Arthur Bryant's is a restaurant steeped in tradition. First opened in the 1920s, they have been serving up BBQ in Kansas City. They have served everyone from President Carter to Steven Spielberg and Danny Glover to Wilt Chamberlain. Their sauces have made it as far as the South Pole - There is no doubt that this place is famous.
The restaurant feels like it hasn't been updated since it first opened. You order your food through a small window while the servers stand behind thick glass. The window is so low you have to crouch to be heard. The servers aren't the friendliest people we've encountered, but do based on the food they are putting out, I guess they don't need to be. We arrived just as they opened to avoid the line which quickly formed as we sat down to eat.
We ordered several of their meats and didn't bother with sides. We were eating in (so our order came on a giant platter), but we watched them package a to-go order in front of ours. With plastic gloves , they take a handful of your requested meat, throw it on a brown piece of paper, grab your requested side, throw that on top of the meat and wrap it all up together - old school butcher shop style.
We had the burnt ends (beef), pulled pork, turkey and ribs. The beef and pulled pork were smoky, tender, delicious, and down right scrumdiddlyumptious. This was our first experience with turkey and it packed a punch with an intense smokey flavor. The ribs weren't fabulous but douse them in some sauce and they were good. Two of the sauces were awesome beyond words - their Sweet Heat and the Rich and Spicy sauce. Their Original BBQ sauce was a little confused we thought. Nick said, "it tasted like it had sand in it."
We order their sauces and they wrapped them up for us.
Turkey - 8 - meat was moist and delicious, smoky flavor througout
Pulled Pork- 8 - rich smoke flavor paired with a rich and spicy sauce made the perfect marriage.
Burnt Ends - 8 - smokey, crunchy delicousiness in the spicy sauce
* The pulled pork and burnt ends were competing for our affection
Ribs - 6 - the ribs we had were a little dry. Keep in mind these were competing with 3 very high flyer's.
Ambiance - 7.5 - it had a rustic but charming appeal
Overall - 8 - the food was scrumdiddlyumptious!
Quotes:
Server from behind the window: "NEXT!!!"
Shingai: "I'd like to try all your meats."
Server: "All of them? For just the 2 of you?"
Shingai: "Yes. We want to taste them all."
Server: "Alright!"
Server: "yelling to the other servers: Half a pound of everything!"
Server: "NEXT!"
Shingai: "Can I...?"
Server: "NEXT!"
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