Price Guide (average entree): $ bargain - $6 or less, $$ inexpensive - $6 - $12, $$$ moderate $12 - $19, $$$$ expensive - over $19.
Quality Rating: Superb is the highest, considered the very best possible. Notes are qualifiers allowing insight into the reviewer's rating. Disclaimer
| Restaurant: | Jack Stack BBQ, Fiorella's | Location: | 135 th./ Holmes Road/ KCMO |
| Cuisine: | Bar-B-Que | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | **** superb | Notes: | |
| Food: | **** superb | Notes: | Always served "Fresh 'n Hot" |
| Service: | **** superb | Notes: | They will always try to fulfill special requests! |
| Favorites: | Jack Stack Sandwich (From the 69er to the Present!) |
| Comments: | I've been eating at Jack Stacks (Smoke Stack) whenever possible, no matter what the occasion since I was a young boy in the 1950's when my dad would take us out to eat. There is no finer ham sandwich anywhere! My fondest memories include the times when my dad (Walter) would get together with his brothers Jack and Bob to eat at the original Smoke Stack we knew that Good Times and Good Food were on the way. Now my family continues the tradition whenever we want the very best to eat and a perfect dining experience. |
| Reviewer: | Dave |
Date: | 4/11/00 |
| Restaurant: |
Jack Stack BBQ, Fiorella's |
Location: |
95th and Metcalf, OP |
| Cuisine: |
Barbecue |
Price: |
$$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: |
** very good |
Notes: | |
| Food: |
* average |
Notes: |
Meat was fatty, sauce a bit watery |
| Service: |
* average |
Notes: |
Nothing special |
| Favorites: | |
| Comments: |
Definitely does not "stack" up to other BBQ venues in the area. Meat quality was not very good. BBQ sauce was forgettable. Portion of fries was skimmpy. |
| Reviewer: |
Bart |
Date: |
5/30/00 |
| Restaurant: | Jack Stack BBQ, Fiorella's | Location: | Holmes road at 150 highway, Martin City |
| Cuisine: | Barbeque | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | ** very good | Notes: | Jack Stack looks and feels like a BBQ Resturant should |
| Food: | **** superb | Notes: | |
| Service: | *** excellent | Notes: | |
| Favorites: | Martin City Mayor |
| Comments: | |
| Reviewer: | Rodney |
Date: | 11/28/00 |
| Restaurant: |
Jack Stack BBQ, Fiorella's |
Location: |
95th and Metcalf, OP |
| Cuisine: |
Barbecue |
Price: |
$$$ moderate |
| Ambience: |
** very good |
Notes: | Relaxed |
| Food: |
substandard |
Notes: |
Burnt Ends have been dry 2 of the 4 times I have ordered. |
| Service: |
** very good |
Notes: |
Varies... |
| Favorites: | Lamb Ribs and Beef Burnt Ends |
| Comments: |
I have had both positive and negative experiences at JS's... The last one was negative so I haven;t been back since August 23rd. Why do I remmeber the date it was the day my son was born, a lil south of this location. I am not alloed to eat out because I do not control my diet to well unless it is monitored by he wifeee... But to celebrate I took my brother in law to one of my favorite places and it was horrible and to top it of at $50.00... I had contacted mangmet but they didn't seem to care. I left it at that... |
| Reviewer: |
Zak |
Date: |
12/1/00 |
| Restaurant: | Jack Stack BBQ Fiorellas | Location: | 95th and Metcalf, OP |
| Cuisine: | BBQ | Price: | $$$ moderate |
| Ambience: | *** excellent | Notes: | relaxed and casual |
| Food: | *** excellent | Notes: | |
| Service: | *** excellent | Notes: | |
| Favorites: | Baby back ribs |
| Comments: | Being from Michigan, I am not a BBQ expert - but this was excellent- combined with enjoyable atmosphere and excellent service- my daughter and her husband live in KC now and this has become their favorite BBQ-we'll go back whenever we get the chance |
