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begins and ends at Kansas City Marriott Downtown Downtown Kansas City   is where urban revelers will get their 2014 started on a high note. Kansas City’s largest hotel, the Marriott Kansas City Downtown, and the Kansas City Convention Center team up to create a New Year’s celebration to remember – right in the heart of KC’s electric downtown scene. The hotel offers a choice of package options: The  New Year’s Eve Grand Package  is an all-inclusive New Year’s Eve experience includes two tickets to the downtown event of the year, deluxe accommodations, Champagne at check-in, party hats and horns, breakfast for two in  MetropolitanKC , and late check-out. A highlight of the package is the gala at the Kansas City Convention Center Grand Ballroom. The evening includes an elegant dinner with themed food stations, including seafood, carving, sushi, salad, risotto and a miniature dessert extravaganza with an assortment of tartlets, dessert bars, holiday cookies and...

Enjoy Hereford House at home for the holidays! Choose from three packages for up to 15 guests Prime Rib Feast, Prime Rib and Dessert or Prime Rib only Just think what you can do with all your free time if you are not cooking!   Order Form Click Here    

Le Fou Frog 21 November 2013   Soupe Watercress with Truffle Cream  $4/$7   Salades Chevre, Watercress, Root Vegetables with a Hazelnut Vinaigrette  $12 Smoked Duck Salad with Pear, Parmesan, Spinach, and a Peppercorn Vinaigrette  $12   Hors d’Oeuvres Sauteed Chicken Liver and Juniper Berry Sausage with Apple, Mustard and Lentils  $12 Sauteed Wild Mushrooms, Asperagus, Madeira with a Thyme Crisp  $14 Braised Cabbage Roll with Pork Belly, Root Vegetables and Rosemary  $12   Poisson Golden Trout encrusted in Almonds and Garlic with Mushroom and Red Wine Sauce  $25   Viande Wild Boar Stew with Chestnut, Lingonberry, and Juniper Berry $25   Dessert Bananas Foster $8 816- 474-6060 or  Click here  

Collection and Julian with Celina Tio by Chris Becicka   For my first blog entry for Restaurant Guide of Kansas City, I thought I should write a profound introduction.  But nahhh . . . . instead, let me just mention a couple of things and we’ll fill in the gaps later.  This blog, Chris’ Corner , is going to cover eating out in Kansas City.  What a concept, right?  Yes, but I’ll also talk to chefs, talk about trends, special foods, special techniques, tidbits I learn.  It will always be short -- which, by the way, is really hard for me to do but I know about today’s attention spans.  It will appear, for now, at least every other week, so check back to this website. Here goes. I was interested in how a chef/owner runs more than one restaurant at a time.   So I talked to Celina Tio who has more energy than I have fat cells and who owns/chefs at Julian , her Brookside bistro and The Collection, on the edge of the Power and Light District. ...

Kick Off The Holiday Season at the 4th Annual Holiday Open House & Tree Lighting Thursday, November 21st  5pm - 8pm  14th Street (Between Walnut and Main Street) FREE EVENT   Join Kansas City Power & Light District as we kick off the holiday's. See Santa Claus and his reindeer, listen to holiday classics, grab happy hour at surrounding restaurants  and bars, enjoy hot cocoa, get starting on your holiday shopping and more! The first 200 people receive a souvenir travel coffee mug. Get started on your holiday shopping The KC Annex at the Garment District Boutique, Envolve Boutique, The Polished Edge Fine Jewelry, KC Garment Collective, Cosentino's Market Downtown and Zafar Salon, Spa & Boutique. Families welcome. Anyone under 21 years of age must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. The event takes place on 14th Street, between Walnut and Main Streets, across from Bristol Seafood Grill-Downtown KC.

