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The Larkspur RoomTasting room, Buckner

Call (816) 555-0102
A long dark wood table set with wine glasses down its length, chairs on both sides, low lamps and a plain plaster ceiling above it.

Forty seats, one long table, and a bar you can hire on its own

Most of what people ring up to ask is about the shape of the room, so here it is before anything else.

Five small pours of red wine lined up along a wooden table beside a glass jug and two plates of cheese.
Floor plan of The Larkspur Room A rectangular room. The bar runs along the whole left wall with eight stools. A long table for sixteen sits in the middle. Four two-person tables line the right wall under the windows. The street door is bottom centre, and a door in the right wall opens onto a small walled patio with four more tables. 4 window tables, 2 each The bar, 8 stools Long table, seats 16 Street door Patio door, 4 tables outside
  • 40 seated inside
  • 65 standing
  • 16 at the long table
  • 8 outside on the patio

Nights on the calendar

Tastings are ticketed and small. When a night sells out it stays on this list marked sold so nobody rings up about it.

  1. Thu 6 Aug7:00pm

    Six reds under twenty dollars

    Six bottles poured blind, price revealed at the end. The one everybody guesses wrong is always the cheapest.

    $28, 4 seats left

  2. Fri 14 Aug7:30pm

    Missouri whites, and why Norton is not one

    Five glasses from four Missouri growers, with a plate of cheese from the counter down the street.

    $32, sold out

  3. Thu 20 Aug7:00pm

    Gin, and what tonic does to it

    Four gins, three tonics, twelve combinations, one of which will change how you order for the rest of the year.

    $30, 11 seats left

  4. Sat 29 Aug6:00pm

    Local brewers, four taps

    Four brewers pour their own and stay to argue about water. Standing, no ticket, first glass on the house.

    Free, no booking

  5. Thu 3 Sep7:00pm

    Autumn reds, the first of the season

    The list turns over in September. This is the night it changes and the night to say what you want kept on it.

    $28, booking opens 12 Aug

What is behind the bar

Shelves of wine and spirit bottles behind a bar under warm bulbs, with glasses standing upside down on a folded towel on the counter.

Wine

About forty bottles at any time, half of them from within a day's drive. Twelve by the glass, and the glass list is rewritten every season rather than every year.

Cocktails

A short list that does not change much, made properly, plus whatever the bar is working on that month written on the card by the till.

Beer

Four taps that rotate through Missouri and Kansas brewers, and a cooler of the things people actually ask for when they do not want a tasting.

A brick walled courtyard at dusk with folding bistro tables and chairs on flagstones under two strings of bulbs, ivy across the far wall.

Booking a night or the room

Tasting seats are held by phone and paid on the night. For the room, ring with a date and a rough headcount and you will get a yes or a no while you are on the call. There is no form to fill in and nothing to sign until the deposit.

If the date is already spoken for, we keep a short waiting list and it moves more often than you would think.

(816) 555-0102

123 Main Street, Buckner, Missouri
Wednesday to Saturday from 4:00pm, Sunday 2:00pm to 8:00pm