St. Louis Restaurants
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Just a Bite: The Kitchen Sink
If you're one of the folks who love those post-Thanksgiving mashups of all the leftovers layered on two defenseless slices of bread, I've got the dish for you. The Kitchen Sink – now, of course, in its elegant new digs on Union Boulevard – offers the Humble Pie. This is not pie as in "apple".
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Truffles and a Side Excursion to the Butchery
I had dinner at Truffles recently, preceeded by wandering next door to the Butchery, their new enterprise – which is way more than meat. Here's how it went in a link to St. Louis Magazine's piece.
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Just a Bite: The Scottish Arms
The (still-)United Kingdom would probably win if there were a contest for amusing names for various foods. Yes, funny stuff elsewhere, Italy's priest-strangler pasta and Portuguese nuns' signs pastries, for instance. But you have to love a culture that can disduss spotted dick with a straight face. Thus Alastair Nisbet's offering of baby forfar bridies
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Brasserie By Niche
It's the right time of the year to be thinking about boeuf bourguignon and steak frites, that's for sure. Dig in at Brasserie By Niche. Here's the link to a review from St. Louis Magazine's blog. And here's some dessert:
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Tony’s
Is Tony's really so different from similarly-priced restaurants in town? Is there another place we explain carefully to outsiders and the unfamiliar? I don't think so, and it seems to me that what makes the difference is the aura of the place. Diners today expect servers to say, "Hi, I'm Phil and I'll be your
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Annie Moon’s Cafe
Located in Tower Grove South, Annie Moon's is slightly wacky but tasteful and tasty. Whoever heard of a bakery/cafe with an associated comic book store? St. Louis Magazine is using some of my restaurant reviews, so I am happy to say that you can read about it here. Other reviews, plus theater, travel and whatever strikes my
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A Few Notes On The Majestic
It was, for many years, almost an adjunct dining room for the Barnes, Washington U Med School, Jewish and St. Louis College of Pharmacy students. That's how I met it. When it closed in the spring, I wrote this for St. Louis Magazine.
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Brunch: River City Casino
Ah, casino buffets…visions of the horn of plenty, slightly out of tune, perhaps, but tootling "We're In The Money" as food pours out, filling tables to overwhelming. Fruit rolls off the side, a turkey tips at an unseemly angle, pies and cakes vie for space with potato salad – that sort of thing. Casinos, at
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A Pizza Story
Sometimes I forget there are certain things that some people need to hear over and over. One of them is that there are lots of different ways to make pizza. The stuff that appeared in college dorms is not the only kind of pizza out there, and to go to a pizza place expecting what
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Peshwa: Lunch Buffet
There's been lots of discussion about the proliferation of barbeque restaurants around town in the past year or so. But under the radar, there's another kind of restaurant that's absolutely mushrooming up. We've seen a near-explosion of Indian spots hereabouts, and I, for one, intend to pay attention to them. I'm missing the Curry Mate,