Ting's Filipino Bistro

Ting’s Filipino Bistro is a Filipino restaurant in Kansas City’s Historic City Market (River Market), serving traditional family recipes — adobo, pancit, lumpia — from owner Theresa “Ting” Santos-Spencer, who was born in the Philippines and moved to Kansas City in 1998.¹²

Description

Ting’s Filipino Bistro is a Filipino restaurant located in Kansas City’s Historic City Market, in the River Market neighborhood, serving traditional dishes inspired by family recipes and Filipino home cooking.¹ The menu features Filipino staples including chicken and pork adobo, pancit noodles, lumpia, and grilled skewers.¹³ Many of the dishes come directly from the meals owner Ting Santos grew up eating, inspired by the cooking of her parents and grandmother.¹ The bistro offers both indoor and outdoor seating, online ordering, and takeout, providing a relaxed setting for authentic Filipino cuisine steps from the City Market farmers market.¹

Ownership and history

Ting’s Filipino Bistro is owned by Theresa “Ting” Santos-Spencer, who was born in the Philippines and moved to Kansas City in 1998 to advance her career as a restaurant consultant, refining her skills in management and communication.² Her menu features recipes passed down from her late mother and grandmother, with a strong emphasis on family bonds and ancestral history.² Santos described the venture as a dream to “open a small bistro and pay homage to my Mom & Dad and my grandma.”¹

She opened the first Ting’s Filipino Bistro inside Parlor’s food hall in January 2022.² The City Market location at 405 Main St — described by Santos as a second “dream” location — opened Sept. 13, 2022.⁴ At the time, she was also expanding into the Khalia’s Pizzeria business, on track to own multiple metro restaurants by the end of 2022.⁴

Links

• Website: https://www.tingsbistrokc.com/
• Yelp: https://www.yelp.com/biz/tings-filipino-bistro-kansas-city-2
• City Market merchant page: https://thecitymarketkc.org/merchants/tings-filipino-bistro/

Menu

Last verified: 2026-06-21 · Source: Official website (tingsbistrokc.com); Toast online ordering; Uber Eats / Grubhub delivery listings · URL(s): https://www.tingsbistrokc.com/menu · https://order.toasttab.com/online/tings-river-market-405-main-st · https://www.ubereats.com/store/tings-filipino-bistro/4rT-Fk3FVU6Gs6VwARtJAw · Confidence: Medium-High (dish lineup and concept are High via the official site; prices are Medium — drawn from delivery-platform listings, which can carry platform markup and may lag the in-store register).

Ting’s serves a compact menu of Filipino home-cooking classics — adobo, pancit, lumpia, grilled skewers, silog rice bowls, and a short dessert list — built from owner Ting Santos’s family recipes.¹⁵

Signature dishes (Filipino classics)

• Chicken Adobo — chicken braised in garlic, soy sauce, vinegar, and Filipino seasonings, served with steamed rice. (~$13.99–$14.00)⁵
• Pork Adobo — pork in the same garlic–soy–vinegar adobo braise, with rice. (~$14.00)⁵
• Lumpia (Fried Pork Rolls) — pork and vegetables rolled in a pastry wrapper, lightly fried for a crisp crunch; served with sweet-and-sour or spicy sauce. (~$8.99–$9.00)¹⁵
• Vegetable Lumpia — vegetable-filled fried spring rolls. (~$8.99)⁵

Noodles (Pancit)

• Pancit (Chicken / rice noodles) — stir-fried rice noodles with chicken and vegetables, traditionally served at celebrations. (~$14.00)¹⁵
• Pancit Canton — stir-fried wheat (canton) noodles. (~$14.99)⁵

Grilled skewers & silog rice bowls

• BBQ Chicken Skewer — grilled Filipino-style chicken skewer entrée. (~$14.99)⁵
• BBQ Pork Skewer (3) — three grilled pork skewers. (~$14.99)⁵
• Tapsilog — cured/marinated beef (tapa) over garlic rice with egg. (~$16.99)⁵
• Longsilog — Filipino sweet sausage (longganisa) with garlic rice and egg. (~$14.99)⁵
• Spamsilog — Spam with garlic rice and egg. (~$12.99)⁵

Desserts

• Turon — fried banana (and jackfruit) spring roll. (~$6.99)⁵
• Halo-Halo — layered shaved-ice dessert with mixed sweets. (~$8.99)⁵

Empanadas are also noted on aggregator descriptions but item-level pricing was not separately confirmed.⁵

Sources

Disputes

None at this time.

Footnotes

1. Ting’s Filipino Bistro — official website. https://www.tingsbistrokc.com/ (asserts: name; 405 Main St, Kansas City, MO 64105 address; Filipino cuisine and menu items; owner Ting Santos; family-recipe concept and “homage” quote; current hours and June 1–July 31, 2026 extended hours; open status; indoor/outdoor seating and online ordering.) ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹

2. “For Theresa Santos, opening Ting’s Filipino Bistro in Kansas City is an ‘homage’ to her family” — KCUR, Feb. 25, 2022. https://www.kcur.org/arts-life/2022-02-25/for-theresa-santos-opening-tings-filipino-bistro-in-kansas-city-is-an-homage-to-her-family (asserts: owner Theresa “Ting” Santos-Spencer; born in the Philippines; moved to Kansas City in 1998 as a restaurant consultant; recipes from late mother and grandmother; first location opened in Parlor food hall January 2022.) ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴

3. “Ting’s Filipino Bistro” — Yelp listing (Updated February 2026, 41 reviews, 91 photos), 405 Main St, Kansas City, MO. https://www.yelp.com/biz/tings-filipino-bistro-kansas-city-2 (asserts: Filipino classification; 405 Main St address; signature adobo dishes; active recent reviews confirming operating status as of Feb. 2026.) ↩

4. “Ting’s takes a page from grandma’s cookbook, bringing Filipino fare to KC; second ‘dream’ location coming to 39th Street” — Startland News, Feb. 2022. https://www.startlandnews.com/2022/02/tings-filipino-bistro-2/ (asserts: City Market location at 405 Main St opening Sept. 13, 2022; second “dream” location; expansion plans across the metro.) ↩ ↩²

5. Ting’s Filipino Bistro — online ordering and delivery menus: Toast (https://order.toasttab.com/online/tings-river-market-405-main-st), Uber Eats (https://www.ubereats.com/store/tings-filipino-bistro/4rT-Fk3FVU6Gs6VwARtJAw), and Grubhub (https://www.grubhub.com/restaurant/tings-filipino-bistro-405-main-st-kansas-city/5166288), as indexed June 2026. (asserts: menu item lineup — chicken/pork adobo, fried-pork and vegetable lumpia, pancit and pancit canton, BBQ chicken/pork skewers, tapsilog/longsilog/spamsilog silog bowls, turon and halo-halo desserts, empanadas — and approximate prices. Prices are delivery-platform-listed and may include markup; treat as Medium confidence.) ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹ ↩¹² ↩¹³ ↩¹⁴ ↩¹⁵