Crazy Good Barbeque

Crazy Good Barbeque – Bar & Eats is the Lemay family’s counter-service barbecue restaurant at the corner of 151st Street and Mur-Len Road in Olathe. It opened May 1, 2015 as Crazy Good Eats, the brick-and-mortar of the family’s Steer Crazy BBQ competition team (two grand championships) and their catering business, and was rebuilt in 2022 with a bourbon bar, a patio deck and live music. Pitmaster Dan Isbell — Maggie and Bruce Lemay’s son-in-law — hand-slices everything; the signatures are the KC Original sandwich and bacon-wrapped “Mad Meatballs.”

Description

The restaurant occupies an end-cap at the northwest corner of 151st Street and Mur-Len Road, in the retail strip that serves south-central Olathe’s subdivisions.¹ The City of Olathe’s business blog announced it in May 2015 as the work of “a successful caterer, award-winning BBQ competitor”: Maggie Lemay as owner, Bruce Lemay managing, and Dan Isbell — the couple’s son-in-law — as pitmaster.¹ Service was and is counter-style — “dine-in guests order and are served their food at the counter” — with a carry-out counter and a drive-through pickup window for online and call-ahead orders.¹

The kitchen’s pitch is competition technique at restaurant scale. “All meat at Crazy Good Barbeque is hand sliced, not on a machine, giving the barbecue a home-prepared feel,” the city’s write-up explained, and the 2015 menu named the house dishes: the KC Original (brisket, pulled pork, bacon and onion strings on one sandwich), Mad Meatballs (bacon-wrapped beef), a Steer Crazy Championship Plate of ribs, brisket, chicken and pork, house-made sausages, and sides of loaded potato casserole, barbecue beans, mac and cheese, coleslaw and fried pickles.¹ Feast Magazine’s opening coverage framed it the same way: “competition-style BBQ” from the Steer Crazy team.²

In spring 2022 the restaurant reopened as Crazy Good Barbeque – Bar & Eats with “a gorgeous and swanky bourbon bar,” an outdoor patio deck, live music and an expanded menu with Saturday-night smoked specials and monthly bourbon-tasting dinners.³ “We’re able to expand a bit and have more fun, bring in live music, open the outdoor deck and expand the menu,” Maggie Lemay told HerLife.³ The 2022 menu added a Burnt End Burner sandwich, Aunt Bea’s Salad and a Smoked Cobb alongside the Championship Platter, the KC Original, the potato casserole and the meatballs.³

Ownership and history

Bruce Lemay and Dan Isbell competed as Steer Crazy BBQ, winning two grand championships on the circuit before the family turned the hobby into a catering business and, three years later, a restaurant.¹ Crazy Good Eats opened May 1, 2015 at 16695 W 151st St with Maggie Lemay as owner of record; the family continued “consultative catering services” from the restaurant, and catering — weddings in particular — remains a large part of the business, with wedding-vendor listings carrying reviews into 2026.¹⁴

The 2022 rebrand to Crazy Good Barbeque – Bar & Eats refreshed the name and logo and added the bar and deck; the family framed it as “the same tender barbecue with a new look.”³ The Lemays are described in the city’s coverage and in the restaurant’s own materials as an Olathe family; no residence outside the metro is indicated.

Links

• Website: https://crazygoodeats.com/
• Online ordering (Toast): https://www.toasttab.com/local/order/crazy-good-eats
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/crazygoodbbq/ · Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/crazygoodeatsbbq/
• City of Olathe opening announcement (2015): https://olathe.org/breaking-news/blog/successful-caterer-award-winning-bbq-competitor-opens-new-flavorful-bbq-restaurant-in-olathe/

Menu

Last verified: not verified · Source: the official site and the Toast ordering page both refused automated retrieval on 2026-08-29; no first-party menu with current prices was captured · Confidence: none for prices. Dishes named in the Description are from 2015 and 2022 press and the restaurant’s own announcements.¹³

Sources

Footnotes

1. “Successful Caterer, Award Winning BBQ Competitor Opens New Flavorful BBQ Restaurant in Olathe,” City of Olathe business blog, 2015-05-04 — Confirms: Maggie Lemay owner, Bruce Lemay manager, Dan Isbell pitmaster and son-in-law; three years of catering; Steer Crazy BBQ, two grand championships; address 16695 W. 151st Street, corner of 151st and Mur-Len; opened May 1, 2015; counter service, carry-out counter and drive-thru pickup window; hand-sliced meats; 2015 menu items; opening hours Mon–Thu 11–8, Fri–Sat 11–9. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷

2. “Crazy Good Eats’ New Restaurant Features Competition-Style BBQ,” Feast Magazine, 2015 — Confirms: opening coverage and the competition-team framing; page body not retrievable on 2026-08-29 (rate-limited). Provisional. ↩

3. “Crazy Good Barbeque Bar & Eats: The Same Tender Barbecue with a New Look!,” HerLife Magazine (Kansas City), 2022-05-31 — Confirms: 2015 opening as Crazy Good Eats; 2022 rebrand with new name and logo; bourbon bar, outdoor patio deck, live music, Saturday Night Smoked Specials, monthly bourbon tasting dinners; Maggie Lemay quote; 2022 menu items; hours Tue–Sat 11–8, Sun 11–6; phone 913-839-1774; crazygoodeats.com. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵

4. The Knot — vendor listing “Crazy Good Barbeque, Olathe, KS.” — Confirms: active wedding-catering listing; page body not retrievable on 2026-08-29. Provisional. ↩