Matthew Sumpter

Places I Want to Eat at in Kansas City

Well, since I told you that I want to be a foodie, I thought maybe I should start a list of the places that I’d like to visit in the near future. This list should contain the best of Kansas City and/or the most interesting. Basically, these should be the places that you must try [...]

JULIAN

Yesterday, I enjoyed a nice evening at Julian in Brookside. I had heard a little about this place, but not enough to have too many pre-conceived notions about what to expect. What I did know is that the chef is a bit of a celebrity in Kansas City. This is James Beard award winning chef Celina [...]

Avenues Bistro – Leawood

Avenues has not been on my list of places in KC that I want to try, but not because I haven’t heard good things. Actually I have been there several times already, but it was never an ideal situation. Previously I had been there for a business lunch or two and found the menu to [...]

Our First Cookout Party

This weekend, we had a couple of family members in from out of town. We decided to have a get together with everyone in my wife’s family, which is a large family. It was decided that we would have a cookout and our house was offered as the venue. In the end, it worked out [...]

ingredient

Sunday afternoon was my first time to visit ingredient restaurant on the plaza. I don’t know anything about the history of the restaurant, but I thought it was interesting that the sign says “Chef Owned!”, especially now that I see on their website that there are nine locations and that this is a franchised concept. [...]

Justus Drugstore

If you’re not familiar with Justus Drugstore, you need to be. Chef/Owner Jonathan Justus and his wife Camille opened a restaurant several years back in the old pharmacy that his mother had worked at for decades. This is just one of the many things that makes dining here a memorable experience. Situated in an [...]

Culinary Center of Kansas City

I attended my first class tonight at the Culinary Center of Kansas City. No, this is not a large university culinary program, but a small building with two demonstration kitchens in a turn of the century buggy barn in the heart of downtown Overland Park. This place seems to have a little bit of a [...]

I want to be a foodie

Am I already a foodie? Are you born that way, or is it something you develop over time? For starters, let’s define foodie? Wikipedia: An informal term for a particular class of aficionado of food and drink. Urban Dictionary: A person that spends a keen amount of attention and energy on knowing the ingredients of [...]

Dickey’s Barbecue Pit

Many members of my family met up today at Dickey’s Barbecue Pit in Overland Park on 121st Street. Apparently this is a franchise restaurant with two locations in Kansas as well as a presence in most states in the United States. The Dickey family opened the first location in Dallas, TX in 1941. It [...]

Discounts

Discounts, sales, clearances, blue light specials. Whatever you want to call them, they only serve to confuse the customer. Confuse them into thinking they are getting a good deal, whether they really are or not. How many times have you found yourself looking at a clearance rack of clothing that says 30% off and in [...]