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miniBar is a long-running Broadway-corridor cocktail lounge and small music venue in midtown Kansas City, open seven nights a week until 3am with an elevated late-night kitchen serving food until 2am — anchored by an all-beef Fritz’s hot dog billed as “the best in Kansas City” and a gochujang-spiked grilled pimento cheese sandwich.12

Description

miniBar is a compact bar and live-music room on the Broadway corridor in midtown Kansas City, running cocktails, karaoke, and DJs in its main lounge plus local and touring music seven nights a week until 3am.1 Its draw for the Registry’s late-night-food strategy is the kitchen: until 2am patrons can order a “very good, slightly fancy all-beef hotdog” (a carrot dog is available for vegetarians) or a grilled pimento cheese sandwich “gussied up with gochujang,” with Tuesday designated chili night.2 The house hot dog — a quarter-pound Fritz’s beef frank dressed with chili mayo, mustards, and crispies — is marketed as “the Best Hot Dog in Kansas City,” alongside a Slamwich (ham, cheddar, and mustards on an English muffin).3 The food is positioned as affordable, thoughtful, and built to pair with drinks, aimed squarely at night owls and service-industry workers.3

Ownership and history

miniBar opened on St. Patrick’s Day 2012 and has since become a fixture of Kansas City’s late-night cocktail and small-venue scene, pairing a downstairs bar with an intimate upstairs music room.1 Specific ownership / proprietor information is not established from a reliable public source at the time of compilation. The venue identifies publicly as an LGBTQ+-friendly and transgender safe space and lists membership in the Missouri Entertainment Alliance and the National Independent Venue Association (NIVA).1

Sources

Disputes

None at time of compilation.

Footnotes

  1. miniBar official website — https://www.minibarkc.com/ — asserts: address 3810 Broadway Blvd, Kansas City, MO 64111; hours “7 Days A Week 6pm–3am (Open Late)”; cocktails/karaoke/DJs plus seven-nights-a-week live music; LGBTQ+/transgender safe space; NIVA and Missouri Entertainment Alliance membership. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  2. KCUR, “Food recs: The best late-night eats in Kansas City,” May 10, 2025 — https://www.kcur.org/podcast/up-to-date/2025-05-10/food-recs-the-best-late-night-eats-in-kansas-city — asserts: “Until 2 a.m., you can order a very good, slightly fancy all-beef hotdog (carrot dogs available for the vegetarians) or a grilled pimento cheese sandwich gussied up with gochujang”; Tuesday chili night. ↩ ↩2

  3. miniBar menu — https://www.minibarkc.com/menu-new — asserts: “the Best Hot Dog in Kansas City” (quarter-pound Fritz’s beef frank, chili mayo, mustards, crispies); Slamwich (ham, cheddar, mustards on English muffin); grilled pimento cheese; affordable food built to pair with drinks for late-night / service-industry crowd. ↩ ↩2

See also

  • Registry
  • Owner-And-History-Research-Toolchain
Categories
  • Kansas City–owned
  • West Side