Jess & Jim's Steak House
Kansas City, MO
517 E 135th St, Kansas City, MO, 64145-1415129 itemsUpdated March 21, 2026
Structured menu data
A La Carte
Cottage Cheese
$3.50Cottage Fried Potatoes
$4.50French Fries
$4.50Gravy
$1.99Mashed Potatoes
$4.50Side Vegetables
$3.99Sour Cream
$1.50Twice Baked Potato
$5.99A La Carte Sides
Buttered Mushrooms
$3.99Green Beans
$3.99Grilled Onions
$2.99Steamed Vegetables
$3.99Appetizers
Appetizer Sampler
$18.99A selection of favorites: wings, rings and gouda mac & cheese bites. No substitutions
Buffalo Wings
$15.99Spicy chicken wings served with ranch or blue cheese
Fried Mushrooms
$11.99Whole button mushrooms lightly breaded
Gouda Mac & Cheese Bites
$13.99Breaded nuggets of gouda cheese and tender macaroni
Homemade Onion Rings
$10.99Pile of hand-breaded and golden fried o rings
Livers & Gizzards
$12.99Choose your favorite, or a combo of the two! kc favorite by deep-frying 'em and serving them with gravy
Santa Fe Egg Rolls
$13.99Chicken, beans, cheese and pico de gallo rolled up in a wonton wrapper
Shrimp Cocktail
$16.99Fresh shrimp paired with our tangy cocktail sauce
Spicy Cauliflower
$10.99Lightly breaded served with ranch for dipping
Beverages
Kirin
Sake
Chicken & Seafood
16 oz. Lobster Tail
Choose boiled or hand-breaded and fried, served with butter and lemon
Boneless Chicken Breast
$18.99Boneless chicken breast available grilled or hand-breaded and fried
Chicken Strips 3 pc
$15.99Strips of white meat chicken breast hand-breaded and fried
Chicken Strips 5 pc
$18.99Strips of white meat chicken breast hand-breaded and fried
Fried Chicken Breasts 1 fried breast
$16.99three all white meat chicken breasts perfectly fried
Fried Chicken Breasts 3 fried breasts
$23.99three all white meat chicken breasts perfectly fried
Fried One-Half Chicken
$19.99Choose: breast, leg, wing and thigh or two legs and two thighs
Livers or Gizzards
$15.99Choose your favorite or a combination of the two
Whole Catfish on The Bone
$21.99American catfish hand-breaded and fried
Desserts
Hot Apple Pie
$13.99Ice Cream
$1.751 Scoop
Key Lime Pie
Mini Dessert
Seasonal Cake
$9.99Small Seasonal Cake
Volcano Cake
$9.99Dinners Cooked to Order
Boneless Chicken Breast Dinner
$14.99Boneless chicken breast available grilled or hand-breaded and fried. Served with choice of potato and vegetable
Chicken Fried Steak Dinner
$15.99Hand-breaded, fried and topped with our rich cream gravy. Served with choice of potato and vegetable
Ground Beef Steak Dinner
$14.9911 oz prime beef patty cooked to order. Served with choice of potato and vegetable
Pork Tenderloin Dinner
$15.99Hand-breaded, fried and topped with our rich cream gravy. Served with choice of potato and vegetable
J&J House Specialties
Chicken Fried Steak
$19.99Hand-breaded, golden fried and served with creamy gravy
Frog Legs
$28.99A full pound, hand-breaded and fried
Grilled Pork Chops 1 chop
$19.99Grilled to perfection!
Grilled Pork Chops 2 chop
$29.99Grilled to perfection!
Ground Angus Beef Steak 11 oz
$14.99Fresh ground steak cooked to order
Ground Angus Beef Steak 16 oz
$20.99Fresh ground steak cooked to order
Prime Rib 12 oz
$43.99While it lasts
Prime Rib 16 oz
$49.99While it lasts
Lunch Steaks
Filet of Beef
$15.99This tender 5 oz bacon wrapped sirloin filet is hand-cut and perfectly cooked every time. With house salad and choice of twice baked, mashed potatoes, french fries, cottage fries, green beans, or corn
Luncheon Ribeye
$24.99Ribeye loaded with that great beef flavor. With house salad and choice of twice baked, mashed potatoes, french fries, cottage fries, green beans, or corn
Luncheon Strip
$24.99Strip steak seasoned and grilled to order. With house salad and choice of twice baked, mashed potatoes, french fries, cottage fries, green beans, or corn
Other
Custard pie
Warm slice
Entraña
Skirt steak
Mollejas
Sweetbreads
Morcilla
Blood sausage
Plantain chips
Salty-sweet, fresh-from-the-fryer
Premium Steaks
Filet Mignon 14 oz
$75.99The most tender of all the tender steaks we offer is bacon-wrapped and available in several sizes to match any size hunger
Filet Mignon 5 oz
$31.99The most tender of all the tender steaks we offer is bacon-wrapped and available in several sizes to match any size hunger
Filet Mignon 8 oz
$43.99The most tender of all the tender steaks we offer is bacon-wrapped and available in several sizes to match any size hunger
KC Strip 10 oz
$38.99Jess and Jim's helped this part of the country become famous for this steak. when you taste it, you'll know why
KC Strip 14 oz
$48.99Jess and Jim's helped this part of the country become famous for this steak. when you taste it, you'll know why
Playboy Strip
