I've never once felt like I was in danger at 18th and Brooklyn, not even at night.
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Jesus. Just go to Ameristar if you're scared of black people. Amirite?
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That's perfect for me too.
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that's why I used to be a gates guy.

Burnt end sammiches

It's all good bro.

We'll tear it up next time I come down and have more prior notice.
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Yeah Just give me a little notice, hard to get a sitter late notice. But I'm down for sure.
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w00t!

Does Q39 serve Sake? We will find the fuck out!

Alright, I'll look at scheduling the vacation for the last week of March. Will this work for all parties involved?
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Here's the Crime Rate data for 64127, Arthur Bryant's zipcode:


http://www.clrsearch.com/Kansas-City...127/Crime-Rate

The risk of assault there is more than double in that zip code than in the United States as a whole. So it's not likely that a visitor would get assaulted, but it's also not like one shouldn't be aware of the fact that 18th and Brooklyn is in a dangerous part of town. I wouldn't discourage friends from visiting Bryant's, but I would make sure they knew to be alert and pay attention.

I went to junior high and senior high school at Lincoln (just up the hill, around 22nd and Brooklyn). I would feel OK but not great about walking around there at night to go take the Troost Bus home from night football games or practices. I would walk down Woodland to 19th or 18th and then walk over to Troost), but that was because I lived just east of the Paseo at 49th Terrace (a couple of blocks from Gates headquarters). Nowadays, the crime rate in 64100 is a little worse than in 64127, and I think that might have been the case back in the early 1980's, too, but I'm not sure. (I used to feel just slightly safer walking past Lincoln (21st and Woodland) at night than walking past Paseo High (near 48th and Woodland), but I felt way safer walking past Southwest High, for example.

Now that I live in a neighborhood with a low violent crime rate (zip code 95618), I'm even more on guard visiting the old neighborhoods.

By the way, even though I spent so much time near both Bryant's and Gates, I've had way more meals at Gates, at least 50 to 1. I just liked Gates better. But their quality control is not impeccable. I had two meals there a couple of weeks ago, one by my mom's house (the Swope Pkwy location, which has mutton) and the other out on 40 Highway, coming home from a Missouri Mavericks game. Gates is always good, but it's not consistently great. The fat in the mutton seems to vary from a lot to a whole lot. :-)

If Q39 is able to expand its business while maintaining its quality standards, that would be a great accomplishment.
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In
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Legends

Catch a soccer game after :-)
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Come on, Flop; get 'er done!
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You guys should make an official spring feast thread so everyone can see it.
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Right now we've got you, SAUTO, Flop, Stevie, and myself. That's 5 people.

If the number reaches 10 or more, then we should probably start an official thread.
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I've lived urban for 23 years and counting. The worst thing that's happened to me is...?

Come on, peeps.
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Prob no sake huge beer selection though.
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You fat slobs are inspiring me to get my ass up to Q39 and try their burnt ends this week I think. I hate you.
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