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Celebrate The Sweet Divine's Grand Opening in Soulard Saturday

They're baaaaaaaaaack! The yummy cupcake shop and winner of the Food Network's Cupcake Wars closed its Kingshighway location on March 30 to prepare for its new shop in Soulard, and it's finally ready for business. The Sweet Divine (1801 S. Ninth Street; 636-942-2900) is hosting a grand opening fêt ... More >>

Hwy 61 Roadhouse Owner Talks Diners, Drive-ins and Dives Episode, Meeting Guy Fieri

In December 2012 Hwy 61 Roadhouse & Kitchen (34 South Old Orchard Avenue, Webster Groves; 314-968-0061) appeared on Guy Fieri's Diners, Drive-ins and Dives. Since its initial airing, the episode has replayed a handful of times each month, with four airings slated for April, including tonight at 8:30 ... More >>

The Sweet Divine to Move to Soulard in March

The Sweet Divine (4521 South Kingshighway Boulevard; 636-942-2900) is about to get a little sweeter. The bakery, which opened in south city only last June, is already planning a move next month to bigger digs in Soulard. The cupcakery began as the dream of Jenna Seibert, who owns the store with her ... More >>

Reminder: Anthonino's Taverna on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives Tonight

Guy Fieri's spotlight shines again on St. Louis: Anthonino's Taverna (2225 Macklind Avenue; 314-773-4455) will appear on tonight's episode of the spiky-haired one's Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives on the Food Network. The episode, entitled "All Family, All the Time," airs at 9 p.m. local time. See Also ... More >>

Guerrilla Street Food on Guy Fieri's Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives Tonight; Dates Set for Shaved Duck, Espino's [Updated]

Reminder: Guerrilla Street Food (@GuerrillaStreet; 314-529-1328), RFT's "Best Food Truck" for 2012, will appear tonight on the Food Network's Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. The episode, titled "Burgers, Noodles and Quahogs," airs at 9 p.m. local time. This is the first St. Louis establishment to appe ... More >>

The Sweet Divine to Appear on Food Network's Cupcake Wars

The Sweet Divine (4521 South Kingshighway; 636-942-2900) announced via Twitter this afternoon that it will appear on an upcoming episode of the Food Network show Cupcake Wars. The episode will air for the first time on Sunday, July 29, at 7 p.m. local time. According to the Cupcake Wars page on the ... More >>

The Final Guy Fieri Round-Up: Dressel's, Highway 61 Roadhouse and (Maybe) Espinos

Since last week, we've been stalking tracking the visits that Guy Fieri made while in town filming for Diners, Drive-ins and Dives. Yesterday, we added The Shaved Duck (2900 Virginia Avenue; 314-776-1407) to a list that already included Anthonino's Taverna (2225 Macklind Avenue; 314-773-4455) and fo ... More >>

Guy Fieri Also Visited the Shaved Duck

As you might have heard, Guy Fieri was in St. Louis over the past week or so, filming segments for future episodes of his Diners, Drive-ins and Dives program. Among the restaurants that he visited were Anthonino's Taverna (222 Macklind Avenue; 314-773-4455) and food truck Guerrilla Street Food (@Gue ... More >>

Guy Fieri's Diners, Drive-ins and Dives Filming Guerrilla Street Food RIGHT NOW

Yesterday, we learned that Guy Fieri was shooting a segment for his smash-hit Food Network show Diners, Drive-ins and Dives at Anthonino's Taverna (2225 Macklind Avenue; 314-773-4455) This morning, driving to Gut Check International Headquarters here in the Delmar Loop, I happened to notice the Gue ... More >>

Guy Fieri's Diners, Drive-ins and Dives Filming at Anthonino's Taverna RIGHT NOW

Guy Fieri is in St. Louis as we speak to film segments for his hit Food Network program Diners, Drive-ins and Dives. A tipster told me last week that Anthonino's Taverna (2225 Macklind Road; 314-773-4455) would be one of the local restaurants featured. My message to the Scutaro brothers, who own An ... More >>

