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PORTS OF CALL IN KANSAS CITY
Just for food
★ AIRPORT RESTAURANT. For hangar Hyin' and coffee, or a lideslip into a booth or table for breakfast, luncheon, or dinner, the airport restau' rant is right on your frequency. The food, too, is 100 octane. Municipal Airport. NO. 4490.
★ CALIFORNIA RANCHHOUSE. Check your six-shooters at the door, pal, and come on in and drape yourself around some first class chow in this metropolitan edition of the old Bar-X ranch. Pick yourself a good critter and trail her around the old cow trails on the walls. Linwood and Forest. LO. 2555.
★ EL NOPAL. Authentic Mexican food and waitress. Both good. A small and unpretentious place that serves wonderful enchiladas, tostados, tacos, tortillas — the works. 6 p. m. to 2:30 p. m. Open Friday, Saturday and Sunday only. 416 W. 13th. HA. 5430.
GREEN PARROT INN. Just a short drive out on Highway 50 where Mrs. Dowd maintains an establishment of real qualicy, with excellent food served in a gracious atmoaphere. Three large dining rooms. Better have a reservation. 52nd and State Line. LO. 5912.
★ JOY'S GRILL. (Formerly known as Jan's). i Notable mostly because it is open all night (except Tuesdays when it's closed entirely) and because it's a clean and nice-looking red-and-blond place to have a snack or a full meal at almost any time. 609 West 48th, on the Plasa. VA. 933 1.
★ KING JOY LO. Delicious Chinese and American food served by Don Toy in a spacious upstairs restaurant overlooking the busy downtown areas. Luncheon and dinner. 8 West 12th. HA. 8113.
MUEHLEBACH COFFEE SHOP. Paneled and mirrored room, bright but dignified, with muraU by Maxfield Parrish and specialiting in good food. Entrance from 12th street or the Muehlebach lobby. 12th and Baltimore. GR. 1400.
★ LUPE'S MEXICAN FOOD. South-of-theborder atmosphere and food, prepared by a native Mexican chef. Now open for the fall and winter season. On the Plaza. 618 W. 48th St. VA. 9611.
★ GLENN'S OYSTER HOUSE. The only seafood house in town; deep sea delicacies prepared by experts in this art. Open 10:30 a. m. to 8 p. m. Scarritt Arcade, 819 Walnut. HA. 9176.
★ MARTIN'S. "Chicken in the Rough." A platter full of southern fried chicken at a nominal price. Lots of dining rooms, a cafeteria, and two bars in this mammoth establishment. On the Plaja. 210 West 47th. LO. 2000.
★ MYRON'S ON THE PLAZA. Myron Green insists in poetry, prose and on big signboards that you can't beat women's cooking. He offers two places, 1115 Walnut (VI. 8690) and Myron's on the Plaja as exhibits A. 4700 Wyandotte. WE. 8310.
★ NANCE'S CAFE. A pleasant eating place not too far from the Union station for an epicurean scndoff between trains, as well as a place to mark down as one of your good habits. 217 Pershing road. HA. 5688.
★ PHILLIPS COFFEE SHOP. An "about-town" room, cory and congenial, and just a few steps from the Phillips lobby. Alberta Bird at the Novachord during the ditmer hour. Hotel Phillips, 12th and Baltimore. GR. 5020.
★ TIFFIN ROOM. Full of business men and cretonne. Wolferman's famous food gets better and better as it goes up — from the downstairs grill, past the balcony, to the second floor. A large, pleasant room serving luncheon only. 1108 Walnut. GR. 0626.
★ UNITY INN. Meatless meals done up in unbelievable style with accent on big salads and rich desserts. It's a cafeteria managed neatly by Mrs. Anderson. Luncheon 11:30-2:00; dinner 5:00-7:30. Monday through Friday. 901 Tracy. VI. 8720.
★ WEISS CAFE. Kosher style cooking with most of your favorite kosher dishes, all very rich and satisfying. Whole families like it for a tribal pow-wow, especially on Sundays. 1215 Baltimore. GR. 8999.
★ Z-LAN DRIVE-IN. A convenient drive-in circular restaurant. No matter where you park your liisie it is always faced in the right direction. Just flash your lights for service. Or you may prefer red leather and golden oak booths and tables inside. On the Plaza. 48th and Main. LO. 3434.
For Food and a Drink . . .
★ AMBASSADOR RESTAURANT. Martin Weiss is all over the place welcoming the same folks back day after day who have formed envious eating habits in this place. Hotel Ambassador, 3650 Broadway. VA. 5040.
★ ATER-HORN MUSEUM, Really worth the trip just to see the t\.vo-headed calf, collection of powder horns, stuffed alligators and longhorn