St. Louis Restaurants
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Mazara
Mazara in Clayton hits the sweet spot between a loud singles-favored restaurant and a relatively formal dining experience. A far cry from the usual St. Louis Italian restaurant in terms of a décor that includes good lighting and modern art on the walls, the menu dances with some familiar dishes and some that are quite
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Kampai Sushi Bar
Tucked away on the ground floor of a large, rather anonymous modern apartment building, Kampai Sushi Bar seems to be a very neighborhood-local place. The only business on the West Pine block between Kingshighway and Euclid, it chugs along quietly, or so it seems. But we suspect they’re hoping for a little late-night action
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Stellina Pasta Cafe
Stellina Pasta Cafe has emerged from a major remodeling with an extremely different air. With a more sophisticated dining room and a small bar in a waiting area at the door, the restaurant now seats about 60, double its former capacity. This doesn't seem to have alleviated the demand for their food, though. We visited
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Kota Wood Fire Grill
There's a new kid in Grand Center, right across the street from the Fox. Kota Wood Fire Grill, from the same people that operate the Triumph Grill in the neighborhood, has opened and, after giving the restaurant a little time to shake out the kinks, we decided to visit. The corner location facing the theater
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Brunch: scape
Spring is busting out all over, and some days it's even warm enough to consider not just eating outside, but seeking a shady table. At such times, Sunday brunch on Maryland Plaza provides its own entertainment. The important thing is if the food matches up. At scape (still no capital letter), it does. The menu
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Gokul
It had been a long time since we last visited Gokul, the vegetarian Indian restaurant on Page Avenue, but we stopped at the enlarged Seema Enterprises recently to pick up some Indian groceries (fresh kari leaves!), and found an excuse and a freshly whetted appetite to stop for lunch next door. No longer just a
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Yia Yia’s Euro Cafe Brunch
This is the year’s high brunch season. It technically began at Easter, but will b e followed by Mother’s Day, various graduations, Fathers Day, and the wedding season, when dozens of out-of-towne guests yearn for coffee nd eggs and no mostaccioli in giant buffet pans. (This is not the venue in which to discuss the
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Taste by Niche
Niche-the-Original, as we now may need to refer to the Mother Ship, always has seemed pleasantly New York-y to us. The color, the lighting – about the only thing that made us think we weren’t in some dining room on West 75th Street was that the tables were sufficiently far apart. Now, Taste by
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Dressel’s Public House
Lives there a soul so dead as to say no to a hot, freshly-fried potato chip? Particularly when it's accompanied by a glass of an appropriate chilled beverage, be it beer, sparkling wine or even a diet Dr. Pepper? There's something particularly addictive about them, and a heaping basket, all golden-brown and crisp at the
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Cusanelli’s
There aren’t many St. Louis restaurants that have been around as long as Cusanelli’s, a traditional Italian spot of the sort that once lived on a large number of street corners throughout the city, but it’s an extremely low-key spot and one of the few establishments that seems to be thriving in a far-south neighborhood