St. Louis Restaurants
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Flashback: The Flaming Pit
Okay, raise your hand if you remember the "treasure chest" with toys in it. St. Louis' budget-ish steak house chain, The Flaming Pit, was actually begun by the man who also gave us Noah's Ark. But that's another story. The Flaming Pit we talk about here. And I didn't forget the spiced peach.
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Union Loafers: Pizza!
There’s a great deal of logic in thinking that a good bakery – a good bread bakery – should be able to deliver good pizza. Jim Lahey, the New Yorker who gave us the wonderful no-knead bread, for instance, has Co., a restaurant featuring his bread and his pizzas. And St. Louis has Union Loafers.
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Polite Society
The name Polite Society might be a two-edged sword for the Lafayette Square restaurant. Co-owner Brian Schmitz said he and partner Jonathan Schoen were just trying to convey an air of pleasant behavior, particularly thinking about service. Polite Society definitely isn’t one of those stiff places where murmured conversation and dainty wiping of the lips
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‘ZZA
Even more than fried chicken, there are probably never enough pizza places in St. Louis. One of the newest is ‘ZZA Pizza + Salad, the new baby of the Pi Pizzeria family. Located northeast of Washington University at the corner of Skinker and Pershing, it’s a long, well-windowed room with very spare, modern décor. (That
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Flashback: Tony Faust’s
Nary a man is still alive who remembers Tony Faust's Oyster House & Restaurant. But it's referred to from time to time, and newcomers and young ones need to learn the history of this elegant eatery. A little more about it here, from St. Louis Magazine.
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Nixta
After Italian food, Mexican is probably America’s most familiar foreign cuisine. Pasta and pizza really don’t seem foreign any more, and tacos and nachos aren’t far behind. It’s always fun to explore Mexican beyond the guilty pleasures of drive-thru burritos and the insider feeling of mom-n-pop shops’ street-style tacos. For that, there’s Nixta. Please don’t
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Thoughts on Visiting Clementine’s Creamery
National Ice Cream Day was this past Sunday. Wise of them to do it on a Sunday, don’t you think? A Sunday afternoon stroll or drive? Maybe a post-prandial cone in the evening? Americana at its best, one of the universal experiences. Clementine’s Creamery just opened its second location, on DeMun with the green park
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Evangeline’s
This is not a review. It was going to be, but things happened. I had brunch with four friends at Evangeline’s Bistro and Music House. I’ve had brunch there before, and was happy with the food, the service, and of course the music. I wrote about that here. But: Our food arrived 90 minutes after our
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The Taco and Ice Cream Joint
The Taco and Ice Cream Joint is way too much fun. On Cherokee Street a few blocks west of Jefferson, it’s a great combination of old and new in a setting definitely falls into the New category, brick walls, barn siding and more kinds of Mexican ice cream than you can shake a churn at.
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Flashback: The Branding Iron
Full of courthouse regulars in the daytime and families at night, The Branding Iron was a Clayton standard. I wrote about it for St. Louis Magazine.