Chew Diligence

Talk about a power couple! Colby and Megan Garrelts started Bluestem 15 years ago, and in the time since have been nominated for (and won!) James Beard Awards, started a family and...

Two restaurants (one charitable, and one entrepreneurial), are striving to give Troost a healthful economic boost by feeding the community in more ways than one. Both restaurants, ...

Lindsay’s back from maternity leave! This week she and Jill sit down with three of the people behind The American Restaurant, a place credited with putting Kansas City “on the nati...

Christopher Elbow is truly becoming a jack of all trades. He began with chocolate at his namesake shop in the Crossroads before delving into ice cream at Glacé Artisan Ice Cream. S...

This time on Chew Diligence, Chef Michael Smith of Farina, joins co-host Jill Silva in the podcast studio to talk about his newest venture.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy i...

Would you consider Kansas City a Southern city? John Cedric Smith, executive chef and co-owner of EJ's Urban Eatery, does. Chew Diligence co-hosts Lindsay Shively and Jill Silva sa...

This week co-hosts Lindsay Shively and Jill Silva are joined by Chef Michael Foust, founder of The Farmhouse in the now-teeming City Market area, and Black Sheep + Market on 39th S...

2018 marks 20 years in Kansas City for Lidia Bastianich’s restaurant in the Crossroads, Lidia’s Kansas City. This time on Chew Diligence, she tells co-hosts Lindsay Shively and Jil...

Lindsay and Jill prepare for the holiday party season with help from two masterful friends. You can hardly go wrong with the classic party pairing of wine and cheese, so Lindsay an...

Surprise! We're so excited to share our conversation with Antoni Porowski of Netflix's wildly popular, Emmy award-winning show Queer Eye. He told us as much about season three as h...

Chef Carlos Falcon of Jarocho has certainly made a name for himself in Kansas City (on both sides of the state line). He opened his first restaurant in KCK four years ago, and sinc...

Three Kansas City women who work in the restaurant industry recently returned from two national events aimed at finding solutions for common problems women face in restaurants, fro...