Price Guide (average entree): $ bargain - $6 or less, $$ inexpensive - $6 - $12, $$$ moderate $12 - $19, $$$$ expensive - over $19.
Quality Rating: Superb is the highest, considered the very best possible. Notes are qualifiers allowing insight into the reviewer's rating. Disclaimer
| Restaurant: | Stroud's | Location: | North off of I-35 and Vivion |
| Cuisine: | American | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | *** excellent | Notes: | The restaurant is in an old house and the floors are crooked |
| Food: | **** superb | Notes: | Best food in Kansas City |
| Service: | *** excellent | Notes: | |
| Favorites: | The broiled porkchops are an each and inch thick and melt in
your mouth. |
| Comments: | Stroud's is one of the best restaurant's in town. It is inexpensive and the food is first class. If you go, go early. At three in the afternoon on either Sat. or Sun. The wait will be one to two hours but the wait is worth it. |
| Reviewer: | Dave |
Date: | 3/30/00 |
| Restaurant: | Stroud's | Location: | North of River - I-35 & Vivion |
| Cuisine: | American (Steak & Chicken) | Price: | $$$ moderate |
| Ambience: | ** very good | Notes: | The Old Oak Ridge Manor |
| Food: | **** superb | Notes: | There's alway a wait - guess why. |
| Service: | *** excellent | Notes: | No snooty creeps here. Nice folks. |
| Favorites: | K.C. Strip, Fried Chicken and Pork Chops |
| Comments: | When you think of Strouds everyone thinks chicken which is the best in the world. But it might come as a suprise that they serve a great steak too, better than Herford House or Golden Ox. The sides are the same and if you have to wait it's a nice relaxing place to do it. The owner and staff are super friendly and make you feel right at home. Dress is casual. Besides chicken and steaks the pork chops are out of this world too. Come on up north and sit a spell. |
| Reviewer: | Charlie |
Date: | 4/4/00 |
| Restaurant: | Stroud's | Location: | South Kansas City, MO |
| Cuisine: | American | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | * average | Notes: | It's packed and welcomes families. |
| Food: | *** excellent | Notes: | consistently great! |
| Service: | ** very good | Notes: | |
| Favorites: | Gizzards and the soup is fantastic! |
| Comments: | If your looking for a place that has a lot of fun atmosphere
with good people watching, this is the spot. Down home cooking (fried chicken and all the fixings) and amazingly good pork chops. You could make a meal of the home made soup and cinnamon rolls. |
| Reviewer: | Jim |
Date: | 7/28/00 |
| Restaurant: | Stroud's | Location: | 1015 E 85th St Kc,Mo |
| Cuisine: | American | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | **** superb | Notes: | wonderful |
| Food: | **** superb | Notes: | fanastic |
| Service: | *** excellent | Notes: | wonderful |
| Favorites: | Fried Chicken |
| Comments: | No one can compare to strouds,I have traveled all over the U.S.
and no one makes chicken like Strouds. Everytime I come to K.C., Strouds is the first place I go so I can have the very best. |
| Reviewer: | Linda |
Date: | 9/1/00 |
| Restaurant: | Stroud's | Location: | North, off I-35 and Vivion |
| Cuisine: | American | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | **** superb | Notes: | In very old house, crooked floors, cool antiques. |
| Food: | **** superb | Notes: | Wonderful! |
| Service: | **** superb | Notes: | |
| Favorites: | fried chicken |
| Comments: | Only ate here once when we visited family near KC last year..but it was great! The wait was really long, but there was a nice pond area and the kids (we had 5 with us) had plenty of room to run. The food was excellent and there was plenty of it, and my sons are still raving a year later in Ohio about the fried chicken! |
| Reviewer: | Sandy |
Date: | 9/6/01 |
| Restaurant: | Strouds | Location: | I-35 & vivion |
| Cuisine: | American | Price: | $$$ moderate |
| Ambience: | | Notes: | It's like going to Grandmas house for dinner. |
| Food: | **** superb | Notes: | Everything is served family style. |
| Service: | **** superb | Notes: | Best service in town |
| Favorites: | Boiled Pork Chops, Chicken Fried Steak. |
| Comments: | If your looking for a place to hang out. This is it! It's like going to Grandmas house. The staff goes out of their way to get to know everyone. Joe and Mike are excellent bar tenders. They make a mean chicken choker. The 1-2 hour wait is well worth it. Spend it strolling the grounds, visiting the pond, or bellying up to the bar. Strouds is a great place to dine and hang out with friends. |
| Reviewer: | Elizabeth |
Date: | 11/22/01 |
| Restaurant: | Stroud's | Location: | Kansas City North |
| Cuisine: | Home Style Fried Chicken | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | ** very good | Notes: | Need to switch smoking and non-smoking |
| Food: | **** superb | Notes: | Best home style fried chicken I EVER tasted |
| Service: | *** excellent | Notes: | Waitstaff treats you like family |
| Favorites: | Fried chicken/Chicken fried steaks |
| Comments: | Wonderful old home sitting on a beautiful pond. Any season of
the year it is "The Place" to bring anyone to eat and enjoy the view. |
| Reviewer: | Pat |
Date: | 8/14/02 |
| Restaurant: | Strouds | Location: | North of River - I-35 & Vivion |
