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Blogs
March 12, 2013
First Look: Mission Taco Joint Preps Fresh Tortillas and West Coast Inspired Mexican Food in the Delmar Loop [Photos]
Delmar gained a new late-night option with Mission Taco Joint (6235 Delmar Boulevard; 314-932-5430) thanks to Jason and Adam Tilford, the sibling super-force behind Milagro Modern Mexican, Tortillaria and Barrister's. According to the brothers, whose inspirations stem from frequent excursions to nor ... More >>
Blogs
March 12, 2013
Caseyville Cafe to be Featured on "Restaurant Impossible"
The Caseyville Cafe (421 South Main Street, Caseyville, Illinois; 618-343-0911) underwent a major renovation in November as part of the reality restaurant makeover show Restaurant Impossible. The fruits of the show's labor will appear on television this Wednesday, March 13, at 9 p.m. on the Food Net ... More >>
Blogs
March 12, 2013
Pastaria's Italian Ramen: 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 >>
Blogs
March 12, 2013
First Look: Dynasty Hibachi Steak, Seafood and Sushi Buffet
Occupying the former Outback Steakhouse space next door to the AMC Esquire 7 in Richmond Heights, Dynasty Hibachi Steak, Seafood and Sushi Buffet (6710 Clayton Road; 314-781-8888) offers a wide array of choices for diners (even for a Chinese buffet). And that's how general manager William Luan inte ... More >>
Blogs
March 11, 2013
Pi Pizzeria's "Grove" Pizza: 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 >>
Blogs
March 11, 2013
Zone In On Imaginative Fast-Casual Vegetarian Fare at Sauce on the Side
The Veggielante has had it up to here with people bitching that St. Louis restaurants are vegetarian unfriendly. Sure, we'd like to see more restaurants offering more meatless dishes, but there are excellent choices out there if you take the trouble to look for them. We're not here to proselytize ab ... More >>
Blogs
March 11, 2013
Benton Park: An Updated Guide to Restaurants in the Benton Park Neighborhood of St. Louis
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. This week we wander the old-school ... More >>
Blogs
March 8, 2013
Famous Szechuan Pavilion's Spicy Wonton Soup (Novice) or Yu Shan Pork (Advanced): 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 >>
Blogs
March 8, 2013
Vin de Set Hosts Fifth Annual Oysters Five Ways Festival Sunday, March 10
Vin de Set (2017 Chouteau Avenue; 314-241-8989) hosts its fifth annual Oysters Five Ways Festival at 4 p.m. on Sunday, March 10. The restaurant has flown in 1,400 Penn Cove Pacific oysters, and head chef and general manager Ivy Magruder tells Gut Check he and his kitchen staff are armed and ready to ... More >>
Blogs
March 8, 2013
First Look: Flying Saucer Draught Emporium
They come in peace. And they have beer. Let's give a warm welcome to Flying Saucer Draught Emporium (900 Spruce Street; 314-932-1456), which landed in St. Louis this week. The St. Louis location is the seventeenth in the franchise, which restauranteur Shannon Wynne founded in Fort Worth, Texas, in ... More >>
Blogs
March 8, 2013
Pint Size Bakery & Coffee's Man-tastic Dessert: What to Eat This Weekend and Where to Eat It
Gut Check tells you what's new and tasty at our favorite restaurants. Listen up, dudes. This weekend Pint Size Bakery & Coffee (3825 Watson Road; 314-645-7142) has a dessert for you. "We have our 'Man-tastic Dessert,'" says owner and "punk-rock grandma" baker (as her husband has dubbed her) Christ ... More >>
Dining
March 7, 2013
Pan D'Olive Bustles, But It's Not Worth the Bread
Slideshow: Inside Pan D' Olive on McCausland
Blogs
March 7, 2013
La Tejana Taqueria's Goat Soup: 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 >>
Blogs
March 7, 2013
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 >>
Blogs
March 6, 2013
Chef's Choice: Rick Lewis of Quincy Street Bistro, Part 2
This is the part two of Gut Check's Chef's Choice profile of Rick Lewis of Quincy Street Bistro. Read part one, a profile of Lewis, here. Part three, a recipe, will be available on Thursday. I met with Rick Lewis, head chef of Quincy Street Bistro (6931 Gravois Avenue; 314-353-1588), early on a Mon ... More >>
Blogs
March 6, 2013
Hendricks BBQ's Ribs: 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 >>
Blogs
March 6, 2013
Flying Saucer Draught Emporium Opens Downtown Today at 5 P.M.
