St. Louis Restaurants
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Just One Bite: Only This Week at Elaia
Lots of good things to eat at the 38 Eats promotion of St. Louis restaurants during this Shakespeare marathon weekend, and I sampled three Wednesday afternoon. A particular salute to the porchetta Ben Grupe is offering at Elaia. It’s an example of just how a pork tenderloin can be roasted past pinkness and still keep
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38 Eats
It's getting into high season for St. Louis entertainment. Lots of great things are coming up, and this weekend is Shake 38, the marathon celebration of Shakespeare and his works, an operation of Shakespeare Festival St. Louis. They must be particularly wise folks because this year they're including food in the festival. Lots of participating
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Cod Squad: Week 5
North County is mostly terra incognita to me. So when I set off to find the Knights of Columbus #2951 in Florissant, it was map time. Actually, it wasn’t hard to get to, but as I turned west onto St. Francois Street I began to wonder if this two-block stretch that dead-ended was correct. Never
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Brunch: 12 West
A road trip? Yes, please. En route to any number of places, Ste. Genevieve's historic sites or the Ste. Genevieve County wineries, or across to Elephant Rocks State Park or down to the whitewater at Silver Mines, 12 North in Farmington would work well. You can read about their brunch here. No guarantees as to whether there's
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Cod Squad: Week 5
The Cod Squad headed south, almost to the Meramec River, in fact, to St. Francis of Assisi in Oakville. (Am I the only one old enough to remember this area before it had an actual name?) Sure enough, in the school gym, on the south side of the building. There are two parking lots, one
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Sex with Strangers
Sex with Strangers has just opened. It’s from Rebels and Misfits Productions, opening their second season with a series they’re calling “An Intimate Theatre Project”. And it is intimate, certainly. It’s in a former private home that now seems to have been turned into an event space. The two-person play began with work at the
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Cod Squad: Week 4
Assumption Greek Orthodox Church in Town and Country doesn’t do a Lenten Fish Fry. At Assumption, it’s Friday lunch almost every week of the year. (They’re skipping April 14 this year because it’s the Orthodox Holy Friday, for instance.) But there seems always to be a baked fish on the menu, which changes slightly from
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Just One Bite: Sardella
Herewith, a few words on scrambled eggs. I never saw the sense in them until I bought my first MFK Fisher book, a compendium of her work called The Art of Eating. I was bedazzled. And eventually I got around to making the scrambled eggs the way she described them, slowly and gently. I couldn’t
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Flashback: Port St. Louis
I only ate here once, with a long-ago swain who was trying to impress me. The main thing I recall from that night at Port St. Louis was the decor. But lots of other folks have a clearer recall. I wrote about it for St. Louis Magazine.
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Just One Bite: Taqueria Durango
Am I the only one that remembers open-faced sandwiches? Thin slices of inevitably well-done roast beef or pork were laid on top of Wonder-type bread, the whole thing, usually with nearby mashed potatoes, was topped with brown gravy. It was comfort food from the Fifties and early Sixties, found at what we’d now call