Elle M.
Yelp
TL;DR: Good food, great ambiance, but if you're willing to put up $100-$125/person, there are much better places in KC you could go.
Let's get right into it: My group each got one of the salad special, which was a strawberry salad with goat cheese and honey, and we shared the wagyu tartare between three people.
The flavors on the strawberry salad were perfect. The combination of a mild honey and ripe strawberries was pretty perfectly *chef's kiss*, but the addition of fennel seeds and slightly crystallized brown sugar showed what new and special flavors Stock Hill's got to offer. My only complaint: where's the salad? Three (literally) leaves does not a salad make, unfortunately. It's a fun and vibrant dish, but it's not a salad.
The wagyu tartare was a bit underwhelming; the quality of the meat was great, but I would've liked to see Stock Hill do something to accentuate that quality. The meat quality on the mains was similarly phenomenal. We ordered a wagyu filet mignon, a black angus ribeye, and a dry-aged ribeye with fries and whipped potatoes. All the steak pictures have the same hand in it to give a sense of scale, and what they show is that the ribeyes are hefty cuts of meat (14-16oz). Come hungry, or be prepared to take leftovers home.
Short descriptions for each main:
Wagyu filet mignon - Melt in your mouth. Perfectly prepared. Note that it's much smaller (8oz) than the rest of the cuts.
Dry-aged ribeye - Strangely tastes like the rub is made with movie theatre popcorn? Hey, I'm not sure why either. We asked, and they said the rub is just salt and pepper; Orville Redenbacher's not messing around in the back. This one was cooked well, but inconsistently. Much drier at some portions than others.
Black angus ribeye - Also cooked inconsistently, and it was ordered medium-rare but definitely came out on the *much* rarer side.
Sides (fries and mashed potatoes) complemented the meal and went well with the steaks, but they were nothing to write home about.
And that brings us to dessert! We got the sticky toffee pudding (with ice cream on the side for our lactose-intolerant friend). Oooooooooh yes. The flavors were everything a banana sticky toffee pudding should be, even if the cake itself was on the dry side. Give me caramelized bananas in toffee sauce with a date cake absolutely any day of the week.
I would say the dessert was the highlight of the meal, but the truth is there were many highlights--the tenderness of the wagyu main, the simultaneous crisp outside and fluffy inside of the fries, and not just the humor of the so-called salad but also the vibrant and interesting components to it. I was expecting more from Stock Hill, but it was still a night well spent.