St. Louis Restaurants
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Epic Pizza & Subs
There’s something about restaurants in Soulard that feels echt St. Louis to me. I’m sure it’s because I’ve been going to them since the Hoover Administration, but there’s a coziness that helps balance their chill and/or drafts this time of the year. The brick walls and tin ceilings, the darkness of the deeper ends of
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Cate Zone Chinese Cafe
It’s been decades, I think, since St. Louis had a new style of Chinese cuisine, when Yen Ching brought us Hunan-style food, our first non-Cantonese experience. China, of course, is immense, and more multi-ethnic than most of us tend to realize. (I’m guilty, too.) Now we have a restaurant bringing us Dongbei-style food, something I
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First Bite: Hi-Pointe Drive-In
The Hi-Pointe Drive-In has opened to lots of traffic. Located where Naugles of blessed memory was, on McCausland, just south of the movie theater of the same name, and run by the Sugarfire Smokehouse gang, it has been an immediate Hot Spot. No, there’s no drive-through. And there are certainly no car-hops, which is what
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Olive + Oak
Olive and Oak was hopping when we arrived a few minutes early for a late dinner reservation. It’s always heartening to see a dining room, especially in the suburbs, moving and grooving at an hour when most are winding down. Staying up late to dine is far less common now than it was, say, when
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Mixing the Arts
Mixing the arts together is always an interesting idea, and mostly it’s a good one. Opera Theatre of St. Louis is indulging in just that with a series of get-togethers at venues throughout the area, mixing food, drink and music. It’s not quite “dinner and a show”, but almost. It’s (probably heavy) appetizers and some
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Brunch: Atomic Cowboy
One of the first times I ever ate brunch was a New Year's Day – it was at the Chase Park Plaza, in what was then, I believe, the Hunt Room. I was amazed that there were enough people interested in brunch after the annual late-nighter that the hotel had gone for it. (I was
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Flashback: The Original Cyrano’s
While the new Cyrano's in Webster Groves is very nice – I love the food-related wall art, and it's a fine place for post-Repertory Theatre eating and drinking – it's just a different creature than the original mothership. Here's a few words on it; I imagine a lot of readers could say a lot more.
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Yolklore
I suppose, if you will forgive me, this could be called an Eggs-press restaurant. Eggcept all the food is cooked to order, or at least the food you'd expect. (The chocolate cake, for instance, isn't. It'd melt the ganache.) But the food is good, sometimes great, and it's frequently very interesting. I like it a lot.
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Flashback: Layton’s
It's hard to drive by the still-shuttered Layton's on Clayton Road without thinking of Jackie Mason holding court there. But lots of other people did, too.