Denis Culinary Tours

Expanded Star Bar service, new happy hour specials and an additional day of service. Pachamamas Restaurant is pleased to announce that as of April 1st, 2014 we will be open for bar and dinner service Monday through Saturday. Here are the complete details. Their new hours of operation will be: Monday – Thursday: Star Bar Happy Hour, 3 – 6pm; Dinner Service, 5 – 9:30pm; Star Bar, 5p – Close Friday & Saturday: Star Bar Happy Hour, 3 – 6pm; Dinner Service, 5 – 10pm; Star Bar, 5p – Close   Their primary goal has always been on delivering the best dining experience possible. In order for us to accomplish this goal we are focusing our time, energy and passion into fewer, yet more creative dishes. Dishes that will leave you eager to return for more. Should you have a business lunch, daytime event, baby shower or other festivity, let our catering team take care of your lunch needs. Please contact Kristine Hull, Events Director, by callin...

Broadmoor Bistro and Serves Up a Third Course of Foodie Fight, April 30, to Benefit Their Chef’s Garden Project 

 A re you “game” for an amazing chef’s tasting while you match culinary wits table-to-table? Then you need to join us April 30, 5:30-8:30 pm at Broadmoor Bistro! The event starts with appetizers and a table-against-table round of food trivia fun. Then, enjoy entrees prepared as a collaborative effort with Broadmoor students and top local chefs; Ted Habinger of Room 39 , Martin Woods of Yia Yia's, Richard Ng of Bo Ling's , Renee Kelly of Harvest, Charles D’Ablaing of The Raphael.  Enjoy a second round of trivia along with desserts by Carter Holton of the Art Institutes International-Kansas City. The evening benefits the Broadmoor Educational Chefs' Garden. A collaborative effort between Broadmoor, Powell Gardens, Cultivate KC, and the MU and K-State Agriculture Extensions, the chefs' garden will be a unique addition to Broadmoor's award-...

This weekend we went to Em Chamas Brazilian Gril l off 64 th Street in the Northland.  Or land of the north.  As Johnson Countians, heading nearly to the airport seemed like a lengthy jaunt.  “This better be worth it,” grumbled frequent flyer Rick from the back seat.  Let’s see, I said, we’ve come to pick you up, we’re paying for it, we’re bringing you home, and you’re say ing, “It better be worth it.”  Uh huh. There were families by the fire outside the restaurant and you could see the skaters from the inside.  Em Chamas is in the “Village at Burlington Creek,” in what seems like a rapidly expanding mixed use development.  The restaurant is attractive and lit well enough to see the food but still seems cozy – and it was busy, perhaps because as the first Friday of Lent, people knew there would be numerous fish specials in addition to the regular (huge) array of all kinds of meats.  And for the regular price of less than $40. You pro...

Today is Fat Tuesday — the chance to forget all your troubles in good music, spicy food and new friends. Le Fou Frog - Laissez Les Bon Temps roulez! Happy Mardi Gras! They'll be offering special dishes celebrating Fat Tuesday as one would in Nouvelle Orleans and original Orleans-spice versus crepes!  816- 474-6060 Californos - Rich Hill's Jazz and Blues Dinner Show is today, Fat Tuesday - Reservations - 816.531.7878. B.B.’s Lawnside Blues & BBQ (1205 East 85th Street) kicks off its celebration at 7 p.m. with music from Trampled Under Foot and heaping plates of jambalaya and red beans and rice. Knuckleheads will be rocking from 7 to 11 p.m. with Billy Ebeling and the Late for Dinner Band at its annual Mardi Gras Party. There’s an $8 cover. The Phoenix, which hosts an open jam from 7 to 11 p.m. with the Everette DeVan Trio. Ernest James Zydeco takes the stage at 7 p.m. at Nica’s 320 in the Crossroads. $10 Voodoo Chicken special today at BAR Louie McCoy'...

Do you know what a Prix Fixe Menu is and exactly how you pronounce it?  Listen to see if YOU get it right!  Click here to read Chris Becicka’s article on what KC restaurants offer Prix Fixe and Tasting menus.     

This March bluestem will mark a decade of culinary excellence with an exceptional ten-course tasting menu and a party! Join chefs Megan and Colby as they offer a toast to ten years at bluestem! Savor 10th anniversary tasting menu with a dish from each year the restaurant has been open! During March chefs Megan and Colby Garrelts will toast bluestem's 10th anniversary with an outstanding ten-course tasting menu. The chefs went through the restaurant's menus from the past decade and selected one dish from each year to create a unique overview of their culinary history. ( click for menu) Commenting on the 10th anniversary menu, chef Colby stated, "It was quite a challenge to create this menu and select only one dish from each year bluestem has been open. We wanted to pick dishes that not only Megan and I liked, but were customer favorites." This dinner is $110 per person, plus tax and gratuity.  Wine pairings to accompany the menu are $75. bluestem will ...

Bluestem tasting menu items Restaurant Week in January got me thinking about the variety of menu options available year round.  There is much more to eating out than “à la carte” – literally, “according to the menu,” with pricing for each item – available in Kansas City. Both tasting and prix-fixe menus can be found in cosmopolitan KC.  They are different; for starters, most people here can pronounce “tasting.”   Not so for prix fixe – which is enunciated as pre (pause) fix.  And all it means is a fixed price for typically three courses.  It’s normally a few to several dollars cheaper than ordering à la carte. Prix fixe has been a staple in Europe for years, especially France, where they don’t need pronunciation lessons and are pretty horrified to discover it sometimes is even written here as pre-fix.  (Not anywhere really good, however.) It has advantages:  for the restaurant, the choices are more limited so there’s less cooking, less chance ...