St. Louis Restaurants
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Basil Spice
There’s a real urban charm to Grand Avenue just south of Tower Grove Park. The neighborhood is home to plenty of reasonably-priced restaurants, many of which are ethnic; several bars, often with music; a used bookstore, a bank, a drug store, a dry cleaner and a good ethnic grocery store: These are the things that
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Woofie’s and Pam’s
Woofie’s is one of those "insider" places that don’t get much publicity outside of the local area. And in this day of multitudes of travel publications and highly active blogmania, it’s always surprising that newcomers don’t know the place and passers-through-town aren’t Googling for directions off the interstate. A mustard-yellow building on Woodson (or,
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Truffles
Low-key. Yes, that’s the word to describe Truffles. The restaurant has outlasted big-budget competition, parking lot wars, chef changes and economic vagaries, and just keeps humming along. The bar is often very busy, but pass on to the muraled dining room, have a comfortable seat and watch the well-dressed clientele catch up on their gossip.
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Soulard’s Restaurant
Just south of the market for which it’s named, Soulard’s Restaurant offers a dark, brick-walled interior, dotted with black-and-white drawings of St. Louis landmarks. Owners Dan and Tom Badock offer Saturday breakfast, handy for market-goers, along with lunch and dinner Monday through Saturday. Lunch is busy, with local business types knocking back sandwiches; dinner seems
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The Fountain On Locust
Attention nostalgic ice cream lovers: We’ve found the best chocolate ice cream to hit St. Louis since the much-mourned Gold Coast Chocolate. At The Fountain on Locust, they bring their ice cream from Wisconsin, and while there are other flavors that are extremely enjoyable, the Zanzibar Chocolate is absolutely killer. The Fountain on Locust is
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Three Monkeys
How many jokes about Three Monkeys have been based on its name? We promise to spare you any more about this bar/restaurant south of Tower Grove Park, which is becoming a pastureland for the grazing of the young and casual. It’s satisfying to see old urban neighborhoods re-energized. Three Monkeys probably has been a watering
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Porter’s Fried Chicken
Fried chicken is one of the dishes that hardly anyone makes at home any more. It’s not as though that’s because America is eating more healthily, of course. Colonel Sanders led the parade of frying kettles out of our kitchens and into roadside businesses. This is not such a bad thing. It’s a lot more
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Los Tarascos
How often do we in St. Louis get to try a food item just as it is being featured in the current issue of Gourmet magazine? Well, maybe you can recall an opportunity, but we can’t. We even ate the torta ahogada before the magazine was opened at our house. It all began when we had
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Onesto
How long has it been since you found good French fries and good pizza at the same restaurant? Uh-huh. Let’s up the ante a little: How about good French fries, good pizza and occasional truffle oil — all at a reasonable price? Thought so. As Shakespeare might have said, "Get thee to Onesto." On a
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King Edward’s Chicken and Fish
We try to avoid chain restaurants, rarely reviewing them and almost as rarely eating at them. So it’s always good news for us to find a locally owned spot, especially when its food is tastier than average. King Edward’s Chicken and Fish, which began in St. Charles, has now come to Crestwood. Its location is