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DeMun Neighborhood Guide: Fine Dining and Pastrami Deli Sandwiches

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. View DeMun in a larger map DeMun i ... More >>

Wil and Lisa Fernandez-Cruz Host Calçotada Festival in Honor of Spring

Spring is in the air, which means the smell of charred leeks is soon to be in the air as well. Chef duo Wil Fernandez-Cruz and his wife Lisa are hosting a Calçotada Festival on May 19 as a sort of welcome back party for the warmer weather. Traditionally a Spanish celebration of Spring and the bou ... More >>

One of St. Louis' most talented chefs works in the Cheshire's basement. Time to let Basso's big dog bark.

Slideshow: Inside Basso at the Cheshire Inn

Basso Puts the Cheshire Hotel's Brightest Talent in the Basement: Review Slideshow

Basso (7036 Clayton Avenue; 314-932-7818) is the underground half of the renovated Cheshire hotel's twinned restaurant concepts, but it is no lesser sibling. In fact, it strikes me as having greater potential than the Restaurant at the Cheshire's play-it-safe upscale approach. My review of Basso is ... More >>

The Upside Downstairs: A Preview of This Week's Review of Basso

Basso (7036 Clayton Avenue; 314-932-7818) should not be an afterthought. Yes, it is in the basement of its glitzier older (by a matter of weeks) sibling, the Restaurant at the Cheshire. But what a basement it is! The cavernous space features both throwback elements (a fireplace, gas lamps and a wood ... More >>

The Ten Best Food Events in St. Louis This Weekend: March 29 to 31

At Iron Fork, we hope you ate all of the foods. Keep up the chowin' momentum this weekend. Get a French lunch prepared for you at the Kitchen Conservatory on Friday, pair wine with bocce thanks to Randall's on Saturday and choose from a wide variety of Easter brunch options on Sunday. Follow the bun ... More >>

The Restaurant at the Cheshire: A Tudor Coup?

Slideshow: Inside the Restaurant at the Cheshire

The Restaurant at the Cheshire: Review Slideshow

You might not receive as much free food as I did at the Restaurant at the Cheshire (7036 Clayton Avenue; 314-932-7818), but the staff will do their damnedest to make you very, very happy with your visit. My review of the Restaurant at the Cheshire is now online.

Review Preview: The Restaurant at the Cheshire

The Restaurant at the Cheshire (7036 Clayton Avenue; 314-932-7818) is one the highest profile new ventures of the past six months, the upscale centerpiece of the renovated Cheshire hotel. Following my usual critic's m.o., I should have visited it for the first time in early January and turned out my ... More >>

The Market at the Cheshire Invites You to Belly Up to the Deli

Behind the stone and fachwerk façade of the new Market at the Cheshire (7036 Clayton Avenue; 314-932-7840) is, well, exactly what should be in a rustic little pitched-roof building. The Market is part gourmet grocer, part European-style bakery and café, and the interior is warm and provincial. The ... More >>

Chef Wil Fernandez-Cruz Lands at Ibby's at Washington University After Resigning From Restaurant at the Cheshire

Chef Wilfrin "Wil" Fernandez-Cruz moved from New York to St. Louis to work at the newly minted Restaurant at the Cheshire, but he left that position after only two and a half months. Today Fernandez-Cruz is excited to be starting at Ibby's Restaurant (6465 Forsyth Boulevard, Clayton; 314-935-3940) o ... More >>

Openings: La Patisserie Chouquette, Tucanos Brazilian Grill, the Market at the Cheshire

After reporting multiple restaurant closings to begin this week, Gut Check is happy to provide news of openings immediate and imminent: - La Pâtisserie Chouquette (1626 Tower Grove Avenue; 314-932-7935) opened this morning in the city's Botanical Heights neighborhood. Owner Simone Faure was previo ... More >>

Gut Check's Valentine's Day Reservation Guide: Two Days Out Edition

Have you still not made your dinner plans for Valentine's Day yet? Are you worried that there are no tables for two available at any of your favorite romantic spots in St. Louis? Did you ignore the one-week-out edition of this very post? Reluctantly, with a stern lecture on the vices of procrastina ... More >>

At Basso, Nationally Acclaimed Chef Patrick Connolly Pays Homage to St. Louis' Divisive Provel Cheese

Not everyone gets the joke at first, admits Patrick Connolly, the executive chef of Basso (7036 Clayton Avenue; 314-932-7820), the new gastropub inside the renovated Cheshire hotel. The "Emo Cover Band" is just another of the pizzas on the restaurant's menu -- the last one listed, in fact, after the ... More >>

