Although I
grew up in Kansas City and attended college at one of the local universities, I
moved to Seattle after graduation. I spent the better part of ten years out
there. Seattle is a great city, but it's not the kind of place you think of
when you say "let's go out for barbecue." As you can imagine, a guy
who was raised on some of the best barbecue in the nation made a lot of noise
in Seattle about the quality of the smoked ribs and tangy sauce back home in
Kansas City. And after a while, my friends in Seattle began to tire of my boasting.
It was "put up or shut up" for KC barbecue. Unfortunately, it took me
a while to finally introduce my Seattle-area friends to the barbecue I loved so
much.
As I said
earlier, I only spent ten years in Seattle. I returned to Kansas City a few years
back. I had a good job opportunity in KC and my wife was also from the area. It
was good to be back home, but I still felt the need to share the Kansas City
barbecue experience with my friends back in Seattle. So, I arranged to have
them come to town for a little dining and baseball. The Seattle Mariners were
in Kansas City for a four-game stint last July. My friends and I are all
baseball nuts, so I arranged to have them fly into KC for a handful of days. I
bought tickets for the second and fourth games in the series. That gave us
plenty of time in-between to see the sights and sample the barbecue around
town. But, as I wanted to make the experience memorable for all time, I decided
to take it up a notch and treat the old Seattle crew to a barbecue and game
night experience they'd never forget. (And if I was lucky, they'd go back to Seattle
and tell everybody we knew that I was absolutely
right about KC barbecue).
KC has a
number of great barbecue restaurants, but one of my favorites is right in the
heart of the Country Club Plaza. When my buddies arrived in KC for the barbecue
and baseball event, I made sure that they got to try a variety of smoked
barbecue deliciousness – but I held the best for last. On the fourth night that
the Mariners were in town, I surprised the guys with a chauffeur-driven limo
ride from the house to the Plaza for dinner. We feasted like Kings and then
jumped back into the limousine for a ride to Kauffman Stadium. The limo I hired
from Overland Chauffeured Services was the highlight of the evening.
(Seriously, how cool is it to be driven around town all night in a limo?)
The Royals
may have lost that night (1-6), but Overland Chauffeured Services made the
evening a huge win for me and Kansas City. Nothing beats leaving a baseball
game and having a chauffeur-driven limo waiting outside your gate to whisk you
through traffic and back home. I still hear the guys back in Seattle talk about
the great experience they had here in town. They're already planning to head
back to KC next summer. And, I'll know who to call for transportation!
The author
of this article, a writer and blogger in Kansas City, contacted Overland Chauffeured Services in KC to arrange for a chauffeur-driven limousine service to take him
and his friends to dinner and a ballgame. Overland Chauffeured Services is a
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