![]() By the time it arrived, I had my food and neglected to take a photo. Nancy also ordered a Small Spinach Salad ($7.00). Indeed, Nancy actually liked it a lot, and I can see why based on my small taste. She mentioned it to the server, and I’m pretty sure that neither the server nor anyone else there had ever had someone complain of too few vegetables. Nancy enjoyed it, and only complained that it was light on the promised carrots. It had an appealing flavor, rich and meaty. Nancy ordered a bowl of their Burnt Ends Stew ($9.50). I demurred, as the guys didn’t didn’t seem like much to me. (I forget the prices, but they were reasonable.) Nancy commented that all of the servers were attractive, and that it must be a job qualification. Nancy had a glass of wine and I had my usual cocktail. ![]() We sat and ordered drinks while we perused the menu. The moral is, as the Great Man said, “ It don’t cost nothing to be nice.” Our rivals decided to take a chilly table outside, which they subsequently abandoned, and we got the seats. The couple at the table saw this, decide that the interlopers had been rude, and dug in for a long stay. We started to move over and another couple darted in front of us and said, “We got here first.” Okay. No table was available, but a couple was about to leave their seats at the bar, and they gave us the high sign. So rather than get back in the car and drive all over town, I picked the closest place on Doug’s list, Jack Stack, a short walk from our hotel (the Courtyard Country Club Plaza, a bit dated, but then so am I). Normally I’d chalk that up to my legendary fecklessness, but reservations at a barbecue place? I had entered a new world. I’d had various recommendations from Doug Jacobson, the Kansas City Barbecue Maven, but it was Saturday night and, I’d neglected to make any reservations. There are now a half dozen Jack Stacks in Kansas City, and Nancy and I went to the one in the Country Club Plaza. His oldest son, Jack, worked there until 1974, when Jack opened up his own place, Fiorella’s Jack Stack. Russ Fiorella started a barbecue place in 1957. If you look at a list of the ten best barbecue places in Kansas City, you’ll almost certainly see Jack Stack listed. Then, after a quick pork sandwich at Boxer Q, we drove straight to Kansas City and set up shop at a hotel cheek by jowl with the Country Club Plaza. ![]() The morning after our great dinner at Porky Butts, Nancy and I headed to Topeka to compete another 10K state capital walk, our 41st.
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