Naree Kitchen Thai & Sushi

Naree Kitchen Thai & Sushi is a strip-mall restaurant on State Avenue near 80th Terrace in western Kansas City, Kansas, that does three things under one roof: Thai cooking with a Lao accent (papaya salad four ways, larb, tom yum noodles, a crispy baby-back rib), a full sushi bar with a long list of “Bobby Signature Rolls,” and a short pho menu. It has been open since at least 2019, closes on Mondays, and is the kind of place regulars describe as “hiding in plain sight” — a full parking lot of carryout customers on a weeknight.

Description

Naree Kitchen sits in a suite of a strip center on the south side of State Avenue at about 80th Terrace, a block or so from Delaware Park, with free lot parking.¹ The site’s own pitch is plain — “outstanding Thai and Sushi cuisine … sushi rolls, nigiri, and sashimi … fried rice and noodles” — and the room, per a 2022 local blog, is brightly colored and small enough that it was “packed” with carryout traffic during the pandemic years.¹²³

The menu runs to more than 150 items across sixteen sections, and its Thai half is more specific than most in the metro. Papaya salad comes Thai style, Thai-crab, Thai-Lao style and Lao style (the last two with pickled crab and “creamy fish sauce”), served with sticky rice; larb comes in chicken, beef or pork; and a “yum beef” salad uses thin-sliced medium-rare beef.⁴ The noodle-soup list pairs beef, chicken, meatball, combo and seafood pho with a Thai noodle soup of tendon and tripe, wonton noodle soup with red-pork barbecue, and tom yum noodles.⁴ House specialties are a spicy-basil “Treasure of the Sea,” crispy fried baby-back ribs with garlic, and a grilled pork chop with Thai dipping sauce; curries (green, massaman, pineapple, yellow, panang) and stir-fries round it out, alongside the Chinese-American standards — General Tao’s, honey sesame, orange — that a KCK strip-mall audience expects.⁴

The sushi side is a full program: standard rolls from $4.50, nigiri and sashimi by the piece, chef’s-selection platters, and twenty-five “Bobby Signature Rolls” — an Ahi roll, black and red dragons, a filet-mignon “Cowboy,” a seared-scallop “Tarzan,” a fried lobster roll, and a house “Naree Roll” of salmon, mozzarella, cream cheese and jalapeño, flash-fried.⁴ Tripadvisor reviewers single out the sushi (“fresh and delicious with some uncommon combinations”) and spring rolls “2–3 times the size of any I’ve ever seen.”³ Our Changing Lives, a Kansas City travel blog, made it “our KCK stop for sushi and fried rice,” praising the crab rangoon, chicken satay and a chicken fried rice that was “more than we could finish.”²

Ownership and history

The owner is not named in any source found. “Naree” is a Thai given name, the tourism listings’ contact address is registered to “nareerat,” and the sushi menu’s signature section carries the name “Bobby” — the natural reading is a Thai owner-cook named Naree or Nareerat and a sushi chef called Bobby, but neither is confirmed. A business-data aggregator lists the operation at 1–10 employees under $5 million in revenue, and a search snippet refers to a “Naree Cuisine LLC” as the entity — both unverified.⁵

The opening date is likewise undocumented. Tripadvisor’s earliest review is dated September 2019 (“Best little place in WYCO”); Our Changing Lives wrote in February 2022 that they had been ordering carryout “for the past year” under COVID restrictions and that the dining room had just reopened.³² The restaurant’s Facebook page and its Menufy site both predate 2020.

Links

• Website: https://www.nareekitchen.com/
• Menu / ordering (official, Menufy): https://www.nareekitchen.com/order
• Gallery: https://www.nareekitchen.com/gallery
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Naree-Kitchen-Thai-Sushi-393197351153352/
• Visit KCK listing: https://www.visitkansascityks.com/listing/naree-kitchen-thai-%26-sushi/1755/

Menu

Last verified: 2026-08-28 · Source: the restaurant’s own Menufy-powered ordering page at nareekitchen.com/order · Confidence: High for items and base prices; ”+” marks protein or size upcharges. Condensed — representative items from each section.⁴