Jilly's Debuts New Menu Items and Big News at Its Adults-Only Cocktail Reception

Jilly's Cupcake Bar had reason to celebrate Thursday night, despite the cold, slushy weather. While the streets were frosted with fluffy precipitation, Jilly's cupcake chefs dropped dollops of buttercream icing on tray after tray of the bakery's famous jumbo cupcakes in preparation for the night's " ... More >>

River City Savories Offers Homemade Cheese Spreads and Baked Goods

Courtesy of Laura Van AlstineA Cardinals-themed hand-painted pie by River City Savories.​People call Brian Runge the cheesemonger. When a friend sent him nearly 100 pounds of dehydrated morel mushrooms, he decided to get creative by incorporating them into a cheese spread that became so popula ... More >>

Beastie Eats: Eight Foods From Beastie Boys Songs

Top Chef: Just Desserts recently brought in a special guest: MC King Ad-Rock (also known as Adam Horovitz) of the Beastie Boys. Although by the time you're a gray-haired 40-something appearing on a cooking show, you're probably a Beastie Man. Regardless, he presented contestants with ingredients fea ... More >>

The Gap Ruins Four Food Trends in One Leap

On Friday we thought Applebee's killed the food truck trend dead. But it was only the beginning. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/dailydishThe Gap puts tacos in jeans. ​ Meet Pico de Gap, a taco truck operated by The Gap in Los Angeles. Because having a trillion brick and mortar stores isn ... More >>

17th Street Bar and Grill Gets Double Recognition

Image via​Pit master extraordinaire Mike Mills of 17th Street Bar & Grill (1711 West Highway 50, O'Fallon; 618-622-1717 or www.17thstreetbarbecue.com) will be cooking at the famed James Beard House in New York City on July 15. The dinners at the Beard House are hosted monthly by the James Be ... More >>

Goodbye, "Good Eats": Alton Brown's Ten Best Moments

Wikimedia CommonsAlton Brown's leaving the studio kitchen.​ After twelve years and 249 episodes, Alton Brown is ending "Good Eats", according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution. The final half-hour episode aired last week. The Food Network will air three final hour-long episodes this year. ... More >>

Foot Hi Pie at Blue Springs Cafe

Robin Wheeler​Last October Gut Check staged the Great Illinois Pie Fight, with Blue Springs Cafe in Highland taking a sound beating from Mills Apple Farm in Marine. How sound was the beating? But if we ever need to gather ammunition for a pie fight, we're heading straight to Blue Springs. O ... More >>

Food Network Creates $14 "Signature" Sandwich for Busch Stadium

Food NetworkDo not adjust your television set. This is a Food Network steak sandwich -- the Red, White and Blue Steak Sandwich, to be precise.​If there's one thing St. Louis Cardinals fans love, it's an all-star hunk of meat at on the plate. Tomorrow, on Busch Stadium's 2011 opening day, the F ... More >>

Meglio's Gets Food Network Makeover...and Gut Check Interview

Food NetworkRobert Irvine pumps up John Meglio (left) on Restaurant: Impossible​ Food Network's Restaurant: Impossible, the makeover show for struggling restaurants, hosted by Robert Irvine of Dinner: Impossible fame, aired its episode featuring Meglio's Italian Grill and Bar (12490 St. Charl ... More >>

Food TV Sees First Decline in Viewership

Food TV's popularity is waning. The New York Post says that the network's 2010 numbers showed the first decrease in the network's history. In the fourth quarter of 2009, viewership plunged 10.3 percent among viewers ages 25 to 54. The slide continued with 3.3 percent in the second quarter and 4.5 pe ... More >>

Food Feuds Gooey Butter Cake Battle Airs Thursday, 12.30 -- Tomorrow Night

Can Gooey Louie beat Park Avenue Coffee in the gooey butter cake battle?​Update: (Wednesday, 12.29, 11 a.m.) A reminder from earlier this month that the Food Network appearance of Park Avenue Coffee and Gooey Louie is tomorrow night at 9 p.m.Original post:When Iron Chef America star Michael Symon ... More >>

