St. Louis Restaurants
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Brunch: Gooseberries
There are still some of us around that remember the Class of '72, the restaurants opening the year that changed St. Louis dining forever. One of those prescient restaurants was Duff's. And if one of the folks who recall those days walks into Gooseberries like I did recently, they, too, would be taken back to
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Coming Soon!
Attention, ice cream aficionados. Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams will be opening in the Central West End on June 4. And there's free ice cream that day. (Added bonus: The first 50 people will get a free mug.) We don't know if she'll have her Gooey Butter Cake ice cream available then (but she should!), but
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Taco Circus
There's probably nothing that warms an old, careworn heart of a food writer more than finding a good little neighborhood spot. Those high-end spots with a PR person and aspirations to make the Wine Spectator list? All very nice, to be sure, but it's a whole different set of expectations for an eater, whether professional
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Sunset 44
Are the chicken wars of St. Louis over, or will this prove to be a long-term argument like pizza and barbecue? I certainly hope so. An ongoing discussion of good food has no downside to it. And here's a nod in the direction of the pleasures of cold fried chicken, too. Here's a link to
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Grapeseed
There are out there, somewhere, probably, souls so dead that they could resist a dish called turkey leg nachos. Well, maybe vegetarians. But for the rest of us, the giggle of the name lures us onward. It may well be the most popular dish at Grapeseed, which has been planted on Nottingham at Macklind Avenue.
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Cod Squad 2015, Part 4
Is it technically a Lenten Fish Fry if it's held at a nonreligious institution? En route to the Rep, I stopped by VFW Post 3500 on Big Bend in Richmond Heights. It's a folksy place, reminding me of similar spots where I grew up in outstate Missouri. The bar is smoky, but the food is
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Brunch: Katie’s Pizza and Pasta
We're about to begin what I always think of as the brunch season. The weather is warmer and there's a string of weekend-ish things that happen this time of year, not just the vernal holidays, Mother's Day and Father's Day, but weddings and graduations, too. We kicked the first warm Sunday in months off with
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Cod Squad 2015, Part 3
This week's Lenten Fish Fry (LFF) was at St. Gabriel the Archangel on Francis Park in St. Louis Hills. Now that it's still light when approaching an LFF, if one is not too deeply engrossed in the search for a parking spot, it's a chance to looking at architecture. This is a new part of
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Cod Squad 2015: Part 2
Putting together the Lenten fish fries, whether it's in a church or a civic organization, must be a, uh, whale of a lot of work. I speak as someone who didn't grow up in the world of LFFs, as they will henceforth be called, and it amazes me that they manage to feed so many