Something Out of Nothing

I’ve lived in or around Kansas City, Missouri for most of my life. It will always be home, wherever I live. There are many great bars and restaurants, galleries, shopping, and things to do. Here are a few of our favorites.

Food

• East Crossroads - lots of breweries, distilleries, and food
• Savoy
• Corvinos
• Winsteads - excellent steakburgers, a KC institution
• Harry’s Country Club
• Rieger Distillery
• Hammer press
• Planters Seed and Spice Company
• Ponaks
• Rudy’s Tenampa Taquiera
• Banksia on Main
• Breit’s Stein Deli in KCK
• Lula restaurant
• Mattie’s Cafe
• Baba’s Pantry
• Earl’s Premier - East Coast style seafood place.
• Grunauer - home of one of my favorite cocktails, Der Schmutzige - Black pepper/mustard vodka with pickle brine, kraut juice, & beet juice, garnished with house-pickled vegetables, served up.
• Black Hole Bakery
• Christopher Elbow Chocolates
• Minsky’s Pizza
• Eggct
• Taj Mahal
• Rico’s Tacos Lupe
• Billie’s Grocery
• Pigwich - great sandwiches in the River Market

Art/Museums

• The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art
• The Kemper
• The Toy and Miniature Museum
• Kansas City Artist’s Coalition
• Crossroads Arts District
• Liberty Memorial/WWI Museum
• Museum ofKansas City
• Union Station
• Blue Gallery
• Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art
• The Belger Arts Center

Shopping

• The Country Club Plaza
• The River Market Antique Mall
• Pryde’s Old Westport
• Perfect Scents

Hiking/Outdoors

• The Kansas City Zoo
• Powell Gardens
• [[Hiking in and Around Kansas City]]

Historical Places

• Harris Kearney House
• Wornall house
• Jesse James house

Near Kansas City

• Kansas City Postcard Cabins
• Mount sunflower
• Monument rocks
• Little Jerusalem badlands