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2005 Stories by Rose Martelli

• Earth and Fire

  published December 28, 2005

  Terrene 33 North Sarah Street; 314-535-5100. Hours: Tue.-Thu. 11:30 a.m.-10 p.m. Fri.-Sat. 11:30 a.m.-11 p.m. Sun. 11:30 a.m.-9 p.m. 33... More >>

• Copia Runneth Over

  published December 21, 2005

  Copia Urban Winery and Market 1122 Washington Avenue; 314-621-7275. Hours: 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Mon.-Sat. More >>

• Mississippi Yearning

  published December 14, 2005

  Sweetie Pie's 4270 Manchester Avenue; 314-371-0304. Hours: 6:30 a.m.-8 p.m. Tue.-Sun. 9841 West Florissant Avenue, Dellwood;... More >>

• 13 Things About Atomic Cowboy

  published December 7, 2005

  4140 Manchester Avenue; 314-775-0775. Hours: 5 p.m.-3 a.m. Wed.-Sat. (kitchen open till about 1 a.m.) More >>

• Supersize Me

  published November 30, 2005

  Aya Sofia 6671 Chippewa Street; 314-645-9919. Hours: Lunch 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Tue.-Fri. Dinner 5-10 p.m. Tue.-Thu., 5-11 p.m. Fri.-Sat., 5-9... More >>

• Grouse of the Seven Gables

  published November 23, 2005

  Bistro Tercet 26 North Meramec Avenue, Clayton; 314-863-8400. Hours: Lunch 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Tue.-Fri. Dinner 5-10 p.m. Tue.-Sat. More >>

• Lemon Soul

  published November 16, 2005

  Lifestyles Café 5917 Delmar Boulevard; 314-863-5700. Hours: 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Tue.-Sun. (open till 1 a.m. Fri.-Sat.) More >>

• Mob Scene

  published November 9, 2005

  Maggiano's Little Italy 2 The Boulevard St. Louis, Richmond Heights; 314-824-2402. Hours: Lunch 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Mon.-Sun. Dinner 5-10 p.m.... More >>

• Hot Plates

  published November 2, 2005

  We were looking to get some at Boogaloo. Some drinks, that is, maybe just a round of mojitos. After all, this was a Sunday night in... More >>

• Tarter Sauce

  published October 26, 2005

  Benedetto's was never broke. But the Buzzetta family fixed it anyway. After operating the always-popular Italian bistro Benedetto's for twelve... More >>

• Afghan Revel

  published October 19, 2005

  It took Qayum Mohammad fourteen years to open Sameem, his new Afghan restaurant. That's if you're counting back to when he first arrived on... More >>

• Primo Pitch

  published October 12, 2005

  "What we do for the veal al limone is, we take a nice scallop cut of milk-fed veal, and we'll pound that nice and thin, marinate it in a... More >>

• Hamburger Help Her

  published October 5, 2005

  You won't have much trouble finding the Chuck-A-Burger. It's beyond McDonald's. What you do is, you exit Highway 370 a few miles west of... More >>

• Shark Attack

  published September 21, 2005

  Restaurants can jump the shark too, you know. Just like great TV shows that sputter out artistically long before they're actually put out to... More >>

• Brunchadelic

  published September 14, 2005

  Americana comes in many forms. Sometimes it's the painting American Gothic, or Edward Hopper's 1942 scene-from-a-diner masterpiece,... More >>

• Homeward Bound

  published September 7, 2005

  The cordless phone is glued to Marion's ear, while her eyes are on the big-screen TV. She's sitting at a table near the kitchen of the restaurant... More >>

• Parlor Game

  published August 31, 2005

  The two wisest things I've ever heard concerned work and pizza. The first I attribute to an old boss of mine, the best boss I ever had, who once... More >>

• Simply Dvin

  published August 24, 2005

  I wonder what the two women who work there -- the sole employees of this Armenian-Greek-Russian restaurant located in the Old Orchard section of... More >>

• Déjà Q's

  published August 17, 2005

  When I walked into Spyglass on the Park for the first time, I felt a creeping suspicion that I'd been there before. This was partially... More >>

• Scotch Frisky

  published August 10, 2005

  I've always heard that Scotland is a pretty magical place, and after my first, Thursday-night visit to the Scottish Arms -- a new... More >>

• Slice of Life

  published August 3, 2005

  I was born and raised in Maplewood, New Jersey, about fifteen miles outside of New York City. Until I was in middle school, I never really liked... More >>

• A Dream to Dine For

  published July 27, 2005

  A crystal-embellished bottle of liqueur, kept in a locked case behind a half-moon, mirror-backed bar, is gonna get noticed. When we saw it during... More >>

• Stir It Up

  published July 20, 2005

  Practically everybody I know, myself included, wanted to go to that Bob Dylan/Willie Nelson concert in Sauget the other weekend. Dylan I wasn't so... More >>

• Projecting Our Civic Pride

  published July 13, 2005

  St. Louis may not be known as the city of 8 million stories, or as the indie-film capital of the nation -- yet. But the lineup of more than 60... More >>

• There Goes the Eruv

  published July 13, 2005

  "A rabbi, a vegetarian and an Irishman walk into a bar" might sound like the start of a joke. But to restaurateur Gershon Schwadron, it sounds... More >>