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Jay Senter
Jay Senter
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‘Restaurants Worth Traveling For’ list features NEJC chefs

Rob Magee inspecting finishing chickens at Q39.
Rob Magee inspecting finishing chickens at Q39.
Rob Magee inspecting finishing chickens at Q39.

Last week, the website FlipKey (a TripAdvisor property) unveiled its 2015 list of 50 “Restaurants Worth Traveling For” — and local diners will likely be impressed by the results.

Two Kansas City-area eateries made the list, and both have chefs based in northeast Johnson County.

Story at the Village Shops, the vision of chef Carl Thorne-Thomsen, who lives in Fairway, was the honoree for the state of Kansas. And in Missouri, the winner was Q39, the red-hot Kansas City, Mo., BBQ joint helmed by chef Rob Magee, a Prairie Village resident.

Carl Thorne-Thomsen of Story.
Carl Thorne-Thomsen of Story.

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Jay Senter
Jay Senter

Jay Senter is the founder and publisher of the Johnson County Post.

He earned his bachelor’s degree in business at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, where he worked as a reporter and editor at The Badger Herald.

He went on to receive a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Kansas. While he was in graduate school, he also worked as a reporter for the Lawrence Journal-World.

His reporting has appeared in the Kansas City Star, The Pitch and The New York Times, among other publications.

Senter was the recipient of the Johnson County Community College Headliner Award in 2023.

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