Six Kansas City updates: Restaurants, a bar, used car lot. And the game of fowling?
A Waldo neighborhood cafe has a new owner and new name. Red Bridge Shopping Center is getting new eateries. The Watts Mill Plaza area in south Kansas City has a new used car lot, and soon a new entertainment center and an eatery.
Here are updates on this swath of Kansas City.
Waldo breakfast/lunch spot
Lee’s Summit’s Neighborhood Cafe opened a Waldo restaurant at 7531 Wornall Road in 2016.
Now the location has a new owner and new name.
Henri Ewell, a longtime resident of the area, purchased the restaurant and is changing the name to Waldo Cafe.
He spent 18 years in the restaurant industry in Kansas City working at such places as Pierpont’s at Union Station, Stanford and Sons, and the Bristol — in positions from server to bartender to manager.
He has been going to the Neighborhood Cafe since it opened and at least once a week for four years now.
“I’m a big fan of the place,” he said. “I love the staff. I feel like they really care about the regular customers. And the cinnamon rolls are awesome.”
He doesn’t plan to make any changes for now. It will still serve breakfast and lunch, including breakfast burritos, pancakes, waffles, skillets, omelets, burgers, sandwiches and wraps.
Coming to Red Bridge
▪ The Limit Pub & Grub, a bar and grill, plans a late July opening at 525 Red Bridge Road.
Owner Darrell Kidd, who grew up in south Kansas City, will serve a small bite menu of “elevated bar food.” It will have indoor and outdoor seating including an open-air bar and live music on a regular basis.
▪ Berries + Honey Charcuterie plans a fall opening at 519 Red Bridge Road.
Owner Kayla Jasperse lives in the area and is a stay-at-home mom to two young children. She began making charcuterie boxes for friends as a creative outlet in spring 2022 and quickly turned it into an online business.
She’ll use the space as a prep kitchen for preorders. She will have days where she will have boards ready for walk-in customers and other days when they will be able to build their own.
She also will have a boutique area selling local specialty food products — accompaniments for charcuterie boards, along with cookies and other items.
She’ll host bridal showers, workshops, birthday parties and other events in the space.
Watts Mill Plaza
▪ Fowling Warehouse, a mashup of football and bowling, plans to open in the former Westlake Ace Hardware space at 1020 W. 103rd St. in the fall.
It will have lanes dedicated to the game of Fowling (pronounced foe-ling, like bowling). Ten bowling pins stand at each end of a lane. Players throw a football with the goal of knocking down all of their pins before their opponent knocks down their own. The Detroit-based company has seven locations in Georgia, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Texas.
Area franchisees Dave Dunn and Charley Puhr have been working on the project for a year. They said their goal is to “put smiles on people’s faces, bring people together and have fun.”
Customers will check in at the front desk with a valid ID, then pay $15 per person for unlimited play.
It will have a full bar. The owners plan to partner with restaurants in the center, and customers also can bring in their own food.
The first location opened in December 2014 in Michigan.
▪ Exclusive Jerk, Chicago, also plans to open in Watts Mill. The Kansas City menu will include jerk chicken, curry shrimp, brown stew oxtail, jerk tilapia, fried catfish, curry goat, plantains, candied yam, jerk chicken tacos and burritos, and jerk shrimp Alfredo. It also will have lunch specials.
▪ Kansas City’s WHC Worldwide buys about 1,800 cars a year for zTrip taxi service in 16 states.
“There are vehicles we are not able to use in the service, that we get great pricing on. So now we are going retail,” said Bill George, founder and CEO of WHC Worldwide.
He remodeled the former Berbiglia Wine & Spirits store at 1014 W. 103rd St. for Silver Lining Motors.