Report: Chef Fernandez-Cruz Leaves the Restaurant at the Cheshire

The Restaurant at the Cheshire (6300 Clayton Road; 314-647-7300) opened only two and a half months ago. Now, apparently, it's already in need of a new executive chef. Updated with a statement from the restaurant after the jump. See Also: - "First Look: The Restaurant at the Cheshire" - "First Look ... More >>

Openings & Closings 2012: The Final Reckoning

Yes, 2012 has been over for a few weeks now. No, we're not done looking back at it just yet. Don't worry. This isn't another Top Ten list. No, what we have here is Gut Check's annual omnibus listing of every restaurant that opened, closed, both opened and closed, relocated or changed its name in 2 ... More >>

Tidbits: Basso, It's a Better Burger, Espinos

- Basso (7036 Clayton Avenue; 314-932-7818) which opened last month at the Cheshire, is now open for lunch 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. daily. You can view the lunch menu on Basso's website. (Other restaurants: Please note how clean and readable Basso's non-PDF menu is!) Basso is the second new restaurant to ... More >>

First Look: Basso, the Lower-Level Gastropub at the Cheshire

Last month we featured a first look of the Restaurant at the Cheshire (7036 Clayton Avenue; 314-647-7300) on the heels of its November 5 opening. Its sister restaurant, the lower-level gastropub Basso (7036 Clayton Avenue; 314-932-7820), opens today. Basso's robust Italian menu features sharable pl ... More >>

The Cheshire's Lower-Level Gastropub Basso Opens Monday, December 17

Basso (6300 Clayton Road; 314-932-7818), the gastropub located in the lower-level of the Restaurant at the Cheshire (6300 Clayton Road; 314-647-7300), opens its doors Monday, December 17. Basso's opening comes a little more than a month after the Restaurant at the Cheshire's opening on November 5. ... More >>

November 2012 Openings & Closings

Another busy month for openings included Bar Les Freres, a cozy new French spot from Zoë Robinson Pidgeon; Elaia and Olio, the restaurant and wine bar from Ben Poremba; and a new home for Niche, Gerard Craft's flagship venture. Closings were few, though my colleague Liz Miller's farewell to Spanky ... More >>

Tidbits from the Cheshire, Walkers Restaurant & Bar

- The Cheshire (6300 Clayton Road; 314-647-7300) plans three new restaurants, according to an article in the current issue of the St. Louis Business Journal (subscription only): a main restaurant featuring old-school dishes, a gastropub and a specialty market. Three Sixty chef Rex Hale will oversee ... More >>

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Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

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Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

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Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

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Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

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Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

Interview MP3s Video: The Boorays

​On Saturday night at Blueberry Hill's Duck Room, '90s pop band the Boorays is playing a show to commemorate its twentieth anniversary. A good history of the band can be found here, although Roy Kasten neatly summed up the band in this week's paper like this: Like few bands from the early '90 ... More >>

Cardinals' playoff run cut short, Rock Hill's infamous traffic cop will retire his radar gun; and Up in the Air is good to fly

Drink of the Week: Moët & Chandon White Star

Waldo Jaquith, Wikimedia Commons​Gut Check is thrilled to welcome back one of Riverfront Times' most popular columns, Drink of the Week -- and to introduce its new author, Alicia Lohmar.I had my first cocktail on a trip to Paris with my dad when I was sixteen. We were at a restaurant he called Po ... More >>

A St. Louis State of Mind: Up in the Air Screens in LA

A still for Up in the Air features Goerge Clooney at Lambert Field.​[Editor's note: As many RFT readers know, for many years Randall Roberts was a fixture at this paper, first as a freelancer, later as music editor and then as a staff writer, before he packed up his quill pen and ink bottle and hi ... More >>

Gone Are the Days When Bars & Restaurants Simply Stopped Allowing Smoking...

...in light of all the hullabaloo surrounding potential smoking bans, going smoke-free is now apparently an act worthy of a press release. To wit: The Fox & Hounds, at the Cheshire Lodge, is now prohibiting smoking, per a statement sent to RFT today."This isn't about the rules or financial impac ... More >>

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The ax falls on one really grouchy bartender

Bean There

Hummus? Mediterranean omelets? Eye-opening jolts of java? At the Oasis, you can have it all.

London Calling

Will magician extraordinaire Keith Jozsef summon Jack the Ripper? Find out this weekend!

Oh, Brio!

Unreal enjoys seasonal cocktails with lovely divorcees, learns of a new no-tolerance policy at a local elementary school and shares a make-out queen's Blog o' the Week; plus, how does Bryan Burwell really feel?

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You may be 21, but that doesn't mean you're old enough to imbibe

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A gaggle of Valentine's Day shows appeal to music fans of all stripes

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Not Just Another Pin-up in the Ste. Genevieve County Jail

KSDK-TV reporter makes picture-perfect appeal to the South Side Rapist