• Enjoy Kansas City cuisine with a side of Kansas City jazz at Chaz on the Plaza, The Raphael Hotel's signature restaurant and lounge. It's a unique destination restaurant that embodies the culture, history, and spirit of Kansas City. Menus feature a distinctive brand of modern, regional American cuisine and change seasonally to celebrate heartland bounty. The jazz brunches on weekends are a highlight, but Chaz on the Plaza's lounge also showcases live music nightly.

• Dig into Kansas City barbecue—slow-smoked over a wood fire, rubbed with spices, served with a tomato-based sauce—at any one of a hundred restaurants in the city. Try Jack Stack Barbecue, or Q39, or Char Bar, or check out BB's Lawnside Blues & BBQ for ribs and live blues bands, and some Louisiana favorite foods too.

• Browse the 70-or-so restaurant options in or near Country Club Plaza. Check out Hogshead Kansas City, JJ's Restaurant, The Oliver, The Granfalloon Restaurant & Bar, Rye Plaza, Eddie V's Prime Seafood...lots of locally based one-off choices in addition to the chain restaurants found throughout the nation.