Kababesh Grill

Kababesh Grill is a long-running Pakistani-and-Indian restaurant at 10142 W 119th St in Overland Park — a “homey cafe” in its own words, fully zabiha-halal, that runs à la carte dinners midweek and $20 buffets Friday through Sunday. The kitchen is credited to chef Zubair Shah, and the menu is unmistakably Pakistani where it counts: nihari, paya, haleem, chapli kabab, karahi in three meats, and a “Daal Kababish” that carries the house name.

Description

Kababesh Grill sits in a strip center on the south side of 119th Street just east of Quivira, in the restaurant-dense stretch of 119th that runs west from Metcalf.¹ The site’s own tagline is modest and accurate: “Homey cafe for Indian & Pakistani specialties served buffet-style at lunch & à la carte at dinner.”¹ The halal directory Zabihah adds the kitchen credit — “authentic Indian & Pakistani cuisine by Master Chef Zubair Shah” — and the operating pattern: daily lunch buffets in earlier years, weekend dinner buffets and a Sunday brunch buffet.² The current schedule on the official site is narrower: dinner only Tuesday through Thursday, buffet lunch plus dinner Friday through Sunday, closed Monday.¹³

The à la carte menu is organized the Pakistani way. A Grills section covers the tandoor — chicken tikka, seekh kabab, chicken and lamb boti, hariyali chicken, garlic tandoori shrimp, kabab rolls — and a separate Griddle (Tawa) section carries beef or chicken qeema and chapli kabab.³ The Specialty Dishes trio is the tell: nihari, paya and haleem, the slow-cooked Lahori and Karachi standards that Indian-leaning restaurants in the metro rarely bother with.³ Karahi is offered in chicken, beef, and lamb or goat; do piaza, korma, saag and vindaloo repeat across the meats; there is a seafood section with fish and prawn masala, and a vegetable list headed by a house lentil dish, Daal Kababish.³ Biryani comes in chicken, goat/lamb, beef, shrimp and vegetable versions; breads include onion and paneer kulcha and keema paratha; desserts run kheer, ras malai, gulab jamun, gajar ka halwa and gajrela.³

Zabihah’s entry — the restaurant’s most detailed third-party record — notes that alcohol is not a factor in the halal call, that the owners “have confirmed its halal status,” and that prayer is allowed on request; it carries reviews as recent as January 2026.² Yelp files the restaurant under Indian with 54 reviews as of June 2026.⁴

Ownership and history

The public record names the chef but not the owners. Zabihah credits “Master Chef Zubair Shah” and states the owners are Muslim; the official site names no one and its footer copyright still reads 2018, though the menu, hours and second-location notice on it are current.²¹ No Kansas City press coverage of Kababesh was found — not in the KC Star, The Pitch, KC Magazine or the Johnson County Post — which is typical of the 119th Street South Asian restaurants that serve a community clientele rather than a reviewed one.

The opening date is likewise unconfirmed. Third-party listings (Tripadvisor, Foursquare, a Facebook page with posts from 2011) place the restaurant on 119th by the early 2010s at the latest; the precise year is a gap.

In 2025–26 the site added a Kirksville, Missouri location at 1101 E Normal Ave — labeled “New Location,” to-go only, with its own hours and phone — some 200 miles northeast of the metro.¹ It is outside the Registry’s geographic scope and gets no page.

Links

• Website: https://www.kababeshgrill.com/
• Menu (official): https://www.kababeshgrill.com/Menu
• Facebook: https://facebook.com/kababeshgrill
• Zabihah listing: https://www.zabihah.com/restaurants/c9fee3a8-7767-11ef-95ae-6045bdeb9f57/kababesh-overland-park-ks

Menu

Last verified: 2026-08-29 · Source: the restaurant’s own menu page on kababeshgrill.com · Confidence: High for items; prices are transcribed as published (the site prints them to the cent, e.g. $17.64, which suggests an exported POS price list).³

