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Ärende: midwest trip - bbq 837
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As Lilli needed more Starwood credits to keep her exalted
status, we moved to the Sheraton Overland Park, where the
accommodations were prettier and newer than downtown but
the beds were sort of lumpy.

The hotel was pretty full up with a barbershop quartet
convention and various dance events going on all at once.
We had to park not just in the convention center lot, but
the faraway overflow lot. Well, more power to them - it's
a fairly nice facility, and the people are nice, and the
price is nice.

Brobeck's is just a mile down the road. We met our friends
there and again got burnt ends and spare ribs, both quite
good as, one advantage being that they come unsauced, and
not only do you get your choice of their own hot or sweet
sauce (both okay, nothing more), but the place also offers
other companies' sauces too (all okay, nothing more). Used
to be you could get Gates and Arthur Bryant's sauce here.
Now the offerings are along the lines of Ken's Steakhouse
(from Framingham, Mass.). The meats are well marbled and
luscious though maybe a little more literally burnt than
I'd prefer. Sides of coleslaw and cheesy corn were ordinary
as could be. The portion was not so big as at either Joe's
KC or Danny Edwards.

We said our goodbyes to the people, and that was the end of
the formal part of the gathering. The others went on to
some casino to gamble and then the much-heralded Q39;
Bryan seemed a bit nostalgic for Foo's Frozen Custard, and
no amount of dissuasion would make him believe that we were
not going. He called a few times in a plaintive "where are
you" way later in the day, but we were elsewhere. Namely

Hayward's, a sports bar that is said to sport a good pit
and respectable smoked meat. We got a combo sandwich of
burnt ends and sausage on Texas toast. This came as 6 to 8
oz of each meat on a big slab of what looked like hand-
sliced Wondrous bread. The meats were pretty good, the burnt
ends not quite up to the best but pretty close, the sausage
a little fatty-mushy and mild, but there was nothing that a
dollop of the hot sauce couldn't help. Speaking of which,
the server caught me grimacing as I tasted the sauce that
was on offer, so she came back with a bowl of the hot, which
was pleasantly more tart than the regular and quite quite
spicy. I liked it and used most of what she gave me. Along
with, we got a big portion of okay thick-cut fries. Total
outlay $10.

A KC Bier Dunkel went pretty nicely with, a modestly hopped
dark beer with a tad of molassesy sweetness and a rich
body. Lilli had some kind of Merlot that left her cold.

Back at the hotel, the executive lounge beckoned. lili
tried again with the wine, which the attendant said was
some kind of Cabernet Sauvignon, I believe from Napa, which
she had to actually abandon her post and take the elevator
down to the lobby bar to pick up. The upstairs and
downstairs prices were the same, $5 or so a glass.

There were cheese and crackers, crabby muffins, and some
similarly delicious things out in the chafing dishes. I had
a cookie; Lilli had some fresh fruit and was ready for more,
but an unaccompanied child started helping himself to some
blackberries but dropped some on the floor - whereupon he
scooped them up and put them back in the dish. This sort of
put us off our feed.


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