gfv 5:24 pm
5031 Main St., Kansas City, Mo.
Tavern (n.) An establishment licensed to sell alcoholic beverages to be consumed on the premises. Well, if a place to drink is what you’re looking for, skip Gage’s, because it’s a glorified restaurant replete with families that have at least 2.5 small screaming children apiece. There is a small bar, but if it’s busy, good luck getting any service. Someone needs to get a crane and deposit this place back in the Power and Light District. If you like snooty and overpriced, you’ll love it. But it does not belong across the street and around the block from such West Plaza staples as The Peanut, Accurso’s and Pizza 51. Hell, sipping tea and eating petit fours with the old ladies across the street at Andre’s would be more fun than waiting 20 minutes for an inch of wine that costs $7.
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gfv 3:01 pm
Imagine my surprise when I walked in to Buzzard Beach this week and instead of being greeted by the usual odors of feet, sewage and hate, I smelled nothing more than the pleasant aroma of incense.
Needless to say, I walked out and checked the sign, sure I had inadvertently wandered into that weird piano bar thing next door. But no. It was my darling Buzzard. In addition, Buzzard is ready to greet her lovers this winter with a warm embrace – outside!
They’ve installed some kick-ass heat lamps all around the deck, so you can enjoy that cigar, cigarette or just watch people slip and fall on the ice even during winter’s moodiest months. Everyone’s favorite five-star-dive has definitely had a facelift – staff have been working hard cleaning and clearing up the problems that have made her feel…not so fresh.
So if you gave up on her, you might want to rethink that poor decision. Personally, to drink that cheap, I’d put up with just about anything, but she’s looking (and smelling) pretty good these days, and where else can you drink copiously with just the change you stole off that bum? So…I guess I’ll see you at Buzzard. Like, in 10-15 minutes.
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Love,
LaToya
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