Kansas Visitor's Guide 2007/2008 - (Page 46) For couples Sardines. Prairie Highlands Golf Course in Olathe. Racing at Kansas Speedway. PHOTOGRAPHS, CLOCKWISE FROM FAR LEFT: ROY INMAN (5), KANSAS SPEEDWAY 2001–2006 KANSAS CITY AREA (Clockwise, from left) Chefs and fare at swank 40 I F YOU’RE THE SORT who feels the Visitors whose notion of a feast runs toward bleacher food can catch need to earn pleasures, you’re welcome to a Kansas City T-Bones minor-league baseball game at help with the harvest at Holy-Field CommunityAmerica Ballpark. The four-year-old Vineyard & Winery near Basehor (15 miles facility in Kansas City, Kansas, was built to have an west of Kansas City; reservations required). old-fashioned feel. And you won’t find a seat more But if you’re comfortable simply enjoying than 50 feet away from the action on the field. whatever good comes your way, head straight for Southeast of the ballpark, you can go to a race the tasting room. The much-acclaimed, 14-acre at the Kansas Speedway. On Thursdays, go behind the scenes boutique winery hosts its “Picking Sundays” every and take a guided tour of the track. autumn. However, you can sample wines all year. Shopping malls and plazas pop up around almost every The vineyard spreads across green countryside in corner. Nebraska Furniture Mart is almost certainly the an area that has seen a boom in recent decades as largest furniture and home products store you’ll ever visit Kansas City has spilled west across the state line into at more than one million square feet. In Olathe, you’re prosperous Kansas suburbs. Bonner Springs, Shawnee, sure to find a bargain at The Great Mall of the Great Merriam, Lenexa, Leawood, Olathe Plains. Leawood’s upscale, open-air Town Center Plaza and Overland Park—you may have a rivals Kansas City’s Country Club Plaza, and the hard time telling when you leave one boutiques of Hawthorne Plaza are just across the community and enter another. But these street. More than 180 national retailers and specialty suburbs provide much of the metro area’s shops pack the mammoth Oak Park Mall in best shopping, dining and entertainment. Overland Park. When you gather around a table at 40 Golfers can play on nearly two dozen public Sardines in Overland Park, wild boar, sweet courses. In Spring Hill, south of Olathe, potato ravioli and miso-glazed salmon are Sycamore Ridge features a front nine scattered among the menu stalwarts at this elegant cafe. with native grasses and bunkers and a back Before crossing over the state line into Kansas, nine of tree-lined fairways and creeks. chefs Debbie Gold and Michael Smith won the Deer Creek in Overland Park extends James Beard Award for Best Chefs at Kansas City, through a residential area, with mature Missouri’s, acclaimed The American Restaurant. trees certain to create a challenge. Official Kansas Visitors Guide 46
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