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F325 BBQ is a full-service barbecue restaurant and whiskey bar on Buchanan Street in North Kansas City, opened in late 2022 by James and Lisa Huey in the former LC’s Hamburgers building next door to Cinder Block Brewery. The name is the temperature: James Huey, a former competition cook, smokes hot and fast over pecan rather than low and slow, and the couple insisted on table service, real plates and linen napkins — “somewhere to sit down and eat it, not your car, not your desk.” Burnt ends, house-made kielbasa, a Bar-B-Cuban, a hand-ground brisket burger, a spinach-artichoke mac and cheese, and one of the larger bourbon lists in the Northland; The Infatuation puts it on its ranked list of the best barbecue in Kansas City.

Description

F325 occupies the old LC’s Hamburgers building on Buchanan Street, one door from Cinder Block Brewery — close enough that the brewery keeps an F325 ordering kiosk in its taproom and has the food walked over to your table.123 Inside it is deliberately a restaurant rather than a counter: servers, plates, linen napkins, a full bar, live music nights. Lisa Huey’s rationale to Kansas City Magazine: “You need somewhere to sit down and eat it — not your car, not your desk.”1

The cooking is James Huey’s competition background applied at a higher temperature than most Kansas City pits. “I cooked at 225 degrees, low and slow, for years,” he said; after learning to cook hotter he “enjoyed the flavor better,” and while he cannot run restaurant ribs at a full 325, “I can cook them well above where they normally are.” He smokes with pecan, a wood more associated with Texas and Memphis than KC.1 The Infatuation’s Ryan Bernsten, ranking the city’s barbecue in 2024, wrote that F325 is “one of the newer BBQ joints on the scene, but they’ve done their homework,” singling out the three-meat plate of “tender burnt ends and well-spiced homemade kielbasa,” the brisket burger and the fried pickles, and tagging it for happy hours and live music.3

The menu runs from one-, two- and three-meat plates (pulled pork, brisket, burnt ends, house kielbasa, turkey, ham, with a mini cornbread muffin) and rib plates to a set of named sandwiches — the Royal Burnt Ends, the Stockyard brisket-and-slaw, the Bar-B-Cuban on a Cuban baguette with smoked ham and pulled pork, the Spitfire pulled pork with jalapeño apple jelly, the Call a Dr of brisket, pork and kielbasa, and a hand-ground brisket burger with pimento cheese and barbecue aioli. Sides are the point of pride: a granny-smith-apple coleslaw, cavatappi mac in a smoked spinach-artichoke cheese sauce, a whiskey sweet-potato casserole, smoked baked beans, collards.45 Pulled jackfruit and a smoked portobello cover vegetarians.4

Ownership and history

James Huey was a traveling salesman for Wear-Concepts, a Liberty-based industrial equipment supplier, when coworkers introduced him to competition barbecue; he competed for about five years beginning in the late 2000s. Lisa Huey worked the contests with him and “developed her own passion for barbecue.” The couple’s original plan was to semi-retire to South Carolina or northern Georgia with a food truck.1

Instead, in October 2020, during the pandemic, they launched the Fahrenheit 325° Barbeque food truck — named for the temperature they cooked at — which they described as a “stepping stone” to a restaurant; they bought the truck during COVID and catered manufacturing-plant shutdowns in Iowa.61 The LC’s Hamburgers space in North Kansas City came available, and F325 BBQ opened there around November 2022 as a sit-down restaurant positioned, in Kansas City Magazine’s comparison, closer to Jack Stack and Q39 than to a counter joint.1 Early features noted brisket, competition-style ribs, turkey brined and pulled at 165°F, an extensive bourbon list and Jell-O-shot specials.1 A regional blog that visited twice in the restaurant’s first six months summarized the reception as “good news travels fast.”5 The restaurant’s ordering app is published under Lisa Huey’s name, suggesting she runs the business side.7

Last verified: 2026-08-28 · Source: the restaurant’s own online menu at f325bbq.com/menu · Confidence: High. Transcribed from the first-party ordering page; ”+” marks a base price with paid options (brisket +$2, burnt ends +$5 where offered). Drinks are not listed online.4

Shareables

  • Kickin’ Pickles — battered fried dill pickles, house BBQ ranch. ($13)
  • BBQ Loaded Tots — cheese, bacon, sour cream, green onion; pulled pork, brisket (+$2) or burnt ends (+$5). ($16+)
  • Wings — six bone-in, smoked then fried; F325 Original, F325 Spicy, Buffalo, House Style or Alabama White. ($12+)
  • Loaded Mac & Cheese — bacon, green onion, F325 sauce; pulled pork, brisket or burnt ends. ($16+)
  • Jimmy’s Crack Bacon (And I Don’t Care) — four thick slices in pork rub and brown sugar. ($10)
  • Smoked Portobello Mushroom with house BBQ sauce. ($10)

