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Joyce Smith

Reporter · US

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Aug 30, 2026
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  1. Article · Aug 30, 2026 · Joyce Smith

    A longtime Westport favorite got rebooted — but it's still going for the 'best burger' title (opens the original)

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    Fans of Westport’s longtime Green Room Burgers & Beer and Westport Coffeehouse Theater feared new owners would “corporatize it,” subdivide the space, or even tear down the well-positioned corner for condos at the edge for the entertainment district. But after Matt and Tessa Ortiz experienced the scene as customers, they only wanted the neighborhood mainstay to continue — while making it their own. The couple ended up purchasing the 7,000-square-foot complex at 4010 Pennsylvania Ave. for an undis

  2. Article · Aug 20, 2026 · Joyce Smith

    Restaurateurs at Parlor food hall ‘completely shocked’ by closure. Now where will they go? (opens the original)

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    Abbas Abu-Zareefeh spent Tuesday morning loading up on goods at restaurant supply outlets and Mediterranean shops — snagging about $2,800 worth of chicken, olive oil, tomatoes, spices, to-go boxes and more for the Sido’s Mediterranean Cuisine operation at Parlor KC. Moments later, he walked into his kitchen at the Crossroads food hall, ready not only to wait on lunch customers, but to start prepping for catering events later this week. “An employee rushed up to say Parlor was closing this weeken

  3. Article · Aug 1, 2026 · Joyce Smith

    Mi Ranchito founder's new Prairie Village restaurant bears his own name. It's a 'dream come true' (opens the original)

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    Rulber De La Torre initially worried incorporating his name into the branding of his new Prairie Village cantina would seem too egotistical. But then the longtime Mi Ranchito restaurateur looked beyond the logo itself — back to a career that started as a 15-year-old slogging away to wash dishes in a hot kitchen. Today, he owns and operates eight Kansas restaurants, with Rulber’s Restaurant Mas Cantina the first to bear what’s become a family name. “To come from the very bottom it is a dream come

  4. Article · Jul 26, 2026 · Joyce Smith

    Kansas City to get ‘fast fine’ Italian restaurant as first tenant for $35 million Plaza development (opens the original)

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    A crowd-pleasing modern Italian restaurant that takes customers from happy hour to high-energy dinner to live DJ-curated late nights is coming to the Country Club Plaza. V Modern Italian restaurant is the first tenant confirmed for the $35 million Cocina 47 development at 604 W. 47th St. It plans a late 2026 or early 2027 opening. The operation is owned by Fast Fine Restaurant Group, a European hospitality group founded in 2017. It operates locations nationally and internationally, including a f

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