Cassy Vires

8 Great St. Louis Brunch Spots For Mother's Day This Weekend

Of all the greeting-card company holidays manufactured over the years, Mother's Day remains one we're perennially endeared toward...cause let's face it, moms deserves their own holiday. Make Mom's day with a meal at any of these eight St. Louis restaurants, which offer outstanding brunch selections ... More >>

From Michael Ruhlman to Mom: The Favorite Cookbooks of St. Louis Chefs

Chef's Choice is Gut Check's regular profile and interview, with recipe, of a St. Louis chef. From time to time we'll present several chefs' answers to one of our regular questions. This week: What is your favorite cookbook? Shopped for a cookbook lately? So many beautiful choices. So many expensiv ... More >>

Maplewood: An Updated Guide to Restaurants on Manchester, from Big Bend to the City Limits

St. Louis' neighborhoods are gems in their own right: full of history, great people and, as far as Gut Check is concerned, fantastic food. Each week we'll take you into a specific neighborhood and point you in the direction of the best places to grab some bites. Maplewood crams a lot of life into a ... More >>

Home Wine Kitchen's Fried Chicken: One of 100 St. Louis Dishes You Must Eat Right Now

The Gut Check One Hundred is our accounting of the 100 dishes in St. Louis that you must eat right now. These are the best dishes at the newest restaurants and the newest dishes at the best restaurants. These are the 100 dishes that define St. Louis dining in 2013. Our list culminates this fall when ... More >>

St. Louis Doesn't Have Food & Wine Magazine's "People's Best New Chef"

For the third consecutive year Food & Wine asked readers to vote for the "People's Best New Chef". Last year, Josh Galliano -- formerly of Monarch, now of the soon-to-open Libertine -- won for the Midwest. This year, the area had two chefs represented among the ten finalists in that category: Cassy ... More >>

Home Wine Kitchen's Vires, Tavern Kitchen & Bar's Haifely Up for Food & Wine Magazine's "People's Best New Chef" Honor

Cassy Vires of Home Wine Kitchen (7322 Manchester Road, Maplewood; 314-802-7676) and Justin Haifley of the Tavern Kitchen & Bar (2961 Dougherty Ferry Road, Valley Park; 314-825-0600) are two of the ten chefs in the running for the Midwest category of Food & Wine magazine's "People's Best New Chef" a ... More >>

Home Wine Kitchen Owners To Open New Restaurant on Cherokee Street

On Friday, Home Wine Kitchen (7322 Manchester Road, Maplewood; 314-802-7676) owners Cassy Vires and and Josh Renbarger announced plans to open a new restaurant named Table at 1821 Cherokee Street, the space formerly occupied by the Stable. Gut Check spoke to Vires this morning, who says Table will ... More >>

RFT vs. Our Readers: Best Burger

As we celebrate the Riverfront Times Best of St. Louis 2012, Gut Check is asking you, dear readers, to settle the disagreements between our picks and our readers' poll. This should be a good one. Our pick for "Best Burger" is Cassy Vires' Home Wine Kitchen (7322 Manchester Road, Maplewood; 314-802- ... More >>

It's National Hamburger Month: Celebrate At the Five Best Burger Joints in St. Louis

May is National Hamburger Month, which means if you need Gut Check, we'll be celebrating this fake 30-day holiday at our favorite burger joints in St. Louis. Though White Castle doesn't make the cut for this list, they do get an honorable mention for not only tipping us off to this four-week burger ... More >>

The Five Best Brunch Restaurants in St. Louis

Selecting Riverfront Times' Best of St. Louis 2011 was no picnic. Choosing the winner meant several worthy candidates would go unmentioned -- until now. In this Gut Check series, we are chewing our way through notable runners up in a number of categories. To see hundreds more winners and finalists a ... More >>

Iron Fork 2012: The Winners and the Hangover

Gut Check has a headache, we can't hear very well out of our left ear, and our favorite white dress shirt is stained with all of the major food groups and a fair amount of booze. Yup. Iron Fork 2012 was a success.

Iron Fork 2012 Is One Week Away!

Oh, hello. Ian here on behalf of Gut Check. You know, we often use exclamation points in our headlines -- usually ironically or sarcastically or because our finger slipped and we're too lazy to fix the typo. In this case, however, we really are excited. Next Thursday, March 22, is our annual Iron F ... More >>

Josh Galliano Voted Food & Wine "People's Best New Chef" for Midwest

First, the bad news: As previously announced, Monarch (7401 Manchester Road, Maplewood; 314-644-3995) closed after service on Saturday, March 10. Now, the good news: Monarch executive chef Josh Galliano was voted Food & Wine magazine's "People's Best New Chef" for the Midwest region. The voting too ... More >>

Josh Galliano, Cassy Vires Nominated for Food & Wine "The People's Best New Chef" Honor

Once again, Food & Wine wants you, person who likes food and restaurants and voting for things online, to choose "The People's Best New Chef." A total of 100 chefs nationwide have been nominated for the honor, which coincides with the magazine's annual (undemocratic) selection of the ten "Best New C ... More >>

Oops!...He Did It Again: RFT's insatiable food scribe chowed his way through another year — what a pig!