| Reviewer: | Richard |
Date: | 7/9/01 |
| Restaurant: | Jack Stack BBQ, Fiorella's | Location: | 95th and Metcalf |
| Cuisine: | BBQ | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | *** excellent | Notes: | |
| Food: | **** superb | Notes: | best Barbecue in Kansas City |
| Service: | *** excellent | Notes: | Very prompt, kept my water glass full! |
| Favorites: | Arkansas Topper and Chicken Tenders. |
| Comments: | Fiorella's was the best barbeque I've ever tasted. The only problem I had with it was that it was too hard to make a choice on what to have. Everything sounded so good! |
| Reviewer: | Adam |
Date: | 1/24/02 |
| Restaurant: | Fiorella's Jackstack Barbeque | Location: | SW Corner of 95th & Metcalf Ave |
| Cuisine: | Barbeque | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | ** very good | Notes: | |
| Food: | *** excellent | Notes: | |
| Service: | *** excellent | Notes: | |
| Favorites: | Ribs or Burnt Ends or whatever |
| Comments: | The food is excellently prepared. In the summer and fall the vegetable kebob (can't recall what the actual name is on menu) is out of this world. Service has always been fast and pleasant too. |
| Reviewer: | Kalli |
Date: | 5/15/02 |
| Restaurant: | Fiorella's Jack Stack BBQ | Location: | 150th & Holmes @ Martin City |
| Cuisine: | BBQ | Price: | $$$ moderate |
| Ambience: | ** very good | Notes: | Love the wood work & hearth - cozy |
| Food: | ** very good | Notes: | |
| Service: | ** very good | Notes: | Waitress - friendly, courteous & helped w/dish descriptions |
| Favorites: | The cheesy corn dish! |
| Comments: | We're from out of town, ate there about 20 years ago (under a
different name - Smokestack?) and made such an impression on us, when we
came back to KC this time, we HAD to eat there again. Still just as good
as we remember it! |
| Reviewer: | Teresa |
Date: | 9/14/02 |
| Restaurant: | Fiorella's Jack Stack BBQ | Location: | 22nd & Wyandotte, downtown KCMO |
| Cuisine: | BBQ | Price: | $$$ moderate |
| Ambience: | ** very good | Notes: | treat all the same |
| Food: | * average | Notes: | |
| Service: | * average | Notes: | good |
| Favorites: | Roundup |
| Comments: | the best |
| Reviewer: | Tyrone |
Date: | 12/3/02 |
| Restaurant: | Jack Stacks | Location: | 135th Holmes Rd. KC MO |
| Cuisine: | BBQ | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | *** excellent | Notes: | its bbq. what do you want? |
| Food: | **** superb | Notes: | the best bbq in the world |
| Service: | *** excellent | Notes: | they know their stuff. no blank stares |
| Favorites: | Bbq Bean And Burnt Ends and... |
| Comments: | This is the best BBQ in the world. It truely is. IF you make it to KC and have Jack Stacks its a crying shame. I have it mailed to me in Ca. They do a beautiful job shipping the food and the shipping is
free. YOU GOTTA GO! |
| Reviewer: | Toni |
Date: | 1/3/03 |
| Restaurant: | Jack Stack BBQ | Location: | Kansas City |
| Cuisine: | BBQ | Price: | $$$ moderate |
| Ambience: | ** very good | Notes: | |
| Food: | *** excellent | Notes: | |
| Service: | | Notes: | |
| Favorites: | |
| Comments: | Anyone who has a problem with this restaurant needs to have
their head examined. ... Their food is awesome and you get more than enough. |
| Reviewer: | Kimberly |
Date: | 1/8/03 |
| Restaurant: | Jack Stacks BBQ, Fiorellas | Location: | SW Corner of 95th & Metcalf Ave |
| Cuisine: | BBQ brisket | Price: | $$$ moderate |
| Ambience: | | Notes: | $$$ moderate |
| Food: | *** excellent | Notes: | very tender |
| Service: | ** very good | Notes: | |
| Favorites: | Beef Brisket, Lean |
| Comments: | My brother and sister live in K.C. and whenever my family
