What did Jax owner Dave Query know that the rest of us didn’t when he chose Kansas City as his first restaurant outpost beyond Colorado’s borders?
Call it coincidence, but the first Kansas City Jax opened in September in a new development adjacent to the tourist attraction Country Club Plaza in the same year that the Kansas City Royals are World Series bound. This new fish house pond could prove profitable in a town that’s waited 29 years for the team to co-host the ultimate baseball competition.
For those who know KS, the restaurant, open from 4 p.m. daily, is located in the Plaza Vista complex (4814 Roanoke Parkway) adjacent to the water-fountain-packed Country Club Plaza and 7 miles west of Kauffman Stadium, the Royals’ home turf.
About sticking his culinary toe in uncharted territory, Query told the Kansas City Business Journal: “We don’t want to go and teach people how to eat good food or what good food is; we want to go to a community where there’s a lot of good food and a lot of intelligence going on,” Query said. “We’re just blown away by the great restaurants and bars that are in the Kansas City area. It’s phenomenal. It doesn’t get as much ink as it deserves with the caliber of craft and culinary skill that’s going on in that town.”
Query opened the first Jax Fish House in 1994 in Boulder and founded the Big F Restaurant Group, which includes nine different concepts. For more information on the Kansas City location, go to www.jaxfishhouse.com/kansas-city/.
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