Salads -n- more

  • Smoked Turkey Club Cobb ($16) · Pitmaster Salad — house smoked turkey, ham and bacon ($16.50)
  • Pulled Jackfruit with two sides ($16.50+) · Smoked Portobello plate with two sides ($15.50+)

Plates (two sides and a mini cornbread muffin; pulled pork, brisket, burnt ends +$5, house kielbasa, turkey or ham)

  • One Meat — half pound. ($23+) · Two Meat Plate — two 6-oz portions. ($28+) · Three Meat Plate — three 6-oz portions. ($33+)

Ribs

  • Rib Plate — four ribs, two sides. ($24+) · Rib Plate and Meat — three ribs plus one meat ($28+) or two meats ($30+)
  • 1/2 Slab ($26.50) · Full Slab ($40)

Handhelds (brioche bun unless noted; one side)

  • Sweet Carolina — pulled pork, F325 slaw. ($16.50+)
  • Royal Burnt Ends — “In KC burnt ends reign supreme.” ($18+)
  • The Stockyard — brisket, F325 slaw. ($17.50+)
  • Bar-B-Cuban — Cuban baguette, smoked ham, pulled pork, Swiss, pickle, F325 sauce, mustard. ($18.50+)
  • Brisket Burger — hand-ground brisket patty, bacon, lettuce, tomato, onion, pimento cheese, barbecue aioli. ($18+)
  • Call a Dr — brisket, pulled pork and house Polish kielbasa. ($18+)
  • Smoked Turkey Club — bacon, lettuce, tomato, onion, BBQ aioli on toasted jalapeño bread. ($18+)
  • Spitfire — pulled pork, onion straws, spicy sauce, jalapeño apple jelly, grilled jalapeños, pepper jack, Tabasco. ($17.50+)

Sides

  • Coleslaw — green and red cabbage, carrots, granny smith apples, celery seed. ($4.50)
  • F325’s Mac & Cheese — cavatappi in smoked spinach-artichoke cheese sauce (“Don’t ask for the recipe”). ($4.50)
  • Whiskey Sweet Potato Casserole ($4.50) · Baked Beans — bacon, onion, garlic, smoked ($3.50) · Collard Greens ($4.50) · Steak Fries ($5) · Tater Tots ($5) · Side Salad ($5)

Desserts

  • Salted Caramel Cheesecake ($7) · Key Lime Pie ($7)

Sources

Footnotes

  1. Martin Cizmar, “F325 Barbecue brings full-service, hot-smoked barbecue to the Northland,” Kansas City Magazine, 2023-05-04. Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: James and Lisa Huey; James’s sales career at Wear-Concepts (Liberty) and ~5 years of competition barbecue from the late 2000s; Lisa’s involvement; semi-retirement food-truck plan; COVID-era truck catering plant shutdowns in Iowa; former LC’s Hamburgers space; opened ~six months before May 2023; name = cooking temperature; 225-vs-325 quote; pecan wood; full service, linen napkins, Jack Stack/Q39 comparison; Lisa’s “not your car, not your desk” quote; brisket, competition ribs, turkey brined and pulled at 165°F; bourbon list; Jell-O shots. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  2. Cinder Block Brewery — official taproom page. Retrieved 2026-07-24 (as cited on cinder-block-brewery) — Confirms: F325 BBQ ordering kiosk in the taproom with food delivered to the table. ↩

  3. Ryan Bernsten, “F325 BBQ — Review,” The Infatuation, 2024-02-08 (included in “The Best BBQ in Kansas City, Ranked”). Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: address; “one of the newer BBQ joints on the scene, but they’ve done their homework”; three-meat plate with burnt ends and homemade kielbasa, two sides, $24.50 at the time; brisket burger; fried pickles; adjacency to Cinder Block with cross-venue ordering; “perfect for” happy hours and live music. ↩ ↩2

  4. F325 BBQ — official online menu / ordering page. Retrieved 2026-08-28 (rendered via Firecrawl) — Confirms: every item, description and price in the Menu section; pickup/delivery ordering; “Opens Sat at 11 AM CDT” status on retrieval. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  5. “F325 BBQ Brings Their ‘A’ Game,” Our Changing Lives (blog), 2023. Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: owner James Huey; ~six months old at writing; 1825 Buchanan near Burlington & Armour; two visits; brisket, pulled pork, ribs, burnt ends, turkey, sweet-smoky beans, spinach-artichoke mac, apple slaw, whiskey sweet-potato casserole, mini cornbread muffins; “good news travels fast.” ↩ ↩2

  6. Kansas City Magazine, F325 coverage as indexed 2026-08-28 (search excerpt): “In October 2020, the Hueys opened a food truck called Fahrenheit 325° Barbeque, named for the temperature they once used to cook the meat, which they called a ‘stepping stone’ to a restaurant.” — Confirms: truck launch October 2020 and name. Provisional pending re-read of the full article. ↩

  7. F325 BBQ — “Our Story” URL, returning a 404 with an “Order with App” link. Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: the ordering app is hosted under “lisahueysbrandndsd.app.ordersave.com”; the story page itself is not live. ↩

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