Food & Drink

In all the talking and planning about reopening after the coronavirus shutdown, there's a key voice being ignored: the worker.

The Kansas City Health Department is offering free coronavirus testing for restaurant employees during a three-day testing event.

The food vendors in North Kansas City's Iron District are inside retrofitted shipping containers, and diners eat outside. Outdoor dining combined with a business model that emphasizes low startup costs might help the food hall thrive in the pandemic economy.

Kansas City restaurant are struggling to make ends meet under rules that reduce operating capacity, and with little government guidance.

Restaurants are struggling to stay afloat during the COVID-19 pandemic, and people are spending more time observing the architecture in their Kansas City neighborhoods.

Experts say a bit of extra drinking isn’t a problem for many people, but they recommend watching out for warning signs.

A lack of meat in grocery store chains, due in part to coronavirus-related slowdowns and closures of meatpacking plants, is creating an opportunity for local food producers.

Social distancing is key to stopping the spread of the new coronavirus, but giving big-city residents enough space to stay safely apart can be tough.

The city's rules for reopening limit restaurants' indoor dining, but a proposal would allow them to create makeshift patios on sidewalks and in parking spaces.

Mayor Quinton Lucas said he worked with the Greater Kansas City Restaurant Association to develop the guidelines for reopening.

KCUR's food critics have found some new takeout favorites at restaurants where they used to prefer dining in.

The Mother's Day brunch scene isn't the same this year, but the matriarchs of Kansas City's brunch institutions have advice for recreating the specialness of the occasion at home.