The Blacklist

The Blacklist is a Victorian-style wine bar with a hidden speakeasy at 10519 Mission Road in Leawood’s Mission Farms, opened January 2026 by a five-partner team led by Jeffrey Gabrielson (a Kansas native, ex-San Francisco bar owner) with mixologist Carlos Avalos, Megan Allen, designer Fred Goykhman, and sommelier Laramie Busch. The speakeasy is accessed by pushing a bookshelf near the bar entrance — a concept positioning downtown-KC bar sensibility into JoCo’s upscale dining corridor. Tier 1 (re-tiered 2026-07-24: Gabrielson confirmed Kansas native + hands-on local operator).

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Description

The Blacklist occupies a Mission Farms space near 135th Street in Leawood and operates as two distinct venues: a Victorian-style wine bar on the main floor, focused on small-production bottles, and a hidden speakeasy that guests access by pushing a bookshelf near the bar entrance. The speakeasy side leans into prohibition-era cocktails and gin-forward riffs.¹²

The concept was explicitly positioned to bring a downtown Kansas City bar sensibility to Johnson County’s upscale dining corridor — the founders describing it as filling a gap in the JoCo market for craft cocktail and curated-wine programming at a speakeasy-style experience level.²³

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Ownership and history

The Blacklist is owned by a five-partner team: Jeffrey Gabrielson (lead; a Kansas native who previously co-owned San Francisco’s Wine Jar and Noir Lounge before returning to the KC metro), mixologist Carlos Avalos (15-year industry veteran; author of the Prohibition cocktail program), Megan Allen, designer Fred Goykhman, and sommelier Laramie Busch (curator of the small-production wine list).¹³

The venue opened January 2026, placing it among the most recent Registry additions.

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Menu

Last verified: 2026-07-24 · Source: Mission Farms official venue page⁴ (landlord directory — the venue’s only web listing beyond Instagram); IN Kansas City Magazine (Apr 2026, cocktail-program feature)³; Instagram @theblacklistkansascity (primary official presence — no itemized menu posted in listing form) · URL(s): https://www.mission-farms.com/the-blacklist · https://www.inkansascity.com/eat-drink/bars/in-your-cocktail-the-blacklist/ · Confidence: Medium (program well-documented; the bar publishes no itemized wine/cocktail list online — no own-domain website)

Victorian-style wine bar (“the library”) + bookshelf-hidden speakeasy. 10519 Mission Road (Mission Farms), Leawood. Hours per Mission Farms: Mon–Thu 2–10pm; Fri 2–11pm; Sat 11am–11pm; Sun 11am–10pm.⁴ Both rooms serve the same menu; the drink list is available in either space.³

Wine (the library side):

• Small-production wines from around the world, curated by partner-sommelier Laramie Busch; by the glass or bottle³⁴

Cocktails (speakeasy side; 1920s-Prohibition program by co-owner Carlos Avalos):

• Menu centers on gin (“a favorite Prohibition spirit”), rounded out with bourbon, rum, vodka, and tequila builds; housemade syrups; some drinks served in teacups and other unexpected vessels as a Prohibition wink¹³
• Razzing — house-signature sour: Lifted Spirits Bright gin, Bénédictine, lemon, raspberry-herbal-tea syrup, egg white; tart with a fluffy finish — price³
• Nearly every cocktail can be made spirit-free³

Food: none — IN Kansas City (Apr 2026) reports “no food on the menu”; guests may bring in outside food from neighboring Mission Farms restaurants.³⁴ (Mission Farms’ blurb still says “small bites” — treat as superseded by the Apr 2026 press visit.)

Primary presence: Instagram @theblacklistkansascity

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Links

• Instagram (primary web presence): https://www.instagram.com/theblacklistkansascity/

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Sources

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Verification status

• Ownership: Verified — Gabrielson, Avalos, Allen from JoCo Post + Axios KC.
• Address: Verified — 10519 Mission Road, Leawood (Mission Farms; the earlier “4800 W 135th St corridor” was the district descriptor, superseded by INKC + the landlord’s own venue page).
• Opened: Verified — January 2026.
• : KC-roots for Avalos/Allen/Goykhman/Busch (watchlist only); whether the speakeasy side goes membership-based.
• : Map pin — wine bar + speakeasy, Leawood.

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Footnotes

1. Johnson County Post — “The Blacklist opens in Leawood” (Feb 2026) — https://johnsoncountypost.com/2026/02/02/the-blacklist-leawood-278951/ — Asserts: owners Jeffrey Gabrielson, Carlos Avalos, Megan Allen; Mission Farms location; Victorian wine bar + bookshelf-hidden speakeasy; Gabrielson background (Wine Jar, Noir Lounge, SF). ↩ ↩² ↩³

2. Axios Kansas City — “Blacklist speakeasy opens in Leawood” (Jan 2026) — https://www.axios.com/local/kansas-city/2026/01/21/blacklist-speakeasy-leawood-opening — Asserts: January 2026 opening; 4800 W 135th corridor; downtown KC sensibility brought to JoCo. ↩ ↩²

3. IN Kansas City Magazine — “In Your Cocktail: The Blacklist” (Jenny Vergara, April 1, 2026) — https://www.inkansascity.com/eat-drink/bars/in-your-cocktail-the-blacklist/ (full text fetched 2026-07-24) — Asserts: address 10519 Mission Road (former Gymboree space, far north side of Mission Farms); partners = Jeffrey Gabrielson (Kansas native; ex co-owner Wine Jar + Noir Lounge, San Francisco), designer Fred Goykhman, mixologist Carlos Avalos (15-yr industry veteran), Megan Allen, and sommelier Laramie Busch; wine bar (“the library”) + speakeasy twin rooms sharing one drink menu; gin-centered Prohibition cocktail program, spirit-free options; signature cocktail Razzing (Lifted Spirits Bright gin, Bénédictine, lemon, raspberry-herbal-tea syrup, egg white — recipe published); no food served; speakeasy side may evolve into a membership model. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹

4. Mission Farms (landlord) official venue page — “The Blacklist” — https://www.mission-farms.com/the-blacklist (accessed 2026-07-24) — Asserts: 10519 Mission Road, Leawood; “Victorian style wine bar and speakeasy, specializing in small production wines from around the world, craft cocktails, and small bites”; outside food from Mission Farms restaurants welcome; hours Mon–Thu 2–10pm, Fri 2–11pm, Sat 11am–11pm, Sun 11am–10pm; Instagram @theblacklistkansascity. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