Eric Del Toro (ED)
Place is small and there is always nice music in the background whenever I go. I made it my goal to try every meal and the coffee is great!
John Briscoe
Unbelievably good. A bit of a seedy atmosphere. They stick to minimum items on the menu and do an excellent job! Great coffee too.
Cory Wright
Good, filling, and inexpensive food. Great locally-roasted coffee. Friendly staff and cozy spaces. What more can you ask for? If you like your eateries squeaky clean and character-free, look elsewhere. If you love a place with soul, look no further. I highly recommend the dirty rice on Tuesdays!
V S
This place is the original eatery and coffee bar within the Crossroad District. I love going there, people watching, and meeting with friends while I have the dish of the day. The sandwiches are great, too. They always have the daily paper, great books and magazines, plus they have all the local shows and art gallery showings posted in the window.
Devin Forsyth
I used to eat here weekly, years ago when I worked in the area. The only thing I didn’t like back then was the cramped space, but that was enough for me not to visit again for ten years, once I no longer had the excuse of work proximity.
I only today found out they moved, so I took my wife for a breakfast date to check out the new location. Wow! Everything I used to love, with none of the claustrophobia. It even still had the pleasant feeling of dropping in to visit someone who is always cooking for friends, a very welcoming experience that sets YJ’s apart. We will be back.
Jim Jursch
The food is always plentiful and very flavorful. They use a unique mixture of things to create unusual and very tasty dishes. Had the pork fajita today,was fantastic. Imagine all the ingredients tasting so good that you neither need or want to put salsa on it. That's what this was like.
Shawn Elder
Interesting bohemian hideway, with music playing that is anything BUT pop, lots of ephemera, and folksy decorations; Its more than snacks, but not a full on restaurant with a menu. There are snacks, hot beverages, cold beverages - even of the eclectic nature, but the real reason to visit is the Prix Fixe meal.
You get your choice of one meal, without substitutions, and its worth every penny. The plate is creative, savory, and of the quality you would pay much more down the street. Just check the chalkboard to see what is scheduled, and if it will appeal. I enjoyed a Caribbean fish plate with Curry vegetables, plantains, and more. Delicious!
Seating is limited to about 25, so large groups might over-run the place, and the regulars keep those seats filled much of the time.
Personally I think everyone should visit once. I'm sure you'll come back again.
Phil Shafer
Great 3rd world atmosphere with high ceilings lined with books and mini altars throughout the space.
Crema de la Vida
This place is such a chill spot. I love stopping in while doing First Fridays. Their food is always delicious. Their prices are reasonable and its just a hip spot to people watch outside. This place is the core of the Crossroads Arts District and historical.
Anthony C
More bohemian than hipster, this unique coffeehouse serves a superior brew and has a daily lunch and dinner special with a homemade feel from a limited rotating menu. YJ's has been around nearly 100 years. The location is quite small and decorated creativity with interesting advertising. A hidden gem.
AnnaRose Leonard
I love this coffee shop. I can't praise them enough.
The food is amazing, the people who work here are fantastic and add to the local charm of this place, and their coffee is in my top 3 favorite choices of places to get my caffeine Buzz on.
Richard Allen
YJs is one of the best late night dinner dives in town. Great coffee, great food, beautiful people.
Be advised before taking a picky date - there's one entree for lunch, and a different one for dinner. It's on the chalkboard. And it's all super delicious.
Tedd W
Absolutely one of my favorite places in KC. Whether you are hungry and want to eat a meal or drink some coffee YJ's has you covered. Always feel comfortable to stay in for 20 minutes or 2 hours.
Francisco Luna
Got the fish special. Amazingly good flavorful eclectic simple food with a Caribbean flair. The cook Thomas made us feel right at home. Easy going but knows his stuff.
Eric Boman
Awesome food, coffee, and atmosphere - all at an affordable price!
