This is Downtown Restaurant Week in St. Louis. I went off for dinner at Anthony's Bar with a pal, and have, in particular, a couple of dishes to report on and suggest. Two entrees on their Restaurant Week menu are remarkably good.
An immense pork chop in a mustard sauce was moist and tasty, nice with a glass of the Steele Merlot, and some new potatoes and Swiss chard alongside.
Then there was the ziti, perfectly al dente, in a creamy pink sauce with fresh shiitakes and rock shrimp, the sort of dish that got better, the more I ate of it. Enough left that it'll go into a fritatta for dinner tomorrow night. Another example of why it's true that the Insider Secret at our town's high-end Italian restaurants is their fabulous pasta.
And then there was the little matter of the chocolate-coconut tart. Salute, Helen Fletcher! (It's her creation.)
Good stuff. And you may valet park at Tony's, enter there, and take the door in the bar through the lobby to Anthony's.
Take advantage of the week, either here, or at the other participating restaurants.
Anthony's Bar
10 S. Broadway
314-231-7007
Lunch Tues.-Fri., Dinner Tues.-Sat. (Restaurant Week menu only at dinner)
Credit cards: Yes
Wheelchair access: Good
Smoking: No
Entrees: $20-$23
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Nice!