OFFICIAL: New Westport tenants

KCPowercat · Post by **KCPowercat** » Fri May 16, 2003 7:58 am

Things are starting to pick up for the battered westport. Coming soon...

Sung Son....a Vietnamese restaurant

Teadrops....a full service tea shop

New York Pizza....pizza shop.

Now where are the bars?

Post by **dangerboy** » Fri May 16, 2003 9:27 am

KC wrote:Now where are the bars?

Hopefully continuing to move downtown.

KCPowercat · Post by **KCPowercat** » Fri May 16, 2003 9:45 am

I think we can easily have both but I know what you're saying....

I would love to have a few bar districts to choose from....Plaza, Westport, and SoLo.

Post by **dangerboy** » Fri May 16, 2003 10:22 am

I don't want all of the bars to leave Westport, but the giant clubs are more appropriate Downtown. There is more room for them there, more room for traffic and crowds, etc. I'd love to see Downtown and the Plaza as the big regional entertainment areas, with Westport becoming more of local entertainment area.

Post by **bahua** » Fri Jun 20, 2003 8:00 pm

I think Westport would become much more of a local nightspot if the discotheques went elsewhere, and I agree heartily that they would fit well downtown. What draws the people from outside the relatively immediate neighborhood is not Buzzard Beach or AC's Garage. People come from Lee's Summit and Lenexa for Have a Nice Day, America's Pub, and XO.

In a seperate vein, how the heck can people complain about a lack of parking options in Westport with a straight face? If anything, the neighborhood should reduce parking availability, and stop encouraging people to drink and drive.

KCN · Post by **KCN** » Wed Jun 25, 2003 12:02 am

Diversified dining options, me like

I'm all for getting the bars downtown. Bar hopping in a downtown atmosphere is so much cooler, there's just an electricity being among all the highrises and old buildings. If the bars that attract the frat crowd want to stay in Westport that is fine with me.

Post by **dangerboy** » Wed Jun 25, 2003 6:54 am

I gotta disagree, send the frat bars (XO, Have a Nice Fuck, etc) downtown where there is space, parking, and streets for these huge places. They shouldn't be next door to single family houses, like XO is now. Downtown has room for the crowds, Westport doesn't. Leave Westport with the neighborhood bars and local dives.

Post by **bahua** » Wed Jun 25, 2003 7:32 am

I agree a lot. ^^

KCPowercat · Post by **KCPowercat** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 2:11 pm

update:

Watkins & Co. Inc. is hoping to put either an authentic Mexican restaurant or barbecue restaurant in the former Bait Shack space at 4113 Pennsylvania Ave. in Westport.

New York Pizza has received its permits to begin construction in the Westport Marketplace.

QueSi2Opie · Post by **QueSi2Opie** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 9:35 pm

KC wrote:update:

Watkins & Co. Inc. is hoping to put either an authentic Mexican restaurant or barbecue restaurant in the former Bait Shack space at 4113 Pennsylvania Ave. in Westport.

New York Pizza has received its permits to begin construction in the Westport Marketplace.

An associate of mine who lives near the Uptown Theater has been tryin' to open an authentic Mexican restaurant in Westport called Xcaret a.k.a. Paradise.

KCLofts · Post by **KCLofts** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 10:36 pm

Hasn't there been a sign hanging in the former New World Bistro site on Westport Rd proclaiming Xcaret Coming Soon? Its been there for over a year. What's up?

By the way, New World Bistro was one of my favorite places. I was said to see it go.

QueSi2Opie · Post by **QueSi2Opie** » Wed Sep 24, 2003 10:32 am

KCLofts wrote:Hasn't there been a sign hanging in the former New World Bistro site on Westport Rd proclaiming Xcaret Coming Soon? Its been there for over a year. What's up?

By the way, New World Bistro was one of my favorite places. I was said to see it go.

I'll find out.

KCPowercat · Post by **KCPowercat** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 11:05 am

Old thread that seemed to fit best as an ongoing thread about new Westport tenants.

Coming soon:

KC Toaster Sandwich Cafe....419 Westport Rd. serving 8 different hot sandwiches...by the people who own Tatsu.

Moe's Southwestern Grill.....where NaturalWear used to be. Chain mexican place.

Korma Sutra....2nd kc location. Located where the baitshack used to be.

Post by **staubio** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 12:02 pm

KCPowercat wrote:Old thread that seemed to fit best as an ongoing thread about new Westport tenants.

Coming soon:

KC Toaster Sandwich Cafe....419 Westport Rd. serving 8 different hot sandwiches...by the people who own Tatsu.

Moe's Southwestern Grill.....where NaturalWear used to be. Chain mexican place.

Korma Sutra....2nd kc location. Located where the baitshack used to be.

2 out of 3 ain't bad. Sucks about the NaturalWear location. That spot is on one of the best intersections in the city and we give it to a chain Mexican place? Bleh.

KCPowercat · Post by **KCPowercat** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 12:06 pm

was that store natural wear? the address given is 435 westport rd, which is closer to Broadway???

I agree if that is the location, what a waste....unless it turns into a cool bar type place in addition to some cheap food.

KCPowercat · Post by **KCPowercat** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 12:09 pm

OK www.moes.com this place is just another Chipolte. BOOOOO

Post by **staubio** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 12:12 pm

KCPowercat wrote:was that store natural wear? the address given is 435 westport rd, which is closer to Broadway???

I agree if that is the location, what a waste....unless it turns into a cool bar type place in addition to some cheap food.

Yeah, that was Natural Wear. Southeast corner of Westport and Pennsylvania. Now we get a boring chain that is dark at night -- no improvement.

KCPowercat · Post by **KCPowercat** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 12:14 pm

what a waste. Big space like that could have been used for so much more....like a new cool bar.

Great job westport.

Post by **staubio** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 12:21 pm

According to their website, this is the first Moe's in Missouri, but there is already one in the metro on 135th in OP.

DiggityDawg · Post by **DiggityDawg** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 12:34 pm

I posted this new info in the "Scene" forum. Oops.

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