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The Chef Who Opened His First Restaurant at 46

admin — Thu, 22 May 2025 11:00:18 +0000

Photo: Lanna Apisukh

“We don’t have to eat everything.

Enactus USA turns 50 in KC as local leaders urge: Give your network to an entrepreneur

admin — Wed, 21 May 2025 17:52:54 +0000

A three-day expo featuring student-led innovation and entrepreneurship from across the nation found its home (and groove) “in the heart of the USA” this week, said Mikena Manspeaker, noting the campus of UMKC was the perfect fit for marking the 50th anniversary of Enactus United States.

Where Have All the Good GMs Gone?

admin — Wed, 21 May 2025 11:00:27 +0000

Yadid Levy/Redux

The topic du jour inside the New York restaurant industry is not who makes the best new spritz or which Greenmarket stand’s rhubarb is at its peak: It’s general managers, specifically how few good ones are out there.

A Star From France Is Opening a Properly Luxe Restaurant in the West Village

admin — Tue, 20 May 2025 11:55:03 +0000

Photo: Andrew Bui

Alexia Duchêne’s first restaurant, Le Chêne, is undergoing the last bits of construction before it opens in the West Village this weekend. As of late last week, tools were still buzzing around the horseshoe bar behind the entrance and the kitchen in the back.

One of King’s Owners Is Going Solo at Lei

admin — Mon, 19 May 2025 13:35:13 +0000

Photo: Jeremy Liebman

Even before opening King in 2016 and Jupiter in 2022 with her partners Jess Shadbolt and Clare de Boer, Annie Shi had been thinking about doing something dedicated to Chinese food and wine on her own. “It’s a lifetime of collecting ideas,” she says.

Adam Roberts Is Particular About His Fish

admin — Fri, 16 May 2025 10:00:21 +0000

Illustration: Maanvi Kapur

In Adam Roberts’s debut novel, Food Person, a young woman is abruptly fired from her job at a food magazine and ends up ghostwriting a cookbook for a problematic TV actress — “hungover, flaky, shallow, and — worst of all — indifferent to food,” as the book jacket puts it.

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Dominique Ansel’s New Bakery Has Shokupan Loaves and Hot-Dog Spirals

admin — Thu, 15 May 2025 11:00:31 +0000
Photo: Evan Sung
On a recent afternoon inside the kitchen that will open as Papa d’Amour later this month, the pastry chef Dominique Ansel was holding a spoonful of tomato-tinted scrambled eggs for the consideration of his wife, Amy Ma. “White pepper,” she said after trying it.
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Lawmakers cut MTC’s funding to zero: Venture fund will move forward, leader says, but future grantmaking in jeopardy

admin — Wed, 14 May 2025 17:02:18 +0000

Editor’s note: The following commentary was originally released May 14 by Jack Scatizzi, executive director and CEO of Missouri Technology Corporation, as an update on the 2026 funding outlook for MTC, a public-private partnership created by the Missouri General Assembly to promote entrepreneurship. The perspectives expressed in this commentary are the author’s alone.
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Grab your Zhoug sauce: Lawrence-built eatery launching brand across KC (starting with this famous food spot)

admin — Wed, 14 May 2025 15:09:50 +0000

Shuttered for three years, the former d’Bronx pizzeria space — the now-defunct hometown brand’s original location along 39th Street’s famed “Restaurant Row” — is reopening Wednesday with a fresh look and flavors from the other side of the globe (via a Kansas college town).

Zhoug Mediterranean is expected to debut its fare at 3904 Bell St. after a renovation that saw the Midtown space gutted and remodeled with a sleek modern look featuring murals in muted primary colors on bright white walls by an African artist.
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Homegrown startups can redefine KC, leader says; they just need help surviving long enough to do it

admin — Wed, 14 May 2025 14:18:48 +0000

Editor’s note: The following is the third in a four-part series exploring the verticals and impact of initiatives within the Economic Development Corporation of Kansas City through a paid partnership with EDCKC.

• Leave KC better than you found it: How matching growth to city’s needs is paying off
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Our Patron Saint of Primi

admin — Wed, 14 May 2025 11:00:43 +0000
Photo: Hugo Yu
Blessed are the pasta-makers. That, in a nutshell, is the message of Santi, chef Michael White’s return to the city’s semolina trenches. The name comes from an old saw of his former mentor, Gianluigi Morini: “Le mani degli chef sono come le mani dei santi” (The hands of the chef are like the hands of the saints). That’s what we call setting the bar high.
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Meet the Kansas City entrepreneurs picked for DoorDash’s first Midwest accelerator

admin — Tue, 13 May 2025 13:51:45 +0000

DoorDash delivers $50K bag to 10 KC small biz leaders hungry to learn

DoorDash is dropping support on Kansas City’s doorstep through a new cohort of 10 small businesses selected for the company’s local restaurant accelerator, marking the first time the nationwide initiative has landed in the Midwest — with KC chosen as its launchpad.
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This Cocktail Tastes Like Pork Roll

admin — Tue, 13 May 2025 13:00:17 +0000
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The highly partisan debate over the proper name for the overgrown hot-dog-like meat logs from Trenton, New Jersey, has the potential to start fights.
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DHS Probes Whether California’s Noncitizen Handout Program Is Paying ‘Ineligible Illegal Aliens’

admin — Mon, 12 May 2025 21:04:29 +0000
The Trump administration is investigating whether California’s Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants (CAPI), a program that pays state money to noncitizens who are not eligible for Social Security benefits because of their immigration status, is paying “ineligible illegal aliens.” Noncitizens who are over 65, blind or disabled, and are ineligible for Social Secur
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Say Au Revoir to Mah-Ze-Dahr

admin — Mon, 12 May 2025 15:05:00 +0000
Photo: Grub Street
Mah-Ze-Dahr, the high-end bakery known for its cheesecake and brownies, has been given the boot from its West Village location. A two-week eviction notice for the business was posted in April, and the storefront is now dark. As of last week, a notice was posted to the bakery’s website stating that there is an “e-commerce shipping hiatus” and orders will resume “next week.”
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