Email Author Ian Froeb

Awards

• 2011 - Association of Food Journalists Awards, published November 11, 2010

  "Near Beer"

• 2011 - Association of Food Journalists Awards, published November 4, 2010

  "Jeffrey Plaza Jewel"

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2012 Stories by Ian Froeb

• Another Year, Another Story About Lebron James' Birthday Cake

  published Jan 06, 2012

  One year ago, Gut Check marveled at the Tower of Babel-esque birthday cake made for basketball megastar and serial playoff choke artist LeBron James. So we weren't exactly surprised to see this week's... More >>

• Tidbits from Chuy Arzola, Sassy Jac's, Farmhaus

  published Jan 06, 2012

  - WIth Dr. Gurpreet Padda and Ami Grimes having opened Diablito's Cantina nearby, changes were sure to follow at their other Mexican restaurant, Chuy Arzola (3701 Lindell Boulevard; 314-644-4430). Chu... More >>

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  Girl Scouts Introduce New "Savannah Smiles" Cookie, Gut Check's Thoughts Turn to Porn

  published Jan 05, 2012

  Gut Check is going to go out on a precarious limb here and assume that if you were to make a Venn diagram of a) Girl Scouts of America executives, b) aficionados of early 1990's porn and c) fans of th... More >>

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  Zombies Latest Explanation for Colony Collapse Disorder

  published Jan 05, 2012

  Everything from pesticides to cell-phone towers has been posited as the cause of colony collapse disorder, which since 2006 has dramatically reduced the population of honeybees, whose pollination is v... More >>

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  Schlafly Announces New Investment Group

  published Jan 04, 2012

  The ownership meetings at the Saint Louis Brewery, maker of Schlafly beer, are about to get a lot more crowded.Schlafly, which just last month celebrated its twentieth anniversary, announced today tha... More >>

• Shula's 347 Grill Now Vic's on the Plaza

  published Jan 04, 2012

  Ligaya Figueras of Sauce reports that Shula's 347 Grill (411 North Eighth Street; 314-241-7267) has reopened as Vic's on the Plaza. According to Figueras -- as well as, for whatever it's worth, a comm... More >>

• A Real Cluster Truck: Food Trucks vs. Bricks & Mortar Redux

  published Jan 04, 2012

  This week, in lieu of a review, I have a greatly expanded and revised version of last month's post about the conflict between food trucks and traditional restaurants downtown, a subject on which many ... More >>

• Plush Opens in Midtown

  published Jan 03, 2012

  rOver at RFT Music, my colleague Kiernan Maletsky reports that, at long last, Plush has opened its doors at 3224 Locust Street in Midtown.The 40,000-square-foot -- that's not a typo, by the wa... More >>

• Not Looking Good for Sir's Bar-B-Que

  published Jan 03, 2012

  Gut Check reported last month that Sir's Bar-B-Que (6714 Olive Boulevard, University City; 314-727-1474) had closed temporarily due to a regulatory issue. The restaurant had hoped to reopen by Decembe... More >>

• December 2011 Openings & Closings

  published Jan 03, 2012

  We're just about ready to close the books on 2011. (Still to come: Our omnibus listing of all 2011 openings and closings.)The final month of the year wasn't quite as hectic as previous months but stil... More >>

• A Real Cluster Truck: As food trucks proliferate, tension builds between mobile vendors and immovable eateries

  published January 5, 2012

  At first glance the map of permissible vending locations that the City of St. Louis provides to newly licensed food trucks looks like the... More >>