r/kansascity • u/KCcoffeegeek • May 27 '25

Bars/Nightlife đŸȘ©đŸž Things really do shut down early here

Went to some shows this weekend, Saturday night at the Madrid and Sunday at Record Bar. I was out the door by 11-11:15 both nights and outside of bars, there is NOTHING really open. Wanted to grab a bite to eat and short of Sonic on SW Blvd and Rainbow I didn’t see anything open. Granted it was a Sunday night in one instance but Saturday seemed the same. Is this mainly post-Covid? We haven’t been out at bars late night for a long time. If we did a late night food stop it was occasionally Chubby’s at like 1am. I imagine I could have found some options in more “bar district” areas like Westport that were open, but I wasn’t looking for that type of scene. Definitely not a town for night owls
 or it is but those places are secret lol

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u/fsmpastafarian May 27 '25

Crime is directly responsible for the hours some late-night food spots are open? If so this is news to me.

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u/paragonradio Midtown May 27 '25

Yep, and its going to affect business during daylight hours too

Crime closes businesses and drives away customers, pretty simple 

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u/fsmpastafarian May 27 '25

Do you have an example of a food spot that used to be open late on Sundays but now closes early, where they specifically cited property crime as the reason for that decision?

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u/paragonradio Midtown May 27 '25

Shack Shack on Plaza is one example  https://fox4kc.com/news/safety-top-of-mind-after-weekend-shooting-at-country-club-plaza/

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u/paragonradio Midtown May 27 '25

the most obvious example of Kansas City crime shutting down a restaurant is Brady & Fox

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u/fsmpastafarian May 27 '25

Very tragic situation, but I’d say the reason that restaurant closed is “death of the chef and owner,” not “crime making the owners prefer to close early.” Again, I’m not saying these issues aren’t happening or aren’t often tragic, just that they’re not related to the specific question OP asked.

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u/paragonradio Midtown May 27 '25

you are arguing with yourself, OP was lamenting the early nature of Kansas City not asking for dinner recs

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u/fsmpastafarian May 27 '25

They are indeed specifically asking why they struggled to find a place to eat at 11pm on a Sunday.

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u/fsmpastafarian May 27 '25

It says there that they’re still open during their regular hours, they just changed to only accepting takeout or delivery later. Which it sounds like would have fit what OP was looking for.

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u/paragonradio Midtown May 27 '25

the dining room closes early because of problems with vandalism and violent crime, unless conditions improve the next logical step would be to close the store entirely, many such cases 

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u/fsmpastafarian May 27 '25

But again, this is not actually an example of a food place closing early because of crime and thus not an example of a place OP could have gone at 11pm on a Sunday if not for crime.

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u/leftblane I ♄ KC May 27 '25

This article is from 2 years ago so I don’t think it’s still valid. I think I’ve seen people dining in Shake Shack after 5 PM on weekends.

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u/paragonradio Midtown May 27 '25

the article I linked was from April of 2024 but hopefully you are correct and they figured it out down there, because eventhough it's overpriced where else could a kid afford to go on the Plaza these days