Price Guide (average entree): $ bargain - $6 or less, $$ inexpensive - $6 - $12, $$$ moderate $12 - $19, $$$$ expensive - over $19.
Quality Rating: Superb is the highest, considered the very best possible. Notes are qualifiers allowing insight into the reviewer's rating. Disclaimer
| Restaurant: | Zarda BBQ | Location: | 7 Highway Blue Springs |
| Cuisine: | BBQ | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | * average | Notes: | They love to plug their "feed the Chiefs" |
| Food: | ** very good | Notes: | |
| Service: | * average
| Notes: | |
| Favorites: | The best baked beans in KC |
| Comments: | The bbq is average, which for KC means that it is good compared to other metro areas. Stop at Zarda for the beans, but stay away from the grocery store Zarda beans...not the same. |
| Reviewer: | Allen |
Date: | 2/20/00 |
| Restaurant: |
Zarda BBQ |
Location: |
87th and Quivira, Lenexa |
| Cuisine: |
Barbecue |
Price: |
$$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: |
*** excellent |
Notes: | |
| Food: |
*** excellent |
Notes: |
Meat was great, great sauce |
| Service: |
*** excellent |
Notes: | |
| Favorites: |
BBQ beef with beans or fries |
| Comments: |
Consistently very good food. Beef and turkey are great; sauce is exceptional. Very good portions. Great value. |
| Reviewer: |
Bart |
Date: |
5/30/00 |
| Restaurant: | Zarda BBQ | Location: | 87th Street, West of Quivira |
| Cuisine: | BBQ | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | * average | Notes: | No carcinogens allowed ! |
| Food: | *** excellent | Notes: | |
| Service: | * average | Notes: | |
| Favorites: | Ribs, Chicken |
| Comments: | Probably the only good BBQ place in town where patrons are not forced to inhale cigarette carcinogens while dining ! ! I'll take my BBQ without the cancer, thanks.... |
| Reviewer: | Uncle Gary |
Date: | 6/5/00 |
| Restaurant: | Zarda BBQ | Location: | Blue Springs |
| Cuisine: | Bar-B-Que | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | ** very good | Notes: | |
| Food: | *** excellent | Notes: | |
| Service: | ** very good | Notes: | |
| Favorites: | Burnt Ends |
| Comments: | This is hands down the best Bar-B-Que in the Kansas City area. The burnt ends and onion rings are just excellent. The sauce is the finest BBQue sauce I have ever had--and you can stock up on it at the Price Chopper in Blue Springs or Independence for less than $2.00 a bottle. Got to be the best bargain ever!! |
| Reviewer: | Jim |
Date: | 11/15/00 |
| Restaurant: | Zarda Bar B Que | Location: | 87th and Quivera, Lenexa |
| Cuisine: | Barbeque | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | * average | Notes: | Normal, seems clean |
| Food: | substandard | Notes: | Everything is just fair, nothing mindblowing. |
| Service: | * average | Notes: | Average to good |
| Favorites: | Beef Sandwich |
| Comments: | If you are in a hurry and need to use that wonderful drive thru, this is the place. Nothing outstanding but consistant Q. Beans are
overrated, Ribs are touch. Sauce is flavored ketchup. |
| Reviewer: | D-Tag |
Date: | 10/19/02 |
| Restaurant: | Zarda BBQ | Location: | 87th & Quivira |
| Cuisine: | BBQ | Price: | $ bargain |
| Ambience: | ** very good | Notes: | always bright and cheerful and clean |
| Food: | *** excellent | Notes: | |
| Service: | ** very good | Notes: | |
| Favorites: | Turkey sandwich, salad bar, beans |
| Comments: | I read reviews that were horrible and I wonder what's wrong with those people! This is a great place! The non-smoking atmosphere is
wonderful! And I've never had a really bad meal there -- the shrimp was
disappointing just because I thought it would be grilled, not breaded and
fried. |
| Reviewer: | Jan |
Date: | 3/21/03 |
| Restaurant: | Zarda's | Location: | Lenexa |
| Cuisine: | Barbeque | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | tacky | Notes: | |
| Food: | substandard | Notes: | |
| Service: | * average | Notes: | |
| Favorites: | None |
| Comments: | Typical Kansas City BBQ: IT SMELLS BETTER THAN IT TASTES. The solution: all KC BBQ restaurant owners need to visit the Southwest (CA,
AZ, NM) and taste real BBQ. They would also discover that real BBQ is
NEVER served with french fries, a piece of stale white bread, and pickles.
