I ordered fried chicken gizzards and fried potato wedges. Both were good, if not outstanding. The gizzards are cut very small, so they are easy to eat with a fork but no knife. I would like the wedges better if they were cooked a little longer. The smallest ones were crispy and my favorite.

In the evening, Linda and I had supper at the Pizza Man in Lenexa. Although I have eaten their more recently, I was surprised to discover that the menu listed on their review had not been updated since 2009. That is now corrected.

The prices have changed little in 5 years, making the prices very reasonable today. For example, a personal size deluxe pizza is only $7!

We split a large (14") all meat pizza. It was actually a little bigger than two people would need. The thin crust pizza with Italian sausage, ground beef, bacon, pepperoni and Canadian bacon is $16.00. It is one of my favorite pizzas in the Kansas City area.

All meat pizza

We sampled an Italian steak sandwich, chili dog and a beef tender sandwich. My favorite of the three was the chili dog, which was a little unusual, the fairly small hot dog was sliced long wise twice and served on a hamburger bun. Linda that the Italian steak was pretty good. Its sauce was kind of a cross between Italian and BBQ.

Unless you request otherwise, a basket comes with a combination of fries and onion rings. The fries were crinkle cut and not very crispy. The onion rings were my least favorite fresh made rings in a very long time. Very thin slices of onion, coated in a thick pancake like batter. I ate only one.

For lunch we went to GrandStand Burgers in far northern Overland Park. Actually it in a narrow section of Overland Park that most people believe has to be Shawnee. Even Google Maps gets it wrong.

The 13 year old restaurant is a tiny place with only 4 stools at a small counter, plus picnic tables out in front. On a day like today, there isn't enough room for people to order and wait for their food. Many customers have to rely on other customers passing along which order number is ready.

With the tiny kitchen, GrandStand Burgers is a bit restricted in what they can prepare and may try to offer too much. Many items, particularly the sides, are just prepared from frozen.

But they do three things very well. the hand formed hamburgers, pork tenderloin sandwich, and onion rings are all superior. There is a tendency to overcook the burgers, but if you request that the burger be cooked to 168 degrees, it still a touch more cooked than I prefer, but very good.

For a change up, supper was at the two year old Sweet Siam Thai Bistro in Lenexa. The restaurant was busy when we arrived at 7:45 PM and although there was no line, we had to wait for a party to leave and a table to be cleared. Beverages were slow coming, as they had run out of clean glasses.

Linda had the $12.50 Thai BBQ Chicken - a half chicken which had been marinated in a sweet BBQ sauce, slow roasted and char grilled. It was served with shrimp fried rice and sweet and sour sauce. She would have preferred that the shrimp was cut up and mixed in with the rice, rather than whole shrimp sitting on top, but that is a minor complaint.

At $20, my dish was one of the more expensive on the menu, Sweet Siam Snapper - two pan fried snapper filets, ground chicken, shrimp, asparagus, red & green bell pepper. yellow and green onion, served in a spicy ginger and garlic sauce.

GrandStand Burgers
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Sweet Siam Snapper

The salesperson apologized that the showroom is usually filled bumper to bumper with collector cars, muscle cars, street rods & trucks of all kinds, but several were away at an auction. It seemed like a nice selection to me and was live visiting a small museum.

Out next stop was just a block away. I had not been to Moon Marble for several year and Linda had never been there before. In addition to selling hand made marbles, the shop has wonderful toys, including the kind of wood and metal toys and collectibles that you haven't seen in most toy stores in 40 years. Marble making demonstrations are done three days a week and we saw Moon Marble Company owner Bruce Breslow demonstrate marble making to a standing room only crowd.

Our next stop was at the Richard Allen Cultural Center in Leavenworth, but it turns out that their web site and several other Leavenworth web sites are inaccurate. They are not open on Saturdays.

On our way back out of town, we stopped for lunch at All Slabbed Up on the south side of Leavenworth. 

We were quite impressed with All Slabbed Up when we ate there in July. In fact one member of our party said that if it was located closer, it would be her favorite BBQ restaurant.

I was a little less impressed with All Slabbed Up today. The ribs were tender and had a very good flavor, but they were about luke warm. The fresh cut fries, which are cooked with a little onion and dusted with season salt, were quite good. 

The burnt ends were cold. Not lukewarm, but refrigerator cold. I had already asked for a new Diet Pepsi because the first one tasted like regular, and I didn't feel like I cold could complain again, so I said nothing.

I did bring most of them home. They were more worth eating after they have been in the microwave.

Glass blowing demonstration
 
 
 

All Slabbed Up dinning room

Service was inattentive and we had to ask for things repeatedly.

I ordered a mushroom Swiss burger and fries. The fries are lightly battered shoestrings, as they were in the past. Really not to my taste. The hamburger was cooked to order, but not hand formed. It was not very juicy and the swiss cheese hadn't been given time to melt into the burger. Everything turned out to be lettuce, tomato and mayonnaise. It really would have been better with onions and pickles. 

If I returned, I would go back to items from the original menu, such as A-1 Cheese Steak.

Celebrities offers coupons on their web site.

Except they are closed for some renovation, until at least May 5th.

We finally circled around to a newer and more famous Kansas City, Kansas BBQ restaurant - Oklahoma Joe's Bar-B-Que. OK Joe's original location (they have two others, including one we have reviewed) shares a modest sized building with a gas station. Joe's has a good, consistent product and even better marketing. They have received a lot of national recognition and have become a destination. A group from Chicago stopped us to take a photo for them.

The line was almost to the door, which is shorter than it often is. It took 35 minute to get through the line and pickup our order. They have an express line for carry out, but appear to actually time and slow the service to the dine in line, so that a table becomes free before you get your food.

I was already in the mood for Quick's sausage so I had ribs and sausage tonight. The ribs were good as always. The sausage was nothing special. Linda had ribs and 1/4 chicken. The spicy chicken was tender and very flavorful.

The onion rings were better than average. The thin cut fries were lightly dusted with season salt. Both servings were quite large.

Oklahoma Joe's Bar-B-Que

The fresh cut fried potato wedges were my favorite of the sides, but the smoked green beans and the onion rings were both good.

Quick's will celebrate 50 years on May 14 with $9.19 slabs and 50¢ draws. They will open at 8 AM and have 1,000 slabs available.