Ann Lemons Pollack
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Strasburg, VA
Traveling from St. Louis to Washington, D.C., by car is an easy trip on I-64, but it can be an Eater’s challenge. Louisville is full of interesting places, but moving on eastward, it becomes more and more difficult for travelers who. want to avoid chain restaurants, from "dinner houses" like Denny’s and the drive-throughs.
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Three Monkeys
How many jokes about Three Monkeys have been based on its name? We promise to spare you any more about this bar/restaurant south of Tower Grove Park, which is becoming a pastureland for the grazing of the young and casual. It’s satisfying to see old urban neighborhoods re-energized. Three Monkeys probably has been a watering
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Porter’s Fried Chicken
Fried chicken is one of the dishes that hardly anyone makes at home any more. It’s not as though that’s because America is eating more healthily, of course. Colonel Sanders led the parade of frying kettles out of our kitchens and into roadside businesses. This is not such a bad thing. It’s a lot more
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Los Tarascos
How often do we in St. Louis get to try a food item just as it is being featured in the current issue of Gourmet magazine? Well, maybe you can recall an opportunity, but we can’t. We even ate the torta ahogada before the magazine was opened at our house. It all began when we had
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Pina Colada Cheesecake
One of the best things about a party is that it gives an excuse to cook things that aren’t part of one’s normal routine. The fancy food, the fattening food, the recipe that’s great but serves 12 and can’t easily be downsized–a party is a great reason for all those things. Some friends of ours
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This Week’s Wine June 8, 2008
I know that you can’t tell a book by its cover, nor the quality and flavor of a wine by its label, but every now and then, things happen to make one a little unsure of those old proverbs. Blame Francis Ford Coppola. Like so many rich people who moved to northern California for the
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Onesto
How long has it been since you found good French fries and good pizza at the same restaurant? Uh-huh. Let’s up the ante a little: How about good French fries, good pizza and occasional truffle oil — all at a reasonable price? Thought so. As Shakespeare might have said, "Get thee to Onesto." On a
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King Edward’s Chicken and Fish
We try to avoid chain restaurants, rarely reviewing them and almost as rarely eating at them. So it’s always good news for us to find a locally owned spot, especially when its food is tastier than average. King Edward’s Chicken and Fish, which began in St. Charles, has now come to Crestwood. Its location is
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The Shaved Duck
"Classically European…comfortably American," says The Shaved Duck’s website. That’s one of the few mistakes we’ve seen from this South Side bistro, an offspring of the Scottish Arms, a Highlands Tweed pub-style bar and restaurant between Midtown and the Central West End. The Duck veers way off the classic European track. And thank goodness for that,
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Recipe: Cottage Cheese Pancakes
I’m generally not much on those single-use electric appliances. When I saw the $300 frozen margarita machine, I staggered backward, nearly taking out an unwitting soccer mom. But there’s a few exceptions, and the biggest one is an electric griddle. And the biggest reason for an electric griddle is pancakes. It’s faster, even when I’m