{"id":17583,"date":"2012-09-08T09:49:53","date_gmt":"2012-09-08T15:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmgastronome.com\/?p=17583"},"modified":"2026-04-06T10:59:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T16:59:34","slug":"danny-edwards-blvd-bbq-kansas-city-missouri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nmgastronome.com\/?p=17583","title":{"rendered":"Danny Edwards Blvd. BBQ &#8211; Kansas City, Missouri"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<figure style=\"width: 485px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 485px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 485\/321;border: 4px solid black; margin-top: 3px; margin-bottom: 3px;\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.nmgastronome.com\/usa\/barbecue\/Images\/DannyEdwards01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"485\" height=\"321\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Danny Edwards Blvd BBQ, one of Kansas City&#8217;s most highly regarded barbecue restaurants<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">Kansas City is known as the &#8220;city of fountains.&#8221;\u00a0 It&#8217;s also known as the &#8220;world&#8217;s barbecue capital.&#8221; If locals had their way, ever the twain would meet and the city&#8217;s fountains would be burbling not with water, but with barbecue sauce.\u00a0 Barbecue sauce runs through the veins of local barbecue aficionados.\u00a0 It&#8217;s an integral part of the city&#8217;s heritage.\u00a0 More than at the other regions&#8211;the Carolinas, Texas and Memphis&#8211;in which barbecue is a religion, Kansas City pit masters know that sauce is the crowning touch to their low-and-slow handiwork.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">In combination with dry rub seasonings, the sauce gives smoked meats their personality.\u00a0 It&#8217;s what you taste most along with the smoky flavor.\u00a0 One of the very best barbecue sauces my friend Bill Resnik and I experienced during our September, 2012 barbecue tour of Kansas City comes from Danny Edwards Blvd BBQ, a\u00a0 restaurant Food Network host Rahm Fama contends serves up the &#8220;best barbecue in the city.&#8221;\u00a0 The best barbecue deserves the best sauce.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 475px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 475px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 475\/318;border: 4px solid black; margin-top: 3px; margin-bottom: 3px;\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.nmgastronome.com\/usa\/barbecue\/Images\/DannyEdwards02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"318\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">The comfy confines of Danny Edwards Barbecue Restaurant<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">At Danny Edwards, ketchup is the base for the sauce which also includes white and brown sugar, chili powder, mustard flour and allspice.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not an overly assertive sauce, but the heat from the chili does sneak up on you and provides a nice counterbalance to the sugary sweetness.\u00a0 The sauce is of medium consistency, not too thin or too thick. \u00a0\u00a0 One of the best qualities of any sauce is that it stays in the background very well.\u00a0 It allows the meats to be showcased.\u00a0 It&#8217;s applied just lavishly enough to complement the meats without taking them over.\u00a0 You can add more if you&#8217;d like, but probably won&#8217;t need to.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">In a city with more than one-hundred barbecue restaurants, not all of them can trace their lineage as far back as Danny Edwards whose father ran a barbecue business during the Depression.\u00a0 Edwards cut his teeth on\u00a0 barbecue.\u00a0 By the time he was seventeen, he was cooking, carving and becoming an adept pit master.\u00a0 He opened his own barbecue restaurant eight years later, a small downtown establishment seating only eighteen guests.\u00a0 His eponymous downtown restaurant is much larger and more modern, allowing him to transition from traditional smoking pits to a hickory pit which uses a combination of gas and hickory smoke to maintain the heat and smoke at optimum levels.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 475px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 475px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 475\/343;border: 4px solid black; margin-top: 3px; margin-bottom: 3px;\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.nmgastronome.com\/usa\/barbecue\/Images\/DannyEdwards03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"343\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Burnt Ends Plate (Crispy Smoked Edges of Beef Brisket with Sauce), Asian Coleslaw and Cheesy Santa Fe Dish<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">The two items for which Danny Edwards is best known are smoked brisket and burnt ends.\u00a0 The dry rub applied to the briskets is made from brown sugar, paprika, black pepper, garlic and salt, ingredients which are well balanced.\u00a0 None of the fat on the brisket is trimmed, allowing flavors to penetrate deeply and make the brisket moist and tender.\u00a0 The briskets are smoked for sixteen hours on low-and-slow heat of 210 degrees.\u00a0 After sixteen hours, the briskets are extricated from the smoker and cut vertically into the &#8220;flat&#8221; (the largest, leanest part of the brisket) and the point from which burnt ends are made.\u00a0 At that point, the fat is trimmed out and more rub is applied for another two hours of smoking.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">Contrary to the name, burnt ends aren&#8217;t burnt at all.\u00a0 The edges of the brisket are a little dark with a nice caramelization and a crusty bark. Best of all, burnt ends inherit a significant amount of flavor from the fattiest (but melted down) part of the brisket.