Joe’s Kansas City Bar-B-Que (Redux)

My concern on this part of the return trip has been to make miles and quickly. Because of that there was nothing to share in Amarillo, Oklahoma, or most of Kansas besides large fields of nothingness. Possibly one of the most boring drives ever. I-435 in Kansas City may also be the worst road I have driven in the dark – no lights and construction across 7 lanes or so it seemed. Whatever sadist engineered this Rube Goldberg fiasco should be hung. Any ways, I did make it to Kansas City in one piece and checked in to my hotel. First order of business? Barbecue, of course! On the suggestion of locals I headed to Joe’s Kansas City Bar-B-Que.

Google and Yelp also agreed this is the place in KC to go. Nice girl at the counter suggested if there is one thing to get it’s the Z-Man sandwich which is smoked brisket with provolone and crunchy onion rings.

I arrived with only minutes to spare before closing and glad I did – this may have been the best brisket I have ever had to this point. BBQ sauce was also killer. Gratuitous beef shot to generate some meat sweats.

Author’s note: I am revisiting old posts from my 2016 road trip because I posted all of them from my cell phone and some of them are a bit of a mess. Main reason is to properly edit photos rather than just having what came out of my phone camera, and to include higher res photos from my mirrorless camera that never got published. Additionally some of the locations on the Geomap are wrong or often have multiple locations in a single post. OG text should be captured in a summary field when available.