Gates Bar-B-Q
Ships nationwide 🇺🇸KCMO - Midtown · since 1946
Multiple metro locations — see notes below.
The sauce is the star — a bottled KC icon you'll find in local fridges across the metro.
If you order one thing
Ribs with extra Gates Original sauce — the bottle you'll want to take home.
The facts
- Order style
- counter
- Sauce
- tangy & spiced (thinner)
- Burnt ends
- Available at this KC classic; confirm by location.
- Cash only
- No, cards accepted
- Closed
- Open daily (confirm)
- Price
- $$
- Pedigree
- A KC institution since 1946, famous for the shouted 'Hi, may I help you?' greeting.
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Gates Bar-B-Q ships nationwide.
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Gates Bar-B-Q is as much a part of KC's identity as the Royals — a chain of metro counters running since 1946, greeted by the instantly recognizable, shouted "Hi, may I help you?" the second you walk in.
The sauce is the legacy: a sweeter, tangy tomato style sold by the bottle and stocked in refrigerators all over the metro. Gates ships its sauce nationwide direct from its own website (it isn't on Goldbelly), so you can keep a bottle going wherever you live.
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