• Buffet: Lunch buffet Fri–Sat–Sun 11 a.m.–3 p.m. $20 · Sunday brunch 11–3 $20
• Appetizers: Potato Cutlet $6.98 · Veg Pakora $5.99 · Chicken Pakora $5.99 · Fish Pakora $9.34 · Veg. Samosa $6.22 · Sampler $10.37
• Salads & sauces: Raita $2.59 · Mango Chutney $3.11 · Achaar $3.40 · Kachoomer $5.18 · Salad $5.18 · Cucumber Salad $6.22 · Soup of the Day $4.99
• Grills: Chicken Tikka $17.64 · Seekh Kabab $17.64 · Chicken Kabab $17.64 · Chicken Botti Kabab $17.64 · Hariyali Chicken Botti $17.96 · Tandoori Chicken $16.60 · Lamb Boti Kabab $19.72 · Garlic Tandoori Shrimp $19.72 · Kabab Rolls $10.37
• Griddle (Tawa): Beef or Chicken Qeema $17.64 · Chapli Kabab $17.64
• Specialty dishes: Nihari $18.68 · Paya $18.68 · Haleem $18.68
• Seafood: Fish Masala / Fish Do Piaza / Fried Fish $17.64 · Prawn Masala / Prawn Do Piaza / Prawn Karahi $18.68
• Chicken: Karahi/Curry $16.60 · Tikka Masala or Butter Chicken $17.64 · Chilli, Ginger, Korma, Jalfrezi/Manchurian/65, Vindaloo $16.60 each
• Lamb or goat: Karahi, Korma, Do Piaza, Vindaloo $18.68 · Saag $19.72
• Beef: Karahi, Korma, Botti Masala, Do Piaza, Saag $17.64 each
• Vegetables: Daal Kababish $13.49 · Navratan Korma, Pakora Curry, Aloo Gobi, Chana Masala, Aaloo Methi $14.53 · Palak Paneer, Matar Paneer, Okra Masala, Benghan Bharta $15.57
• Biryani: Veg $15.57 · Chicken $16.60 · Goat/Lamb, Beef, Shrimp $18.68 · Plain Rice $6.22
• Bread: Plain or Butter Naan $4.01 · Plain Paratha $4.01 · Garlic Naan $5.02 · Onion Kulcha $6.22 · Paneer Kulcha $6.22 · Keema Paratha/Naan $7.26
• Desserts: Kheer, Mango Custard, Gulab Jamun $6.22 · Ras Malai, Gajar ka Halwa, Gajrela $7.26
• Beverages: Chai $2.59 · Soft Drinks $2.59 · Sweet or Salty Lassi $3.11 · Mango Shake/Lassi $4.14

Sources

Footnotes

1. Kababesh Grill — official website, home page. Retrieved 2026-08-29 — Confirms: name; Overland Park address 10142 W 119th Street, 66213; phone (913) 696-1101; hours (Tue–Thu 5–10; Fri–Sun 11–3 and 5–10 “Buffet”; Mon closed); tagline “Homey cafe for Indian & Pakistani specialties served buffet-style at lunch & à la carte at dinner”; email info@kababeshgrill.com; Facebook and Twitter links; “New Location” Kirksville, MO, 1101 E Normal Ave, (660) 956-4533, to-go only; footer © 2018. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵

2. Zabihah — “Kababesh Grill | Halal Pakistani in Overland Park, KS.” Retrieved 2026-08-29 — Confirms: “authentic Indian & Pakistani cuisine by Master Chef Zubair Shah”; “All Food & Beverages are 100% Zabiha Halal”; owners Muslim and have confirmed halal status; daily lunch buffets, weekend dinner buffets, Sunday brunch buffet (historical pattern); vegetarian selections; prayer on request; most recent review 2026-01-08. ↩ ↩² ↩³

3. Kababesh Grill — official website, “Menu.” Retrieved 2026-08-29 — Confirms: every item and price in the Menu section; buffet pricing (lunch buffet Fri–Sat–Sun 11–3 $20; Sunday brunch 11–3 $20). ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶

4. Yelp — “Kababesh Grill — Updated June 2026 — 54 reviews, 10142 W 119th St, Overland Park.” Retrieved 2026-08-29 (listing title; page body not retrievable) — Confirms: active listing through June 2026. Provisional. ↩