Does St. Louis need another spot to drink beer? Is the pope Catholic? Trick question. There is no pope at the moment! Where were we? Oh, yes... Not quite one year after we first learned of its arrival, Flying Saucer Draught Emporium opens at 900 Spruce Street downtown at 5 p.m. today, March 6. ... More >>
Blogs
March 5, 2013
We Started the Fire: A Thorough Investigation Of The Chipotle Quesarito Urban Legend
It was during a regular lunch break in January when Gut Check first heard tell of Chipotle's "secret menu." While waiting in the restaurant's service assembly line we overheard a customer ahead of us order an "adult" quesadilla. Our ears immediately perked up. When our turn to order arrived, we aske ... More >>
Blogs
March 5, 2013
Chef's Choice: Rick Lewis of Quincy Street Bistro
This is part one of Gut Check's Chef's Choice profile of Rick Lewis of Quincy Street Bistro. Part two, a Q&A, will be published Wednesday, and part three, a recipe from Lewis, will be available on Thursday. When Rick Lewis took the helm of south city's Quincy Street Bistro (6931 Gravois Avenue; 314 ... More >>
Blogs
March 5, 2013
Broadway Oyster Bar Undergoing Renovations
For the next two weeks, Broadway Oyster Bar (736 South Broadway; 314-621-8811) will be open, but it will have a limited menu due to kitchen renovations. Gut Check caught up with owner John Johnson to get all the deets on the Oyster Bar's facelift. "The renovation is because over the years our kit ... More >>
Blogs
March 4, 2013
Taste Test: Steak 'n Shake's New Late-Night Menu 7x7 Steakburger and Nacho Fries
On Tuesday, February 19, Steak 'n Shake announced a new late-night menu, the All Nighter, available in restaurants between Midnight and 6 a.m. Items on the All Nighter menu read like a drunk or stoned person's dream: a selection of specialty Steakburgers including jalapeno crunch and gorilla, nacho ... More >>
Blogs
March 4, 2013
South Grand: An Updated Guide to Restaurants on South Grand Boulevard in St. Louis
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. One could easily argue that aside fr ... More >>
Blogs
March 4, 2013
Boogaloo's Caribbean Cuisine Offers Vegetarians a Chance to Swing
The Veggielante has had it up to here with people bitching that St. Louis restaurants are vegetarian unfriendly. Sure, we'd like to see more restaurants offering more meatless dishes, but there are excellent choices out there if you take the trouble to look for them. We're not here to proselytize ab ... More >>
Blogs
March 4, 2013
Sauce on the Side's "Costanza" Calzone: 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 >>
Blogs
March 2, 2013
The Fatted Calf in Clayton Has Closed
Yesterday, March 1, was the final day for the Fatted Calf (12 South Bemiston Avenue, Clayton; 314-726-1141). Kathleen Portman, who owns the Clayton burger institution with her husband, Jason, confirmed the closure to Gut Check this morning. "We can't sustain it," Portman tells us. "We can't sink a ... More >>
Blogs
March 1, 2013
Siete Luminarias' Guanajuato-Style Carnitas: 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 >>
Blogs
March 1, 2013
The Ten Best Food Events in St. Louis This Weekend: March 1 to 3
This weekend, get your fish fry on, feast your eyes during a collaborative Contemporary Art Museum tasting event and prepare for St. Patty's with Bixby's Irish-themed brunch specials. There's plenty more to sip and munch after the jump. Friday (Mar. 1): Smitten Kitchen Book Tour @ Left Bank Books ... More >>
Blogs
March 1, 2013
St. Louis Restaurant Openings & Closings: February 2013
February saw much activity in the Delmar Loop, with the opening of Chubbies and Mission Taco Joint as well as the news that a coffee shop called BluePrint Coffee might be joining those two restaurants on the same block. (To say nothing of the Washington Univeristy-related demolition currently taking ... More >>
Dining
February 28, 2013
The Gaucho's Lament: A churrascaria aficionado gets wind of Brazikat — and weeps
Slideshow: Inside Brazikat Brazilian
Blogs
February 28, 2013
Fork & Stix's Khao Soi: One of 100 St. Louis Dishes You Must Eat Right Now
Today Gut Check launches our most ambitious project yet: an 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 lis ... More >>
Blogs
February 27, 2013
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 >>
Blogs
February 26, 2013
Hampton Bakery in St. Louis Hills Closes
Hampton Bakery (5815 Hampton Avenue) has closed. The St. Louis Hills bakery opened in September 2010. Gut Check is always hungry for more restaurant news. Feed us your tips.
