St. Louis Restaurants
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Brunch: Local Harvest and Brio Tuscan Grille
One weekend. Two brunches, direct opposites in so many ways. And yet both totally satisfying. Local Harvest Café is on Morganford Road, the thriving main street of the thriving Tower Grove South neighborhood. (The café’s website says at least half its ingredients come from within 150 miles of St. Louis, thus the name.) The feel
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Harvest
Harvest has morphed from a Hot New Thing into a consistently reliable favorite with St. Louis diners and with lots of visitors, too. We never stop by for a meal or a late-night dessert that we don’t see at least one table of local business folks, others holding out-of-towners and always celebrants, often Washington U.
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Mammer Jammer
WHACK. WHACK. Whackwhackwhackwhack, whackwhackwhackwhack. The rhythmic chopping is metal on metal, a complicated beat sounding like it’s pounded on a drum kit’s cow bell. We were at Mammer Jammer, once a regular stop for night-owls at the triangular intersection where Olive Street and Lindell Boulevard split, now a denizen of a small strip mall on
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Saleem’s
Salim Hanna has been satisfying St. Louisans with Lebanese cuisine for 35 years, beginning on South Grand boulevard and leading the neighborhood into its position as the core of St. Louis’ ethnic diversity in terms of dining. He changed the name of his eponymous restaurant from Salim’s to Saleem’s to make it easier for St.
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Niche
No restaurant in town has received as much press in the last year and a half as Niche. Named by Food & Wine magazine as one of 2008’s Best New Chefs, Gerard Craft and his crew have lightened up the Benton Park neighborhood with their urbane little bistro. Cozy but not crowded (which is the
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Pancakes at The Scottish Arms
Off to brunch at The Scottish Arms last week – and please note it’s served both Saturday and Sunday now – and a chance to have one of the more unusual breakfast dishes around town. While the bacon and egg sandwich is pretty darn tasty, we were smitten with the oatmeal pancakes. At least
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The Good Pie
We have long said that the two things we don’t argue with people about are barbecue and pizza. But we do get a bit impatient with folks who insist that there is only one _____ (choose your adjective: good, proper, real, or insert your own favorite) kind of those things. That said, we do urge
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Boiling Fish at LuLu
Every once in a while, we find something particularly swell that we just have to share. The other night we were having dinner with The Old China Hand and Mrs. Hand at LuLu’s. And we came across a new-to-us dish that is absolutely killer, flavorful and spicy, crunchy and soft. The menu calls it Szechwan
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Triumph Grill
Just west of the Midtown intersection where Olive Street makes a northwest jog, leaving Lindell Boulevard to carry on westward to Forest Park, the Triumph Grill sits on the east side of Grand Center, not an unreasonable stroll from the Grand Boulevard entertainment venues. The Kranzberg Center, the Fox and Jazz at the Bistro are
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J. F. Sanfilippo’s
Tucked into a corner of a downtown hotel, next door to the sad remains of Union Market, J. F. Sanfilippo’s is too good to leave to the tourists and convention-goers. It’s another one of that underappreciated group, St Louis’ family-owned Italian restaurants. Less formal than some of its relatives, and it has many in the