Edwardsville

Hop On Over to Two Beer Festivals This Weekend

It seems that once Spring arrives, it's time to bust out some brews. And we are so down with that. This Saturday, April 27, Global Brew Tap House & Lounge (112 South Buchanan Street Suite 1, Edwardsville; 618-307-5858) will host the Edwardsville Spring Beer Festival and Ferguson Brewing Company (41 ... More >>

Eric Heath Destroys a Giant Vase and Bans Death Metal in His Kitchen: A Q&A with the Cleveland-Heath Chef

This is part two of Gut Check's Chef's Choice profile of Eric Heath of Cleveland-Heath. Read part one, a profile of Heath, here. Part three, a recipe from Heath, will be available on Friday. For years Eric Heath and Jenny Cleveland planned to open a restaurant together. But when they found the pe ... More >>

Outernational Toured Mexican Border Towns Before Its EP Release in Edwardsville

Outernational is a band to which music writers love making comparisons about politically outspoken musicians of yesteryear. Just about all of them stick. Yes, the New York-based rock group agrees with Woody Guthrie about whose land this is, shares the musical eclecticism of Joe Strummer (the Clash) ... More >>

Michael Collins Quits Edwardsville Police After Charges of Unauthorized Amateur Photography

Senior Patrol Officer Michael Collins resigned from the Edwardsville Police effective Tuesday, April 10,  just days after being charged with surreptitiously photographing women at a tanning salon. Collins had been on paid suspension since the charges were filed and leaves the force after fiftee ... More >>

The Veggielante Visits Grace Manor

​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 prosely ... More >>

Fire Wings at Peel Wood Fired Pizza

Robin WheelerFire Wings, Peel Wood Fired Pizza in Edwardsville​ Restaurant wings are all too often a disappointment. Soggy-skinned, tossed in ubiquitous bottled orange sauce -- why bother? Add an 800-degree wood-burning oven to the wing equation, and the answer changes. Peel Wood Fired Piz ... More >>

This Week in Gut Check, Regurgitated

Jennifer Silverberg​This week, we checked out Bar and previewed some upcoming events to benefit RFT staffer Mark Madonna, who lost his home in a fire. What else did Gut Check do this week? Ian reviewed Three Kings Public House. The Veggielante put PuraVegan to the test. We took in Winne ... 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 @chadgarrison: No One Injured When Stolen Car Crashes Into Hooters (Insert Air Bags Joke Here) http://bit.ly/ebi4mC Taco Bell Disses Its Target Mark ... More >>

Peel Wood Fired Pizza has all of Edwardsville beating a path to its wood-burning oven door

Pi Pizza Truck Hits Bureaucratic Bump in Edwardsville

Last Wednesday, January 19, Restaurant Pi's popular pizza truck toddled over the state line to Illinois to peddle pies in Edwardsville. Alerted on Twitter, east-side Pi fans flocked to the parking lot of Fond restaurant to scarf down their choice of pepperoni, sausage, spinach-mushroom and tomato-b ... More >>

Wang Gang Asian Eats Closes St. Charles Location

Jennifer SilverbergInside the now shuttered St. Charles Wang Gang Asian Eats​The fast-casual restaurant Wang Gang Asian Eats has closed its location at 2009 Zumbehl Road in St. Charles. The original Edwardsville restaurant remains open. The St. Charles Wang Gang had a very brief run, having op ... More >>

New Wasabi Location Opens Tuesday, 9.7

Image viaMore Wasabi​Sushi restaurant Wasabi will open its fourth local (fifth overall) location at 9983 Manchester Road in Warson Woods on Tuesday, September 7. The address was previously home to the sushi restaurant Sansui. The Warson Woods Wasabi -- say that five times fast -- will be open for ... More >>

Metro East Chefs Go Field to Fork on Saturday

Too many people write off the Metro East as strip clubs, squalor and crime. Beyond the stereotype strife, fields roll with local produce and livestock nurtured by generations of family farmers. There's also a growing culinary scene, populated by chefs who focus on fresh and local food. Southwestern ... More >>

Poached Escolar with Grilled Blue Prawns and Asparagus at Farmhaus

Ian Froeb​Welcome to Try This Now, a new feature in which Gut Check writers recommend new dishes, drinks and more that you need to try right now.And when I say right now, I mean right now or at least very soon: Owner and chef Kevin Willmann changes the menu often at Farmhaus (3257 Ivanhoe Street; ... More >>

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 >>

FoodWire: 222 Artisan Bakery Haiti Relief on Saturday, 1.16

​Edwardsville's 222 Artisan Bakery (222 North Main Street; website) will donate 10% of proceeds on Saturday, January 16, to earthquake-relief efforts in Haiti. 222 is the home of incredible bread and baked goods as well as Goshen Coffee, which is among the area's best. Do note that 222's listed ho ... More >>