Eric Lindquist
Been a daily regular for years, tell them what you are looking for instead of looking at a menu and they'll set you up. Overqualified staff with a wealth of various interests, great music, and a loyal local following. You can love backwards political movements (Harrison Smith is editing out a dozen uses of the word "cuck" to describe the staff that probably tried to accommodate a Trump loving tourist from suburbia, for example) and still get into some solid food and discuss a wide range of topics with the person behind the counter. They're patient, even with ass backwards apologists for racists like the GOP. Don't let some Panera loving corporatist tell you otherwise.
Kenyadigit
Small, Simple, rustic, new age vibe with awesome food. Stopped here after having a horrifying experience at a close establishment where I left without eating the food. The coffee was amazing, the food was fresh and delightful and the atmosphere inviting. Would come back here very frequently if I lived in KC. Stop by, u will be glad u did.
Man Eats World
Hmm... Really?. So... I like this place, I like the look and feel, I like the clientele, I liked sitting outside eating my breakfast. What I didn’t like was the food, which surprised me because all we ordered was a standard American breakfast, which was one of only two options, the other being the Mexican breakfast. Everything was served cold, the eggs, the bacon, the toast and the worst of it were the new potatoes which seemed like they had been taken from the refrigerator, cubed and put on the plate. They were crunchy, not from being fried but from being uncooked. Weird. There were only two other customers at the time so it wasn’t an issue of being slammed. I was bummed, I had talked the others out of one of the spots on our regular breakfast rotation to come here instead and everyone was disappointed.
Robert E
Quality of experience at YJs relies HEAVILY on who is behind the bar.<br/><br/>Last night I took a friend from out of town to see the famous YJ's, and found myself instantly regretting the decision. I am a barista who works solo close shifts, so i actually had no problem with the long wait with nobody else in line. What I DID have a problem with was the girl behind the counter who did everything in her power to make it clear that we were interrupting her. There is a 5.50 minimum for debit cards, which is also fine, except that she wouldnt let me upgrade my to-go coffee to a larger size to make up the price difference because "she had already made it"...which means she had pushed the lever on the caraffe twice. The slice of blueberry pie that I ordered to-go was in reality about 1/2 the size of slices I've gotten at YJs before.<br/><br/>All this being said, I'll be going back to YJs. I love the place. But if the same girl is working, the only thing I'm asking for is her manager's contact info.
Vicc
Had lunch there. Wonderful experience. The food and coffee was great. Talked to a customer out front before I went in. Nothing but praise for the place. Good to know that a place like this is still around.
Kyledgebhart
YJ's is as close as you can get to Berkeley in the Midwest. Excellent homestyle grub, eclectic people, and a distinctly bohemian vibe fuel your experience. Be aware, night owls: weekends they are open all night - though the drunk 3am influx can get noisy, yjs is often a great place to kick back and read, write or ruminate.
Tom
Eclectic with flavor. My wife and i were in K.C for a weekend. Like someone else had posted we saw this place on Diners, Driveins and Dives and were intrigued. The first day we had tilapia, redbeans and rice with a side of cornbread. it was GREAT. Went the next morning for the southern love breakfast. The gravy on the biscuits was the BEST i have ever had. The grits were point on. PLEASE move to Wichita i will soley suppost you for the rest of my days. We loved it. NOTHING in our cultural wasteland of a town icompares...
Jeff
Great place to eat. My wife and I wanted something different, and being huge fans of Diners, Drive-ins and Dives decided on checking another off our list, so we went to YJ's. We were not disappointed, the tilapia, cornbread, fried pickles,and my personal favorite the red beans and rice were outstanding. We also tried two different desserts, a chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting that had an orange taste and pecan pie. Again, both were outstanding. And inexpensive. We'll be back to try other things as the menu is different daily. Awesome place!!!
