While in Kansas City this past weekend for my wife’s family reunion, we had dinner at Carmen’s Cafe in the Brookside neighborhood of Kansas City. Carmen’s describes itself as having Italian cuisine served with Latin flair, with a menu of tapas, pasta, and other meat and fish based Italian dishes. And judging by our meal, and seeing what other people were eating, it seemed like a place you could keep going back to.
Tricia and I split the Paella Valencia and a tapas order of Shrimp ala Ajillo. The shrimp was good and fairly simple, but the paella was outstanding. I have fond memories of sitting at a street cafe in Madrid, sharing a huge plate of paella with a bunch of HS classmates. I’ll never forget what seemed like an endless supply of the best seafood I’d ever had.
The paella in KC was nowhere near as good, but it was the best I’ve had since then. The plate was packed with beef, chicken, chorizo, and a variety of seafood (clams, mussels, squid, scallops, salmon). By the end, I was so stuffed I couldn’t even think of dessert, even though I really wanted to try their Tiramisu or Spanish Flan.
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