Ann Lemons Pollack
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How Late Did You Stay Out?
St. Louis' fondness for nostalgia applies just as much to restaurants as it does to high schools, sports and goofy items on Facebook. Cleaning out Joe's office – and what a job that's proving to be – I found lots of interesting stuff, but one particularly caught my eye. It was a St. Louisan magazine
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Kinder’s
Road trip! I suppose there are folks those two words don't cause a slight rise in the pulse rate, but it's no one that I know. While the apple season is peaking early, there's still a good excuse to drive up to Calhoun County, IL, to buy apples, and perhaps some fresh-pressed cider if you're
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Truffles
Truffles is a good example of a restaurant in its middle years that just keeps chugging along. That's not, in this case, a pejorative. It keeps reinventing itself, time after time, personnel change after change, and manages to keep going. That speaks to the consistency of the experience. This crowd – at least the one
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Gobblestop Smokehouse
Pig-free barbecue shop? Pretty much unheard of in these parts. But some pretty tasty stuff is comign out of Gobblestop Smokehouse in the also-not-'que-notable neighborhood of Olive and Fee Fee. Take a look at it here.
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La Vallesana
Years, decades, ago, when my kids were little, a Sunday afternoon run to Velvet Freeze on Gravois, with its giant ice cream cone standing proud, was an occasional treat they still remember. All these years later, I visit Cherokee Street, not so far away, and either with family or alone, slip into Neveria la Vallesana
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SoCo Gyros
How nice to find a destination-worthy small family spot in an area that has mostly franchise food. Yes, there are exceptions in South County, but this is a spot we'd go out of our way for. You can read about it here.
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Award-Winning Ice Cream Has St. Louis Ties
Jeni's Splendid Ice Cream, available in a few spots around town, turns out to be a sort of St. Louis-in-law. Read about it here.
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Locavore’s Delight
The very first day of the Clayton Farmer's Market, many years ago, which to my memory was in the month of September and was totally local and organic,we stood surveying the busy scene with Julie Ridlon, the market master. A woman, unknown to all of us, stopped to speak to Joe. At a pause in the
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New York Dim Sum
We wrote about it some years ago, but I re-visited Jing Fong in New York's Chinatown and wrote about it in Relish. Very comfortable for the solo diner, by the way, especially since the traditional dim sum portions are small. You can read about it here.