From my column in TASTEBUD Magazine
Table Hopping – November 2013
“Pre-Order your Thanksgiving Dinner”
ORDER YOUR TURKEY HERE:
Local Pig
2618 Guinotte Avenue
Kansas City, MO 64120
(816) 200-1639
Chef Alex Pope left the restaurant world to open a butcher shop, with partner, Matt Kafka, and he has never looked back. The Local Pig is Kansas City’s full-line butcher shop dedicated to locally sourced products and humanely raised meats. Working for high-end restaurants, like The American, Alex quickly learned where to source the best local meats and how to break down whole animals. The Local Pig offers local beef, pork, chicken, duck, turkey, quail, rabbit, lamb and goat. PRE-ORDER: your very own Thanksgiving Tom to cook at home from Local Pig. Choose from heritage or white turkeys from Vesecky Family Farms in Baldwin City, KS. Limited availability, so get your order in today by emailing [email protected].
Big Momma’s Bakery & Café
(Inside of Crown Center Shops)
2450 Grand Boulevard
Kansas City, MO 64108
(816) 471-7441
Jacqueline Buycks and her sister Joyce Brown own Big Momma’s Bakery. They opened their original shop in Raytown, MO in 2005, and were then courted to move their shop to Crown Center bringing their sister Jill’s world famous cinnamon roll recipe with them. But around Thanksgiving the sister’s cinnamon rolls take a back seat to their fluffy homemade dinner rolls, which have developed a serious cult-like following this time of year. PRE-ORDER: your Big Momma’s dinner rolls by the dozen now using their online order form. Dinner rolls for Thanksgiving are sold by pre-order only. There are no walk-in dinner rolls available to purchase around the holidays.
ORDER YOUR PIE FROM
HERE:
Rye
10551 Mission Road
Leawood, KS 66206
(913) 642-5800
Pastry Chef Megan Garrelts, co-owner of Bluestem and Rye, located in Mission Farms Shopping Center is a top-notch pastry talent in this town. At Rye, her desserts are more comforting and homey with seasonal ingredients at the forefront. These are the desserts of the region, of the grandmothers of Missouri if they used the best and freshest ingredients. Call and ask about their seasonal pies that change frequently. Megan will offer all of your favorite seasonal pies around Thanksgiving, with a few favorites of her own. PRE-ORDER: Simply call the restaurant and inquire on ordering whole pies. They will give you a list of the seasonal pies to choose from, and take your order over the phone. Then you can swing in to pick them up . . .and maybe stay for dinner while you are at it.
NEVERMIND, LET’S JUST
GO OUT TO EAT:
Julian
6227 Brookside Plaza
Kansas City, MO
(816) 214-8454
Many independently owned restaurants close on Thanksgiving to be with their families. The good news is there are several who are open and serving wonderful traditional Thanksgiving feasts for you and your family to enjoy, and cozy Julian in Brookside is one of them. From the beginning, Chef Celina Tio has kept Julian open on Thanksgiving serving a traditional 3-course family style meal for $35 per person for those lucky enough to snag a table. Remember, this is a holiday, so you must make a reservation in order to dine. OPEN: on Thanksgiving Day from 10 am – 7 pm.
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