Yes yes yes

Fogon has some good pollo asada and the chorizo is banging

Dos de Oros taqueria is off the chain

Better than Bonita Michocan

ROFL

No

A hipster is anyone who isn't wearing dad jeans like me.

I had a great BBQ late lunch/early dinner this weekend at a local joint in here in Northern VA called Dixie Bones. http://dixiebones.com/

Their St Louis Ribs melt in your mouth and fall off the bone better than most baby backs I've had.

Had 1/2 rack (6) bones; 1/2 lb of BBQ brisket, which is very good but not as good as most in KC or Texas; muddy spuds ; coles slaw ; cornbread-which sucked. Washed it down with a Legend Porter.

^^^ looks ok to me but what are muddy spuds? looks like grits or smashed spuds and butter on the plate.

Any of y'all been to some of the BBQ joints in Memphis? As a KC native, I don't like them as much as the best spots in KC, but there are some pretty incredible BBQ restaurants here.

BBQ Shop (pork sandwich on Texas toast; BBQ spaghetti)
Central BBQ (ribs, BBQ nachos)
Elwood's Shack (brisket, tacos)

On and on.

To me hipster place is some dumpy dive where a bunch of kids that think they are smart sit around and talk art and lit while holding down jobs at some shit hole. All the while spending cash their parents give them on nautical tats.

Surprisingly, this is probably the closest to being somewhat accurate. As others said, though, the diverse conceptualizations of "hipster" evidenced in this thread show why the term is now meaningless.

Corky's is fantastic. Very different than KC style BBQ but really great stuff.

Rendezvous is overrated, but it's good food and worth going at least once for the experience and atmosphere.

The apple BBQ sauce at Corky's is terrific. Agree on Rendezvous being overrated, but their BBQ nachos with the rub on top are on point. And yeah, it is cool that all the servers there have been there for like 30 years.

It hasn't lost its meaning where I live. :D

If I head to Los Feliz/Silverlake clubs, I know what to expect.

I normally can't muster a **** for what type of people hangout where, but I did go to a place a few weeks ago that has a reputation for being a heavy metal type establishment. I get there and they are piping in some epic thrash at levels that made conversation impossible. **** yeah, right? No, it was full of Chad and Chastity's, like on dates and shit. One of the chicks I was with was like Oh Hell Yeah and headbanged her way up to the bar and we got the stink eye like what are these hessers doing here. I don't know if that's hipster or poser or what, but I was a tad heartbroken. Hoping it was just an off night because the staff was cool.

I can only imagine. My favorite hipster graphic, which I've posted here repeatedly.

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Anywhere that has a lot of sporting kc fans is def. a hipster establishment

I went to Interstate BBQ on my way back from Alabama, I thought it was every bit as good as KC BBQ.

When I am consistently having to defend (OK) Joe's to people who claim Q39 is the best in KC, it has to be pretty good.

I had one of those "no lunch" kinda days yesterday, so on the way home I stopped at Rosedale BBQ for a turkey dinner with fries, beans and slaw. And Stewart's Orange Soda.

Bliss.

If you don't mind a styrofoam plate, Rosedale is a great bargain. All three sides were perfectly done. And their sauce is fantastic on poultry.

I went home full and happy. That's a good thing.

You had me at Rosedale.

Muddy Spuds are baked potatoes that have been chopped with ranch dressing, chopped onions and grated cheddar cheese added and then they are baked again. It is the favorite side of the locals who frequent Dixie Bones

Thanks that descriptin is something that I would wolf down.

I guess I'll just roll with this now being a thread about hipsters...


Ironically, I think most of those clubs you mention are filled with people who want to be hipsters, or at least want to copy their tastes. The key to a hipster, IMO, is seeking out undiscovered art, music, and fashion and embracing it with a sense of superiority over the uninitiated. But, the necessary next step is when that piece of art, music, or fashion become mainstream, the hipster must move on to something newer and more obscure so the superiority can be maintained. I've known some true hipsters and their life seems exhausting.

I'm currently destroying this. I'll post thoughts later.

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Thoughts?

Oh. That was from The Stack.

We had a conversation about it on facebook. It's above average. I gave it a 6.7/10.

It's main appeal is that it's 2 minutes away. However, not as good as Gates, Jack Stack, OK Joes or Q39 by far.

Pulled pork was a little dry, although fine with the sauce.

Burnt ends were merely OK.

Ribs were pretty good. Sausage was good.

Beans were very good, as was the slaw. The sauce was actually very, very good. Fries were great.

I'll probably be back, but only because it's close and you can get a shit ton of BBQ for $27. I ate myself sick that night. Ask Flopnuts.

I'm no expert, but there's Q in this town that needs sauce, and some Q that doesn't need sauce, I'd say.

This needs the sauce.

It wasn't bad by any means, though.

To me, the meal loses value without excellent sauce.

Otherwise, it's just meat.

Nice. The pork looked dry in the picture. This may not be a popular opinion, but I've not had very good sausage anywhere in KC. That is pne thing I seem to enjoy more in Texas. That's a minor issue though.

And keep in mind not all of us are in the loop on the CP Facebook circuit. When you promise us a review, please deliver in a timely manner.

Ribs looked good, too.

Go to Q39. I actually barely use sauce when I'm there because the meat is so, so good.

I may have actually been too hard on Stack because of Q39.

Unfortunately, my trip was cancelled. I'll make it there, someday. :(

But, I had a friend that put a brisket on Green Egg today from Snake River Farms that was absolutely amazing! It was unbelievably tender and had a great smokey flavor.

But, he offered up three sauces: A Chipotle/Mustard BBQ sauce, a sweet KC sauce (and I can't remember the name because there's so many new joints there but it was sweet) and a Memphis sauce.

Okay, I hate to complain, because the potato salad, slaw and brisket were perfect and I mean perfect, but without a touch of Rufus or Zarda or Gates or even Jack Stack sauce, it never tastes right to me.

I prefer Joe's or LC's sauce. Gates has good sauces. I think Arthur Bryant's only has one that I'll use.

Anybody had Smokin Chicks?

I like rubs alot better than sauce. A small bit of sauce is ok, but I dont like BBQ that is drowning in it. I think the meat should be able to hold up on its own merit. So, as I understand it, amazing rubs are more of a Memphis and Texas BBQ thing no?

There is a big difference between "drowning" and dipping.

Or glazing during the cook to let it caramelize on the meat a little bit.

I recently had a company dinner at a place called the Char Bar here in Westport that was much better than I expected. They used a variety of sauces from Meat Mitch that were really good.