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Sagebrush is an owner-operated cocktail bar at 1639 Southwest Blvd, Kansas City, KS 66103, in the Rosedale neighborhood. It is the second concept from Christopher Ciesiel and Cristin Llewellyn, the couple behind The Campground, and trades under The Campground LLC. The room is a small, high-desert-inspired bar — roughly 25 seats, hand-troweled adobe walls, a J-shaped mahogany bar and a neon installation — built around agave and sugarcane spirits, with a drink list described first-party as “high quality sounds and beverages.” It opened in 2024 and is open as of 2026-08-13. Tier 1 — locally owned, owner-operated, both concepts in the metro.1234

Description

Sagebrush is a small room — IN Kansas City puts it at roughly half the size of The Campground, with about 25 bar seats — inside a white clapboard building with no sign, next door to Garden House, a coffee shop run by Jordan and Emily Fox; the two businesses share a back room. The interior was a largely do-it-yourself build: artist Jennifer Walker mixed a custom wall color and hand-troweled the adobe finish, Modern Lark built the dark mahogany J-shaped bar, Element Ten made the neon piece over the bar (based on rock formations and geodes) that washes the room pinkish-red at night, and Logan Clark of Pilgrim Creative did the branding. Arched nichos cut into the wall hold candles; palo santo burns; cacti stand in the corner.24

The drink program is agave- and sugarcane-forward — mezcal, tequila, Mexican rums — and deliberately lighter, fruitier, fizzier and funkier than the classics-driven list at The Campground. About ten cocktails run at a time. The house signature, also called the Sagebrush, is cotija-washed Tesoro 55 Espadín with guava liqueur, house-made orange sorbet and lime, clarified with milk, double-strained, kegged and carbonated; The Pitch prices it at $16. A Dirty Margarita from the bar was featured in Imbibe No. 122 (July/August 2026).3241

There is no kitchen. Lil’ Chingu serves dinner in the space Friday and Saturday 5–9pm (see casita-de-lil-chingu), and Baker’s Allowance runs a pop-up every third Wednesday. Seating is first come, first serve — no reservations.15

Ownership and history

Christopher Ciesiel and Cristin Llewellyn, who are married and who opened The Campground, announced Sagebrush in June 2023 as a bar about half the size of their first venue, focused on agave distillates and Mexican rums, in a building whose neighboring tenant (then Foxtrot Studio and Café) was rebranding into a garden-house concept selling southwestern plants. Ciesiel described the project as “kind of what we envisioned The Campground being from day one.” The target then was end of 2023; the bar in fact opened in 2024 — IN Kansas City covered it as new on Nov 1, 2024 — and the first-party site now presents The Campground as “our other concept … Sagebrush’s bigger sister.” The website footer names The Campground LLC as the copyright holder.321

The exact opening date is not stated in any source read this pass — . Square footage, seat count beyond IN Kansas City's "approximately 25 bar seats," and any lease or landlord detail are likewise undocumented — .

menu_status: partial — first-party pricing is published for happy hour, non-alcoholic drinks and merchandise; the rotating cocktail list is published first-party as a PDF whose per-drink prices were not machine-readable this pass, so no cocktail prices beyond the one below are asserted.154

Daily happy hour (Tue–Fri 4–6pm, Sat 3–5pm), first-party:

  • Old Fashioned $12 · Margarita $10 · Short beers $3 · Whiskey, mezcal and tequila shots $5 each

Non-alcoholic, first-party menu PDF:

  • Agua Fresca $7 · Sangrita $5 · NA Michelada $8 · NA Cerveza $5 · NA Strongwater Paloma $10 · Jarritos $3 · Sparkling mineral water $3 · add spirit $7

Cocktails: the signature Sagebrush at $16 (The Pitch, Jan 2026). Roughly ten cocktails run at a time; a full spirits list is published separately first-party.41

menu_price_tier: $$.

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Footnotes

  1. Sagebrush-Rosedale Cocktail Bar — official site (accessed 2026-08-13). Asserts: 1639 Southwest Blvd, Kansas City, KS 66103; hours Sun–Mon closed, Tue–Fri 4–11pm, Sat 3–11pm; daily happy hour Tue–Fri 4–6pm and Sat 3–5pm at $12 old fashioned, $10 marg, $3 short beers, $5 whiskey/mezcal/tequila shots; “no reservations, first come first serve”; pop-ups every 3rd Wednesday with Baker’s Allowance; dinner with Lil’ Chingu Friday and Saturday 5–9pm; The Campground described as “our other concept … Sagebrush’s bigger sister”; Imbibe Magazine No. 122 (July/August 2026) features the Sagebrush Dirty Margarita; footer ”© The Campground LLC”; Instagram @sagebrush.rosedale; email info@thecampgroundkc.com. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  2. Jenny Vergara, “In Your Cocktail: Sagebrush,” IN Kansas City Magazine, Nov 1, 2024 — asserts: new agave- and sugarcane-based cocktail bar from Christopher Ciesiel and his wife Cristin Llewellyn in the Rosedale neighborhood of Kansas City, Kansas; white clapboard building with no sign; next door to Garden House, owned by Jordan and Emily Fox, with a shared back room; smaller and sparser than The Campground; custom wall color and hand-troweled adobe finish by artist Jennifer Walker; mahogany J-shaped bar by Modern Lark; neon installation by Element Ten based on rock formations and geodes; branding by Logan Clark of Pilgrim Creative; arched nichos, palo santo, cacti; roughly ten cocktails, lighter/fruitier/fizzier/funkier than The Campground’s classics; signature Sagebrush cocktail built on cotija-washed Tesoro 55 Espadín with guava liqueur, house-made orange sorbet and lime, clarified and carbonated; Ciesiel quote on the fourth iteration. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  3. “Owners of The Campground are opening a new bar alongside a greenhouse,” Kansas City Magazine, June 12, 2023 — asserts: Christopher Ciesiel and Cristin Llewellyn, owners of The Campground, opening Sagebrush at 1639 Southwest Blvd in Rosedale, KCK; roughly half the size of The Campground, about 25 bar seats; focus on agave distillates and Mexican rums; Southwestern high-desert interior; no food service; same building as Foxtrot Studio and Café, rebranding to a garden-house concept selling southwestern plants; target opening end of 2023; Ciesiel quote “kind of what we envisioned The Campground being from day one”; Instagram @sagebrush.rosedale. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  4. “Drink This Now: The sagebrush at Sagebrush,” The Pitch, Jan 28, 2026 — asserts: Sagebrush at 1639 Southwest Blvd, Kansas City, KS 66103, in Rosedale, next to Garden House Cafe; minimalist design with curved elements and reddish-pink lighting; the Sagebrush cocktail (mezcal, guava, orange sorbet, lime, cotija, cilantro-jalapeño foam) at $16; happy hour 4–6pm Tuesday–Saturday with $10 house margaritas, $5 mezcal/tequila/whiskey shots, $3 small beers. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  5. Sagebrush — menu (first-party PDF) (retrieved 2026-08-13). ↩ ↩2

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