From Kansas City-
Table for two, monsieur?
Almost everything about this cozy eatery says fine dining: the white tablecloths, the candles and crusty French baguettes; the authentic shrimp Creole and bread pudding with bourbon sauce; the Starbucks coffee and an associate Episcopal rector saying grace.
Wait. An Episcopal rector?
But of course.
As much as the food might say otherwise, this is not a pricey Brookside bistro. The 70 or so people who enjoyed a free-will-offering meal here on a recent Sunday evening had just finished a church service upstairs at Kansas City’s St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church.
Dust off the good china, Father, this ain’t your grandma’s church potluck. This is “Candlelight Cuisine,” a Sunday night feast prepared by professional chefs. It proves that food served in the lower level of a church doesn’t have to be lower level in quality.
“What I hear a lot is somebody says, ‘I might as well be in a restaurant,’ ” said the Rev. John Spicer, associate rector at St. Andrew’s. “ ‘This is what I’d get if I went to a bistro in Brookside, much less a church.’ ”
Instead of chili nights, pancake feeds or fish fries, St. Andrews, 6401 Wornall Terrace in Brookside, offers more nuanced fare. For a suggested $5 donation, you get meals like chicken cacciatore, eggplant Marrakesh with couscous, jambalaya, wild game, peach cobbler and coconut lime cupcakes. On a recent night, the chefs changed the menu to Haitian food and gave the donations collected to the Episcopal Relief and Development Fund to help victims of the earthquake in Haiti.
More here-
http://www.kansascity.com/238/story/1707061.html
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