St. Louis Restaurants

  • Dao Tien Vietnamese Bistro

    Olive at Woodson and McKnight seems to be becoming a culinary hot spot. Only the gas station on the southeast corner escapes gastronomic action. Dao Tien, in a building that began life as a Dairy Queen, sports a lime green and red-orange interior and a nice, clean fish tank, the latter a nice change from

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  • Medianoche

    Mexican food in the non-fast-food division has returned to central St. Louis County with a flourish we haven't seen since the Gallardo Grill opened at the St. Louis Galleria. Mike Randolph, who gave us Half & Half for breakfast and lunch in this spot, changes gears after he closes in the afternoon, waves a wand

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  • Brunch: Hot Wok Cafe

    So what's the difference between "Chinese brunch", the phrase Hot Wok Cafe uses for its Saturday-only repast, and dim sum, which is what most Chinese food lovers think of when the subject of weekend mid-day Chinese food comes up? Dim Sum is dumpling-centered and this meal isn't. And while there aren't carts – which actually

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  • Hot Wok Cafe

    Sometimes traveling to a new restaurant is known territory, a trip down Gravois or up Lindbergh. But every now and then things get more interesting. A tip from The Old China Hand sent us out on the somewhat more complicated trail that would lead to the Hot Wok Cafe. Located behind a couple of '70's-kitchy-looking

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  • Yen Ching

    Forty years ago, as a rookie Post-Dispatch writer on the restaurant beat, my first piece about Chinese food began, "Beware the peppers!" It hailed Yen Ching, a new Brentwood Boulevard establishment, as a ground-breaker, a pioneer in introducing the spicy cooking of Hunan and Peking to St. Louisans. It became a member of my Class

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  • Roberto’s Trattoria

    We wrote about Roberto's Trattoria, a popular favorite, for the print edition of St. Louis Magazine. You can read about that here.

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  • San Jose Mexican Restorante

    Far better than Martha Stewart's favorite accolade, it's a great thing that kids in the Crestwood-Affton area are learning that good Mexican food doesn't have to come from chain restaurants. We had dinner recently at San Jose Mexican Restaurante, in a new strip mall across Watson Road from the soon-to-be-revived-we-hope Crestwood mall. Banana yellow, mango

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  • Boodles BBQ

    Silly, we suppose, but we're always interested when we see the re-use of fast food spots. Boodles BBQ (CQ) is in what appears to be an old Wendy's. That means there's plenty of room to stand back, look up at the menu board and ponder the options. More room, too, for mobility assistance devices like

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  • Brunch: LuLu Seafood

    Time for dim sum on Saturday or Sunday? We dropped by LuLu a while back and wrote about it for Relish, the St. Louis Magazine blog. You can read about it here.

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  • Black Thorn Pub & Pizza

      Why is a dive bar just off South Grand one of St. Louis' pizza-insider secrets? Because the pizza is very good, and St. Louisans may be particularly quirky about their pizza. We can't think of another city where the cheese is the subject of so much controversy, for instance. We're fond of Imo's, and

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