Price Guide (average entree): $ bargain - $6 or less, $$ inexpensive - $6 - $12, $$$ moderate $12 - $19, $$$$ expensive - over $19.
Quality Rating: Superb is the highest, considered the very best possible. Notes are qualifiers allowing insight into the reviewer's rating. Disclaimer
| Restaurant: | Sour Octopus | Location: | 11129 N. Oak |
| Cuisine: | American | Price: | $$$$ expensive |
| Ambience: | * average | Notes: | cozy |
| Food: | *** excellent | Notes: | |
| Service: | ** very good | Notes: | |
| Favorites: | Chicken and lamb |
| Comments: | We heard about this place from a friend who said we had to try it out. I had the lamb which was done three ways and my husband had the
chicken with home made sasuage and gnocchi. Desserts were to die for, I
had the apple tart with bayleaf ice-cream and my husband had the lemon
tart. I think we finally found a nice adult hideaway up north |
| Reviewer: | Mike |
Date: | 7/13/03 |
| Restaurant: | Sour Octopus | Location: | 11129 north oak, kansas city, mo |
| Cuisine: | american | Price: | $$$ moderate |
| Ambience: | *** excellent | Notes: | cozy, table cloth, and candles |
| Food: | *** excellent | Notes: | awesome flavors, some of the best i've seen in kc. |
| Service: | ** very good | Notes: | wine service is hit and miss. |
| Favorites: | duck, lamb and monkfish |
| Comments: | I can't not believe a restaurant like this has opened north of the river! The food is totally awesome, and the menu changes all the time. I had the red wine braised monkfish with wild mushroom risotto. Some of the best risotto i have ever had! And the monkfish melted in my mouth. The food is very creative and the desserts are simple but everything is made in house. The wines are priced right most costing 20 to 30 a bottle. I've made this place a regular spot and so have alot of northlanders. |
| Reviewer: | Tony |
Date: | 10/9/03 |
| Restaurant: | Sour Octopus | Location: | 11129 N. Oak Trfwy |
| Cuisine: | American | Price: | $$$ moderate |
| Ambience: | * average | Notes: | |
| Food: | ?? | Notes: | Food ordered was never delivered |
| Service: | poor | Notes: | |
| Favorites: | |
| Comments: | My wife and I went to the Sour Octopus on 02/13/04 for an early Valentines Day dinner. We were seated promptly at our reservation time of 7:00pm. At 8:30 we left having eaten only three pieces of cold bread. It doesn’t matter how good the food is supposed to be if it is never brought to your table. |
| Reviewer: | Mark |
Date: | 2/14/04 |
| Restaurant: | Sour Octopus | Location: | Kansas City North |
| Cuisine: | _ | Price: | $$$$ expensive |
| Ambience: | tacky | Notes: | _ |
| Food: | * average | Notes: | _ |
| Service: | poor | Notes: | _ |
| Favorites: | |
| Comments: | Upon reading the KC Star's rave review of this restaurant, my husband and I decided to check it out. While we were utterly dismayed at the location (a strip mall as far north on North Oak Trafficway as you can possibly get), we decided to be open minded. Inside the restaurant, you enter one room chock full of tables which are literally inches apart. The tablecloths are just big swatches of fabric and I could not detect any kind of semblance as far as what kind of atmosphere they were attempting to create. Pictures were hung in less than adequate frames and they too had nothing in common. We were only able to get a 5:15 reservation by phone and I am in a quandary as to why as the place was deserted! I told the waitress that I didn't eat vegetables and could she suggest which entree would be best and an alternative side dish. She said it was her first day and since the menu was changed daily, she could not make suggestions. I politely asked if she would confer with any of the more experienced waitresses. I truly was looking forward to her suggestion and would have ordered whatever she suggested. When she returned to the table, she said "The owner doesn't make substitutions so if you don't like it, you don't have to eat it." Whew! The blatant disregard for customer service blew me away. My husband and I then ordered a glass of wine each to have while we perused the menu a little more. The wine was fine (House Zinfandel) but served in HUGE wine glasses so the portion looked really small compared to the glass. My husband then asked if we could just order an appetizer to eat while we decided on entrees. She said that was not possible because the cook wanted the whole order at one time. I was stunned by the lack of flexibility. It was then I decided that this restaurant would not get any more of my money and told the waitress I would not be ordering any food. We did still have wine to drink so my husband ordered the squid appetizer. It came on a plate with about 7 tiny pieces of squid, a huge amount of salad greens and a small amount of tomato and bacon seasoning. The squid was definitely not fresh (I did not expect it to taste fresh from the sea clear out here in the Midwest but I expected it to taste fresher than it did). It was very bland and chewy. The bread came in a cute boat dish but there were only 3 pieces and they were very small. They were tasty, however. Needless to say, we left and went elsewhere to dine. I'm not sure if the reviewer was treated to a different level of customer service or whether she is related to the owner, but we will be a bit more leary of dining at a new restaurant based solely on one review from now on. This restaurant has several things stacked against it: location and ambience to begin with. You would think in order to survive this very competitive business, the owner would at least try for some exemplary customer service!
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| Reviewer: | Lisa |
Date: | 3/6/04 |
| Restaurant: | Sour Octopus | Location: | Way North Oak Trafficway |
| Cuisine: | American fusion | Price: | $$$ moderate |
| Ambience: | tacky | Notes: | Looks like a road side cafe |
| Food: | ** very good | Notes: | _ |
| Service: | ** very good | Notes: | _ |
| Favorites: | Pork osso bucco |
| Comments: | We were very disappointed in this restaurant. We were expecting a better looking place. The food was wonderful, and the wine VERY affordable. But the atmosphere is very poor...much like IHOP or a local breakfast place. |
| Reviewer: | Gary |
Date: | 3/13/04 |
| Restaurant: | Sour Octopus | Location: | Kansas City |
| Cuisine: | american | Price: | $$$ moderate |
| Ambience: | * average | Notes: | |
| Food: | *** excellent | Notes: | |
| Service: | ** very good | Notes: | |
| Favorites: | _ |
| Comments: | I had a wonderful meal here a few days ago during the week on a Tuesday night. The service was awesome and so was the food. I don't understand why everyone is so down on the looks of the place. Granted it's not what you would expect from a four star restaurant, but neither is the pricing! For the price it's a great value! The wines are priced just right and so is the food. I had a bottle of Opus one for 130 dollars; on the plaza and everywhere else that bottle would have set me back 200 plus. I also enjoyed the Filet of beef with truffled potato puree and it was wonderful and for 23 dollars you can't beat it. The restaurant received 4 stars for food from the star, I'm sorry if some people are hung up on the looks of the place. I went there to eat not to be seen! |
| Reviewer: | Heather |
Date: | 3/24/04 |
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