Arthur Bryant's is a restaurant located in Kansas City, Missouri. It is considered by many to be the most famous barbecue restaurant in the United States. It was founded in 1923 by Charlie Bryant, and taken over by his brother Arthur Bryant upon his death. The restaurant was moved to 18th St. and Brooklyn Avenue in 1930, and became popular among the baseball players who played at nearby Municipal Stadium. Toms Diner, a restaurant in New York made familiar by Suzanne Vega and the television sitcom Seinfeld A restaurant is an establishment that serves prepared food and beverages to be consumed on the premises. ... Kansas City generally refers to the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, including: Kansas City, Missouri Kansas City, Kansas Other Kansas City areas include: Kansas City, Oregon Kansas City, Tennessee In computing, the term Kansas City standard refers to a standard for storage of data on audio cassettes. ... Missouri, named after the Missouri Siouan Indian tribe meaning canoe, is a Midwestern state in the United States with Jefferson City as its capital. ... A member of the Airpork Crew barbecue team prepares pork shoulder at the Memphis in May World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest. ... 1923 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1930 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ...

The restaurant gained fame over the next several decades, and notable diners included President Harry Truman. However, it became the subject of international attention when, in 1974, writer Calvin Trillin wrote in Playboy that Arthur Bryant's in Kansas City was "...possibly the best single restaurant in the world." Since then, it has been frequented by a number of famous visitors, including Steven Spielberg, Bryant Gumbel, Jimmy Carter, and Jack Nicholson, as well as a number of barbecue afficionados. For the victim of Mt. ... 1974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ... Calvin Trillin (born Kansas City, Missouri, December 5, 1935) is an American journalist, humorist, and novelist. ... Classic Playboy logo. ... Steven Spielberg Steven Allan Spielberg KBE (born on December 18, 1946 in Cincinnati, Ohio but raised in the suburbs of Haddonfield, New Jersey and Scottsdale, Arizona), is a Jewish American film director and producer whose films range from science fiction to historical drama to horror. ... Bryant Gumbel (born September 29, 1948 in New Orleans, Louisiana), is an American television personality for news and sports programs. ... James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr. ... Jack Nicholson, John Joseph Nicholson (born April 22, 1937) is a highly successful, iconic American method actor. ... A member of the Airpork Crew barbecue team prepares pork shoulder at the Memphis in May World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest. ...

Arthur Bryant's is considered to have started the barbecue movement in Kansas City, by adapting other regional styles and inventing a particular style of sauce which is served with the smoked meats. The meat is smoked using hickory and oak. A member of the Airpork Crew barbecue team prepares pork shoulder at the Memphis in May World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest. ... Wikibooks Cookbook has more about this subject: Smoking Smoking is the process of curing, cooking, or seasoning food by exposing it for long periods of time to the smoke from a wood fire. ... Meat is animal flesh (mainly muscle tissue) used as food, sometimes with the exception of fish, other seafood, and poultry. ... Species See text Hickory is a tree of the genera Carya and Annamocarya. ... Species See List of Quercus species The term oak can be used as part of the common name of any of several hundred species of trees and shrubs in the genus Quercus, and some related genera, notably Lithocarpus. ...

Arthur Bryant died in 1982, and the restaurant is now owned by Gary Berbiglia and Bill Rauschelbach, who expanded the restaurant to two additional locations.

External Links

• Official Site
• The Kansas City Barbecue Society
• Frommer's guidebook review