St. Louis Restaurants
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Vicia
Vicia is the hot restaurant of the moment. It’s the brainchild of Michael and Tara Gallina, he a St. Louisan and both alumni of the prestigious Blue Hill Farm in New York. In the French tradition, he’s a chef and she runs the front of the house. This is not French food, it’s modern American,
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Brunch: The Tavern Kitchen & Bar
How great to have a menu that isn't the Same Old Thing. That's what faces the bruncher at The Tavern Kitchen & Bar, although there are a few choices for the very conservative eater. But how much fun is that? I wrote about it here on the St. Louis Magazine blog Dining.
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Courtesy Diner: Breakfast
I think I'll start an argument. I think the slinger at Courtesy is the best in town. I wrote about that, and more, here at the Dining blog of St. Louis Magazine.
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Flashback: Cafe de France
Classic French food in an elegant room in downtown St. Louis: That was Cafe de France. The city deserved that food. It needed that food. And Marcel and Monique Keraval made sure we got it. After I married my husband as he recovered from a life-threatening illness, it was where he chose for us to go
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Half & Half: Breakfast
Half & Half is definitely a morning spot. And the food is way beyond the usual bacon/ham/sausage/egg orbit. Here's what I ate on a couple of visits with a pal.
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The Blue Duck
One block in Maplewood seems to have become Spicy Chicken Central. Part of that is happening at a place named for another kind of poultry. The Blue Duck is located in part of the large space where Monarch once was. It’s a sibling of the Blue Duck in Washington, MO. But this isn’t the same
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Tennessee Williams Festival St. Louis: The Food
As the Tennessee Williams Festival St. Louis goes on in high gear, there are a couple of ways to participate that involve food. Both occur on Sunday. There are still tables available at the jazz brunch The Dark Room at the Grandel is doing. If you’re going on to a matinee and show your tickets,
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Flashback: Blue Water Grill
It's not Throwback Thursday but could we talk about the Blue Water Grill? The cozy confines of the old Dairy Queen? The difficulty of explaining (and maybe even understanding at first) the concept of "small plates"? Heaven forfend we should call them tapas. The big change when they moved to Kirkwood? I have great memories
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Brunch: Cielo
This town has always loved the fancy hotel brunch. Cielo at the Four Seasons Hotel downtown is going after people with that hankering. They’re hopping, so busy that when I broke the old family rule and walked in one Sunday without a reservation or even a phone call at 11 a.m, they told me that
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Nathaniel Reed Bakery
Whether through naivete or determined optimism, I never quite believed that the classic St. Louis inquiry of “Where’d you go to high school?” was a sly social stratification. Perhaps it’s the small town girl in me, wherein that question often leads to “Did you know Katie Whiffenpoof? She used to date my brother,” or “Was