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Our recent road trip to Kansas City was planned for several days of visiting barbecue restaurants and listening to blues music. Kansas City style wood-fired barbeque is slow-smoked; sauces are tomato-based with sweet molasses notes. Out of several barbecue restaurants in Independence, where we were staying, we chose Smokehouse Bar-B-Q on our final night in …

Our recent road trip to Kansas City was specifically focused on finding great barbecue restaurants – Kansas City style barbecue restaurants. We never anticipated that a little strip mall contestant, The BBQ Shack, in tiny Paola, Kansas would beat out the big city names, but oh, how the mighty have fallen! Read on. . . …

Barbecue restaurants are a Kansas City tradition. Our second stop, BB’s Lawnside BBQ, on a recent road trip tour of several Kansas City style barbecue restaurants was an opportunity to hear a great local blues band. BB’s Lawnside BBQ – We looked forward to enjoying the music of Lee McBee and the Confessors, a blues band that …