Jack stack burnt ends12/15/2023 ![]() ![]() Everything you think is in the movies just for show is actually real life here. It’s also close to Halloween, which means all the streets are full of pumpkins, skeletons, funny tomb stones and fake cobwebs. Lawns filled with trees just about to take on full Fall colours, squirrels everywhere and truly huge houses with swings out front and tree houses out back… it’s amazing. It’s like something straight from the movies. It’s lovely to be able to put faces to so many names we’ve heard about, but we’re also really enjoying how American the neighbourhoods around KC are. Next stop, we go to visit more of Melissa’s family. Even with Peter reminding everyone it’s way down on Kaw, folk had to think. It’s not the most well-known place in KC – in fact most locals in the city will take a minute to work out where you mean. We’re pleased we made the journey out here to the Jones Bar-B-Q, and it’s even better to see the place doing so well. It’s chopped into the sauce they use, so you get even more flavour per mouthful. The burnt ends, which is basically chunks of brisket from the end of the cut, is delicious. The brisket – thinly sliced and drizzled with their signature sauce – is tender and well smoked. ![]() Sure enough, this little shack in the middle of nowhere turns out truly delicious food. She fell in love with the two sisters who own the shop – and their barbecue looked really good too. Jones BBQ caught Christina’s attention a while back when it was featured on Queer Eye. We continue our barbecue rampage of Kansas City with a surprisingly long drive out to Jones Bar-B-Q way down on Kaw Drive – a road that Peter very much enjoys saying. The Gibraltar and the Sidecar both interest us very much. There are a few other things on the menu we’re keen to try other than the cap. It comes with a glass of fizzy water and some chocolate-covered coffee beans, which is a lovely touch. Kaldi’s Coffee turns out a great cappuccino – even with a bit of coffee art too. Thankfully, there’s excellent coffee nearby – something neither Christina nor I were expecting to find on this trip. ![]() It turns out we’ll be back here almost every night of our stay. I’ve seen how they make both and they’re simply works of art. We’ll have a lot more to say about the Peanut but I’ll tell you this: their chicken wings and their BLT sandwiches are insane. In fact, there’s a saying here that when you walk in to the Peanut you’ll feel like a stranger for about 10 seconds. It’s been here for over 75 years – before Prohibition! – and no matter what people do for a living, they’re welcome here. This, ladies and gents, is The Peanut.īilled as a dive bar, I think of it more as the best youth centre for grown ups you’ll ever find. We hit a couple of bars, pick up with Melissa’s excellent brother Marshal and move briskly on to a town favourite for celebratory drinks. Sadly it’s in Denver, but that doesn’t stop the Chiefs. We’ve arrived in KC just in time to get to see the city’s football team – the Chiefs – play rival side Denver Broncos. It’s like nothing we’ve ever seen before. It’s like the cheesiest sauce and the sweetest corn got together and started a mutant school like in X Men. General consensus is that the hot sauce is the best, but somewhat overshadowed by the cheesy corn bake just right of centre here. ![]() We devour our dinners like we’ve never eaten before, but not so quickly that we don’t notice the three different types of barbecue sauce they serve here. Jack Stack has really delivered on our expectations. Jack Stack is a great place to begin our tour of KC’s meaty marvels, so here’s to all the burnt ends, ribs, baby backs and brisket. Even more so now that we’re finally here in Kansas City. We can’t tell you how good it is to be in the company of these wonderful people once again. Our first stop – almost before we drop our luggage off at Melissa and Peter’s apartment – is here: Jack Stack Barbecue – the first of our barbecue marathon. They’ve sold us on tales of mouthwatering barbecues, amazing bars, beautiful architecture and even more food stories that we could hardly believe were true.įinally all four of us have managed to co-ordinate to be here at the same time. We haven’t seen these guys in ages and they’ve been promising to show us KCMO forever. Perhaps it’s the lure of what people tell us is the best low-and-slow barbecue in the world.īut we’re feeling an extra pull to this beautiful city: our remarkable friends Melissa and Peter are there waiting for us. Perhaps it’s the fascination of seeing the true Midwest of the States. We’re heading for the very heart of the country – the bullseye of America: Kansas City, Missouri. As we watch LA disappear into the distance from our plane windows, the thrill of visiting a new US city makes us a little less sad to be leaving. ![]()
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