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Clay & Fire is a Near Eastern / wood-fired restaurant at 815 W 17th St on Kansas City’s West Side — mezze, pide, grandma pizza, kebabs, and wood-oven plates using produce from Northern Missouri farms and spices from the Near East. Opened 2020 in the cottage formerly Novel / Fox and Pearl. Co-created by Turkish restaurateur Orcan Yigit and KC operator Adam Jones. Dinner Tue–Sat; brunch temporarily paused on first-party menu. Tier 1 independent.1234

Description

Clay & Fire frames itself as Kansas City’s Near East destination: wood-fired cooking, farm produce, and premium regional spices. Dinner menu spans mezze (hummus, ember eggplant, htipiti, girit ezme), kebab/mangal plates, oven dishes (kharcho, Trabzon pide, grandma pizza, za’atar wings), and a short dessert list. Patio seating and Premier League watch nights appear on the house site.12

Ownership and history

Orcan Yigit (Turkish restaurateur) and Adam Jones (KC local) collaborated on the concept; Flatland covered the 2020 West Side open in the 815 W 17th cottage previously occupied by Novel and Fox and Pearl.43 Independent — no national chain parent identified.

Last verified: 2026-08-11 · Source: first-party food menu · URL: https://clayandfirekc.com/kansas-city-westside-clay-and-fire-food-menu · Confidence: High · menu_status: verified

Dinner section (brunch temporarily closed per same page). Descriptions abbreviated from first-party copy.

Mezze

  • Ember eggplant — smoky eggplant, garlic, olive oil, lemon — $62
  • Guajillo hummus — guajillo chili hummus, Aleppo flake, parsley, olive oil (neighborhood homage) — $62
  • Classic hummus — roasted garlic hummus, sumac, parsley, olive oil — $62
  • Olives — green olives, olive oil — $62
  • Seasonal pickles — house rotating pickles — $62
  • Yoghurt — salt, mint, olive oil — $32
  • Saganaki — fried Greek cheese — $92
  • Htipiti — roasted sweet red peppers with feta and olive oil — $62
  • Girit ezme — feta with garlic, basil, pistachios, olive oil — $62

Starters

  • Spread trio — classic hummus, guajillo hummus, apricot yoghurt spread — $142
  • Dahl — red lentil soup (onion, garlic, ginger, coconut cream, tomato, Aleppo) — $8 small / $14 large2
  • Karnabahar & fasulye — grilled cauliflower & beans with yoghurt — $122

Kebab / mangal

  • Kebab plate — single kebab (jujeh chicken, koobideh, or vegetable) with pickles, Persian butter rice, roasted veggies, flatbread — $172
  • Kebab platter — three kebabs with sides — $352
  • Inegol kofte — Balkan-style beef kofta, piyaz, hot sauce — $202
  • Just a kebab! — single kebab, no sides — $132

From the oven

  • Kharcho — “KC style”: smoked beef short rib, polenta, herbs, basil, grana padano — $242
  • C&F grandma pizza — 11” white cheese base, garlic tomato sauce, basil, olive oil — $162
  • Trabzon pide — Turkish pizza: mozzarella, feta, sujuk, parsley — $172
  • Palestinian za’atar wings — oven wings, za’atar, couscous, lettuce, hot sauce — $202
  • C&F vegan pizza — seasonal vegetables, Turkish olive oil, black lava salt on red pepper & walnut base — $172

Dessert

  • Crème caramel — pudding with caramelized sugar — $82

Beverage list (beers, wines, NA) also published on the same menu system; not fully transcribed this pass.2

Sources

Footnotes

  1. Clay & Fire first-party site (accessed 2026-08-11). Asserts: 815 W 17th St; dinner Tue–Sat 5–10pm; closed Sun–Mon; brunch temporarily closed; phone; email; Square order; Exploretock; West Side Near East concept; farm produce + Near East spices. ↩ ↩2

  2. Clay & Fire food menu page (accessed 2026-08-11). Asserts: full dinner mezze/starters/kebab/oven/dessert priced items and descriptions as transcribed; brunch temporarily closed note. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13 ↩14 ↩15 ↩16 ↩17 ↩18 ↩19 ↩20 ↩21 ↩22 ↩23 ↩24 ↩25

  3. “Clay & Fire,” Eater venue — asserts: 815 W 17th; (816) 569-5533; collaboration Orcan Yigit + Adam Jones; mezze, basturma pide, grandma pizza. ↩ ↩2

  4. Kevin Collison, “Near East Cuisine Meets Westside at Clay & Fire,” Flatland KC, Aug 18, 2020 — asserts: 2020 open; 815 W 17th cottage history (Novel / Fox and Pearl); Adam Jones co-owner. ↩ ↩2

See also

  • Registry
  • west-side
Categories

On the record — ks.city/registry/clay-and-fire · record updated 2026-08-11