Houlihan's originated in Kansas City in 1972. Since we opened on The Kansas City Plaza, we have been providing delicious food from our scratch kitchen and quenching thirsts with our craft cocktails.

So who’s Houlihan, is that the owner, you ask? Not exactly. The first Houlihan’s was opened in Kansas City in 1972 by founders Joe Gilbert & Paul Robinson. The site was previously Tom Houlihan Men’s Wear, the finest haberdashery in town that dressed the city’s dapper men during the Mad Men era, eventually expanding to St. Louis. As Joe & Paul’s architect worked on their (yet unnamed) restaurant drawings, he labeled the plans with “Houlihan’s Old Place” as a placeholder. That name stuck, and Joe & Paul gained permission from Tom Houlihan to use it for their restaurant. Eventually, “Old Place” was dropped from the name and logo and today we’re known simply as “Houlihan’s.”