Brick House KC

Brick House is Union Hill’s neighborhood sports bar at 400 E 31st St, opened in February 2017 by longtime KC bar manager Tyler Humar in the exposed-brick space that previously held Barrel 31 — its signature move is a rotating list of 20–25 canned beers weighted toward Kansas and Missouri breweries. Tuesday Geeks Who Drink trivia is a weekly fixture.

Description

Brick House is a canned-beer thesis in bar form: instead of chasing tap-wall length, Humar built the list around 20–25 rotating cans with deliberate weight on Kansas and Missouri breweries, next to straightforward pub food.¹ The room’s exposed brick — inherited from the Barrel 31 build-out — named the place.¹

The kitchen runs half-pound burgers (the K.C. Burger stacks pepper jack, fried onions, and BBQ pulled pork; the Hot Hands adds habanero cheese, jalapeños, and sriracha honey), a build-your-own Brickhouse Mac and Cheese with burnt ends, pulled pork, pork belly, or buffalo chicken, plus fish and chips and a Kansas City cheese steak.² Weekend brunch (Sat–Sun 10am–2pm) brings bottomless mimosas and plates like The Brickhouse — fried chicken, bacon, and gravy over a biscuit with a sunny-side egg.² The bar leans on a large outdoor patio stocked with bocce, bags, oversized Jenga, and Connect Four, a covered heated bar area with TVs, live music every Friday during happy hour, and $6 cheeseburgers on Thursdays.³

Menu highlights

Category	Item	Notes
Burger	K.C. Burger	Pepper jack, fried onions, BBQ pulled pork.2
Burger	Hot Hands	Habanero cheese, jalapeños, bacon, sriracha honey.2
Signature	Brickhouse Mac and Cheese	Choice of burnt ends, pulled pork, pork belly, or buffalo chicken.2
Brunch	The Brickhouse	Fried chicken, bacon, house gravy, sunny-side egg on a biscuit.2
Pub	Fish and Chips	Beer-battered fillets, tartar sauce.2

Ownership and history

Period	Owner / operator
pre-2017	Space held Barrel 31 (restaurateur Chris Ridler), which closed.1
Feb 2017 → present	Tyler Humar — longtime bar manager at Sol Cantina, bought the space from Ridler and opened Brick House.1 No transfers found.

Correction note: a circulating “February 2022” opening date is wrong — the Feast profile is dated March 2017.¹

Links

• Website: https://brickhousekc.com
• Instagram: @brickhousekc
• Events: https://brickhousekc.com/kansas-city-union-hill-brick-house-events

See also

• Registry

Sources

Footnotes

1. Feast Magazine, “Brickhouse combines canned beer and pub fare in Kansas City” (2017-03-24). https://www.feastmagazine.com/travel/kansas-city/brickhouse-combines-canned-beer-and-pub-fare-in-kansas-city/article_d5edbe84-0e61-11e7-bc0a-1377ccd43087.html — asserts: founding, Humar, Barrel 31/Ridler, beer program, naming. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵

2. Brick House — Food Menu (official). https://brickhousekc.com/kansas-city-union-hill-brick-house-food-menu — asserts: half-pound burgers (K.C. Burger, Hot Hands), Brickhouse Mac and Cheese variants, brunch items (The Brickhouse), fish and chips, KC cheese steak, brunch hours. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷

3. Brick House — About (official). https://brickhousekc.com/kansas-city-union-hill-brick-house-about — asserts: outdoor patio games (bocce, bags, giant Jenga, Connect Four), covered heated bar with TVs, live music Fridays at happy hour, $6 Thursday cheeseburgers, happy-hour and brunch hours. ↩