comes back to visit them, we usually end up going to get some "Q" at Fiorellas. The brisket is out of this world. Wish they'd build a few "decent" barbeque spots in Indy. |
| Reviewer: | Dave |
Date: | 1/17/03 |
| Restaurant: | Fiorella's Jack Stack | Location: | Overland Park |
| Cuisine: | BBQ | Price: | $$$ moderate |
| Ambience: | ** very good | Notes: | |
| Food: | substandard | Notes: | very poor for the money you pay |
| Service: | ** very good | Notes: | |
| Favorites: | |
| Comments: | I have tried Jack Stack three time because everyone said it was so good. I have never had a good experience though. The food is over
priced and dry. Stick with the smaller local restaurants for good BBQ |
| Reviewer: | Jeff |
Date: | 4/9/03 |
| Restaurant: | Jack Stack Fiorella's | Location: | 95th & Metcalf |
| Cuisine: | Barbecue | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | ** very good | Notes: | |
| Food: | * average | Notes: | |
| Service: | * average | Notes: | |
| Favorites: | rack of onion rings |
| Comments: | Sliced beef tasted really off today -- didn't eat all of it and still had an upset stomach. |
| Reviewer: | Jan |
Date: | 3/21/03 |
| Restaurant: | Fiorella's Jack Stack | Location: | 135th. & Holmes Rd., Martin City, MO |
| Cuisine: | BBQ/Steakhouse | Price: | $$$ moderate |
| Ambience: | **** superb | Notes: | Ambience suits cuisine perfectly. One of my favorites. |
| Food: | **** superb | Notes: | Top-notch. At Fiorella's, the secret ingredient is "TLC." |
| Service: | **** superb | Notes: | Extremely accomodating, friendly staff. "Take a bow, guys!" |
| Favorites: | Steaks, Ribs, Burnt Ends, Beans,...Oh, hell, "everything." |
| Comments: | One of the best Kansas City-area beef-oriented restaurants. Fiorella's is in this business for the long haul, and their dedication is apparent from the moment you walk in the door. From the great staff and even greater food, clear through to the delivery of the check, it's first class dining all the way. I've never left the Jack Stack anything less than 100% satisfied. Excellent. |
| Reviewer: | Jonathan |
Date: | 6/26/03 |
| Restaurant: | Fiorella's Jacks Stack | Location: | 95th & Metcalf |
| Cuisine: | BBQ | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | **** superb | Notes: | |
| Food: | **** superb | Notes: | always very tasty! |
| Service: | **** superb | Notes: | We've always had excellent waiters |
| Favorites: | Sliced meat |
| Comments: | Every time we go to Jack Stacks we have an excellent experience! We recently took my boyfriends parents from California there, and his dad loved it so much he wants to order some to be delivered out there! |
| Reviewer: | Angela |
Date: | 6/30/03 |
| Restaurant: | Fiorella's Jack Stack | Location: | Kansas City |
| Cuisine: | barbeque | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | *** excellent | Notes: | |
| Food: | *** excellent | Notes: | great sauces |
| Service: | ** very good | Notes: | |
| Favorites: | Burnt ends, pork ribs |
| Comments: | Excellent ambience, great food, reasonable prices ... what else could you want? |
| Reviewer: | Bill |
Date: | 7/21/03 |
| Restaurant: | Fiorella's Jack Stacks | Location: | 95th & Metcalf |
| Cuisine: | BBQ | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | *** excellent | Notes: | This is NOT a dive, very nice |
| Food: | **** superb | Notes: | |
| Service: | **** superb | Notes: | The waitress looked too young to be good, SURPRISE |
| Favorites: | 3 meat combo, sausage, pork, brisket |
| Comments: | We expected a smoke-filled, slightly grungy place w/ good food but no class. We got a great upscale bar & grille, terrific food, cheap prices, even good ale on tap. Definitely not your average mid-west chain-store restaurant. |
| Reviewer: | Laurie |
Date: | 8/20/03 |
