LC's Bar-B-Q
KCMO - East Side (Blue Pkwy) · since 1986
📍 5800 Blue Pkwy, Kansas City, MO 64129 Get directions & live hours →
A no-frills, smoke-filled classic locals send you to for burnt ends.
If you order one thing
Burnt ends — dark, crusty, and piled high.
The facts
- Order style
- counter
- Sauce
- classic sweet-tomato
- Burnt ends
- A signature; among the most-praised burnt ends in town.
- Cash only
- No, cards accepted
- Closed
- Open daily (confirm)
- Price
- $$
- Pedigree
- KC hole-in-the-wall institution founded in 1986 by LC Richardson; meats cooked in a three-tiered pit.
LC's Bar-B-Q is the quintessential KC hole-in-the-wall — a smoke-hazed room on Blue Parkway turning out hickory-smoked meat since 1986. Nearly every local guide points newcomers to the burnt ends, dark and crusty, as the thing to order. No frills, big portions — this is old-school Kansas City barbecue.
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