miniBar

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

Menu

Last verified: 2026-07-24 · Source: miniBar official menu PDF (dated 01-2026), linked from minibarkc.com/menu-new³ · URL(s): https://www.minibarkc.com/menu-new · Confidence: High (full official capture — food, beer, wine, cocktails, all prices)

Cocktail lounge + late-night kitchen (“miniBar Cocktail Lounge Adventure Club”). 3810 Broadway Blvd. Open daily 6pm–3am; kitchen until 2am. $5 happy hour daily 6–8pm and all day Sunday ($5 hot dogs, draft beer, natural wine; $8 menu cocktails). Karaoke Mondays 9pm–1am; Chili Night Tuesday 6pm–sold out; Hip Hop & Hot Dogs 3rd Thursday.³

Hot dogs — “Best Hot Dogs in Kansas City”

All feature Fritz’s 1/4-lb all-beef frank or smoky braised Carrot Dawg (vegetarian) on a grilled-to-order bun — $8 each, 2 for $15³

• Fancy Dog — mustards, chili mayo, crunchies³
• Cheezer Dog — chili cheese spread, mustards, diced Grillo’s pickles³
• Ballpark Dog — mustards, pickle-pepper kraut, gochujang bang sauce³
• Bridge & Tunnel — mustards, spicy onions, pickle-pepper kraut³

Sandwiches

• Smoked Turkey — thinly sliced turkey breast, pesto mayo, white cheddar, micro greens, kaiser roll, pickles — $10³
• Chickpea Salad (v) — pesto chickpea salad, tomato relish, arugula, kaiser roll, pickles — $7³
• Grilled Cheezer (v) — pimento-style chili cheese spread, sourdough, pickles — $9³
• Chili — Tuesday chili night, 6pm until sold out²³

Beer

Draft: Boulevard Light 4% — $5 · Narrow Gauge Hefeweizen 4.8% — $7 · PAA Rainbow Sherbet Fruit Sour 5.2% — $7 · Maplewood Brownie Points Nitro 5.7% — $7 · Logboat Snapper IPA 7.2% — $6 · Limitless JoCo Juice Hazy IPA 7% — $7 · Guinness Dry Stout 4.2% — $7³

Domestics: Hamm’s 12oz — $3 · High Life / Cold Snack 12oz — $4 · Coors / Coors Light / Miller Lite / Pabst 16oz — $4³

Cans — lighter lagers & ales: Tecate — $6 · Sol — $6 · Pulaski Pils — $7 · Beer for Ball Games — $7 · Boulevard Wheat — $6 · Fat Pug Oatmeal Milk Stout — $8³ · Pale ales/IPAs: Lizard King Pale Ale — $7 · Ride or Die Pale Ale — $8 · City Wide APA — $6 · Space Camper IPA — $6³ · Sour: SeaQuench — $6 · Crooked Stave Sour Rosé — $6³ · Hard seltzer & cider: Quirk — $6 · High Noon — $6 · Stiegl GF Radler — $6 · Brick River Cider — $7³

Non-alcoholic — $6: Pabst NA · Guinness 0 · Athletic Free Wave IPA · Athletic Rotator · Sierra Nevada Hop Splash · Mighty Kind Lemon CBD Seltzer³

Wine & cocktails

• House calls — spirit blends for sippin’ & mixin’ (agaves, amari, rums, whiskies) — $6, or $9 combo with a domestic beer³
• Classics — Old Fashioned · Dirty Vesper Martini · Negroni · Daiquiri · Cosmopolitan · Margarita · Mai Tai — $11³
• Highballs — $9: Americano (Campari, vermouth, chai seltzer) · Gin Tonic (dry gin, carrot tonic) · Fernet (Branca, Concord grape soda)³
• Fun ones — $11: The New 20 (bourbon, curaçao, amaro) · El Chilango (Aperol, grapefruit, mezcal syrup) · Near the Beach (vodka, pineapple, coconut, citrus, cherry) · Coffee Type Drink (amari, cold brew, fancy syrup, coco whip)³
• Wines — $11: white pet-nat · red pet-nat · funky sauv blanc · unoaked chard · quaffable orange · gamay · garnacha blend · syrah blend³

Music: live music 7 nights/week (upstairs room); karaoke; DJs¹

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Links

• Official site: https://www.minibarkc.com/
• Shows / tickets: https://www.minibarkc.com/tickets

Sources

• Status verified active 2026-06-23 via Bandsintown — miniBar 2026 concert schedule (accessed 2026-06-23). Active show calendar booked through 2026 (e.g., The Sounds of Many Jun 26, 2026; Homestyle Dinner Rolls Sep 25); Yelp listing updated May 2026; address 3810 Broadway Blvd, Kansas City, MO 64111 confirmed.

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 ↩⁵

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

3. miniBar official menu PDF (dated 01-2026), linked from https://www.minibarkc.com/menu-new (accessed 2026-07-24) — asserts: full food menu (four hot dogs $8 / 2-for-$15 on Fritz’s 1/4-lb all-beef frank or Carrot Dawg; three sandwiches $7–$10), full beer/wine/cocktail list with prices, $5 happy hour daily 6–8pm + all day Sunday, karaoke Mondays, Chili Night Tuesdays, Hip Hop & Hot Dogs 3rd Thursdays, kitchen open until 2am. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹ ↩¹² ↩¹³ ↩¹⁴ ↩¹⁵ ↩¹⁶ ↩¹⁷ ↩¹⁸ ↩¹⁹ ↩²⁰ ↩²¹ ↩²² ↩²³ ↩²⁴ ↩²⁵