IN THE NEWS: The Star’s Joyce Smith reports, “Longtime Kansas City restaurateur Tom Macaluso has died. D.W. Newcomer’s Sons confirmed that Macaluso, 58, died [June 8] at his apartment. For 14 years the brawny Macaluso held court behind the bar of his namesake restaurant Macaluso’s, a bar he decked out with wind-up toys. Customers were […]

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IN THE NEWS: The Stars’s Joyce Smith reports the recent closing of acclaimed contemporary 40 Sardines after seven years (11942 Roe Ave. in Hawthorne Plaza) and details the April 7 opening of Stroud’s South (4200 Shawnee Mission Parkway in Fairway) in the former Breadmaker location and reports the the opening of gourmet burger bar Blanc […]

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