$68.99In 1972, playboy writer Calvin Trillin put Jess and Jim's on the national map. 29 years later, the same publication named us one of the 10 best in the WORLD. Our homage to them is 25 oz of pure beef goodness
Ribeye 12 oz
$43.99If pure beef flavor is what you are after, the ribeye is the steak for you
Ribeye 16 oz
$49.99If pure beef flavor is what you are after, the ribeye is the steak for you
T-Bone
$56.99There is nothing minor league about this 20 oz masterpiece
The Porterhouse
$69.9930 oz is sure to satisfy the mightiest steak craving
Top Sirloin 14oz
$34.9914oz and perfectly cooked to order every time
Prime Steak Sliders & Sandwiches
Chicken Sandwich
$13.99Boneless chicken breast either grilled or hand-breaded and fried
Prime French Dip Sandwich
$19.99Our tender sliced prime rib with Swiss cheese served on a fresh hoagie with a side of hot au jus
Prime Steak Sliders
$13.99Three mini steakburgers topped with sharp cheddar cheese
Prime Steakburger & Sandwiches
Boneless Chicken Sandwich
$13.99Grilled or hand-breaded and fried
Grilled Cheese
$8.99Grilled with mild cheddar cheese
Open Faced Shaved Prime Rib
$19.99A heap of shaved prime rib over mashed potatoes covered with brown gravy
Pork Tenderloin
$15.99Pounded out in house, hand-breaded and fried
Pork Tenderloin Sandwich
$15.99Pounded out in house, hand-breaded and fried
Prime French Dip
$19.99Our tender sliced prime rib with Swiss cheese on a hoagie and served with our warm au jus
Prime Steakburger
$13.9911 oz prime beef patty cooked to order. Served with your choice of hand-cut french fries or cottage fries
Reuben
$14.99Corned beef, sauerkraut, 1000 island and swiss cheese on grilled rye
Sides
Angel's hair spaghetti with garlic and olive oil
Baked potato
With butter, bacon, chives, and sour cream
Calabaza pisada
Mashed squash
Cannellini beans
Cottage fries
Creamed spinach
Fried potato skins
German fried potatoes
Gorgonzola cottage fries
Grilled asparagus
Hash browns with lobster, chorizo, and crème fraîche
Mashed potatoes and cream gravy
Morels, asparagus, and baby leeks
Pommes dauphinois
Potatoes with cream, garlic, and a crust of baked cheese
Potato pancakes
Soft polenta with Parmesan
Twice-baked one-and-a-half-pound Idaho potato
Vegetable tempura
Yuca fries
Soup & Salads
Bowl of Prime Beef Soup
$7.99J&J Salad with Fried Chicken
$15.99Our fresh mixed green salad topped with cheddar, red onion, cucumbers and croutons
J&J Salad with Grilled Chicken
$15.99Our fresh mixed green salad topped with cheddar, red onion, cucumbers and croutons
J&J Salad with Thin Sliced Strip Steak
$22.99Our fresh mixed green salad topped with cheddar, red onion, cucumbers and croutons
Soups & Salads
Cottage Cheese or Applesauce
$3.50House Salad
$7.99Fresh salad, cucumber, and red onion with homemade croutons
Steaks
16-Oz Prime New York Strip
On the bone, seared, broiled in a 1600-degree oven, caked with a perfectly smoky char
Beef Wellington
Filet of beef in a bubble of airy puff pastry with silky foie gras sabayon and golden crisp crust
Bistecca Alla Pizzaiola
Thick sautéed rib eye doused with a spicy tomato-garlic sauce
Cajun-Blackened New York
Spicy sirloin ennobled by Creole crawfish butter
Chicken-Fried Steak
Lesser cut of meat pounded, battered and deep-fried
Churrascos
Juicy, charred slabs of center-cut tenderloin laced with spicy chimichurri
English Cut
Three long, thin slices of beef that melt on your tongue
Filet Mignon
Grilled or au poivre, with Gorgonzola, crabmeat, or Cajun spices
Japanese Waygu Beef
$395.00Emperor's Flight of filet, sirloin, and rib eye
KC Playboy Strip
25-oz sirloin
Porterhouse
Handpicked carcass
Prime Rib
On the bone, roasted with collar of fat suffused into the inner layer, core a rose red
Roumanian Tenderloin
Tenderloin skirt steak with minced garlic
Skirt Steak
Cooked over charcoal and smothered with chimichurri
Steak Frites
Perfectly chewy hanger cut with mineraly iron-and-calcium taste, served with crispy frites
Steak Tartare
Raw steak with herb additions
Teppanyaki Steak
High-quality meat instantly seared on teppanyaki flat griddle, remains rare inside
Tournedos Rossini
Filet mignon layered with seared, pink foie gras and sauce périgourdine made with red wine, truffles, and foie gras
Surf & Turf
6 oz Lobster Tail
$24.99Add some surf to your turf by adding one of our delicious seafood options to your steak!
Fried Shrimp
$9.99Add some surf to your turf by adding one of our delicious seafood options to your steak!
Frog Leg
$9.99Add some surf to your turf by adding one of our delicious seafood options to your steak!
Shrimp Scampi
$9.99Add some surf to your turf by adding one of our delicious seafood options to your steak!