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Corvino Supper Club & Tasting Room
Corvino Supper Club & Tasting Room opened in 2017 on Walnut Street in the Crossroads Arts District, two blocks south of Union Station, and reordered the Kansas City fine-dining map almost immediately. Chef-owner Michael Corvino — formerly of The American Restaurant under Debbie Gold — built two parallel experiences inside one building: a relaxed supper club at the front with a wood bar, leather banquettes, and a New American à la carte menu, and a separate Tasting Room behind a velvet curtain that seats twenty across the chef's counter and four small tables. The tasting room is the address that anchors his James Beard Foundation Best Chef Midwest semifinalist nominations.
The Town Company
The Town Company occupies the ground floor of Hotel Kansas City, the 144-room boutique property carved out of the 1923 Kansas City Club building at Baltimore and 13th, two blocks from Power & Light District. The dining room is a restoration tour de force — coffered ceilings, marble pilasters, original Belgian-glass windows running the length of Baltimore Avenue — and chef Johnny Leach, a James Beard Foundation Best Chef Midwest nominee, runs the kitchen with a focus on hearth-fired Midwestern cooking. The hearth itself sits in the open kitchen at the back of the room, the fire visible from every table.
Le Fou Frog
Le Fou Frog has occupied the same corner on East 5th Street in the River Market since chef-owner Mano Rafael opened it in 1996. The room is small — about thirty seats across red leather banquettes and small marble tables, with mirrored walls that double the apparent space and a long zinc bar at the back. The kitchen, visible through a service window, runs French classical bistro cooking under Rafael's direction with no concession to American trends. Onion soup gratinée, escargot in garlic butter, steak frites with a proper béarnaise, sole meunière, duck confit, and a tarte Tatin that arrives at the table on a copper platter.
Stock Hill
Stock Hill opened in 2018 at the corner of Main and 48th on the Country Club Plaza, occupying a two-storey building with a copper-clad facade and a long limestone bar that runs the length of the ground floor. The room was designed by Bunn Salarzon Architects with a deliberate steakhouse vocabulary — dark walnut panelling, low-pendant lighting, a wine room visible from the dining floor — and the kitchen, run by executive chef Sean Walsh, is built around an in-house dry-ageing programme and a wood-fired Bertha grill imported from Spain. The result is the most ambitious steakhouse on the Plaza and a credible competitor to the city's hotel-based steakhouses downtown.
Plate Restaurant
Plate Restaurant has occupied its corner on West 63rd Street in Brookside, four blocks south of the Country Club Plaza, since 2014. The room is narrow and warm — about sixty seats across small wooden tables, banquettes along one wall, an open kitchen at the back, and a long communal table at the front that seats twelve and has become the neighbourhood's preferred team-dinner anchor. The cooking, run by chef-owner Michael Foust, is Italian-American with a particular focus on hand-cut pasta, wood-fired flatbreads, and a short steak-and-seafood section that runs about six secondi at any given time.