| Restaurant: | Fiorella's Jack Stack BBQ | Location: | Freight House |
| Cuisine: | BBQ | Price: | $$$ moderate |
| Ambience: | *** excellent | Notes: | Locations vary in style. We love the Freight House. |
| Food: | **** superb | Notes: | Love the burnt end. You must try the pit beans. |
| Service: | *** excellent | Notes: | Not the fastest, but who cares? Nice place, no rush. |
| Favorites: | Burnt end & brisket |
| Comments: | We have loved Fiorella's on each and every of our four visits over the last two years. The atmosphere & service are great. However, I rarely go to restaurants for either of those things. The food is outstanding. The baby back ribs were succulent just like the brisket and burnt end were. Also, please do yourself a favor: try the pit beans. Order a side of 'em if they don't come with your meal. Highly recommended. |
| Reviewer: | Paul |
Date: | 10/22/03 |
| Restaurant: | Fiorella's Jack Stack BBQ | Location: | 135th & Holmes |
| Cuisine: | Pork Ribs | Price: | $$$ moderate |
| Ambience: | **** superb | Notes: | the remodeling looks great |
| Food: | **** superb | Notes: | perfect everytime |
| Service: | **** superb | Notes: | very friendly |
| Favorites: | Martin City Special |
| Comments: | Are you kidding me. You can't find a better BBQ place in town. The coleslaw is the best ever. |
| Reviewer: | Bonita |
Date: | 10/22/03 |
| Restaurant: | Jack's Stack | Location: | Holmes road at 150 highway, Martin City |
| Cuisine: | BBQ | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | **** superb | Notes: | There are 3 distinct rooms, each which its own ambiance |
| Food: | **** superb | Notes: | Best BBQ in Kansas City!!! |
| Service: | **** superb | Notes: | Always friendly and helpfull |
| Favorites: | The Poor Russ sandwich with beans and cheezie corn |
| Comments: | This is the BBQ that I measure all others by, no matter where I go it remains the best! |
| Reviewer: | Michael |
Date: | 12/6/03 |
| Restaurant: | Jack Stack BBQ | Location: | Martin City, MO |
| Cuisine: | BBQ | Price: | $$$ moderate |
| Ambience: | *** excellent | Notes: | It's a BBQ, what do you want? |
| Food: | **** superb | Notes: | BEST!! |
| Service: | *** excellent | Notes: | |
| Favorites: | Lamb, Lamb, lamb! |
| Comments: | I have lived in K.C. Since 1990. many others have come and gone, some a lot fancier but none better! Get the lamb! It's where I take family when they are in town |
| Reviewer: | Ben |
Date: | 4/13/04 |
| Restaurant: | Fiorella's Jack Stack BBQ | Location: | Martin City |
| Cuisine: | BBQ | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | **** superb | Notes: | Very cozy, unique sense of style |
| Food: | **** superb | Notes: | The giant onion rings by the rack are great |
| Service: | **** superb | Notes: | Never had a bad experience |
| Favorites: | Martin City Special |
| Comments: | Definitely the best BBQ in KC! It is the preferred by far. I always order the boxed lunches and buffets for work meetings. LOVE to go to the Martin City location to dine-in. Would never go anywhere else! |
| Reviewer: | Kristin |
Date: | 4/25/04 |
| Restaurant: | Fiorella's Jack Stack | Location: | Martin City. Missouri |
| Cuisine: | BBQ | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | *** excellent | Notes: | Clean, nice atmosphere |
| Food: | **** superb | Notes: | |
| Service: | **** superb | Notes: | |
| Favorites: | The Beans, Burnt Ends, beef and pork slices |
| Comments: | I am a die hard Missouri BBQ fanatic. I grew up eating BBQ in Missouri and have been a fan of the Smoke Stack or Jack's Stack for over 20 years. My folks were die hard fans of the Stack aas well. Many wonderful memories of family get togethers have been shared at the Stack.
