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Mason Jar Brews & Burgers is a 5,000-square-foot, family-friendly bar and grill at 74th Drive and State Avenue in Kansas City, Kansas, across from the Kansas City Kansas Community College campus. Clifford Dale and his father and brother bought the long-vacant Sports Page bar, took it down to the studs, and opened Mason Jar in late summer 2016 with a scratch kitchen — hand-formed burgers, frenched jumbo wings, 12-inch pizzas — and cocktails served in the namesake jars under mason-jar light fixtures. It seats about 175, runs a rotating “Burger of the Month” and “Jar of the Month,” and has a 22-seat private room.

Description

Mason Jar occupies a rebuilt freestanding building at the corner of North 74th Drive and State Avenue, directly across from Kansas City Kansas Community College. The room is laid out in a progression — booths and low-tops near the entrance rolling into high-tops toward a large square bar ringed with televisions — with finished concrete floors, reclaimed barn wood on the walls, big windows added in the remodel, and the mason-jar light fixtures that give the place its name.1 Feast Magazine’s 2016 opening report put the capacity at about 175 seats plus 25 at the bar and a separate private dining area; the restaurant’s current events page describes the private room as seating up to 22 with a 55-inch TV and its own audio system.12

The kitchen makes most things in-house. At opening, kitchen manager Jason Hurd’s menu was built around six cooked-to-order burgers from fresh-ground beef formed by hand daily, six hand-made signature pizzas plus build-your-own, and jumbo wings that are frenched — the meat pushed to one end of a full chicken leg so the bone becomes a handle — with four or five housemade sauces (traditional hot, grilled barbecue, honey chipotle, grilled jerk, sweet Asian chili).314 Jumbo meatballs cooked low and slow in housemade marinara were an early guest favorite.1 The current menu keeps the shape: burgers (All Fried Up, Bacon & Bleu, BBQ Patty Melt, The JR, a Beyond Burger), sandwiches (pork tenderloin, Reuben, meatball grinder, French dip), 12-inch pizzas with a gluten-free crust option, “Not Your Average Wings,” and a specialties list of fish tacos, fish and chips, chicken-fried steak and chicken, grilled salmon, and buffalo or barbecue mac and cheese.4

The bar side of the name is real: about 25 taps and 50-plus bottles and cans at opening, and a cocktail list served in mason jars — a Lynchburg Lemonade and margarita then, a monthly “Jar” now (August 2026’s Push-Pop Jar: strawberry and orange vodkas, strawberry syrup, orange soda).315 Happy hour runs 3–6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and all day Monday with $3 domestic bottles, $3.50 wells, $4 wine and $10–12 starters.5

Ownership and history

Clifford Dale “has long talked to his father and brother about owning a family restaurant and bar,” Feast reported in August 2016 — “a place where you could get an ice-cold beer or cocktail served in a mason jar along with juicy burgers, hand-made pizzas and jumbo wings.”3 The father-and-sons team bought the former Sports Page bar at 74th and State about a year earlier. The building had sat vacant for roughly five years and needed a new roof, a rebuilt east wall and gas lines run to a kitchen that had been running on propane; the family gutted it to the studs.31 “They really had to work hard to make this place come together because the building had been neglected for so long,” general manager Roger Gibbs told Feast.1 A 2025 local blog adds that the site had earlier been “an old water-slide park” — unverified.6

The restaurant opened in late August 2016 (Feast’s October 17 report has it “now open”) with Gibbs as general manager and Jason Hurd running the kitchen; the site’s footer reads “est. 2016.”317 “The idea was always to build a family-friendly place that felt more like a restaurant than a bar, but that offered great food and drink at reasonable prices,” Gibbs said.1 The brief OpenTable listing describes it as “off 74th and State Avenue” with “made-from-scratch daily entrees or burgers.”8 Whether the Dale family still owns the restaurant in 2026, and who runs it day-to-day, was not re-confirmed in this pass.

