Haus 1512

Haus 1512 is an entertainment-forward cocktail lounge and loaded hot dog/fries concept opened June 2026 at 1512 E. 18th St. in Kansas City’s Historic 18th & Vine Jazz District by Erica Harris — who also owns Cupcakin Bakery (2450 Grand Blvd, Midtown + Oak Park Mall, Olathe). Haus 1512 shares the former Soirée restaurant space with safi-fresh (LaRonda Lanear’s health café), operating as the nightlife/entertainment side of the dual-concept.

| Sibling venue | safi-fresh — co-located, separate ownership, complementary day/night programming | — |

Description

Haus 1512 is Erica Harris’s entertainment-focused cocktail lounge at 1512 E. 18th St. in the Historic 18th & Vine Jazz District — the nightlife and entertainment side of the dual-concept space she shares with LaRonda Lanear’s safi-fresh. Harris owns Cupcakin Bakery at 2450 Grand Blvd in Midtown and a second Cupcakin at Oak Park Mall in Olathe; Haus 1512 represents her 18th & Vine expansion. The concept features loaded hot dogs and fries alongside a cocktail program, with nightlife and brunch programming. The soft launch timed to Juneteenth (June 19–20, 2026) in the heart of KC’s most historically significant Black cultural district.

Sources

Menu

Last verified: 2026-08-14 · Source: the venue’s own Instagram account, @haus1512kc (“HAUS 1512 lounge & grill”), plus the owner’s own Facebook announcement on the Cupcakin page · Confidence: Medium — priced items below are first-party weekly-special pricing, published by the venue itself and confirmed to the item, and the venue is confirmed pouring cocktails under its own liquor license. What is not confirmed: the standing (non-special) food and cocktail menu. Haus 1512 publishes no full itemized menu anywhere first-party, and no priced regular menu was recoverable.

Documented ceiling — do not re-spend on these (checked 2026-08-14):

• No own website. haus1512.com resolves but is a parked-domain lander with no venue content; haus1512kc.com, thehaus1512.com, haus1512.net and hauskc1512.com do not resolve (curl, 2026-08-14). There is no first-party site to carry a menu, and therefore nothing for the Internet Archive to hold.
• No ordering-platform storefront. No Toast, Square, Clover, Menufy or ChowNow storefront exists for Haus 1512. The only Toast storefront at 1512 E. 18th St. belongs to the previous tenant, Soirée Steakhouse & Oyster Bar, and was excluded — it is a different business in the same space, not Haus 1512.¹
• Instagram is login-gated to automation and Threads and Facebook are refused by the scraper, so item-level menu images posted to those accounts could not be enumerated. This is a tooling ceiling, not an absence — a human with a logged-in browser session could very likely recover more from @haus1512kc.

Weekly specials — Taco Tuesday (as published by the venue; 5pm–close)

Captured as of access 2026-08-14. These are a recurring weekly promotion, not the permanent menu, and are subject to change.

• Tacos — $3 each²
• Margaritas — $5²
• Loaded Nachos — $15²

Standing offering (no first-party prices published)

• Cocktail program — the venue holds its liquor license and is “officially pouring cocktails”; the individual cocktail list is not published first-party³
• Loaded hot dogs — concept item per press⁴
• Fries — concept item per press⁴

Item descriptions are not published by the operator for any of the above and are deliberately not supplied here.

Footnotes

1. Toast — “Soirée Steakhouse & Oyster Bar, 1512 E 18th St” — asserts: a Toast online-ordering storefront exists at 1512 E. 18th St. under the name Soirée Steakhouse & Oyster Bar. Excluded, not used. This is the previous tenant of the space Haus 1512 now occupies; the menu behind it is Soirée’s, not Haus 1512’s, and no item or price from it appears on this page. Recorded so a later pass does not mistake an address match for a menu match. (Accessed 2026-08-14.) ↩

2. Instagram — @haus1512kc (the venue’s own account) — asserts: profile name “HAUS 1512 lounge & grill”; the venue’s own Taco Tuesday promotion, published as “TACO TUESDAY AT HAUS 1512! Pull up 5PM–CLOSE for the deals: $5 Margaritas / $3 Tacos / $15 Loaded Nachos,” with the address 1512 E 18th St, Kansas City. Source for the three priced special items and the 5pm–close Tuesday window only — the account publishes no itemized standing menu that was recoverable. The profile itself is login-gated to automated access; the promotion text above was recovered from the search index of this profile, so the exact post date is and the specials are recorded as of access 2026-08-14, not as permanent pricing. (Accessed 2026-08-14.) ↩ ↩² ↩³

3. Facebook — Cupcakin (@iam.cupcakin), the owner’s own page — asserts: “We finally got our liquor licenses… Haus 1512 is officially pouring cocktails.” Erica Harris operates both Cupcakin and Haus 1512, so this is a first-party operator announcement. Cited for liquor-license status, active cocktail service and evidence of current operation; it names no individual cocktails and carries no prices. Facebook is refused by the site scraper, so this was read via search index. (Accessed 2026-08-14.) ↩

4. Startland News — “Small Biz to Watch: Safi Fresh” (June 24, 2026) — Confirms: Erica Harris (owner); Haus 1512 name; 1512 E. 18th St.; co-located with Safi Fresh; Cupcakin Bakery ownership; entertainment/cocktail lounge concept; loaded hot dogs. ↩ ↩²