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10 Fast Food Valentine's Day Specials for St. Louis Lovers

For many couples, Valentine's Day means a fancy dinner out complete with flowers, chocolate and sparkling wine. But with Valentine's Day profits expected to reach $18.6 billion this year, fast-food restaurants are looking to get in on the holiday craze. Why have an expensive steak dinner when you ... More >>

Ten Best Food Events This Weekend: Dec. 7-9

Friday (Dec. 7): Lobster Festival @ Broadway Oyster Bar Try out a special lobster menu accompanied by live music both evenings. Start off with some lobster bisque ($5.99) and work your way up to dishes such as lobster ceviche ($15.99) and twice baked lobster ($38.99). Friday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, ... More >>

Chili Reception: Is Joe's Chili Bowl upstaged by Citygarden's excellence?

Slideshow: Inside Joe's Chili Bowl

15 Presidential Debate Dinner Ideas Inspired By Obama and Romney Campaign Spending

Last week Politico broke down information from a recent review of Federal Election Commission reports detailing Mitt Romney and Barack Obama's campaign spending. It contains everything from office supplies and gas expenses to which hotels and restaurants the respective campaigns patronize most often ... More >>

Kansas City to Get IKEA Store, St. Louis to Get...More Dunkin' Donuts

Dunkin' Donuts announced today that the St. Louis area will see three new DD franchise locations over the next couple of years. According to a press release, all three will be run by the same partnership; the first is to open in 2013 and the others by 2015. "We are excited to expand Dunkin' Donuts' ... More >>

Food and Bodily Fluids Cross Paths Again (and Again)

Image via​Last week, the case of Dunkin' Donuts coffee (allegedly) intentionally tainted with snot prompted Gut Check to consider other bodily fluids that would be even more disgusting to discover in your beverage.Little did we know that denizens of the real world would do their part to keep pace ... More >>

Mucus Is Snot the Worst: Nine Even More Disgusting Bodily Substances to Find in Your Dunkin' Donuts Coffee

Image via​It has been a banner week for strange events at Dunkin' Donuts. Gut Check already asked for your help in imagining what the Dunkin' Donut employee accused of prostituting herself while on the job might have said to customers/potential clients. In that same post, we alluded to another, mo ... More >>

Write a Dunkin' Donuts Prostitution Pick-Up Line and Win Four Tickets to Raging Rivers!

Mabel Suen​While local franchisees busily plan to open Dunkin' Donuts locations across the greater St. Louis area, Dunkin' Donuts employees in New Jersey and Boston have been hard at work tweaking the menu. While one employee decided to add a special ingredient to the infamous DD coffee, anoth ... More >>

The Franchise Grows: Dunkin' Donuts Heads for Telegraph Road

The city's Dunkin' Donuts tally could climb as high as 22 franchises.​Gut Check's journey through the city's Dunkin' Donuts renaissance is nothing new. More than a decade after the last of the fried dough franchise closed in the city, St. Louis was reintroduced to the chain in March 2010 with ... More >>

Comment of the Day: DD VS. Mom 'n' Pop

Today's comment of the day comes from a post about two Dunkin' Donuts franchisees' plans for a massive reintroduction of the donut joint into the St. Louis market. "Just a Bob" writes: These guys can open as many Dunkin' Donuts locations as they want, but those flavorless lumps of dough still can' ... More >>

Colleen Clawson of Big Sky Cafe

This is part one of Emily Wasserman's Chef's Choice profile of chef Colleen Clawson of Big Sky Cafe. Part two, a Q&A, will be posted tomorrow, and part three, a recipe from Clawson, on Thursday. Emily Wasserman​Trying to find the Big Sky Cafe (47 South Old Orchard, Webster Groves; 314-962-575 ... More >>

Eight Fast Food and Alcohol Matches Made in Heaven

aldenteblog.comYou want fries with that Burger King beer?​ Taking lead from a handful of Whopper Bars -- Burger King restaurants that serve beer -- and a few Seattle Starbucks outlets that have started serving beer and wine in the evenings, Sonic's jumping on the fast food booze bandwagon. Two ... More >>

Dunkin' Donuts Begins Building in Florissant

Mabel SuenAn assorted dozen from Dunkin' Donuts​Over a decade ago, the last remaining Dunkin' Donuts in the area closed down, leaving a giant donut-shaped hole in St. Louis' donut-hole-loving soul. Still with us? All faith was restored in March of 2010 when the east-coast branded donuts return ... More >>

What's Worth More: Food or Cash?