Top Ten Dishes 2011 #5: The Burger at Home Wine Kitchen

I'm counting down my ten favorite dishes from the restaurants that I reviewed in 2011. The top dish will be revealed on Tuesday, December 27, and look for a slideshow featuring most of the winners on Wednesday, December 28.​One of the few mainstays on chef-owner Cassy Vires' ever-changing menu, th ... More >>

Cassy Vires of Home Wine Kitchen: Recipe for Crustless Buttermilk Pie

This is part three of Stephen Fairbanks' Chef's Choice profile of Cassy Vires of Home Wine Kitchen. Part one can be found here. Part two, a Q&A with Vires, is published here. Stephen FairbanksCrustless Buttermilk pie with lemon creme anglaise and lemon zest. ​Cassy Vires, chef-owner of Home W ... More >>

Cassy Vires of Home Wine Kitchen, Part 2

This is part two of Stephen Fairbanks' Chef's Choice profile of Cassy Vires of Home Wine Kitchen. Part one can be found here. Part three, a recipe from Vires, will be posted Thursday. Jennifer SilverbergChef/owner Cassy Vires in the cheese case.​ Did your family cook when you were a child? N ... More >>

Cassy Vires of Home Wine Kitchen

This is part one of Stephen Fairbanks' Chef's Choice profile of Cassy Vires of Home Wine Kitchen. Part two, a Q&A, will be posted tomorrow, and part three, a recipe from Vires, will be posted on Thursday. Jennifer SilverbergHusband-and-wife owners of Home Wine Kitchen, Josh Renbarger and Chef Cassy ... More >>

The Five Best Burgers in St. Louis

Selecting Riverfront Times' Best of St. Louis 2011 was no picnic. Choosing the winner meant several worthy candidates would go unmentioned -- until now. Though RFT restaurant critic Ian Froeb didn't write every edible item in the issue, our go-to food critic helped nudge us to consensus via various ... More >>

Post of the Month: The Five Best New Restaurants in St. Louis

Gut Check is constantly working to bring the latest food news to our readers. As a result, we do a lot of blogging. In an effort to draw attention to great posts that may have otherwise been lost in the blogosphere (and to recognize our hard-working writers), we present Post of the Month.Selecting t ... More >>

Home Wine Kitchen, Cassy Vires' new Maplewood restaurant, isn't afraid to shake things up

Review Preview: Home Wine Kitchen

Jennifer SilverbergHusband and wife owners of Home Wine Kitchen, Josh Renbarger and Cassy Vires.​This week, in the final review before this year's Best of St. Louis issue, I visit Home Wine Kitchen (7322 Manchester Road, Maplewood; 314-802-7676).You might never get to try the salad that I had a fe ... More >>

Review Preview: Home Wine Kitchen

This week, in the final review before this year's Best of St. Louis issue, I visit Home Wine Kitchen (7322 Manchester Road, Maplewood; 314-802-7676).You might never get to try the salad that I had a few weeks ago at Home Wine Kitchen. Which is a shame. This was a damn good salad, simple but elegant: ... More >>

June 2011 Openings & Closings

​June continued a run of busy months for openings in the St. Louis area, but several big-name closings dominated the news: Terrene and Delmar Loop mainstay Brandt's Café. (Del Taco has also closed, though that was big news for other reasons.)Openings included Home Wine Kitchen from chef Cassy ... More >>

A Taste of Home Wine Kitchen

Amanda WoytusHome Wine Kitchen replaced Nosh. ​The product of chef Cassy Vires, formerly of Ernesto's Wine Bar (2730 McNair Avenue; 314-664-4511) and contributor to Feast, and her husband, Josh Renbarger, Home Wine Kitchen (7322 Manchester Road, Maplewood; 314-802-7676) is the newest eatery to ... More >>

Nosh in Maplewood Closed, New Restaurant Opening

Jennifer SilverbergThe Nosh space in Maplewood, soon to become Home Wine Kitchen​The Maplewood restaurant Nosh has closed after less than a year in business. Its storefront at 7322 Manchester Road is mostly cleared out, and the phone number has been disconnected. I reviewed Nosh just six months ag ... More >>