The Diving Dish

It's time again for our annual "Dive Quest." This year, however, we have a special assignment for readers: Check out the six dives highlighted in our January 2010 Food Issue and then give us food for thought by posting your own, personal reviews here...

Saturday with Jill Tran

I never knew how far we actually walked because my pedometer broke after the first 18 miles. I suppose that’s what happens when the world’s largest furniture and accessories trade show encompasses 188 buildings—virtually an entire downtown eight times the size of Kansas City’s largest shopping mall.

Par Exsalonce

With today’s health care costs, it’s no wonder that more Americans are turning to massage for its health benefits: reduced blood pressure, increased circulation, a strengthened immune system, and the relief of stress, pain from post-operative healing, migraines and pregnancy discomfort. The salon’s 60-minute Elemental Nature massage is $85. Each massage begins with a consultation to personalize your wellness needs. Call 913-469-9532 or visit parexsalonce.com for locations and a full menu of services.

Battle of the Sommeliers

We simply didn't have enough room to print contributor Charity Ohlund's full story in the print edition of our January issue. Here, you'll not only find more of her pithy prose, you'll find two bonus wine list reviews from our participating sommeliers. Salud!

kim stern ALL ROADS LEAD TO YOUR VALENTINE'S HEART
Gear up for Valentine’s Day on February 6 at Dean & Deluca, as the “Chocolate, Caviar and Candlelight” event offers a sampling of Christopher Elbow’s exquisite hand-crafted chocolates, a hand-dipped candle tutorial by KC powerhouse Creative Candles, an introduction to heart-healthy spoonbill and classic white sturgeon caviars, and delicious biscotti from KC’s biscotti king Bob Benish. Customers who spend $10 between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. will receive a pair of Creative Candles elegant black tapers.

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eggs LOOKING FORWARD
January is all about new beginnings. Throughout the past few months, I’ve teased you with sound bites from here and there; in this and next month’s issues, my reporting on five of our city’s newer restaurants will be more in depth. I’ve got my eye on them, and so should you.

A Better Zest: If there’s one restaurant to try right now in Kansas City, it’s Zest. Formerly the executive chef at JJ’s on the Plaza, where I awarded her three stars (KC Magazine, June 2008), Linda Duerr now heads the kitchen at this eatery in Leawood’s Mission Farm development (10681 Mission Road). Hiring her was the best thing owner Joe DiGiovanni did last year.

Zest isn’t exactly new: DiGiovanni opened the restaurant in November 2008 after closing the immensely popular Joe D’s Winebar-Café in Brookside. And Duerr isn’t technically a new addition: She arrived in early summer 2009. But thanks to her, much of the menu is completely fresh.

And that’s getting noticed. You’d never know we’re nursing an ailing economy by the way the restaurant looked on a recent weekend night. Every seat was filled, including the comfy sofas in the lounge where walk-in customers and early reservation holders waited for tables to empty.

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