There’s a white farmhouse sitting on a hill in Kansas City that might not catch your eye at first glance, but inside those walls is a culinary experience so transcendent it’ll make you question everything you thought you knew about fried chicken.
Stroud’s Oak Ridge Manor isn’t trying to be fancy, and thank goodness for that.
In a world of deconstructed dishes and foam-topped entrees, this place is the culinary equivalent of a warm hug from your grandmother – if your grandmother happened to be the undisputed heavyweight champion of pan-fried chicken.
The building itself looks like it could be someone’s country home, with its white clapboard siding and black shutters nestled among mature trees…