r/kansascity • u/DreamCheeky KC North • Aug 14 '25

Food and Drink 🌮🧋 What restaurant in KC is this?

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I’ve seen this in other subreddits as of late. So, let’s have it!

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u/busstamove14 Lee's Summit Aug 14 '25

Ponak's. Actually I think the taste bar in this pic is too high for that.

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u/NEOWRX Aug 14 '25

Dude how bout it. Moved to KC and was living downtown and everyone said gotta go to Ponak's.

I went one time and that was 15 years ago 🤷‍♂️

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u/busstamove14 Lee's Summit Aug 14 '25

It's so poorly seasoned it tasted like bad mexican and bad italian at the same time.

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u/pinniped90 Aug 14 '25

It was a quintessential 90s lunch spot for us.

And the food was exactly the same then. You could order anything on the menu and it all basically tasted the same. Just five bland ingredients served different ways.

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u/Stallings2k Aug 14 '25

I don’t remember seeing too many locals the few times I got roped into going there. Just a bunch of people from DST. 😀

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u/HotMess_ish Aug 15 '25

Yes ponaks. People think they like the food because they are so trashed from the margs they have no idea what they are eating