The food has always been consisent in the great taste and excellent quality. Their sauce is my favorite above all other sauces in the KC area. Service has always been great even when the place is packed to the gills with BBQ fans.
I now live in New England and every trip home to Missouri includes at least two stops at Jack's Stack for REAL down home BBQ. |
| Reviewer: | Janice |
Date: | 5/21/04 |
| Restaurant: | Fiorella's Jack Stack | Location: | 95th and Metcalf |
| Cuisine: | BBQ | Price: | $$$ moderate |
| Ambience: | *** excellent | Notes: | Its a fun place to take visitors |
| Food: | ** very good | Notes: | Occasional dry meat but overall very good. |
| Service: | ** very good | Notes: | A little slow on drink refills when busy. |
| Favorites: | Pit Beans |
| Comments: | Coming from TX this BBQ is completely different. I haven't found a truly good smokehouse in KC. You have to have the Spicy sauce if you meats need it. The rest of the sauce is pretty tasteless. Overall its good food and good time. |
| Reviewer: | Windy |
Date: | 5/22/04 |
| Restaurant: | Jack's Stack | Location: | Kansas City |
| Cuisine: | Barbecue | Price: | $$$ moderate |
| Ambience: | * average | Notes: | |
| Food: | ** very good | Notes: | |
| Service: | | Notes: | |
| Favorites: | Burnt ends |
| Comments: | How can I get a catalog of what you offer to ship ? I saw some of your Barbecue on The Early Show and it looked DELICIOUS and they said you will Fed Ex it. |
| Reviewer: | Barbara |
Date: | 5/25/04 |
| Restaurant: | Fiorella's Jack Stack | Location: | 22nd street and Wyandotte |
| Cuisine: | BBQ | Price: | $ bargain |
| Ambience: | **** superb | Notes: | Beautiful Dining Hall |
| Food: | **** superb | Notes: | World's Greatest Beef |
| Service: | **** superb | Notes: | Friendly |
| Favorites: | Hatfield Sandwich |
| Comments: | The Returant is beautiful inside and out. With a beautiul bar and friendly service this place is the best. The world class sauce and food are to die for. This resturant is the bet BBQ resturant in the world. |
| Reviewer: | Aaron |
Date: | 6/10/04 |
| Restaurant: | Fiorella's Jack Stack | Location: | 95th & Metcalf / Overland Park, KS |
| Cuisine: | BBQ | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | **** superb | Notes: | restaurant, not cafeteria style |
| Food: | ** very good | Notes: | great beans & ham, bland beef |
| Service: | *** excellent | Notes: | _ |
| Favorites: | Pit beans |
| Comments: | Pit beans were the best I've ever had (I haven't been to the Smokehouse yet, though). Ham was terrific. Beef and pork were dry and bland - needed sauce. Sauce was just average. |
| Reviewer: | Brian |
Date: | 7/22/04 |
| Restaurant: | Fiorella's Jack Stack BBQ | Location: | 22nd and Wyandotte |
| Cuisine: | BBQ | Price: | $$$ moderate |
| Ambience: | *** excellent | Notes: | Dark, relaxing and very spacious |
| Food: | *** excellent | Notes: | Well presented |
| Service: | poor | Notes: | no team work, empty glasses, no check back |
| Favorites: | Burnt Ends |
| Comments: | The food and room wonderful. Those are the only things bringing us back. Servers (on 3 different visits) brought salads with entrees, glasses were left empty for more than 20 minutes, other servers walking by with pitchers and not noticing. Our server on one visit was slammed, I understand, but servers from tables around her standing in wait station talking, ignoring customers lifting empty glasses in need of refilling. plates stacked on tables, MANAGERS walked past dozens of times, never a pitcher or a plate touched. I keep giving your location chances hoping it will get better, but each visit sadly, we are disappointed. Being a part of the downtown art district and managing restaurants in and around the Westport and Plaza, it is heart breaking. |
| Reviewer: | Tamara |
Date: | 7/22/04 |
| Restaurant: | Jackstack | Location: | Martin City |
| Cuisine: | BBQ | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | *** excellent | Notes: | smells like bbq |
| Food: | *** excellent | Notes: | Never had a bad experience |
| Service: | ** very good | Notes: | Tea kept full |
| Favorites: | Poor Russ and their beans |
| Comments: | The martin city location is consistently excellent, the OP location can vary from good to great. |
| Reviewer: | Robert |
Date: | 8/27/04 |
| Restaurant: | Fiorella's Jack Stack BBQ | Location: | 95 and Metcalf |
| Cuisine: | BBQ | Price: | $$$ moderate |
| Ambience: | *** excellent | Notes: | Not fancy, better than most BBQ |
| Food: | **** superb | Notes: | _ |
| Service: | *** excellent | Notes: | _ |
| Favorites: | Crown Prime Rib |
| Comments: | The Crown Prime Rib at this restaurant is one of my favorite meals in the nation. It's a must-have when visiting the area.