Last verified: 2026-08-28 · Source: the restaurant’s own menu and specials pages on masonjarkc.com · Confidence: Medium — the official menu page lists items without prices; only happy-hour prices are published. Item names transcribed as printed.45

  • To start with: Beer Battered Brat Bites · CCQ (craft-beer queso) · Chili Cheese Fries · Fried Pickles · Garlic Cheese Fries · Loaded House Chips · Onion Rings · Pretzel Sticks · Sweet Potato Fries
  • Burgers (cooked to medium unless specified; with fries): All Fried Up · Bacon & Bleu · BBQ Patty Melt · Beyond Burger · Burger of the Month · Shrooms Man · The JR · Traditional Burger
  • Between 2 slices: BLTA · Pork Tenderloin · Chicken Club · Reuben · Meatball Grinder · Turkey Melt · French Dip
  • Not your average wings: Grilled BBQ · Honey Chipotle · Sweet Asian Chili · Traditional Hot
  • Pizza (12-inch; gluten-free crust available): Backyard BBQ · Buffalo Chicken · BYO · Loaded · Meat X3 · Tomato & Brussels
  • Specialties: Fish Tacos · Chicken Tacos · Pulled Pork Tacos · Grilled Salmon · Grilled Chicken · Chicken Fried Steak · Chicken Fried Chicken · Fish & Chips · Buffalo Mac & Cheese · BBQ Mac & Cheese
  • Greens: House Salad · Side Salad · Chicken Caesar · Citrus Salad · Salmon Salad · Yardbird · House-made chili (cup/bowl)
  • Sides: French Fries · Parmesan Garlic Fries · Sweet Potato Fries · Tater Kegs · House Chips · Onion Rings · Mac & Cheese · Coleslaw · Black Beans · Brussels Sprouts · Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes · Steamed Broccoli · Seasonal Vegetable
  • Desserts: Apple Torte · Double Chunk Brownie · Seasonal Cheesecake · Ice Cream
  • Happy hour (3–6 Tue–Fri, all day Mon): domestic bottles $3 · wells $3.50 · glass of wine $4 · Garlic Cheese Fries $10 · Onion Rings $10 · Pretzel Sticks $10 · Beer Battered Brat Bites $12 · Loaded House Chips $12
  • Featured (Aug 2026): PB&J Burger — all-beef patty, peanut butter, cheddar, bacon bits, habanero bacon jam · Push-Pop Jar — strawberry and orange vodkas, strawberry syrup, orange soda, cherry

Sources

Footnotes

  1. Jenny Vergara, “Mason Jar Brews & Burgers Now Open in Kansas City, Kansas,” Feast Magazine, 2016-10-17 — Confirms: 74th and State near KCKCC; 5,000 sq ft; layout; ~175 seats, 25 at bar, private area for 25; seven days lunch and dinner; Dale family bought former Sports Page; Gibbs quotes; concrete floors, barn wood, mason-jar fixtures; frenched wings with four sauces; jumbo meatballs; hand-formed burgers; All Fried Up description; 25 taps. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9

  2. Mason Jar — official website, “Private Events & Parties.” Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: private room for up to 22 with 55-inch TV and separate audio; bar-area gatherings. ↩

  3. Jenny Vergara, “Mason Jar Brews & Burgers to Open in Kansas City, Kansas, in August,” Feast Magazine, 2016-08-05 — Confirms: Clifford Dale with father and brother; purchase of former Sports Page about a year earlier; building vacant ~5 years; rebuild to the studs, new roof, east side rebuilt, gas lines; GM Roger Gibbs; kitchen manager Jason Hurd; six burgers, six pizzas, jumbo wings with five sauces; 25 taps/50+ bottles; mason-jar cocktails; happy-hour plan; address and phone. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  4. Mason Jar — official website, “Our Menu.” Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: every section and item name in the Menu section; “We cook to medium unless you say otherwise”; 12-inch pizzas with gluten-free crust option; no prices published. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  5. Mason Jar — official website, “Today’s Specials.” Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: happy hour 3–6 p.m. Tue–Fri and all day Monday with listed prices; PB&J Burger and Push-Pop Jar features; “Mason Jar Club” loyalty link. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  6. “Kansas City Spotlight: Mason Jar Brews and Burgers,” Kansas City Boutique (blog), 2025-11-24 — Confirms: claim that the site was once “an old water-slide park”; Jar of the Month, Tater Kegs, prime rib weekends. Low-authority aggregator; used only for the flagged claim. ↩

  7. Mason Jar Brews & Burgers — official website, home page. Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: name; “Since opening our doors …”; monthly specials; guest reviews dated Jan–Feb 2026; Instagram @themasonjarkc and Facebook /masonjarkc links; SpotOn online-ordering link; “est. 2016” footer; © 2026. ↩

  8. OpenTable — “The Mason Jar - KC,” restaurant page (not on the booking network). Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: “located in Kansas City KS off 74th and State Avenue … made-from-scratch daily entrees or burgers”; diner reviews from 2017. ↩

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