BrittPM
I visited YJ's for the first time tonight with my boyfriend and two close friends. Although the eatery is small the area seemed intimate and cozy rather than stuffy or over-crowded. The atmosphere is truly urban and just the right balance of intellectual and visceral.<br/> There was just one guy working the overnight but he had everything well in hand and was kind in addition. They were serving "Home Cookin" tonight and it was a delicious plate of barbecue chicken, corn bread, mashed potatoes, corn and the best cheese pasta (Penne rather than Mac) I've ever had. The coffee wasn't half bad either and my boyfriend's Mocha was great. I'll definitely return!
Ella
YJ's Snack Bar. I am completely infatuated with YJ's. I've been several times, and will continue to return. Everything I've had has been delicious, and the coffee is wonderful. I love how the menu theme changes by the day of the week. I particularly enjoy the dirty rice that they offer. If I'm not in the mood for the daily menu item, I'll order a sandwich and salad, which never disappoints. The ingredients are always fresh and flavorful. I love this quirky little place.
You Are What You Eat
Girls hate girls?. The ONLY reason i say i dont like this place is because its full of people who are so rude for NO reason. when my fiance and i stumbled into this place we thought we had hit the jackpot. food is great, coffee is ok, and the atmosphere is awesome, but the people who work there are soooo rude to people they dont know. the first time we went we thought maybe the girl was just having a bad day but i dont think thats the case. we started going there often, and not one person was even close to friendly, or even welcoming. my fiance went there a few times by himself and he said their attitudes were totally different because whenever i go in all the girls are so uninviting and so unwelcoming there that i will not go there again. its sad because its a great place, i guess i just dont understand what it was that i did wrong....?
Zixbix
Amazing Place. Love the atmosphere. I had Red Beans and Rice w/ breaded Tilapia... sooo delicious. Great coffee too. And have a slice of the cherry pie. You'll thank me later. Great place that I'll be back to.
Foodsnob
Oh, yeah!. Eclectic just doesn't seem a strong enough adjective to sum up the diversity of this urban cafe. Home to the crossroads urban core artistic community, this little diner serves up some serious soul satisfying delights. My Southern Love breakfast of a fried egg in the middle of a piece of toast on top of grits, fried potatoes, and the yummiest southern, slightly-sweet, drop bisquit was to-die-for good! But, let's not stop there bcause the fresh baked goods in the bakery case beckoned me and I throughly devoured a wonderful piece of totally home-made perfect blueberry pie. But, don't stop there...finally it was all topped off with possibly the cities best iced mocha!!! This is a TINY restaurant so, please, please, please, don't go there so there's always room for ME!!!!!!
Daniella Martins
Such a unique place with simple and true dishes....great for a fourth meal or breatfast x-) \o/
Wes McKain
Like no other coffee place in KC. This is the kind of place where the beat poets would have composed their prescient ballads, where socialists and anarchists and communitarians and hippies and gays and pacifists and environmentalists and painters and musicians now come to drink coffee and write ballads of their own.<br/><br/>Btw if you're a fundamentalist Christian you can come too, it's a really cool place and the coffee is really good! The sandwiches are really satisfying as well.
Chitizzle
Oh. My. Goodness.. I will admit, at 3 in the morning after a night out at P&L anything probably would have been heaven... So, we went back about a week later and I left YJ's saying that it was the most flavorful, freshest, tastiest food I have ever had! (Short of a meal from my dad...)<br/><br/>I'm not sure if I will ever find food as good as YJ's and I recommend it to !!!
Cdrl
Amazing. With no more room for 10 people and the wildly eclectic interior you cannot go wrong. If you want anything from the daily special get there early because it doesn't last long.
Michael John Otto
Awesome breakfast! Best we'd ever had. Ecclectic decor and friendly staff. Only one suggestion... the music was WAY too loud.
Beth Partin
Once I left Christopher Elbow in Kansas City's Crossroads district on Friday, I headed west to Mildred's Coffeehouse, hoping to spend several hours there copyediting. Unfortunately, Mildred's, a well-lit space with a soothing vibe, closed at 4. One cannot
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