Two Cents’ Worth
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Christmas Windows and Food
Just a note to say that our pals at Zagat have blogged about the foodie windows this season at Barney's NY, the downtown Manhattan department store. Pretty amusing, and you can read about it and look at photos here.
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Welcome Back, Marcel
His smile is as wide, his English as fractured. His hair is grayer, his cooking skills as comforting and refined. Marcel Keraval is in the kitchen at Chez Leon, which means the joy of classic French cuisine has returned to St. Louis and a great weight has been lifted from the shoulders of owner Leon
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Excellent News
St. Louis theater-goers and concert fans scored a major ethical victory, and a financial bonus, to celebrate the new month on Monday. Grand Center parking meters now end at 7 p.m., cut back from the 10 p.m. established a few months ago. Vince Schoemehl, president of Grand Center, phoned me at 10 a.m. Monday to
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No More Salad at Penn Station?
As America–and food writers–continue to wrestle with the problem of obesity, another restaurant chain has done its bit to make things worse. Penn Station, which serves an acceptable cheesesteak sandwich, along with many variations on the sub/grinder theme, has stopped offering salads (and wraps, too). Removed from their menu boards, removed from their website. It
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A Few Thoughts
"Spring can really hang you up the most," wrote Fran Landesman and Tommy Wolf, and "Younger than springtime," said Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. We're solidly into the season now, with flowers budding and weeds sprouting, and there's a great deal going on to interest readers of St. Louis Eats. For example — we
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2010 Farmers’ Markets
Farmers markets are one of the best things to happen to St. Louis eaters since the invention of the ice cream cone. We've decided to keep a schedule of the area's markets at the top of St. Louis Eats. We hope this will make it an easy reference for both you and us. As we
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St. Louis Critics Choices
There must be something about the end of the year that makes people — grown-up people — get into a list-making mode. Perhaps it's a behavior left over from childhood, when lists were made for Santa Claus. But people who write, whether for newspapers, the electronic media or the internet, are busy making lists.
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Another Starbucks Surprise
Starting today, Tuesday, September 29, Starbucks will be offering an instant coffee called VIA under the Starbucks brand. Available only in their stores and on the internet, it comes as three or 12 single-serve packets. Now, we will not get involved in why people who frequent Starbucks, or any coffee house for that matter,
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We’ve added…
Notice anything new? Just over to the right, at the top of the column, there's now a button to subscribe to St. Louis Eats. We can be added to the list of blogs you regularly receive. We've had a number of requests for this, and finally figured out how to do it. (Pie crust: Easy.