The Novice Foodie Presses for Better Coffee

Ah, coffee. I love the comfort of the morning coffee ritual: the first sip, the way a warm mug feels in my hand, the permeating aroma as I get my day going. But woe was the Novice Foodie this past summer when my doctor said I had to cut out caffeine for a while to ensure I wouldn't drop dead at a m ... More >>

FoodWire: Restaurant Tidbits from Kevin Willmann, Grand Center

My Christmas gift to you, dear readers? (Besides, of course, the unending cavalcade of joy that is the Year-End Bonanza.) Restaurant news! Yes, our friends around town have reported several tidbits in recent days.George Mahe scores the big scoop at Feast: RFT Best Local Chef 2008 Kevin Willmann is l ... More >>

What to Get Your Novice Foodie This Holiday Season

User "Wikidemo," Wikimedia CommonsMerry Christmas! (Watch your knuckles.)​What to get the novice foodie(s) in your life this holiday season? Here are some gifts that I heartily recommend. These are invaluable tools, well worth the space they take up in my own kitchen because I use them so frequen ... More >>

This Week's Tip of the Tongue Newsletter

Sign up for Tip of the Tongue here.Gut Check not providing enough dining tidbits for you? Consider subscribing to Tip of the Tongue, the Riverfront Times' weekly e-mail dining newsletter.In this week's edition, learn about the new Sunday suppers at Edwardsville's Fond and charity efforts at Stell ... More >>

FoodWire: New Sunday Supper at Fond Begins 11.22

Edwardsville restaurant Fond (106 North Main Street; website) will introduce a new Sunday menu format this Sunday, November 22. From 11 a.m. till 2 p.m. will be Sunday brunch. From 2 until 5 p.m., the restaurant will offer wine and light snacks. Finally, from 5 until 8 p.m. Fond will serve supper fo ... More >>

Trailer Park Head and Tight-Ass Jeans: Another Week in craigslist Missed Connections

Each week, we scour the local Missed Connections section of Craigslist, in search of the best posts. Here are some that caught our eye recently.http://www.flickr.com/photos/sixteenmilesofstring/ / CC BY 2.0​expecting your child - w4m - 35 - (your house)Get off the computer and get in bed...nobody' ... More >>

Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fond

A long-delayed visit to an Edwardsville culinary gem.

Break It Down

Tonight! Target Market CD release show at Off Broadway New MP3

Sorta last-minute post here, but I forgot to mention that Target Market is holding a CD release show for its new album, Up On the Moon, tonight at Off Broadway. I had this to say; new MP3 after the jump. Consider the preconceived notions and past memories you might have about Target Market, and then ... More >>

Target Market

9 p.m. Monday, May 4. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

St. Louis Food Blog Digest: 3.7-3.13

Gut Check dishes on our favorite St. Louis food blogs.St. Louis Eats & Drinks: The Pollacks visit one of my favorite spots, Edwardsville's Erato on Main.Show Me Vegan: Lisa makes ice cubes containing edible flowers.STL Hops: Mike offers advice on how to contact breweries whose beer you want to ... More >>

Kentucky Knife Fight

The Wolf Crept, The Children Slept
(self-released)

Your Weekly St. Louis Food Blog Digest

MP3: Left Arm, "Electric Babies" Shows

The Haddonfields

...Get a Nightlife
(Knowhere Records)

Your Weekly St. Louis Food Blog Digest

St. Louis Weekend Concert Calendar: July 20-22

In This Week's Issue

Review Preview: Erato

STL Stalker: Tim Robbins

Eight Days a Week

Fear and loathing in St. Louis: A to Z's week as a woman-about-town.

Owl Art

And other art, and owls

Stag

The Tin Can Tavern & Grille, 3157 Morgan Ford Road; 314-865-3003

Art (De)Tour

Feed your need for artistic treasures -- on the east side

Best Open-Mic Night

The Stagger Inn...Again

Best 'Ville

Belleville

If You Walk Your Pet in Public, Do You Pick up After It?

Week of November 19, 2003

Best Bluegrass Band

Cumberland Gap

Orange Mind-Eraser

Stagger Inn ... Again, 104 East Vandalia, Edwardsville, Illinois, 618-656-4221

Best Porches

Edwardsville, Illinois

Best Open-Air Market

Soulard Farmers Market

Best East Side Restaurant

Neruda

Go EAST

Cross the river for a taste of culture this weekend

HEAD EAST

EAST Art 99 beckons art-lovers to the Illinois side of the Mississippi