⛲️ Dinner with Strangers

In November, we asked our readers if they’d be interested in joining a dinner club. Following a very positive response (88%), today we introduce the KC Daily Dinner Club!

🍴 Get matched with five strangers for dinner

🍺 Five new places to grab a drink coming in 2025

🐯 Fine dining meets South Asian cuisine at Of Course

🌴 Palm Tree Club earns high praise in 2025

KC Daily Dinner Club 🍽️

We’re Setting the Table for You and Five Strangers!

Pilsen Photo Co-op

The first KC Daily Dinner Club is set for Thursday, January 22nd, at 6:30pm! It’s your chance to share a table with five strangers who might just become your new best friends.

How It Works: Take a short personality quiz, and we’ll handle the rest. You’ll be matched with five compatible friends based on your answers. The first Dinner Club will take place in the Crossroads, but you won’t find out which restaurant you’ll be dining at until the morning of the event. Ooh, the suspense!
Strangers → Squad: Just show up hungry and ready for good conversation. After dinner, you’ll be notified of a nearby bar location for an optional afterparty where all the different groups can gather and mingle. We’re capping this first dinner at just 72 participants, so don’t wait!

Take the quiz and get matched HERE. See you around the table!

Food & Drink

Five New Places to Grab a Drink in 2026

Big Grove Brewery

Yesterday we shared 5 new places to eat coming in 2026, and today we’ve got 5 new places to drink in 2026!

KC Bier Co. Lenexa - Construction is underway at the 29,000-square-foot Bavarian-style Biergarten near 98th St. and Ridgeview in Lenexa. Opening late spring.
Neat - A new cocktail bar is coming to Lenexa City Center (16953 City Center Dr.), offering a cocktail menu focused on “depth through simplicity”. Opening spring.
Moon Bar - Kansas City’s first Japanese Bartending-style bar is planting permanent roots in Columbus Park at 911 E 5th St. Opening sometime 2026.
Current State Coffee - A new roastery and coffee bar will open inside a renovated historic building at 11217 Johnson Drive in downtown Shawnee. Opening early 2026.
Big Grove Brewery - The Iowa-based brewery and taproom will open its first KC metro location at 7060 Mission Rd. in the Shops of Prairie Village. Opening spring 2026.

What openings are you most looking forward to in 2026? Reply to this email and let us know what we missed!

Food & Drink

Local Restaurant Spotlight: Of Course

Of Course.

Of Course is a fine dining restaurant that blends American cuisine with South Asian flavors through inventive, shareable plates. The menu from Chef Swetha Newcomb features dishes such as Egg Curry + Toast, Black Cardamom Burnt Ends, and Gnocchi + Scallops.

🍴 American, South Asian, small plates

📍7753 W 159th St., Overland Park, KS 66223

Of Course is one of our favorite restaurants in all of Overland Park, and it should be one of yours too. Try it soon with the help of our KC Daily Dine Card for 20% off your meal!

Get your card! 🍴

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In Other News…

🦖 Dinos on Display: Join the expedition at Crown Center’s FREE exhibit, Dinosaurs: Land of Fire and Ice™, open January 24th through May 10th!*
🏡 KC Remodel And Garden Show: The 32nd annual KC Remodel + Garden Show runs this weekend - January 9-11 at the American Royal Center. Meet 300+ exhibitors, catch BBQ celebrity-chef Kevin Bludso live on stage, and more!*
🌴 Best of 2025: According to a poll from the KC Star, Palm Tree Club was voted the best new restaurant of 2025 according to its readers. I wonder what KC Daily readers’ favorites were in 2025?
❌ Clothes Are Closed: Madewell on the Country Club Plaza (309 Nichols Rd) will close its doors sometime around January 20th. The Madewell location at Town Center Plaza in Leawood will remain open.
⚽️ Welcome, Coach: The KC Current announced former MLS head coach Chris Armas as the team’s next head coach. Armas played in the MLS for 12 years and made 66 appearances for the USMNT from 1998-2005.
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