I've never seen this cut anywhere else, and the ribs are unlike any other I've had - large, meaty, very tender, and very rich - they're wonderful.
Other meals have had very good reviews, but I've given up trying other dishes. The cheesy corn bake is good and what you would expect. |
| Reviewer: | Craig |
Date: | 9/9/04 |
| Restaurant: | Fiorella's Jack Stack BBQ | Location: | Martin City, MO |
| Cuisine: | BBQ | Price: | $$$ moderate |
| Ambience: | * average | Notes: | _ |
| Food: | substandard | Notes: | Meat more fat than lean |
| Service: | * average | Notes: | _ |
| Favorites: | Onion Rings |
| Comments: | I can't understand why this reataurant gets the high ratings it does. I will give them credit for thier side dishes, but sides aren't what BBQ is about. Meat is consistently substandard. Burnt end quality is terrible. I got a pound of shredded burnt ends to go once. The come without sauce so you could see the meat. They were almost completely white (all fat, no meat). No more JS for Me. |
| Reviewer: | Sean |
Date: | 9/27/04 |
| Restaurant: | Fiorella's Jack Stack | Location: | 95th and Metcalf |
| Cuisine: | BBQ | Price: | $$$ moderate |
| Ambience: | *** excellent | Notes: | Nice family place. |
| Food: | **** superb | Notes: | The best sit down family dinner bbq in KC. |
| Service: | *** excellent | Notes: | They know how to make it right. |
| Favorites: | Everything |
| Comments: | This is the best place in KC to go and have a nice bbq dinner. The cheesy corn and beans and slaw...wow. The sauces are excellent and are a great compliment to the flavor of the meat, rather than covering it up. If you go, stay a while and get an appetizer or two...I like the burnt end appetizer, before I get the burnt end dinner!!!! |
| Reviewer: | Jarrod |
Date: | 4/2/05 |
| Restaurant: | Fiorella's Jackstack | Location: | 22nd & Wyandotte or Martin City |
| Cuisine: | BBQ | Price: | $$$ moderate |
| Ambience: | **** superb | Notes: | Freighthouse's Ambience is the best |
| Food: | **** superb | Notes: | Always amazing BBQ dishes and Sides |
| Service: | **** superb | Notes: | _ |
| Favorites: | Hatfield, Cheesy Cornbake, Burnt Ends, Ribs |
| Comments: | I am from Chicago, but learned of Jackstack from my wife who is from KC. It is hands-down the best BBQ in KC (and maybe anywhere). It is a must if you havent tried it. The Overland Park location is not as good as the Freighthouse and Martin City locations. Every out-of-town guest must experience KC BBQ, and we always take ours to Jackstack. We even had our wedding rehearsal there at the Freighthouse location, which is awesome. Gates and Bryant's are good, but there is no better place than Jackstack to experience KC BBQ. |
| Reviewer: | Chris |
Date: | 4/6/05 |
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