• Lunch (Tue–Sun, with soup of the day): Sweet and Sour $7.95+ · Honey Sesame $7.95+ · General Tao’s $7.95+ · Green, Yellow or Pineapple Curry $7.50+ · Phad Ped $7.50+ · Phad Ginger $7.50+ · Broccoli Delight $7.50+ · Mixed Vegetables $7.50+
• Appetizers: Appetizer Sampler $13.95 · Edamame $4.50 · Chicken Gyoza $6.95 · Fresh Thai Spring Roll (red pork BBQ, shrimp, peanut sauce) $6.50 · Chicken Egg Roll $5.00 · Crab Wontons $7.00 · Chicken Satay $7.95 · Calamari $8.95 · Steamed Wonton with Fried Garlic (8) $7.50 · Fried Chicken Leg Quarters (2) $9.95
• Starters (sushi bar): Cucumber Salad $4.50 · Seaweed Salad $5.95 · Squid Salad $6.95 · Spicy Crab Salad $7.95 · Spicy Tuna Avocado Salad $10.95 · Poke Tuna Salad $10.95 · Yum Yum Salad $11.95 · Spicy Baby Octopus Salad $10.95
• Salad (with sticky rice): Papaya Salad — Thai style / Thai-crab / Thai-Lao style / Lao style, $12.95 each · Larb (chicken, beef or pork) $12.95 · Yum Beef $18.95
• Soup: Egg Drop $3.00 · Hot & Sour $3.00 · Tom Yum Chicken (serves 2–3) $10.95 · Tom Yum Shrimp $12.95
• Noodle soup: Pho — beef, chicken or beef ball $8.95+ · Pho Combo (tripe, tendon, meatball, beef) $10.95+ · Pho Seafood $16.95 · Thai Noodle Soup $10.95+ · Wonton Noodle Soup $12.95 · Tom Yum Noodles — chicken $11.95 / shrimp $13.95 / seafood $16.95 · Healthy Soup (glass noodles) $9.50+
• Sushi rolls: Cucumber or Avocado $4.50+ · Vegetable $6.00+ · California $6.00+ · Tuna, Salmon, Yellowtail, Spicy Tuna or Philly $7.00+ · Tokyo $7.00+ · Shrimp Tempura $7.00+ · Dallas $7.50+ · Spicy Shrimp Tempura $8.95+ · Spider $9.95+ · Tuna Crab Crunch $10.95+ · Rainbow $11.95+
• Sushi platters (with miso soup): Sashimi Combo (15 pc) $33.95 · Sushi and Sashimi Combo $33.95 · Sushi Combo $30.95 · Chirashi $30.95 · Donburi $25.95
• Bobby Signature Rolls: Ahi $12.95+ · Black Dragon $13.95+ · Red Dragon $12.95+ · Cowboy (filet mignon) $12.95+ · Tarzan (soft-shell crab, seared scallops) $14.95+ · Alaska $12.95+ · Dynamite $13.95+ · Sapporo $13.95+ · Hurricane $12.95+ · Summer Roll (no rice) $11.95+ · Samurai $12.95+ · Hawaiian $12.95+ · Pink Lady $12.95+ · Lobster Roll $15.95+ · Royalty $13.95+ · Mango Madness $12.95+ · New Orleans $10.95+ · Casino $10.95+ · Naree Roll $12.95+ · Crazy Roll $13.95+
• Nigiri $2.00–2.25/pc · Sashimi $2.75/pc
• Fried rice / noodles ($10.95+): Basil, Pineapple, Naree House, Tom Yum or Train Station Fried Rice · Phad See Ew · Drunken Noodles · Phad Thai · Lo Mein · Phad Woonsen · Spicy Udon · Thai Pan Fried Noodles
• House specialties: Treasure of the Sea $23.95+ · Crispy Baby Back Ribs $17.95+ · Pork Chop $12.95+
• Curry ($11.95+): Green · Massaman · Pineapple · Yellow · Panang
• Stir fry ($11.50+): Sweet & Sour · Orange · Honey Sesame · General Tao’s · Phad Ginger · Holy Basil · Phad Phed · Broccoli Delight · Mixed Vegetables with Cashews
• Beverages: sodas $3.00 · Thai Tea or Thai Coffee (cold) $3.25 · Iced Green Tea $3.25 · Japanese Green or Jasmine Tea (hot) $3.00

Sources

Footnotes

1. Naree Kitchen Thai & Sushi — official website, home page (Menufy-hosted). Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: name; concept text; “corner of near N 80th Terrace and State Ave,” near Delaware Park; address 7933 State Ave 105, KCK 66112; phone (913) 766-1202; business hours Mon closed, Tue–Sun 11–9; carryout hours to 8:30; free parking; Facebook, Yelp and Tripadvisor links; © 2026. ↩ ↩²

2. “Tasty Thai – Naree Kitchen,” Our Changing Lives (Kansas City travel blog), February 2022. Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: strip-mall location “hiding in plain sight”; carryout “for the past year” under COVID; dining room reopened; brightly colored interior; crab rangoon, spicy shrimp tempura roll, chicken satay, calamari, chicken fried rice; “our KCK stop for sushi and fried rice.” ↩ ↩² ↩³

3. Tripadvisor — “Naree Kitchen Thai & Sushi, Kansas City,” unclaimed listing. Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: 5.0 rating on 6 reviews, #47 of 342; reviews dated Sep 2019 (“Best little place in WYCO”), Dec 2020, May 2021 (spring rolls, sushi, “Blue Crab Roll”; full parking lot of carryout customers). ↩ ↩² ↩³

4. Naree Kitchen Thai & Sushi — official online menu / ordering page (Menufy). Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: every section, item and price in the Menu section; “Online Ordering Coming Soon!”; hours; “Bobby Signature Rolls” section name; Menufy © 2026. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵

5. ZoomInfo — “Naree Kitchen,” company profile. Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: Hospitality, Kansas, 1–10 employees, revenue under $5 million; website nareekitchen.com. Aggregator; no principal named. ↩