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St. Louis in London?
Embarrassingly fortunate, I was in London again in late May after visiting my former neighbors outside Vevey, Switzerland – another story to be told there at another time. But having been reminded of its presence by running into another attendee at April's Chowzter conference, I went by the Covent Garden location of Danny Meyer's Shake
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Cod Squad, 2014: St. Stephen Protomartyr, St. Louis
St. Stephen Protomartyr, in the heart of south St. Louis, is so proud of its Lenten fish fries they advertise in the newspaper. Red flag to a bull? Sort of. It's a larger menu than average, they serve beer and it's possible to buy a single fish taco or a shrimp, for instance, if you
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Ghost The Musical
Good dancing: Does it outweigh a tear-jerker story? "Ghost" is playing at the Peabody Opera House, a story of Love From Beyond among Gen X. It can't be Gen Y – they make jokes about how unfashionable it is to live in Brooklyn, and how inexpensive, too. Or maybe that's how they establish that this
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Cod Squad 2014: Immaculate Conception, Maplewood
Are you there, fish? It's me, Ann. And so we begin another season of the Cod Squad. (Last week I was in Baja Arizona, where they aren't – apparently – part of the tradition.) Went to Immaculate Conception in Maplewood, handy if you're going to the Rep, but allow plenty of time, of course. The
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Sunrise Family Restaurant
No glamorous low-light idiosyncratic menu place this time. Sunrise Family Restaurant, whose sign says Sunrise Pancake House, sits on the northbound side of North Lindbergh, just below where the debris of Northwest Plaza sits, downcast and waiting for whatever cavalry can rescue it. Sunrise, on the other hand, is often possessed of a near-full parking
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A Frozen Cocktail? In December?
I mostly managed to miss the first cocktail era, when the Don Drapers were in full swing. As a teenager, I learned that Jacqueline Kennedy's cocktail request from the White House butler was a daquiri, and that stuck in my mind and (as it was easier in those years of permed hair and armor-like undergarments
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On Breakfast Potatoes
My frustration with the a.m. potato situation continues to simmer. I wrote about it for Relish. But tomorrow's post about a brunch in New Orleans offers a delicious if frustrating (because it's so far away) alternative.
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Sister Cities
If you like Mom-n-Pop restaurants, here's one for you. Sister Cities, on South Grand, just north of Meramec, is a fine spot for casual folks who have a group that mixes people who like spicy food and those who can't, or don't, do heat. The concept is New Orleans-y food and St. Louis-y food, and
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All Is Calm
Peace on earth: One can only hope. Perhaps peace, like love, mostly comes in small fragments. One of those frequently evanescent fragments happened in World War I over Christmas of 1914. I suspect American memories have forgotten, if they ever fully grasped, the awfulness of that war, how it scarred the European psyche and
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Pterodactyls
What is it about the psyche of humans – or at least American humans - being mesmerized by disasters of all sizes? From small (a fight broke out in the first two minutes of the Blues hockey game the night I saw this play and of course the crowd loved it) to large (which is why