\u00a0 Today what were once throw-away bits of the brisket are some of the most cherished and craved of all.\u00a0 At Danny Edwards, the burnt ends are outstanding, possessing a higher degree of smoke flavor than burnt ends normally had.\u00a0 The combination of a naturally flavorful meat, discernible smokiness and a complementary sauce make these my favorite burnt ends anywhere.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 475px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 475px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 475\/318;border: 4px solid black; margin-top: 3px; margin-bottom: 3px;\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.nmgastronome.com\/usa\/barbecue\/Images\/DannyEdwards04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"318\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Half-Rack of Ribs with Cucumber Salad and Asian Coleslaw<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">Unlike our experience at <a title=\"Oklahoma Joe's Barbecue\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nmgastronome.com\/?p=17547\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oklahoma Joe&#8217;s<\/a>, the siren-like aroma of smoke enveloped us from the moment our car door opened.\u00a0 We were sheathed in a wonderful smoky cocoon during our entire stay.\u00a0 Bottle that smokiness and it would make a best-selling aftershave.\u00a0 The smokiness was imparted nicely onto the half-rack of ribs Bill enjoyed lustily.\u00a0 The ribs were meaty and moist with nary a hint of fat.\u00a0 As with too many ribs, the annoying membrane wasn&#8217;t removed before the smoking process, but that&#8217;s a nit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">Danny Edwards offers some sides heretofore unseen at other pantheons of barbecue excellence.\u00a0 They also prepare the standards better than almost everyone else.\u00a0 The baked beans are phenomenal with a nice smoky flavor penetration and shards of meat.\u00a0 Asian coleslaw, a lip-pursing tangy slaw made from purple cabbage, is a side which should be be on the restaurant&#8217;s everyday menu.\u00a0 A cucumber salad made from freshly picked, garden fresh cucumbers is a seasonal offering, but a refreshing change from the de rigueur barbecue restaurant sides.\u00a0 Onion rings are crunchy and thickly battered, but with moist, sweet onions therein.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 465px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 465px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 465\/350;border: 4px solid black; margin-top: 3px; margin-bottom: 3px;\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.nmgastronome.com\/usa\/barbecue\/Images\/DannyEdwards05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"465\" height=\"350\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Onion Rings<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">There are only a handful of barbecue restaurants in Kansas City in the debate as to which is the very best.\u00a0 Danny Edwards is one of those, a perfect combination of sauce, smoke, flavor and delicious barbecue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Danny Edwards Blvd BBQ<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n2900 Southwest Blvd<br \/>\n<strong>Kansas City, Missouri<\/strong><br \/>\n816 283 0880<br \/>\n<a title=\"Danny Edwards Blvd BBQ\" href=\"http:\/\/dannyedwardsblvdbbq.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Web Site<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>LATEST VISIT<\/strong>: 8 September 2012<br \/>\n<strong># OF VISITS<\/strong>: 1<br \/>\n<strong>RATING<\/strong>: N\/R<br \/>\n<strong>COST<\/strong>: $$<br \/>\n<strong>BEST BET<\/strong>: Burnt Ends, Babyback Ribs, Asian Coleslaw, Onion Rings <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas City is known as the &#8220;city of fountains.&#8221;\u00a0 It&#8217;s also known as the &#8220;world&#8217;s barbecue capital.&#8221; If locals had their way, ever the twain would meet and the city&#8217;s fountains would be burbling not with water, but with barbecue sauce.\u00a0 Barbecue sauce runs through the veins of local barbecue aficionados.\u00a0 It&#8217;s an integral part of the city&#8217;s heritage.\u00a0 More than at the other regions&#8211;the Carolinas, Texas and Memphis&#8211;in which barbecue is a religion, Kansas City pit masters know that sauce is the crowning touch to their low-and-slow handiwork. In combination with dry rub seasonings, the sauce gives smoked meats their personality.\u00a0 It&#8217;s what you taste most along with the smoky flavor.\u00a0 One of the very best barbecue sauces my&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1762,544,601,5647,553],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-barbecue","category-diners-drive-ins-and-dives","category-food-network-eats-new-mexico","category-kansas","category-rating-n-r","category-across-america"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Danny Edwards Blvd. BBQ - Kansas City, Missouri - Gil&#039;s Thrilling (And Filling) Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nmgastronome.com\/?p=17583\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Danny Edwards Blvd. BBQ - Kansas City, Missouri - Gil&#039;s Thrilling (And Filling) Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kansas City is known as the &#8220;city of fountains.&#8221;\u00a0 It&#8217;s also known as the &#8220;world&#8217;s barbecue capital.&#8221; If locals had their way, ever the twain would meet and the city&#8217;s fountains would be burbling not with water, but with barbecue sauce.\u00a0 Barbecue sauce runs through the veins of local barbecue aficionados.\u00a0 It&#8217;s an integral part of the city&#8217;s heritage.\u00a0 More than at the other regions&#8211;the Carolinas, Texas and Memphis&#8211;in which barbecue is a religion, Kansas City pit masters know that sauce is the crowning touch to their low-and-slow handiwork. 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