St. Louis Restaurants

  • Five Star Burgers

    St. Louis’ Year of the Hamburger is drawing to a close. Arguing about hamburgers may be like arguing about pizza or barbecue. I’ve finally come to the conclusion that if it tastes good, there’s no one way to do it “right”. It’s much about individual preference, thick versus thin, beef versus pork. Taste, whether you

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  • Zoya’s

    It's gonna get cold tonight. And it's going to stay that way for a while. Hey, it's almost November, maybe the glummest month of the year. Time for soup. You can even gently croon, "Soup of the evening, beautiful soup," as the Mock Turtle did, when you stop at Zoya's, where soup's the thing, although,

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  • Taqueria la Pasadita: Menudo

    You're either in or you're out with menudo. The flavorful soup, usually only available on weekends, is a traditional Mexican hangover remedy. I can't speak to that, but I can tell you that it was what introduced me to tripe years and years ago. There are other flavors dancing around in menudo and perhaps that's

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  • Fall Food Frenzy

    Set aside football for part of Sunday, November 4, and head to Monarch. It's now being used as an event space, and it'll be perfect for this year's Fall Food Frenzy. The St. Louis Originals, the organization of many local independent restaurants, brings more than 30 of its members to cook and serve their best

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  • Mandarin House: Dim Sum

    Don’t be put off by the busy parking lot in front of Mandarin House on a Sunday morning. Busy is always good when it comes to dim sum. (It’s served on Saturday, too, but I can’t attest to the crowds.) They’re located at Page and Woodson, in Overland Plaza, on the west side of the

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  • Home Wine Kitchen: Grilled Cheese

      Once in a while, a particular dish will come along and blow a diner away. it seems to happen, at least to me, when I'm not expecting it, a sort of "Oh, yes, that sounds nice, let's have it." Then, ker-pow, right in the mouth, the sort of taste and texture and delight that

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  • Melt

    Is Melt too hip for us? I hope not. It would mean no waffles for lunch and no chance to discuss yarn bombing. The waffles are Melt's foodish focus – the rest of the menu is liquid, hot, cold or frozen. Not surprisingly, there's a liquor license. But this isn't a bar. The only thing

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  • Coastal Bar & Bistro

    Red walls always give a room energy – not, of course, that any restaurant located on the east side of the first block of North Central needs energy. (Strange, isn't it, how the other side of the street hasn't had any serious momentum for a good while?) Coastal Bistro, despite its focus on seafood, has

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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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