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Taste of Kansas City BBQ & Grill is a Black-owned barbecue carryout at 7935 Prospect Avenue, at 79th Street on Kansas City’s south side, with a food truck and a catering operation that work church, office and neighborhood events. The menu is East Side barbecue without pretense — burnt ends, sliced brisket, pulled pork, rib tips and slabs, smoked wings, sausage on a bun — plus grill-side staples like Philly cheesesteaks, loaded fries and nachos, cheeseburgers and grilled-cheese sandwiches stuffed with pork or brisket. The Kansas City Defender ranks it third in its guide to the city’s Black-owned restaurants: “holding it down on Prospect with meaty slabs, rib tip fries, and boxes loaded past the lid.”

Description

Taste of Kansas City BBQ & Grill is a storefront carryout on Prospect Avenue at 79th Street, on the south side of Kansas City. The business describes itself as neighborhood-focused carryout — “BBQ, chicken, desserts, hamburgers, sandwiches, and wings” — and sells through its own online-ordering page as well as at the counter.12

The website’s menu page lays out two menus rather than one. The food-truck menu is the everyday list: burnt ends; chopped brisket, pulled pork, turkey or sausage link on a bun; rib tips and ribs; smoked wings and chicken tenders; a Philly cheesesteak and a brisket Philly; loaded fries and loaded nachos in pork, steak or brisket; cheeseburgers single and double; pulled-pork and brisket grilled cheese; hot dogs; and sides of onion rings, fries, baked beans, mac and cheese, potato salad and coleslaw.3 The catering menu is broader — sliced beef brisket, burnt ends, pulled pork, sliced turkey and ham, barbecue chicken, smoked wings, grilled chicken breast, sliced sausage, ribs, rib tips, hamburgers, hot dogs, tenders, bratwurst and sausage links, with a dozen sides from potato salad and slaw to broccoli-and-rice casserole, roasted red potatoes and rolls or “slide bread.”3 The home page’s featured combos — “Slide Sausage On Bun & Fries, Pork Grilled Cheese & Fries, Turkey On Bun & Fries, Chicken Tenders & Fries, Two Meat Combo & Fries” — give the flavor of how it’s ordered.1

The Kansas City Defender put it at No. 3 in its guide to the city’s best Black-owned restaurants, a list otherwise led by Gates and LC’s: “Holding it down on Prospect with meaty slabs, rib tip fries, and boxes loaded past the lid,” a place that converts passersby into regulars.4 EatOkra, the Black-owned-business directory, classifies it as a “Barbecue Food Truck,” and the truck is listed for hire on Roaming Hunger and Truckster.56

Ownership and history

The restaurant’s site, ordering page and menu pages name no owner, and no press profile of the business has surfaced; the owner’s identity, the founding year and whether the food truck or the storefront came first are all undocumented. What can be said: the business is Black-owned (per EatOkra and the Kansas City Defender), operates from a fixed address on Prospect with published storefront hours, and runs a truck and catering arm booked through the same phone number.541 Its Facebook page exists under the full business name.7

The name overlaps with unrelated “Taste of Kansas City” products — Jack Stack’s shipped “Taste of Kansas City” barbecue boxes and a “Taste of Kansas City” food-tour company — none of which is connected to this Prospect Avenue business.

Last verified: 2026-08-28 · Source: the restaurant’s own Menus page (item lists only; prices are not printed on the site, and the ordering page did not render prices to a non-interactive reader) · Confidence: Medium — items verified, prices unverified.32

Food-truck / everyday menu

  • Entrées: Burnt Ends · Chopped Brisket on Bun · Pulled Pork on Bun · Turkey on Bun · Sausage Link on Bun · Rib Tips · Ribs · Smoked Wings · Chicken Tenders · Philly Cheese Steak Sandwich · Brisket Philly · Loaded Fries (pork, steak or brisket) · Loaded Nachos (pork, steak or brisket) · Cheeseburger · Double Cheeseburger · Pulled Pork Grilled Cheese · Brisket Grilled Cheese · Hot Dogs
  • Sides: Onion Rings · Fries · Baked Beans · Mac & Cheese · Potato Salad · Coleslaw

Catering menu

  • Meats: Sliced Beef Brisket · Beef Burnt Ends · Pulled Pork · Sliced Turkey · Sliced Ham · BBQ Chicken · Smoked Wings · Grilled Chicken Breast · Sliced Sausage · Ribs · Rib Tips · Hamburgers · Grilled Hot Dogs · Chicken Tenders · Bratwurst · Sausage Links
  • Sides: Homestyle Potato Salad · Creamy Coleslaw · Broccoli & Rice Casserole · Sweet Corn · Green Beans · Fresh Mixed Vegetables · Roasted Red Potatoes · Mashed Potatoes · Chips · Pickles · Rolls or Slide Bread

Sources

Footnotes

  1. Taste of Kansas City BBQ & Grill — official website, home page. Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: name; address 7935 Prospect Ave, Kansas City, MO 64132; phone (816) 859-8776; hours (Tue–Thu 11–8, Fri–Sat 11–9, closed Sun–Mon); “BBQ, chicken, desserts, hamburgers, sandwiches, and wings”; neighborhood carryout framing; featured combos; “We Offer Catering”; ordering link. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  2. Taste of Kansas City BBQ & Grill — official online ordering page. Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: first-party carryout/delivery ordering; Google Pay and Venmo accepted; menu prices did not render in the retrieved copy. ↩ ↩2

  3. Taste of Kansas City BBQ & Grill — official website, “Menus.” Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: the catering menu (meats and sides) and the food-truck menu (entrées and sides) as transcribed; no prices printed. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  4. “The Best Black-Owned Restaurants in Kansas City,” The Kansas City Defender (undated guide, 40 entries). Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: entry No. 03, Taste of Kansas City BBQ & Grill, 7935 Prospect Ave, barbecue; the quoted line; website tasteofkcbbq.com. ↩ ↩2

  5. EatOkra — “Taste of Kansas City BBQ & Grill,” Black-owned business listing. Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: “Barbecue Food Truck”; address; phone; hours Tue–Sat 11–8 (differs slightly from the site’s Fri–Sat 9 p.m. close). ↩ ↩2

  6. Roaming Hunger — “Taste of Kansas City BBQ & Grill – Kansas City” (food-truck catering listing; page returned 403 to a non-interactive reader, details as indexed) — Asserts: a bookable food truck based at 7935 Prospect Ave serving wings, pulled pork, brisket and ribs. Provisional. ↩

  7. Taste of Kansas City BBQ & Grill — Facebook page. Retrieved 2026-08-28 (title only; content not machine-readable) — Confirms: existence of the page under the full business name. ↩

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