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Food and Drink

Green Dirt on Oak’s Daytime Café Opens Today!

This one’s for the lunch lovers! After the wildly successful opening in April, Green Dirt on Oak is ready to open its Daytime Café for lunch.

• Don’t Overlook Lunch: Until today, Green Dirt on Oak was only offering dinner service as well as a coffee and cheese shop with grab-and-go items. Now the Daytime Café will serve lunch Thursday-Sunday from 10-2.

• Say Cheese: The Daytime Café menu will be small, but mighty. Offerings include Fried Brussels Sprouts, Monte Cristo, Green Dirt Lamburger, Monger’s Choice Cheese, and more. Green Dirt plans on expanding lunch service to Wednesdays soon.

Walk-ins are welcome, but reservations are encouraged.

Events

Spend Thirsty Thursdays at the Overland Park Arboretum & Botanical Gardens

Not much beats drinking a cold beer outside on a warm summer night. And what better backdrop than the Overland Park Arboretum and Botanical Gardens during Biergarten Thursdays!

• Thirsty Thursdays - Once a month on Thursday evenings, the Overland Park Arboretum and Botanical Gardens plays host to local craft brewers and food vendors in the beautiful garden space. All proceeds from the event support the nonprofit Friends of the Arboretum.

• Eat & Drink - This month’s Biergarten Thursdays takes place on June 27th. The featured brewer is TBD, and food will be provided by Scotty C’s Street Eats and KC Pretzel Boys. There will be Biergarten Thursday events through September.

Tickets are $40 and the event runs from 6-8 pm. Make your reservation now!

Awards

Local Restaurants Honored by Global Dining Survey

Online publication Opinionated About Dining (OAD) compiles lists of the top restaurants across the globe based on highly experienced diners’ surveys. Their 2024 lists were recently released, and three local restaurants were highlighted:

North America Casual

• The Antler Room

North America Cheap Eats

• Joe’s Kansas City 

• LC’s

Think you have what it takes to give your opinion on the best restaurants across the globe? You can sign up here. 

Development

Historic Building in Downtown KC Ready for Redevelopment

A historic building and former hotel in downtown Kansas City has been acquired by new owners and is ready for redevelopment.

• Flying Carpet: The Aladdin Hotel at 1215 Wyandotte St. was acquired by Kansas City’s Molzer Development in partnership with Free Heel Capital. Molzer says that the building will be converted into apartments and other mixed uses.

• History Revived: The Aladdin Hotel was built in 1925, and named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It was renovated in 2006 as a Holiday Inn, until closing in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Do you love history? Check out this promotional postcard for the Aladdin Hotel from 1932.

KC Daily Picks

In Other News…

• 📊 Biz List: Forbes recently released its latest Fortune 500 rankings, and only one KC area company made the list. Can you guess the company?

• 🧁 Sweet Jars: Jarred dessert shop Jars by Fabio Viviani is set to open at 4937 W 119th St. in Overland Park by the end of June.

• 👋 End of an Era: After 39 years of operation, Brookside’s Michael Forbes Bar & Grille will close on June 30th.

• 🏒 Get ‘em in Game 4: The Kansas City Mavericks fell to the Florida Everblades last night in game three of the Kelly Cup Finals, and now trail 2-1 in the series.

• 🚊 Lead the Way: Former Kansas Transportation Secretary Julie Lorenz was named Senior Advisor of Transportation for KC2026, which is prepping Kansas City for the FIFA World Cup in 2026.

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