I liked the atmosphere of this upscale Italian Restaurant. There are lots of interior doors and walls with diamond shaped windows. 

The waitress brought me calamari fritta instead of the calamari pica that I ordered, but the lemon-oregano aioli sauce went so well with the fried calamari that I had no complaints. Servings were large - the calamari appetizer could have fed 4. An order of lasagna must have been over 4 inches high and had lots of meat. My Cannelloni was good, but not outstanding.

The meals at Paulo & Bills are totally ala carte and someone ordering a complete meal could quickly get the check to $50/person without wine.

Paulo & Bills has been open since 1996.

Updated the Unique Kansas Restaurants page for recent visits and added Holy Land Cafe to the list of good (but not unique) restaurants at the bottom of the page.

I liked the staff at Mezzaluna, but this restaurant just didn't click for me. If I lived in the neighborhood I would go back sometime, but I wouldn't suggest Mezzaluna to visitors. There are more interesting restaurants nearby. The interior of this restaurant is somewhat dark and overly decorated in a way the seems dated to me. Like the parlor of a 1960's matron.

The food is good enough, but not good enough for the prices being charged. I enjoyed a calamari and shrimp appetizer that needed more than the three small shrimp for $10. The Caesar salad was OK, but nothing special. A modest salad, appetizer and iced tea ran over $20.

The food was pretty good with my favorite item on the buffet being chili chicken. Overall the items on the buffet were a little hotter than most local Indian restaurants feel safe offering. 

The decor is also pleasant, but there is nothing about Kabob & Curry that stands out for me to recommend it above the other excellent nearby Indian Restaurants. 10 years ago it would have been a standout, but today it is just another in a nice array of Johnson County Indian Restaurants.

On the way out I bought a chocolate chip cookie. It was thick like a biscuit and had nearly as much chocolate as cookie batter. 

I will definitely visit Beethoven's 9th restaurant again. On my next visit to Paola it will be tough deciding between Beethoven's and The BBQ Shack.

In the evening I visited the campus of Baker University in Baldwin City, Kansas where the Institute for Methodist teens is taking place this week.

The University and surrounding community have enough items of interest to have a page on this Kansas Travel website. Unfortunately, almost all of them are only open on weekdays when I don't have an opportunity to visit them.

But the atmosphere is also nice less institutional than many of the area's Chinese restaurants, with wonderful photos from China on the wall. Plus good, friendly service.

Supper was at Ghengis Khan Mongolian Grill at 3906 Bell Street, Kansas City, MO. Ghengis Khan has the finest Mongolian BBQ that I have ever had. They have better ingredients and more spices than most, and the chef's cooking on the hot circular grill do a better job than other places I have visited.

Ghengis Khan is in Missouri, but I think I am going to add a page devoted to it here at my Unique Kansas Restaurants page. It is so close to Kansas (right across from the University of Kansas Hospital) that you can literally through a rock from the back porch and have it land in Kansas.