Houlihan's

We love Houlihan's for happy hour/diiner.  We usually frequent the one at 95th and Quivira, along with the one at Town Center.  They have $6 big small plates from 4-7 and 9-close everyday, which includes buffalo chicken fingers, thai chicken wings, chipotle chicken nachos and spinach dip, which are some of our favorites.  Also they have great drink specials all day, every day, including the $4.75 skinny raspberry mojito (my wife's favorite), $5.25 liter pitchers of various long islands, and $5.00 liters of domestic drafts.  Also, on Tuesdays all wine bottles are half off and if you don't finish it they'll cork it up for you and let you take it to go.  We think this place has some of the best food & drink deals in town and they have great bar food and drinks!

Carlo's Copa Room

We had been to the previous location of Carlo's Copa Room in midtown several times before.  We recently learned that they'd moved to a new location in Lenexa at 87th and Lackman.  When we a saw Groupon deal for $35 of food & drink for $15 yesterday we decided to buy it and head there for dinner tonight.  We had loved the food and atmosphere at the previous location.  However, we were somewhat disappointed tonight.  We sat on the patio since it was so nice outside.  However, the Copa Room is located in a strip mall and the patio faces the back parking lot.  It was also very quiet out there so it was hard to talk over a whisper without feeling like everyone was listening to your conversation (fyi the inside atmosphere seemed a little drab too).  Soup and salad came with our entrees.  I had the soup, which was a squash and pasta soup.  It was very tasty.  My wife had the caesar salad, which was also very good.  The bread was soft but my wife swore it was previously frozen (and it didn'tt come with olive oil-only butter).  For dinner I had the shrimp spedini with fettucine alfredo ($22).  The shrimp spedini was good, but not as good as the chicken spedini.  The fettucine was average.  I think I actually make a better one.  My wife had the Sammy, Frank & Dean combo, ($22) which is lasagna, chicken spedini and fettucine alfredo.  The lasagna was her favorite, which she put up there with Cupini's, which might I add is only $7.99 and gigantic.  The chicken spedini also was good but could have used a little kick.  We also ordered drinks.  I thought the pinot gris at $6 wasn't a bad deal.  My wife had a bellini, which was on the martini menu.  There were no prices on the martini menu and for a reason.  It was $10 in a strip mall.  I think a $10 martini would make a little more sense on the plaza!  Additionally the portions seemed a little smaller.  I ate all of mine and there wasn't much left of my wife's either.  All in all we would up spending nearly $70 with tax and tip after the coupon!  We don't think it's worth going back for seconds!

Welcome To Our Blog

My wife and I went to Carlo's Copa Room for dinner tonight.  Yesterday we purchased our first Groupon deal of the day, which was for $35 of food & drink for $15.  We thought this was a great deal.  However, we ended up feeling like we threw money away.  We then started talking about how many other places in Kansas City where we could have better spent our money for a better deal.  In light of the economy and trying to save a buck we then decided to start a blog about restaurant and bar deals in KC and hoped it would be helpful to others as we hadn't been able to find anything similar.  We welcome comments, feedback and suggestions.  We hope you enjoy our blog!  Thanks for reading.