Ann Lemons Pollack
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La Dolce Via
La Dolce Via has begun serving dinner on Fridays and Saturdays. For those who need to be brought up to speed, let us explain that La DolceVia began as Marcia Sindel supplying desserts to Bar Italia, and eventually became this small and very casual bakery-café in the Forest Park Southeast neighborhood. Casual is the key
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This Week’s Wine, Sept. 5, 2006
Remember Gallo Hearty Burgundy, the jug wine that many of us sampled in our early days as wine drinkers? Well, it’s back, and while it’s been many years between tastes, it seems to be new and improved. The Hearty Burgundy is one of eight new wines – all scheduled to retail at between $5 and
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Downtown Restaurant Week Results
Downtown Restaurant Week, a good promotion for restaurants, the city – and especially for diners, was an opportunity for us, a typical hungry couple, to revisit some places we hadn’t tried in a while, and to make an initial journey to Mike Shannon’s impressive new establishment. Other cities have tried similar promotions, but we haven’t
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This Week’s Wine August 14
The Chardonel grape, a cross between the Chardonnay and the Seyval Blanc, makes some interesting, tasty wines. Like Vignoles, it can be vinified pretty much across the spectrum from dry to sweet. The wine has hints of both the familiar Chardonnay flavor and the crisper, more mineral aspect of the Seyval; it can be a
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Saffron Pasta with Mussels – A Splendid Summer Supper
Sometimes the bread lands buttered side up. After many years of being a recipe cook, one who mostly cooked out of a book, magazine or newspaper, I finally began to trust my kitchen instincts—sometimes. And Saturday night it paid off. It sounds like one of those cliches, market cooking. But we’d gone to the Tower
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400 Olive
The trend of serious restaurants located in hotel dining rooms has not roiled the waters of St. Louis dining very much. Part of this may be the persistent reluctance of suburban customers to come downtown. No suburban hotels, to our recollection, have seriously promoted their restaurants as a destination for locals. And part of it may
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This Week’s Wines, August 4
Many American wine-drinkers swear by Chardonnay. Many swear at it. But people buy it, a lot of it. A recent survey by Restaurant Wine Magazine showed, for 2005, of the top 60 wines sold in the restaurants surveyed, 21 were Chardonnays, and the wine also accounted for 34.4 percent of restaurant sales. White wines outsold
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Shaw and Shakespeare
The Canadian province of Ontario is bordered on three sides by as many Great Lakes – Ontario, Erie and Huron – and its interior is highlighted by a pair of delightful theater festivals, the Shakespeare Festival at Stratford and the Shaw Festival at Niagara-on-the-Lake. Its largest city, Toronto, also is home to a wonderful film
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Terrene
Terrene opened as a buzz restaurant, one of those places that avid restaurant-goers quiz each other about constantly — "Is it open yet?" "Have you gone?" and the inevitable "But I heard . . . ." You know the drill. We feel that restaurants must be allowed some time before we attempt to pass any
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This Week’s Wines, July 25, 2006
Sorry for the interruption, but last week’s cataclysmic weather, which the mayor of Clayton wimpishly referred to as "inclement" in a telephone message to his constituents, turned off electricity and telephones at our house for a few days. Returning to more pleasant subjects, however, we’ve talked recently about rose wines for summer, and we’ll deal