Best american restaurant in Kansas City, Missouri (MO) 2024

We arrived Sunday morning at 11:20am The sign said "Please wait to be seated" so we did. 5 or 6 minutes, we had read all the menu and still standing there, someone walked by and said "Sit wherever you want" Restaurant was 20% full and the tables that were empty had dirty dishes on them or were not wiped off. There were 5 employees working but we could not figure what they were actually doing. 10 minutes later one showed up and took our order, we should have left then. We gave our order asked for water, none came My wife asked me, " should get our own water?" I said no so we waited another 10 minutes later we got our water. One star because after waiting 45 minutes after being seated, at almost 12:15 our food came. It was just ok, and served and left on our table as pictured below, we will not go back. ~Leo