We chat about Liz's dinner party, America after The Debate, the recently unveiled plans for the Country Club Plaza, the end of Gilhouly's on 39th Street, Corvino, and the Westside's new hi-fi listening bar XO. All this and more on the only Kansas City podcast in existence.

Big new plans for Westport nightlife, City Barrel in Brookside opens, plot twist: Liz has an Inflation Nation, Midwest goose egg at the James Beard Awards, Bulrush is closing, and we push the XO conversation to the next episode, which will come soon.

Liz got engaged, Independence Ave. Bridge, I am NOT redpilled, probably a couple other things.

Discussed: Onion ring quality control, reporting on Reddit rumors, "queer spaces," KC James Beard Award nominees, being a chef seems like it sucks, a sports museum bar, and a dive we've never been to before.

We discuss Springfield, Missouri and its new Buc-ee's, the southern Missouri delicacy known as Springfield cashew chicken, an update on a questionable coffee walkout, Taylor magazine profile, Kelce brothers sandwich, local news updates at Fox and Pearl and the Rieger and 9th and State, and a trip to a pizza place called Wilson's. Merry Christmas.

On das pod: I'm concerned about Liz's diet, tiki bars, Affare, a bad tweet from a local restaurant, Buzzard Beach, we run down some of the nastiest bathrooms in town, Cosmo Burger.

On the pod: Unpacking Taylor/Travis, did Rihanna buy a house in KC? Bob Dylan in KC, Kata Nori, HiBoy, Mitt Romney's ketchup salmon, and a trip to a bar hidden in Swope Park.

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On today's pod: a change in Liz's restaurant-critic status, several recent bar and restaurant closures, splitting hairs on omakese, the new ferris wheel by the highway, is KC a booster town?, the Tulsa King is back, and drinking in deep Waldo.

Unpacking the Waldo coffee drama; there should be more small bars and restaurants; Wild Child; the Golden Ox; and a visit to a windowless Westside bar.

We're back. Season Two. Summer adventures, new jobs, Shakespeare's Pizza, Privee, the Turkeyleggman, the Uptown Lounge, Inflation Nation, DJOTW.