Cafe Provence will hosts the release of the Beaujolais Nouveau  with music and Food Specials featuring the Beaujolais region. Thursday, November 21th    Beaujolais Nouveau, Prix Fixe $48 (regular menu will be available) The menu will be posted on the web site this week.      "Made in France" is a group of French local musicians, Alain (guitar), Franck (Guitar/vocal) and Eric (Lead vocal) living in the KC area and playing the French music you love. Come to Café Provence and add that "je ne sais quoi" to your evening.     #cafeprovence #Beaujolais #winedinner

Available before Veteran's Day · Bar Louie: FREE meal (up to $12) on November 10 or 11. · Red Lobster: FREE appetizer from list of 10 options from November 11 to 14. · McCormick & Schmick's: Veterans are offered a FREE meal, from a choice of 10 entrées, on November 10. · UNO: Free entree or individual pizza with an entree or pizza of equal or greater value on Sunday or Monday. Breakfast on Veteran's Day · Denny's: FREE all-you-can-eat pancakes from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. · Krispy Kreme: FREE doughnut and coffee for veterans. · Village Inn: FREE breakfast, with a choice of buttermilk pancakes, a Belgian waffle or French Toast. · Bob Evan's: Free hotcakes on Veteran's Day, Nov 11th · Perkins Restaurant & Bakery - Monday, November 11, 2013 - Enjoy a free Magnificent Seven meal on    Veterans Day. Includes 2 eggs served the way you like, 3 buttermilk pancakes, and your choice of 2    bacon strips or 2 sausage links. · Hy-Vee: Free breakfast from 7- ...

Pachamama's Owner/Chef Ken Baker is pleased to present this exquisite 5 course, wine-paired dinner featuring the environmentally friendly, sustainably-produced offerings from Soter Winery. Located in the Williamette Valley, Soter Winery takes advantage of the valley's long growing season and temperate climate in order to fully develop the flavors of the delicate Pinot Noir grape. Williamette Valley is described as a 'sweet spot' for growing Pinot Noir, and is home to other critically-acclaimed wine makers. Chef Ken has taken these wines, self-described by the winery as having "a distinctively exotic personality," and exhibiting notes of blackberry, black cherry and white pepper, and paired them with bold, rich flavors, complimenting not only the wines but also the Autumnal weather.  The reception begins at 6pm, with dinner to follow shortly thereafter. Reservations are required for this dinner. Please call 785.841.0990 to make your reservations...

Harvesters and local grocery stores call on community to help Check-Out Hunger Food and fund donations during Harvesters’ holiday campaign make a big difference for families in need.   (Kansas City, Mo.) – The 22 nd annual Check-Out Hunger campaign to support Harvesters—The Community Food Network is underway at 140 grocery stores throughout the region. The holiday campaign is the largest annual fundraiser for Harvesters, which feeds the hungry through its network of more than 620 nonprofit agencies. “Despite some improvements in the economy, more families than ever will struggle to have enough food this holiday season,” said Valerie Nicholson-Watson, president and CEO of Harvesters. “Hunger is a huge problem in our community, and we’ll only solve it by working together. Every dollar and every can donated during Check-Out Hunger helps provide meals for our hungry neighbors.” Across Harvesters’ 26-county service area, more than 378,000 people are food insecure. F...

Wicked Wine Walk in the Power & Light District Tomorrow Evening!

First Year Release of  Chambourcin Nouveau   The four wineries of the Somerset Wine Trail will release for the first time ever four different Nouveau  style wines the weekend of November 22, 2013.  This will be the first celebration of its kind in the Kansas City area and marks the reemergence of the Somerset winemaking region located just south of the Kansas City Metro in Miami County, Kansas. Somerset Ridge Vineyard & Winery, Nighthawk Vineyard & Winery, Middle Creek Winery, and White Wind Farms will all celebrate the 2013 harvest each releasing a Nouveau style wine made from the Chambourcin  grape. Each wine was made with clusters that were de-stemmed but not crushed, had a short fermentation on the skins and no barrel aging, resulting in fresh, fruity, ready to drink wine without extracting bitter tannins. Chambourcin is a French-American grape grown primarily in the American Midwest and the Loire Valley of France. It makes deeply colore...