Tag: Shawn Craft

Downtown food hall hits closing time; Strang’s chef-driven concept leaving lightwell

By Tommy Felts / November 26, 2024

Strang Chef Collective is serving its final customers within the food hall’s downtown space, said CEO Shawn Craft, announcing the lightwell location would close Tuesday “despite the company’s best efforts over the past year to keep it open.” The chef-driven concept — through which diners experience a mix of global and elevated comfort flavors —…

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First look: Chef behind Strang Hall favorite Anousone brings his popular Laotian fare downtown

By Tommy Felts / March 19, 2024

A new menu option at the Strang Chef Collective at lightwell hits familiar flavors for diners who already have fallen in love with renowned Chef Anourom Thomson’s Southeast Asian-inspired comfort food, said Shawn Craft. Anousone — a popular staple with the Strang Hall food hall concept in downtown Overland Park — has opened a new…

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Sneak peek: Plaza’s two-floor, chef-driven food hall and late-night hangout opening Monday 

By Tommy Felts / November 4, 2023

With the Strang Chef Collective’s third location set to open Monday on the Country Club Plaza, the food hall concept is expected to help serve transformation within Kansas City’s iconic shopping and entertainment district, said Shawn Craft.  “To get in on the ground floor and to be a part of that is exciting for us,”…

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Coming to the Plaza: Food hall to put ‘chefs out front’ from breakfast to late-night crowd

By Tommy Felts / February 9, 2023

Just months after expanding to Downtown Kansas City, the Strang Chef Collectives’ next location for a chef-driven food hall will be tailored to fit its new home on the Country Club Plaza, said Shawn Craft. The hall’s four new food and beverage concepts — slated to open in late May or early June — will…

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‘Cure-all’ for your hunger: Chefs offer tastes of what’s to come at KC’s newest food hall 

By Tommy Felts / October 26, 2022

A Kansas City-simmered food hall concept is expected to unveil its long-awaited dining experience next month in the lightwell building downtown — pairing two well-seasoned culinary minds with appetites for inventive tastes. Officially dubbed the Strang Chef Collective at lightwell, the chef-driven venture will feature a duo of restaurant concepts — Verde and Panacea —…

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