Just Say No to...Nutmeg

​Hot on the heels of this week's recall of Whole Foods-labeled nutmeg over salmonella fears, a TV station in New Hampshire reports that some wise-acre kids in Oklahoma are Beavising it up by smoking nutmeg, posting videos of it on YouTube, vomiting and discussing how awesome it is. The newsf ... More >>

Food Feuds with Pappy's Smokehouse, 17th Street Bar & Grill Airs Tonight

Screenshot: www.foodnetwork.comFood Feuds airs a St. Louis segment tonight.​The Food Network visited St. Louis in September to film a "battle" between local barbecue meccas Pappy's Smokehouse and 17th Street Bar & Grill for its new show, Food Feuds, hosted by Cleveland-based Iron Chef Michael ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain Preaches (Profanely) to the Choir at the Fox Theatre

​A standing ovation from an enthusiastic (though under capacity) audience greeted Anthony Bourdain as the chef turned author and TV host strolled onto the Fox Theatre stage on Friday evening. For the next two hours, Bourdain demonstrated the force of personality that has made him one of the bigges ... More >>

The Boob Tube, or Why We Watch Food Shows

Image viaNigella Lawson: "My eyes are up here."​On Tuesday, the RFT's dear friends at Jezebel looked at the comments posted on a Guardian article about celebrity chef Nigella Lawson.Sadie Stein noted how several of these comments criticized Lawson for her sexy-chef act and then broadened the issue ... More >>

Iron Chef America Ingredient Roll Call Hilarious, Hypnotic

Another gem via the folks at Eater: A video compilation of the Iron Chef America chairman introducing ingredients.

The Morning Brew: 6.11

After 134 years, New Orleans' P&J Oyster Company has ceased operations because of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig catastrophe. According to the New Orleans Times-Picayune, the company will not close entirely. They'll shuck as oysters are available, even if they have to ship them from the west coast. " ... More >>

The Ten Most Important St. Louis Restaurant Openings of the Aughts #8: Iron Barley (2003)

​Iron Barley (2003)Tom Coghill's laidback -- but decidedly not quiet -- restaurant has enjoyed a recent surge in interest thanks to its appearance on the Food Network's megapopular Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. It's the rare case when I don't want to kick host Guy Fieri in his Rocky Mountain oyster ... More >>

The Morning Brew: Friday, 3.27

A new report from the Department of Health and Human Services finds a lack of proper record-keeping on safety issues throughout the food chain. (Reuters)NBC has canceled superstar chef Marco Pierre White's first U.S. cooking show, Chopping Block, after only three episodes. (Eater)A dairy surplus at ... More >>

Stocking Stuffing: Ian jots down his 2008 Christmas wish list for the local food scene

Good Reads

Alton Brown on books on food

Days of Wine and Pizza

Live-Blogging Iron Barley's Appearance on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives

Clutch

7 p.m. Tuesday, March 18. Pop's, 1403 Mississippi Avenue, Sauget, Illinois

Rapper Coolio Has a Cooking Show

The Valentine's Day Pig and Other Food News of the Weird

A Few Other Tidbits from Michael Ruhlman's Class

Michael Ruhlman at Viking Thursday

Kitchen Nightmares: Dillons Revisited

Chef vs. Chef

Kitchen Nightmares: Dillons

The Morning Brew: Monday, 9/10

Mmmm...Doughnuts...

To Cook, Perchance to Eat

Naked Chef

(But still wearing clothes, alas)

Breaking Bread with Father Dominic: Episode 106 (1999)

This bun-baking priest is hella endearing

Are You Experienced?

Foodies and oenephiles, rejoice -- your good taste will benefit the St. Louis Rep

Brownsville

Celeb chef Alton Brown is just here for more food (and he'd like to see you, too)

I Summon the Iron Bartenders!

The masters of mixology flex their muscles

To Serve Man

"St. Louis Cooks and Entertains" -- and you get to sample the results