| Cuisine: | American | Price: | $$$ moderate |
| Ambience: | ** very good | Notes: | nice outside |
| Food: | substandard | Notes: | did not like it |
| Service: | * average | Notes: | felt rushed |
| Favorites: | |
| Comments: | Got the Chicken dinner wife got the 5 Huge Shrimp. The chicken seemed dry, the shrimp had good taste but breading was not what I was
wanting. Maybe too much Popeyes chicken for me?!?! For the price I would
have wewnt somewhere else. Used to go there when I was a kid and was not
very pleased this trip. Maybe a bad outting. |
| Reviewer: | Chad |
Date: | 12/01/02 |
| Restaurant: | Strouds | Location: | I-35 and Vivion |
| Cuisine: | American | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | *** excellent | Notes: | Neat older place |
| Food: | *** excellent | Notes: | Food hot and tasty |
| Service: | *** excellent | Notes: | Attentive but not oppressive |
| Favorites: | Pan Fried Chicken |
| Comments: | A visit here is like going to Grandma's house for Sunday
Dinner. Lots of good food and good atmosphere. |
| Reviewer: | Greg |
Date: | 2/20/03 |
| Restaurant: | Strouds | Location: | Kansas City North |
| Cuisine: | American | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | *** excellent | Notes: | Old Charming Historic Property |
| Food: | **** superb | Notes: | Everything on menu the best |
| Service: | **** superb | Notes: | Top Notch |
| Favorites: | Chicken, Livers, Ribs, Chops, Shrimp |
| Comments: | Though food is excellent, the service is what sets this place apart from others. Thanks to Dennis, bartenders, Joe, Mike & John, and the entire wait staff for their wonderful, friendly service through the years. Love You Guys! |
| Reviewer: | Sue |
Date: | 5/16/03 |
| Restaurant: | Stroud's | Location: | Kansas City |
| Cuisine: | American | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | *** excellent | Notes: | very cool setting- 1800's |
| Food: | ** very good | Notes: | Chicken isn't all it's clucked up to be. Side dishes better |
| Service: | *** excellent | Notes: | |
| Favorites: | Green beans, old fashioned fries |
| Comments: | I didn't think the chicken was as fantastic as every thinks it is. It was moist but didn't have any flavor. KFC chicken has more flavor and substance. The family style serving is very appealing and the facility is beautiful inside and out. Each dining room has it's own personality. Very family friendly! |
| Reviewer: | Joy |
Date: | 9/11/03 |
| Restaurant: | Strouds | Location: | I35 and Vivion, more or less--well marked from the freeway. |
| Cuisine: | Comfort | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | **** superb | Notes: | Busy, crowded, "family" |
| Food: | **** superb | Notes: | If something is not perfect, I am told, they fix it. |
| Service: | **** superb | Notes: | On time, on schedule (some stuff thakes a while), impeccable |
| Favorites: | Chicken, mashed, green beans gravy, learning to try other stuff. |
| Comments: | Been rigid about only ordering the chicken dinner, but now I'm being forced to try the two different pork chops and the steak, so now I have to think. I suppose next they will have ham to chose from. |
| Reviewer: | Laurence |
Date: | 5/3/04 |
| Restaurant: | Stroud's | Location: | 85th St. South KC |
| Cuisine: | Home Cookin' | Price: | $$$ moderate |
| Ambience: | * average | Notes: | Tacky in the best way--not substandard |
| Food: | *** excellent | Notes: | Unbelievably delicious |
| Service: | *** excellent | Notes: | Once you are seated, its awesome. |
| Favorites: | Chicken Fried Steak |
| Comments: | This place deserves its long, successful track record. Our family gets nothing but the chicken fried steak and has NEVER been disappointed. You get to eat more of their gravy. Also their salad with House dressing--generous and good. Of course sides of green beans and mashed potatoes are must haves. |
| Reviewer: | Melissa |
Date: | 7/22/04 |
| Restaurant: | Strouds | Location: | Kansas City, MO |
| Cuisine: | Fried Chicken | Price: | $$$ moderate |
| Ambience: | * average | Notes: | crowded |
| Food: | **** superb | Notes: | _ |
| Service: | ** very good | Notes: | _ |
| Favorites: | gizzards |
| Comments: | Great chicken!!! Lots of food, good prices. We have been to both locations several times, and both are great. Introduced my fiance to this restaurant, and now it is his favorite. |
| Reviewer: | Maxine |
Date: | 10/7/04 |
| Restaurant: | Stroud's | Location: | Kansas City |
| Cuisine: | American | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | *** excellent | Notes: | It feels like a big family reunion. |
| Food: | *** excellent | Notes: | The only place I have had better cinnamon rolls is Grandma's |
| Service: | *** excellent | Notes: | You never have to wait for refills on your sides. |
| Favorites: | Cinnamon Rolls |
| Comments: | Stroud's is one of my favorite restaurants in Kansas City and I typically stick to pretty high end places elsewhere. The chicken is great, but what I always wait for are the cinnamon rolls. Typically I go to the one closer to the city, which is in a little bit of a scary area, but it is worth it for the food. |
| Reviewer: | Tera |
Date: | 6/3/05 |
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