St. Louis Restaurants

  • Prime 1000

    Prime 1000 has taken on the question of whether St. Louis needs yet another steakhouse. The market, of course, will ultimately decide, but in the meanwhile, things are roaring along at 10th and Washington. Located in a marvelous space that feels like it could be lower Manhattan with its high ceilings and huge windows, Prime

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  • Ichigo Modern Japanese

    Ichigo Modern offers several things usually not found in Clayton restaurants, but the first to meet the eye is the huge amount of free parking to the east side of the building. Located in the postwar- modern Washington University building erected to house Famous-Barr as the first department store branch to leave downtown, its main

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  • The Vine Mediterranean Cafe

    As much as we enjoy fine dining, we also take particular pleasure in finding a small ethnic restaurant that stands out. South Grand is Restaurant Row for candidates these days, and we have a(nother) winner. The Vine Mediterranean Cafe and Market offers lots of hits and very few misses. Yes, there's a market next door

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  • Lola

    Lola, tucked between Washington Avenue and St. Charles Street on 14th Street, seems to  position itself as a sort of hipster/neighborhood restaurant. The website wants viewers to think about edginess, but on a window of the long, narrow restaurant, it talks about “neighborhood nosh.” And we understand that on weekends, when there’s live music in

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  • Mosaic Bistro Market

    “Bistro” is just the right word for Mosaic Bistro Market. A menu that offers lamb shank, cassoulet, roasted chicken and brandade is a dead giveaway. We’ll allow the luxury of a long, long bar, not part of the traditional bistro image, but this is the heart of Clayton, where the after-work crowd labors so hard

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  • Pickleman’s Gourmet Cafe

    To begin with, yes, Pickleman's, or Pickleman's Gourmet Cafe, to use its full and proper name,   is a chain, albeit a small one. Obviously aiming at the college trade (as compared to the carriage trade), it's at the southern edge of St. Louis University's Grand Center campus. Other college-town homes are Columbia and Springfield,

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  • Addie’s Thai House

    This time of year, Thai restaurants provide us with happy memories. Some years ago, we traveled to Thailand during Christmas week and found it a fascinating time to visit eastern Asia; the incongruity of hearing “Deck the Halls” while looking for a little tuk-tuk taxi exemplified it. So when we walked into Addie’s Thai House

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  • Syberg’s Chesterfield

    Looking for dinner at an hour later than most of our fellow St. Louisans is something we often find ourselves doing. Both of us spent many years working rather late, and we're comfortable with dinner at 8, or 9, or even 10. It's a search that is difficult enough in the main part of the

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  • Truffles

    When Truffles opened, just over a decade ago, within earshot of the venerable Busch’s Grove, it looked to many people that Charles Cella and his daughter were tossing a red challenge flag at the fading jewel next door. Well, they won. The space to the east, now a grocery store, can be described as Busch’s

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  • Eclipse

    We’re great proponents of late-night dining, since both of us have spent many years in jobs that weren’t 9-to-5, so when we walked into Eclipse a little before ten and found the joint jumping, it was a splendid feeling. While the bar of the handsome restaurant in the Moonrise Hotel was considerably busier than the

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