Michael Smith's newest restaurant concept, Farina, opens Feb. 5 in Kansas City and capitalizes on his love for Italian food.
His passion for the cuisine is rooted in his work overseas in the '80s and really ramped up about seven years ago, when he bought a pasta extruder for his Michael Smith Restaurant at 1901 Baltimore Ave., he said. It features 26 dies for making fresh pasta, and he became obsessed. He slowly started adding more pasta dishes to the menu, and soon Michael Smith became more of…
