Thursday, May 22, 2008

Review of Raglan Road in Kansas City

Oh, I didn't know that the operator of the Irish Pub Raglan Road in Downtown Disney has opened a sister restaurant with the same name in Kansas City. But they have! This article provides a review of the Kansas City version of this restaurant/bar.

Both menus were created by noted chef Kevin Dundon, owner of a luxury hotel called the Dunbrody Country House on Ireland's south coast. The fare here is more cosmopolitan than you might expect — I mean, it's not all rustic bangers and mash, fish and chips, and shepherd's pie. And that is as it should be: For all of its vintage décor, Raglan Road has less in common with an Irish saloon from 1901 — when there were no fewer than 130 Irish barkeeps in Kansas City, according to Pat O'Neill's From the Bottom Up — than movie idol Colin Farrell has with the late Tom Pendergast.


I was initially thinking that they should have opened this in Chicago, but on second thought, there are already A LOT of Irish pub here in Chicago (3 that I know of just within walking distance of where I live).

Zz.

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