Ann Lemons Pollack
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Eating in Italy
More pictures of food in Italy and a link to a story about it. Here's an antipasto table, something often greeting guests on entering restaurants. And a food market in Rome, this one in the Campo di Fiori: Finally, a patient would-be diner awaiting lunch opening at a small restaurant in the Trastevere neighborhood in
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Taqueria la Pasadita: Menudo
You're either in or you're out with menudo. The flavorful soup, usually only available on weekends, is a traditional Mexican hangover remedy. I can't speak to that, but I can tell you that it was what introduced me to tripe years and years ago. There are other flavors dancing around in menudo and perhaps that's
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Fall Food Frenzy
Set aside football for part of Sunday, November 4, and head to Monarch. It's now being used as an event space, and it'll be perfect for this year's Fall Food Frenzy. The St. Louis Originals, the organization of many local independent restaurants, brings more than 30 of its members to cook and serve their best
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Mandarin House: Dim Sum
Don’t be put off by the busy parking lot in front of Mandarin House on a Sunday morning. Busy is always good when it comes to dim sum. (It’s served on Saturday, too, but I can’t attest to the crowds.) They’re located at Page and Woodson, in Overland Plaza, on the west side of the
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Home Wine Kitchen: Grilled Cheese
Once in a while, a particular dish will come along and blow a diner away. it seems to happen, at least to me, when I'm not expecting it, a sort of "Oh, yes, that sounds nice, let's have it." Then, ker-pow, right in the mouth, the sort of taste and texture and delight that
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Gelato, and a Little More in Rome
Somehow, nearly always my first meal when I visit Italy is gelato. The post-arrival stroll designed to lift the fog of jet lag inevitably passes one, two, three gelato spots, and for a while I'm resistant, just too glad to be back and too curious about what's around the next corner. But then I lag,
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Eating Italy Food Tours
I've come back from Rome with a new appreciation for the food there. Certainly food is one of the great pleasures of Italy, but the focus is usually on smaller cities like Bologna or regions like Sicily. Besides the restaurants – in Rome or wherever one visits – it's fun exploring the street markets and
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Coastal Bar & Bistro
Red walls always give a room energy – not, of course, that any restaurant located on the east side of the first block of North Central needs energy. (Strange, isn't it, how the other side of the street hasn't had any serious momentum for a good while?) Coastal Bistro, despite its focus on seafood, has
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Pizza in Rome
I'm just back from Italy, with a couple of nights in London to kick things off. And, as usual, the food mainly fell into the category of More, Please. (Like New Orleans, it's not impossible to get a bad meal in Italy, but the odds are in your favor.) Plenty of tales to be told,