Wikimedia CommonsTime to steal the doughnuts.​Three not-too-bright robbers in Hyannis, Massachusetts, attempted to rob a Dunkin' Donuts last week. They demanded a paper bag an employee was carrying in her purse and ran. Because so many paper bags at Dunkin' Donuts are filled with cash instea ... More >>

Get a Free Doughnut From Krispy Kreme or Dunkin' Donuts on Friday

Salvation ArmyDoughnuts for the Dough Boys in WWI​ Friday, June 3, is National Doughnut Day, which sounds like it was created just to get people into doughnut shops and drop some change. But that's not the case. During World War I women volunteered for the Salvation Army as "Doughnut Lassies ... More >>

Top 5 Fast Food Frankensteins

Alllllllrighty, folks! The theme of this post: These foods shouldn't exist.​Creators of the following high-calorie, mixed-metaphor monstrosities flew a little too close to the sun (remember what happened to Prometheus?), and yet their charred and grease-soaked bastard children of Fast Food Nat ... More >>

Easy-Bake Oven Undergoing Energy-Conserving Makeover

For anyone who ever baked a package of dry brownies over a 100-watt light bulb, it's a sad realization, indeed. Next year, a federal ban on the manufacture of energy-gobbling incandescent light bulbs means an end to the Easy-Bake Oven as we've known it for almost 50 years. Hasbro, the oven's manuf ... More >>

Drunken Dunkin' Donuts!

​It's a positively Homer Simpsonian concept with a Mr. Burns execution. Chef Zac Young of Flex Mussels in New York City and Top Chef: Just Desserts has been injecting doughnut holes with upscale booze. Of course, it's a hit. How could it not be? It's doughnuts and alcohol! But not everyone can ... More >>

Openings & Closings 2010: The Final Reckoning

Farmhaus was a highlight among the 2010 openings.​A snowy day is the perfect time to look back over our archive of restaurant openings and closings -- and notes on restaurants that we forgot to include on our lists of openings and closings -- and draw the obvious conclusion: A lot of restauran ... More >>

Dunkin' Donuts Opening in Rock Hill on Thursday, October 7

Tom FinkelWork is wrapping up on the new Rock Hill location of Dunkin' Donuts.​The word from several of Gut Check's trusted Dunkin' Donuts-obsessed correspondents is that the chain will open its new location at 9860 Manchester Road in Rock Hill on Thursday, October 7. This is the second Dunkin' Do ... More >>

Feds Crack Down on Undocumented Kitchen Workers

A San Diego restaurateur stands up for illegal immigrants working in kitchens. The New York Times goes in-depth on the hush-hush issue of illegal workers, the blind eye that's been turned, and the sudden upswing in crackdowns by federal investigators. Despite a federal indictment last April, San Die ... More >>

St. Louis Food Blog Digest, 6.21-6.27

​Gut Check dishes on our favorite St. Louis food blogs. ZiNur: Natalia bakes a Brownie Layer Cake. A Veggie Venture: Alanna made a Chilled Green Bean Salad with Rosemary and Garlic Oil. Sugar, Spice, & More Things Nice: Rachel shared what life is like with diabetes for an episode of MT ... More >>

Where to Get Free Doughnuts on National Doughnut Day

OK, so we're a little late to this party. But if your morning's repast of four eggs, two pieces of butter-slathered toast, three cigarettes, two cups of a coffee and, just for the hell of it, a tablespoon of jelly didn't fill you up, Dunkin' Donuts has you covered. Today the beloved doughtnut chai ... More >>

This Week in Gut Check, Regurgitated

​This week was all about drive-through dining. While Hardee's added some extra protein to its biscuits & gravy and Burger King announced a brunch menu is in the works, Dunkin' Donuts is now going to sell its swill in Russia. All this just as the KFC Doub ... More >>

I Stand Corrected: This Could Redeem Dunkin' Donuts Coffee

Ian FroebStill swill, but now redeemable?​Last month, prompted by the hysteria surrounding the return of Dunkin' Donuts to St. Louis, I ventured to the new location to try the supposedly awesome coffee. My verdict? Dunkin' Donuts coffee is irredeemable swill.I was wrong. An article in yesterday's ... More >>

Gut Check's Week in Tweets

​Don't you know? Gut Check has a Twitter account. You can follow us @gutcheckstl.Here's some of what you missed on the Twitter feed this week: Dunkin' Donuts dropped off coffee at the office, presumably in response to my missive: http://bit.ly/9zpggG No doughnuts, though.

