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St. Patrick’s Day Insider Guide

March 5, 2019

Lawrence really knows how to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. Use this guide for everything you need to know about the parade and other fun events. Parade The parade begins at 1:30 PM on St. Patrick’s Day, Sunday, March 17. The current route for the parade is through the downtown business district. Line up begins at Read More …

Filed Under: Family Fun, Featured Event Tagged With: culture, Drink, family, restaurants

March 20, 2018

March has arrived with just the faintest of believable spring weather gracing us and it is time to take advantage. If you’re looking to shake off that winter dust, what better way to do it than with a Final Fridays-turned-Weekend? It’s easy to burrow in during the winter months, stay inside where it’s warm, and Read More …

Filed Under: Arts & Culture Tagged With: art, Cider Gallery, Edward Jones Gallery, Encore, event, Fayman Gallery, Final Friday, Final Fridays, Frank Waln, Haskell Cultural Center & Museum, Haskell Indian Nations University, KU Powwow and Indigenous Culture Festival, Lied Center, Luckyberry, Phoenix Gallery, restaurant, restaurants, Rural Pearl Gallery, warehouse arts district

March 7, 2018

March 14 is Pi Day – a celebration of the mathematical constant starting with 3.14 (also known as π). Lucky for those of us who are not mathematicians the holiday is often used as a perfectly acceptable excuse to celebrate another phenomenal constant – PIE! Here’s a list of some local favorites to help you celebrate Read More …

Filed Under: Food Tagged With: Alchemy Coffee & Bake House, Aunt Netters, dessert, dining, food, Great Harvest Bread Co., ladybird diner, Lawrence, Lecompton, Pi, pie, restaurants, The Roost

January 2, 2018

Downtown Lawrence Restaurant Week, January 18-26, is one of the most anticipated times for Lawrence foodies. It’s a time when local chefs put together creative and original dishes not found on their regular menus. We’ve interviewed three local dining enthusiasts to get the inside scoop on how best to experience this fifth annual feast of Read More …

Filed Under: Food Tagged With: 715, Bon Bon, dining, downtown, Downtown Lawrence, Drink, food, leeway franks, Limestone, merchants, pizza, restaurant, restaurants, warehouse arts district

December 26, 2017

  Not sure where to go to ring in the New Year in Lawrence? Fret not, we’ve compiled a list of places to go and things to do. Cheers! DINNER (reservations recommended) Enjoy a five-course paired dinner at Lawrence Beer Co.’s first NYE celebration. View the menu here.   Celebrate the New Year under the Read More …

Filed Under: Food, Live Music Tagged With: bars, dining, Drink, food, jackpot music hall, Lawrence, music, replay lounge, restaurants, the bottleneck, the granada

October 31, 2017

Who knew that a vegetable could be so loved, yet misunderstood? Potatoes enjoy global good standing as a staple food of Peruvian origin and cultivation in both the Americas and Europe. That’s how potatoes made it here, but fries? Their story is both root and cultivar. Legend tells us potatoes were an inexpensive food that Read More …

Filed Under: Food Tagged With: dining, food, fries, restaurants

October 3, 2017

Sometimes, you have a craving that a savory bite just won’t satisfy. You want creamy and cool, or perhaps warm and spicy. You want a little crunch, a little melt-in-your-mouth, a little sweetness. You want dessert, and here in Lawrence we say you can have your strawberry rhubarb pie and eat it, too. Sylas and Read More …

Filed Under: Food Tagged With: cake, dessert, dining, Drink, food, ice cream, Instagram, ladybird diner, pie, restaurant, restaurants, sweets, sylas and maddy's, the burger stand, the merc, torched goodness, wheatfields

August 24, 2017

Grabbing some food & drinks with company is obviously THE best way to enjoy some much needed holiday time (no argument!) and, when the Kansas weather is cooperating, finding a patio to enjoy is always a bonus! Here are some guaranteed places to enjoy patio time:   J. Wilson’s – With J. Wilson’s giving us fine Read More …

Filed Under: Food Tagged With: Bon Bon, Cielito Lindo, dining, Drink, food, J. Wilsons, ladybird diner, Lawrence, patio, patios, restaurant, restaurants

May 26, 2017

If you’re looking for a Lawrence spot to tuck into a locally grown meal, it’s almost easier to talk about restaurants that don’t have local produce on the menu, rather than trying to rattle off the long list of places that do.  In addition to a handful of restaurants that have—literally, in at least one Read More …

Filed Under: Food Tagged With: dining, Drink, food, restaurants

May 10, 2017

Brunch – the best parts of breakfast and lunch, usually eaten late morning – helps you discover your bliss after sleeping in a bit. For those who brunch hard or have hardly brunched, the magic happens around 11 am so we chose eleven of Lawrence’s finest eye-opening establishments. Whether you are a townie or a Read More …

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