GET A CLUE KC.....YOUR BBQ IS LOUSY AND A BIG JOKE! |
| Reviewer: | Katie |
Date: | 5/26/03 |
| Restaurant: | Zarda's Barbecue | Location: | 87th and Quivira |
| Cuisine: | barbecue | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | * average | Notes: | clean and functional |
| Food: | * average | Notes: | no smoke taste. |
| Service: | * average | Notes: | good, quick service |
| Favorites: | beans |
| Comments: | If you like barbecue done in an oven this is your place. Not a whiff of smoke anywhere. Sauce is pretty good though. |
| Reviewer: | Alonzo |
Date: | 7/29/03 |
| Restaurant: | Zarda BBQ | Location: | Blue Spring |
| Cuisine: | BBQ | Price: | $$$ moderate |
| Ambience: | **** superb | Notes: | i work there and its awesome |
| Food: | *** excellent | Notes: | The bbq Turkey is wonderful |
| Service: | ** very good | Notes: | we are always to here to help out |
| Favorites: | beans,slaw, beef and pulled pork,corn on the cob |
| Comments: | I work at the Zarda BBQ restraunt in blue springs, and I feel that our restraunt is one of the best in the town, and people appreciate our bbq. Good Job Chiefs! Look foraward for precentage off when chiefs win! |
| Reviewer: | Erika |
Date: | 9/8/03 |
| Restaurant: | Zarda BBQ | Location: | 135th/Metcalf |
| Cuisine: | BBQ | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | *** excellent | Notes: | |
| Food: | *** excellent | Notes: | Awsome beans and burnt ends! |
| Service: | *** excellent | Notes: | |
| Favorites: | Burnt Ends or Pulled Pork |
| Comments: | The folks at Zarda are always quick to serve, and have great BBQ. You can usually find it at Price Chopper too, good stuff!! Go Chief's. |
| Reviewer: | John |
Date: | 10/13/03 |
| Restaurant: | Zarda's | Location: | Blue Springs |
| Cuisine: | Barbecue | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | * average | Notes: | |
| Food: | * average | Notes: | |
| Service: | * average | Notes: | |
| Favorites: | |
| Comments: | I've been eating KC barbecue all my life. It has always amazed me how some of these places stay in business. Well, here's one of my pet peeves: If the counter help puts meat into a MICROWAVE after you order it, get the *&!@ away from there! Microwaved barbecue is not real barbecue, no matter how much it reeks of hickory. Jeeze, people, get a clue!
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| Reviewer: | Bill |
Date: | 11/14/03 |
| Restaurant: | Zarda BBQ | Location: | 87th & Quivira |
| Cuisine: | Barbecue | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | *** excellent | Notes: | very friendly |
| Food: | ** very good | Notes: | |
| Service: | * average | Notes: | |
| Favorites: | beans, turkey sandwich |
| Comments: | This place is always consisent with their quality of food and service. I've been going here for 15 years and I've never seen the place dirty. It smells good - reminds me of Grandpa's woodburning stove. |
| Reviewer: | Jan |
Date: | 1/1/04 |
| Restaurant: | Zarda | Location: | Blue Springs |
| Cuisine: | BBQ | Price: | $$$ moderate |
| Ambience: | * average | Notes: | |
| Food: | ** very good | Notes: | |
| Service: | poor | Notes: | |
| Favorites: | |
| Comments: | |
| Reviewer: | Spencer |
Date: | 2/17/04 |
| Restaurant: | Zarda's | Location: | 87th and Quivira |
| Cuisine: | Barbecue | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | * average | Notes: | I like the country music they play |
| Food: | ** very good | Notes: | _ |
| Service: | ** very good | Notes: | _ |
| Favorites: | turkey sandwich, fries, and baked beans |
| Comments: | I really enjoy the original sauce on my sandwich and I like to dip my fries in the bold sauce! The food and the service are great! Thanks Zarda |
| Reviewer: | Joyce |
Date: | 3/31/04 |
| Restaurant: | Zarda BBQ
| Location: | Blue Springs |
| Cuisine: | BBQ | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | ** very good | Notes: | Great place to take Chiefs fans! |
| Food: | **** superb | Notes: | Best in town, meat is juicy and tender |
| Service: | ** very good | Notes: | No one screams at you when you walk in |
| Favorites: | Smoked ham sandwich, ribs, sausage sandwich |
| Comments: | I like Gates' sauce a little better, but no one has better meats (beef, ham, turkey, sausage, etc.). Its cool that they have a lot of pictures of Chiefs players and other famous Kansas Citians and Senators eating at the restaurant. |
| Reviewer: | Justin |
Date: | 4/7/04 |
| Restaurant: | Zarda | Location: | Blue Springs |
| Cuisine: | BBQue | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | * average | Notes: | |
| Food: | ** very good | Notes: | |
| Service: | * average | Notes: | |
| Favorites: | Burnt Ends |
| Comments: | I wrote a review in 200 calling Zarda's the best BBQue in Kansas City. Honesty makes me write and say that I have changed my
mind since I have eaten at the Smokehouse in Independence, but it is still in my top five. |
| Reviewer: | Jim |
Date: | 4/17/04 |
| Restaurant: | Zarda BBQ | Location: | Blue Springs |
| Cuisine: | Barbeque | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | * average | Notes: | _ |
| Food: | * average | Notes: | ribs awful-not baby back if that's what you had in mind!!! |
| Service: | * average | Notes: | _ |
| Favorites: | BBQ beef sandwich |
| Comments: | This is a fairly good place if you want a quick barbeque meal in the middle of a busy day. However, I'm not sure what you people like about this place's sauce, it really is flavored ketchup (I'm a bit spoiled, however after going to a couple BBQ festivals). I would recommend Jack Stack's sauce over this any day. Ribs are the nastiest i've ever had, was expecting baby back ribs, but got tough, chewy and fatty beef ribs. Absolutely disgusting. Pretty average restaurant even after all my negative comments, however. |
| Reviewer: | Eric |
Date: | 8/11/04 |
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