A new restaurant called The Fold has taken over the moody dining room that spent nine years as Corvino Supper Club in Kansas City's Crossroads neighborhood, and it's doing something the old tenant never did: serving a menu that's entirely gluten free. The restaurant opened in June 2026 at 1830 Walnut St., keeping the plush seating, dark walls, chandeliers and scattered televisions that gave the space its clubby feel, but swapping in an approach that lets diners with celiac disease order anything on the menu without having to interrogate the kitchen about ingredients.
From Fine Dining to a Looser, All-Gluten-Free Concept
The Fold is owned by Todd Richards, Amanda Accurso and Brandon Sharp, according to kansascity.com. Accurso and Sharp already run Roots Seasonal Cuisine, a gluten-free restaurant in Lee's Summit, Missouri, while Richards previously ran the bar there. On the restaurant's own site, The Fold describes itself as “a new American dining concept crafted with care,” built around seasonal ingredients and contemporary American flavors, per thefoldkc.com.
Richards told the outlet that the phrase “fine dining” feels stuffy, a line that captures the deliberate shift away from Corvino's old tasting menus toward something more approachable. The menu still carries some upscale touches: beef sirloin tartare is priced at $23 according to kansascity.com's report, though Axios lists the same dish at $20. Crispy rice and shrimp runs $29, and a Thai lemon meringue dessert costs $10, per Axios's reporting.
Cocktails, a Sweet Send-Off and a Hidden Bar Next Door
Cocktails at The Fold range from $16 to $20, Axios reports, with kansascity.com naming two specific drinks: the Night Shift at $18 and the Ember & Ash at $20. Diners who finish their plates get a small amaro ice cream cone on the house, a digestif-style touch the same report describes as a free perk rather than a menu item. The restaurant is open Tuesday through Saturday from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m., matching hours confirmed on The Fold's own contact page, and it runs a happy hour from 3 to 6 p.m., according to Axios.
Behind an unmarked door near the front entrance sits The Den, a late-night cocktail extension of The Fold serving small bites without any storefront signage, website presence or social media announcement. The outlet reports that it had already started letting people in. Richards summed up the appeal simply: “If you know, you know.” The concept builds on kansascity.com's description of the space as offering late-night cocktails and small bites through that same unmarked entrance.
Early Reviews Land Somewhere Between Good and Great
The Fold has earned a 4.4-star rating across 46 Google reviews, Axios reports, with reviewers frequently praising the servers and bartenders and mentioning birthdays and anniversaries celebrated there. One reviewer wrote that the service and atmosphere were actually above five stars, saying nothing could have been better in those areas.
Axios reporter Abbey Higginbotham celebrated her birthday early at The Fold with a friend and praised the parmesan croquettes and the crispy rice and shrimp. Still, her review wasn't uniformly glowing: she said the Verdant and the Aviary were better restaurants overall, and that the service at both beat what she experienced at The Fold.
A Storied Predecessor and a Rough Stretch for KC Dining
The Fold's arrival closes out a notable chapter for 1830 Walnut St. Michael and Christina Corvino opened Corvino Supper Club there in 2017, according to kansascitymag.com, and chef Michael Corvino picked up multiple James Beard Award nominations for his cooking over the years that followed. The restaurant later added a cocktail lounge called Songbird and announced plans to partner with the W. Vincent hospitality group, though that partnership ultimately fell through, per the same outlet's reporting. Corvino Supper Club closed for good on New Year's Eve 2025 after nine years in the space.
Its closure was part of a bruising stretch for Kansas City's dining scene. The city lost six notable restaurants in 2025 and at least five more in 2026, according to Axios. Against that backdrop, The Fold's opening represents one of the newer bets in a neighborhood still absorbing the loss of one of its longest-running fine-dining names.