Blogs
February 26, 2013
Neighborhood Bites: The Hill
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. The Hill is the classic St. Louis ... More >>
Blogs
February 26, 2013
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 >>
Blogs
February 25, 2013
Red Sea Cafe & Bar Already Closed
Red Sea Cafe & Bar (8613 Olive Boulevard, University City), an Ethiopian restaurant that opened only this past October in the Jeffrey Plaza strip mall at Olive Boulevard and Interstate 70, has already closed. The exact date of the closure is unclear. Update: (Monday, February 25, 9 a.m.) A reader t ... More >>
Blogs
February 25, 2013
Find Home-Style Vegetarian Comfort at Home Wine Kitchen
The Veggielante has had it up to here with people bitching that St. Louis restaurants are vegetarian unfriendly. Sure, we'd like to see more restaurants offering more meatless dishes, but there are excellent choices out there if you take the trouble to look for them. We're not here to proselytize ab ... More >>
Blogs
February 22, 2013
Burlesque, Birthday-Cake Martinis and More: The Fountain on Locust's Fifth Birthday Party [Update]
Update 11:59 a.m. Because of weather concerns, the Fountain's Burlesque Birthday Party will be postponed until Wednesday, February 27. Think back to the last birthday party for a five-year-old you attended. Maybe there was a bounce house, a unicorn-shaped cake or a slightly creepy-looking clown. Bu ... More >>
Blogs
February 22, 2013
More on 801 Chophouse, Opening in Clayton This Fall
When Araka (131 Carondelet Plaza, Clayton; 314-725-6777) closes next month, its location will not sit empty for long. Des Moines, Iowa-based 801 Chophouse plans to open its fifth location in the expansive Clayton space. Gut Check spoke with 801 Chophouse director of marketing Hillary Stark to learn ... More >>
Blogs
February 22, 2013
The Ten Best Food Events in St. Louis This Weekend: February 22 to 24
Well, that was a doozy. It's time to defrost. Warm yourself from the inside out this weekend with the likes of lovely liquids like booze and soup. Choose between events like the St. Louis Centennial Beer Festival, Sloup #32 and more. See this weekend's recommendations after the jump. Friday (Feb. 2 ... More >>
Blogs
February 22, 2013
What to Eat This Weekend and Where to Eat It: The Tavern Kitchen & Bar
Gut Check tells you what's new and tasty at our favorite restaurants. When the Tavern Kitchen & Bar (2961 Dougherty Ferry Road, Valley Park; 636-825-0600) opened in the fall of 2010, more than a few of us dining-scene-observer types were skeptical. A place serving those dishes, charging those price ... More >>
Dining
February 21, 2013
More Than a Mouthful: Joyia Tapas has a lot to offer
Slideshow: Inside Joyia Tapas in the Grove
Blogs
February 21, 2013
The Dam to Open Next to Amsterdam Tavern
Animal lovers, rejoice! No, not actual animals. We're talking to lovers of "The Animal," the famous triple patty burger from the late, lamented Big V's Burger Joint, which closed its tiny Delmar Loop counter in 2007. Michele Coen-Racanelli, former co-owner of Big V's, is opening a new burger resta ... More >>
Blogs
February 19, 2013
The Block Opens New Location in Central West End
The Block (146 West Lockwood Avenue, Webster Groves; 314-918-9700) has opened its second location at 33 North Sarah Street, the Central West End space that previously housed Terrene. See Also: - The Block Opening Second Location in Central West End - "Best Neighborhood Restaurant" 2012: The Block - ... More >>
Blogs
February 18, 2013
The Veggielante Snacks At The Shack Pubgrub
The Veggielante has had it up to here with people bitching that St. Louis restaurants are vegetarian unfriendly. Sure, we'd like to see more restaurants offering more meatless dishes, but there are excellent choices out there if you take the trouble to look for them. We're not here to proselytize ab ... More >>
Blogs
February 15, 2013
Where You Should Eat Tonight and What You Should Order
Verbatim text exchange with our s.o. on a recent Friday as Gut Check slouched home from the blogger salt mines for the weekend: Gut Check: driving home right now S.O.: I'm blank on dinner ideas Gut Check: am at the whole fds intersection S.O.: Still blank Yes, we all have issues. Some of them, ... More >>
Dining
February 14, 2013
Bar (& Grill) Hopping: The south side of St. Louis is a pub lover's paradise
Photos: Inside Schoemehl's South Side Grill
Blogs
February 13, 2013
Hate Valentine's Day? Enjoy an Offal (Late) Dinner at Five Bistro
"We've been wanting to do an offal dinner," says Anthony Devoti, owner and chef at Five Bistro (5100 Daggett Avenue; 314-773-5553), "so we were sitting around drinking beers one night, kicking around what would be hilarious: 'Oh, well, Valentine's Day is just offal.' "And then it's like, well, what ... More >>
Blogs
February 12, 2013
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 >>
Blogs
February 12, 2013
Review Preview: Schoemehl's South Side Grill, SOHA Bar & Grill and Quincy Street Bistro
One of my favorite categories in our annual Best of St. Louis issue is "Best Neighborhood Restaurant". It's a chance to highlight spots that maybe escape mention in discussions of the best or hippest restaurants in town, but often offer as satisfying an experience as any. Here are some of the recent ... More >>
Blogs
February 12, 2013
No Reservations: Gut Check's Valentine's Day Fast-Food Experiment
It's Valentine's Day, and love is in the air. But also burgers. Love and burgers. And fries. And does Gut Check detect a hint of waffle? We do! This Valentine's Day, both White Castle and Waffle House are capitalizing on the romantic holiday by offering a (comparatively) upscale couple's dining exp ... More >>
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