The Cigar Box

Was visiting Kansas City, a friend recommended we check out the Cigar Box, and it was a home run! The singer in the sequined jacket really makes the place. Highly recommended.

The only remaining place in downtown that gives you 2 for 1 drinks for happy hour, that includes beer - probably. Can you actually stand straight up and walk out of a happy hour here, probably not. Well, you might have more will power than me.  

During the day, you have Pauly. He is sixty or so. He is also a riot, I think he missed his calling as a comedian. He will keep you laughing and loves the ladies.

During the night, we have Al Latta. He sings, he does impersonations, and he also loves the ladies.

The food here is great. The lunch prices are amazing. The dinner menu is so tasty. It is full of olive oils, basil, and sauces. Elastic pants are a good idea.

How is it that I am only being introduced to Cigar Box now?!  Ok, so aside from the scores of 21st bdays and bachelorette parties...I could seriously do without these...this place is perfect.  It's just the right amount of sticky...you don't have to be dressed to the nines to show up here, though many people are.  Very unpretentious crowd.  But at the same time, Cigar Box offers the right amount of class.  Al, the lounge singer, serenades the ladies to the sounds of Frank Sinatra while floating around the room in his sequined jacket.  The tables are adorned with white tablecloths and red carnations.  You'll see twenty somethings conversing with seventy somethings.  And if you're lucky you might get your 10 seconds of fame with the mic.  So the bartender didn't know the recipes to some basics, but he did get the right balance of gin vs. tonic.  I'll be back!