Brian Hardesty

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Top Ten Dishes 2012 #1: The "Flying Pig" at Guerrilla Street Food

I'm counting down the top ten dishes from the new restaurants that I reviewed in 2012. Read the complete series to date. #1: The "Flying Pig" from Guerrilla Street Food (@GuerrillaStreet; www.guerrillastreetfood.com; 314-529-1328)

Commando Performance: Guerrilla Street Food's fresh Filipino fare bucks every St. Louis food-truck trend

Bud Starr Closes Root After Three Weeks

Root (1135 South Big Bend Boulevard, Richmond Heights; 314-781-2345) announced via Twitter this morning that it was closed, effective immediately, only three weeks after it opened. via Twitter​Chef Brian Hardesty tells Gut Check that he was at the restaurant, placing his produce order, when h ... More >>

First Look: Root Features Old-School American Cuisine

Mabel SuenCreamed lobster with brandy and fried bread.​Envision a warm, open hearth with a pot of stew or suckling pig roasting. This was the image that chef Brian Hardesty imagined while dreaming up his concept for Root (1135 South Big Bend Boulevard, Richmond Heights; 314-781-2345), the spac ... More >>

January 2012 Openings & Closings

The new year began right where the old one ended, with plenty of openings and not many closures. Notable openings included two of Gut Check's most anticipated restaurants of 2012 (that we know of): Root, Brian Hardesty's look at historical American cuisine, and Medianoche, the contemporary Mexican ... More >>

Root to Open Friday, January 20

Gut Check declared Root to be one of our most anticipated restaurants of 2012. We don't have to anticipate much longer. Root announced this weekend that it will open on Friday, January 20, for dinner. Root replaces Nosh in the space adjacent to Starrs at 1135 South Big Boulevard in Richmond Heights ... More >>

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

The Five Most Anticipated New St. Louis Restaurants of 2012

​To be frank: This was an odd list to compile. If 2012 continues the trend begun in 2011, St. Louis will welcome many new restaurants over the next twelve months, so singling out only five of them as the "most anticipated" seems silly. What's more, many of the restaurants that will open in the new ... More >>

Guerrilla Road Warriors: St. Louis Food Truck to Hit the Highway

Sometimes we go on vacation for the food. And sometimes, the food goes on vacation. #embedly_twitter_34691851{background:url(http://a2.twimg.com/profile_background_images/275002644/gsf-facebook.jpg) #131516; padding:20px;} #embedly_twitter_34691851 p{background:#fff;padding:10px 12px 0px 12px;marg ... More >>

Food Trucks Donate to Occupy St. Louis Protesters

Photo courtesy of Brian Villa​Recently Mother Jones writer Tom Philpott advised "foodies" to join the Occupy Wall Street movement, since the corporate food industry is a part of the Wall Street greed being protested. For two St. Louis small food businesses, they were already there. But when ... More >>

2009 in Review: May

​​It was the month of Kristen! My colleague Kristen Hinman won three prestigious journalism awards for her stellar feature about Missouri hog farmer Russ Kremer, "The Pope of Pork": a James Beard Foundation award, an Associaton of Alternative Newsweeklies award and an Association of Food Journal ... More >>

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