Lumi Neon Museum Kansas City

[FangKC]

Historic Italian Gardens sign finds new home in Kansas City

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvZGSJHhj1E

[KCPowercat]

Lumi is now in possession of the Italian Gardens sign that used to be near 11th and Baltimore.

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=107 ... 6370955964

I only ate there once and it was towards the end of it's life and boy oh boy it was gross.

Please elaborate! I have a vague recollection of the sign when I came to KC in college or high school for a concert, but by the time I moved to KC it was gone. I need to hear about the food. Or at least the food near the end.

From what I remembered it was cheesy red white vinyl table clothes, every pasta was drowned in this bright red sweet sauce, it was huge inside with nobody there

[moderne]

The St. Joseph's day table loaded with sweets.

[taxi]

I only ate there once and it was towards the end of it's life and boy oh boy it was gross.

Please elaborate! I have a vague recollection of the sign when I came to KC in college or high school for a concert, but by the time I moved to KC it was gone. I need to hear about the food. Or at least the food near the end.

From what I remembered it was cheesy red white vinyl table clothes, every pasta was drowned in this bright red sweet sauce, it was huge inside with nobody there

I met Evel Knievel there, so I have fond memories of the place but can't tell you anything about the food.

[FangKC]

The food was probably better in the early years when it was family recipes made from scratch with fresh ingredients. Later it became more of a generic Italian place that was nothing to write home about. People were fond of the place mostly because of memories of going there with their families.

[smh]

I only ate there once and it was towards the end of it's life and boy oh boy it was gross.

Please elaborate! I have a vague recollection of the sign when I came to KC in college or high school for a concert, but by the time I moved to KC it was gone. I need to hear about the food. Or at least the food near the end.

From what I remembered it was cheesy red white vinyl table clothes, every pasta was drowned in this bright red sweet sauce, it was huge inside with nobody there

There likely is a book or old news story, but what's with the sweet sauce? If memory serves this is/was on offer at several spots around KC through the years. I haven't encountered it elsewhere though maybe that's a me thing?

[Midtownkid]

Ate there with my family a lot in the 90s. It was fine. I remember generic bread baskets that we just ok. The pasta was pretty good. Lots of red sauce. It definitely had an old-school vibe. Seem like there was ivy wallpaper somewhere?

[FangKC]

I also remember ivy wallpaper but I thought I was dreaming it. Haha.

[FangKC]

There likely is a book or old news story, but what's with the sweet sauce? If memory serves this is/was on offer at several spots around KC through the years. I haven't encountered it elsewhere though maybe that's a me thing?

Some Italians add sugar to their tomato sauces for many dishes. I don't know if it's a regional thing in Italy or something American Italians started doing after immigrating. I had a roommate in college that used to add sugar to spaghetti sauce. His mother was Italian and his father was Irish.

[chingon]

I think it's very common in Sicilian-American cooking. Probably because the canned tomatoes here are fucking terrible.