A lot of hotels carve out space for a restaurant or bar. Cascade Hotel, at 4600 Wornall Road on the Country Club Plaza, opened in late 2023 with a different proposition: a food hall .
But Strang Chef Collectives, which leased that food hall, closed in December after just a year. The two-floor space — which includes indoor-outdoor seating, four food stalls and two bars — has sat empty since.
Now the hotel has taken operations in-house, said Cascade’s director of outlets Eric Willey. His vision is to keep the space a food hall but “evolve that model a little bit.”…