St. Louis Restaurants
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Reeds American Table
Restaurant fiends like me know about cursed locations, spots that, no matter who opens what kind of eatery, cannot sustain a successful restaurant. But after eating at Reeds American Table I have begun to consider that theory's opposite: The blessed location. Reeds had rather a lot to live up to in the site of the
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Breaking News. And Eggs.
Big news in the world of Morning Food. Imo's has added a breakfast pizza. It's eggs, bacon, sausage and cheese, plus whatever add-ons the eater chooses. It will be available at any hour – at least at any hour your Imo's is open, so I'm thinking having it for an 8 a.m. meeting won't be
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LoRusso’s on Grand
Visitors to Grand Center are perpetually in search of dinner sites, places where they can park once for the entire evening. We're going to investigate a few new ones, starting with LoRusso's on Grand. At the northwest corner of Grand and Washington, Rich LoRusso is serving an all-you-can-eat buffet on nights when there's action in
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Cod Squad 2016
One of the more interesting fish fry experiences I've had since I hit the Cod Trail a couple of years back came from a visit to Our Lady of Guadalupe in Ferguson. It's close to I-70 and the UMSL campus, and not nearly as crowded, at least on this visit, as some others I've hit.
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Morning Food at the Ritz-Carlton
It's the Ritz. They've set their own standard from the time they first opened their doors in Clayton, and long before that at their earlier outposts. (Some may remember Pollack's First Law: Restaurants set their own standards by the way they price themselves. It's just as true with hotels.) So when they discontinued their opulent
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Nami Ramen
If last year was the Year of the Chicken in St. Louis, 2016 may well prove to be the Year of the Ramen. Two restaurants featuring the noodles have opened in town, and I suspect more noodleology to come. Now, I claim no long, nostalgic history with the cheapo ramen noodle packets. They arrived on
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Gus’s Fried Chicken
Sometimes the internet chatter can be right. It's not that there was unanaimous agreement on Gus's Fried Chicken. But it has a rabid following and the opening of it in Maplewood was the subject of heated discussion in the local food world. 2015, after all, was the Year of the Fried Chicken in these parts,
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Petit Paree
When you live forty miles from a metropolitan center, fairly serious dining out can be a challenge. In Jefferson County, just to our south, Petit Paree Restaurant & Lounge has been taking up the challenge since 1960. Back then, the Twin Cities of Festus and Crystal City, the latter the home of a high school
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Biryani Paradise Point
Paradise Biryani Pointe is almost hidden. Tucked into the corner of an L-shaped two-level strip mall on Manchester Road, it's where one of the locations of Saleem's was years ago. Interestingly, the restaurant turns out to be one of a chain of franchises, but it scarcely seems dumbed down by its owner, an Indian-American who
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Brunch: Kamayan
We haven't had much Filipino food in St. Louis outside of private homes. Our loss, certainly; eating new kinds of food is always an enriching experience. I'm told that in India, they believe that eating new food makes you smarter, and in light of research involving neural pathways in the brain, it certainly seems like