Ann Lemons Pollack
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Customers Care
1972 was a seminal year in St. Louis restaurant history. Among the palate-changing establishments opened then was The Jefferson Avenue Boarding House, the creation of Richard Perry. Perry, an Illinois native, offered classic, yet updated, American food, with an emphasis on fresh, even local, provisions. This was very early, indeed, in that movement that’s become
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Land of Smile
On its way through University City and Olivette, Olive Boulevard provides a comfortable home to many restaurants. Most are Chinese and Vietnamese, but there are Japanese, Indian, Caribbean, Mexican and American establishments as well. And now there’s Thai cuisine, too, at Land of Smile. And while smile is singular in the restaurant’s name, it became
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Chez Leon
Fine French restaurants are swell places. But we have an equally strong affection for bistros, the (usually) smaller, less fussy spots serving traditional food the way it’s been served for the past hundred years or so. Bistro food is about the closest you can get to French grandma–excuse us, grandmere–cooking unless you have a grandmere
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Agave
The strip of Manchester Avenue west of Vandeventer, now the Grove, formerly Forest Park Southeast, slowly is coming out of a cocoon that housed merely a strip of bars. Spreading some multi-cultural wings, the neighborhood now is attracting a number of improving restaurants. Among the recent openings is Agave, a Mexican restaurant that’s considerably more
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Squid with Black Pepper
Found: Another excellent Mark Bittman recipe. Bittman, who writes for the New York Times, is always a guy to watch for interesting food ideas and execution, and here’s something that is easy and quick, provided you’ve done your shopping. If you’ve never cooked squid, here are some things to remember: It cooks very quickly, and
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I Fratellini
I Fratellini has always been a low-key place, flying relatively low beneath the radar while riding high in terms of popularity. And the trattoria-esque restaurant is little; it seats about 30, not counting the handful of seats at the bar. A cozy storefront equally pleasant on a snowy night or a summer evening, thanks to
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Anthony’s Bar
We’re always a little surprised that more people don’t know about Anthony’s Bar. The younger, more casual sibling of Tony’s, with whom it shares a kitchen, it’s diagonally across the lobby in the same building, but on the side facing Broadway, with too good a view of the much-vaunted but still invisible Ballpark Village,
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This Week’s Wine: February 6, 2008
From the days when Popeye ate spinach, straight from the can, to grow humongous forearms, there always has been a suddenly famous and favorite fruit or vegetable to create immediate health, strength and popularity. (Remember "an apple a day keeps the doctor away"?) We know fruits and vegetables are good for us, but today’s sudden
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Vegetarian Chili Recipe
I usually try to shop around the edge of the store, as they say – fresh fruits and vegetables, un-frozen meat and fish; that sort of thing rather than the canned/frozen/packaged stuff, although it’s not a strong and hard rule, just the way my cooking has evolved over the years. But sometimes it’s handy to
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The King & I
The King & I, as old-timers know, was the first Thai restaurant in St. Louis. We’ve always been extremely fond of it, and Ann has pleasant memories of stopping by en route to her evening shift and buying pad Thai take-out to replace hospital food. It’s grown over the years, moving across and north on