Restaurant Roll Call: March 2010 Openings and Closings

Ian FroebFarmhaus opened in Lindenwood Park this month.​March was a month for much-anticipated openings -- on both ends of the spectrum: Dunkin' Donuts returned to St. Louis, and Kevin Willmann, formerly of Edwardsville's Erato on Main, debuted Farmhaus.As for closings, it was, thankfully, a quiet ... More >>

This Week in Gut Check, Regurgitated

​What's new this week? Ian is back, and he's brought some links to share, including a funny new food blog and a cheeseburger showdown on Youtube. He's also got an opinion on Dunkin' Donuts coffee, after the chain's much-anticipated local opening. His verdict? It sucks. W ... More >>

Dunkin' Donuts Coffee Is Irredeemable Swill

Ian FroebThe irredeemable swill​The opening of the first St. Louis-area Dunkin' Donuts in several years has caused a great deal of excitement around these parts. A post by my colleague Annie Zaleski tracking the progress of the store's construction has gathered 68 comments as of this writing, almo ... More >>

Gut Check's Week in Tweets

Don't you know? Gut Check has a Twitter account. You can follow us @gutcheckstl.Here's some of what you missed on the Twitter feed this week: RT @stannate: @gutcheckstl Gelato Di Riso is vacating its location on Manchester Road (rent increase). All other locations will stay open. Your attention ... More >>

This Week in Gut Check, Regurgitated

Annie Zaleski​This week, Gut Check donut lovers rejoiced to learn that the Kirkwood Dunkin' Donuts is open for business. Not only that, but another location is set to open soon. What else did we do this week?   Dinner and a Movie followed the white rabbit to Alice in Wonderland ... More >>

Can't Believe St. Louis Coptalk Forum Ignoring the Return of Dunkin' Donuts

Now here's a cop who appreciates a good donut.​With all the news recently about Dunkin' Donuts return to St. Louis (example A, B, C), I thought I'd check in with some folks said to truly appreciate a good donut -- the boys in blue who read and submit items to St. Louis Coptalk. Shockingly, I ... More >>

RFT readers salivate about the return of Dunkin' Donuts, but say Monsanto's "tearless onion" is a crock

St. Louis Food Blog Digest: 10.10-10.16

Gut Check dishes on our favorite St. Louis food blogs.Dinner with Julia: Karen remastered Beef Bourguignon.STL Meal Deals: KMCA touted The Melting Pot's date night possibilities, discounted filet mignon at Andria's, and Prix-Fixe at Kitchen K.Bruno's Dream: Bruno harvested grapes.

Java Enabled: Southwest's Coffee Gets a LIFT

It's been a while since I've taken a vacation and even longer since I've flown. So when a good deal on a Labor Day weekend in Orlando, Florida, popped up, I jumped at the chance to go. As I filed down the ramp with the rest of my fellow passengers, I was surprised to see an ad on the wall for LIFT, ... More >>

Get Intimate with Joe Biden for $10,000

Joe Biden, champion of the working class. Joe Biden, who commuted from Delaware to D.C. with the regular folks on the Amtrak. Working-class Joe, born in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Some say it's a mythical legend, that of the blue-collar Joe Biden and his rags-to-riches journey to the top.The senator-tu ... More >>

FoodWire: More St. Louis Dunkin' Donuts Franchises Sold...

Wikimedia CommonsBut when will a Dunkin' Donuts actually open in St. Louis?A press release from beloved-by-many coffee-and-doughnut chain announces that the company has signed an agreement with another franchisee to open at least ten Dunkin' Donuts in the St. Louis area in the coming years.Accordin ... More >>

Why Does Dunkin' Donuts Hate America?

Slam dunk: Dunkin' Donuts returns to St. Louis, and downtown makes good on its promise of new restaurants

Dunkin' Donuts St. Louis-Bound

The Morning Brew: Monday, 8/27

Mmmm...Doughnuts...

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