Tag: social

Clover Club Is Expanding, Right Next Door

admin — Wed, 29 May 2024 12:00:11 +0000

Photo-Illustration: Grub Street; Photo: Courtesy of Clover Club

Sixteen years ago, Julie Reiner’s arrival in Brooklyn officially marked Carroll Gardens as cocktail country. At the Flatiron Lounge and Pegu Club, Reiner became one of the leading figures of Manhattan’s early-aughts craft-drinking renaissance, and Clover Club brought the movement to Smith Street.

Social venture’s pet grooming grads now empowered to earn microloans thanks to trio of KC backers

admin — Tue, 28 May 2024 21:21:50 +0000

Graduates of Kansas City-based Pawsperity’s pet grooming training programs are now eligible to apply for RISE Microloans to launch or grow their businesses — an opportunity boosted by an economic equity initiative to provide microloans to fledgling entrepreneurs.

Pietro’s Says Ciao, for Now

admin — Tue, 28 May 2024 19:41:10 +0000

Photo: Sophie Fabbri

Over Memorial Day weekend, the stalwart Italian steakhouse Pietro’s served its last veal parmigiana on East 43rd Street.

Floyd Cardoz Will Be Remembered

admin — Tue, 28 May 2024 11:00:00 +0000

Photo: Mark Abramson

Before his death in 2020, the chef Floyd Cardoz was best known for opening Tabla, Danny Meyer’s early entrant into fine-dining Indian; running the kitchen at North End Grill; and then venturing on his own with Paowalla, later flipped to Bombay Bread Bar.

America Has Become The Land Of The Selfish, Home Of The Indoctrinated

admin — Mon, 27 May 2024 04:06:38 +0000

We’re stocked with DEI-fed social warriors; we’re dangerously short on USA-centered citizens like Staff Sgt. Harry Wells.

Jazz musician opens sell-out BBQ spot; here’s how he’s spicing up KC’s chorus of flavors

admin — Fri, 24 May 2024 15:02:09 +0000

Even with more than 90 barbecue restaurants across the metro, Gerald Dunn still figured there was room for his flavor profile on the Kansas City food scene.

But before opening Dunn Deal BBQ in Grandview, he made a pilgrimage of sorts, stopping in to see legendary Ollie Gates. He reveres the local barbecue pioneer and wanted to pay homage.

Aimee Nezhukumatathil Picks Up Taiyaki for the Train

admin — Fri, 24 May 2024 10:00:53 +0000

Illustration: Sarah Kilcoyne

“I’m a poet from Mississippi — this is, hilariously, not my usual life,” says Aimee Nezhukumatathil, who typically spends late spring at home with her husband, their two teen boys, and their tiny chihuahua. This year, she spent it on a book tour across the South and then to New York, New England, and D.C.

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SXSW Diversity Business Mixer on June 13

admin — Thu, 23 May 2024 19:00:17 +0000

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Exclusive: Schmitt Probes Federal Censors’ Efforts To ‘Trample’ Americans’ Speech

admin — Thu, 23 May 2024 19:00:00 +0000
'For this Administration to resume efforts with social media companies to control constitutionally protected speech months before the 2024 election is beyond comprehension.'

A Chain Opening That’s Worth Getting Excited About

admin — Thu, 23 May 2024 12:00:28 +0000
Photo: Teddy Wolff/Teddy Wolff
The chicken at Grandma’s Home, a two-month-old restaurant in Flatiron, is a must-order: A server lifts the lid off a clay pot to reveal the whole bronzed bird underneath, a line of tea leaves and goji berries strewn across the backbone and a still-bubbling pool of concentrated chicken and green-tea jus underneath.
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Thai Orchid opening in Northland: How this family business is getting out of its comfort zone with street food focus

admin — Wed, 22 May 2024 16:47:22 +0000

A second location for a longtime Johnson County restaurant is expected to honor the origin story of the family business — building on its menu with a new emphasis on casual Thai street food items and small plates.

Thai Orchid — a Mission, Kansas, restaurant that has been in the Rojjanasrirat family for 26 years — is set to open a new location in the Metro North Crossing development, northeast of U.S. Highway 169 and Barry Road, in October.
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New York’s First and Only Crab-Roe Restaurant Is So Good

admin — Wed, 22 May 2024 12:00:17 +0000
Photo: Courtesy of Xie Bao
Among the food-mall glories of Flushing — the original Xi’an Famous Foods, read more

Can a Robot (and Chipotle’s Founder) Really Build a Better Lunch?

admin — Tue, 21 May 2024 15:20:00 +0000
Photo: Matthew Schneier
There are two cooks, a hypeman, and a robot at Kernel on Park Avenue South, a new fast-casual restaurant that has been designed to automate everyone’s lunch. Kernel, which is also vegan, operates on a theory of double do-gooding: Eliminating meat and dairy is good for the planet while eliminating labor is good for investors and the bottom line.
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As TikTok legal fight plays out, Missouri creators and businesses brace for possible ban

admin — Tue, 21 May 2024 14:04:20 +0000

Editor’s note: This story was originally published by Missouri Business Alert, a member of the Kansas City Media Collective, which also includes Startland News, KCUR 89.3, American Public Square, Kansas City PBS/Flatland, and The Kansas City Beacon.
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This Cocktail Took Two Months to Figure Out

admin — Mon, 20 May 2024 12:00:52 +0000
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Despite the name, “milk punch” is a style of drink that’s usually clear and always good for warmer temperatures: Booze, sugar, and citrus are combined with dairy until it curdles. The solids are strained out, and the delicate, satiny liquid that’s left behind is the cocktail.
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