St. Louis Restaurants
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Ann Lemons Pollack: A Well-Seasoned Life
Never a shrinking violet, Ann moved between many different worlds during her 76 years.
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Appreciation: A Buffet of Ann Lemons Pollack’s Writing
With the passing of Ann Lemons Pollack in April and preparations underway for the July 24 celebration of her life, we’ve been enjoying re-discovering some of her early writings. Tucked onto dusty bookshelves and archived in old wine boxes, we’ve found dozens of dog-eared hard copies and tear sheets of her old writings, largely lost
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The Lucky Accomplice
Situated on a dazzlingly unremarkable block on South Jefferson, The Lucky Accomplice clearly hasn’t needed Clayton rents or Central West End foot traffic to draw attention. A delicious combination of raw brick, wood tables and retro-style enclosed booths hold a group of diners, mostly young, who understand they’re the lucky ones. They’ve gotten a chance
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Brunch: Juniper
Many years ago, a small theater chain in rural Missouri ran a promotion titled “Beans, Bacon and Biscuits”. Those basic food items turned out to be a promotion of a grocery giveaway. Who would have thought that we’d look at those things in a far different light now? Beans, which were grabbed up in the
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Throwback Mondays!
Pepe Kehm, of Peno Italian Soul Food, has come up with a swell way to celebrate the return to whatever normal looks like post-lockdown. One Monday a month for six months, he's bringing back some well-known chefs of St. Louis' past. Some of them are still working a little, others are living in an active
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King Lear
A year without the St. Louis Shakespeare Festival seems only to have whetted the community’s appetites even more. Opening night the streets surrounding Shakespeare’s Glen by the Art Museum were full of cars long before the 8 p.m. curtain, even though there are no formal pre-show activities like the Green Show this year. Nevertheless, familiar
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Brunch at the Bellwether
Hooray! It's brunch season! A really delicious brunch at the Bellwether, but I have no idea if there are tables available for Mother's Day this Sunday. Still, a great future draft choice. stlmag.com/dining/bellwether-brunch-inside-or-patio/ The Bellwether 1419 Carroll Street, St. Louis, Missouri 63104 314-380-3086 https://www.thebellwetherstl.com/
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Iconic Restaurants of St. Louis
It’s time. More accurately, it’s almost time. Iconic Restaurants of St. Louis will be released November 2, two weeks from today. To my immense delight, none of the restaurants in there have, the last time I checked, succumbed to the COVID virus. Many of them are small, nearly all are family-owned, and those are the
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Cusanelli’s Closes
Tomorrow, Sunday, is the last day of service for Cusanelli's on Lemay Ferry Road. There's quite a history to it, as I discovered in researching Iconic Restaurants of St. Louis (which I am now finishing up the editing of). Covid and unnamed other factors will be listed on the death certificate. Many years ago as a
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Another Giant is Gone
I am sorry to report that we have lost Jack Parker, the publican of O'Connell's. Though less seen in recent times, Jack was a master of the trade, almost Zen-like. Here's what I wrote for St. Louis Magazine. https://www.stlmag.com/dining/remembering-jack-parker-owner-of-o-connell-s-pub-died-june-19-2020/