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Edwardsville

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2011

    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 >>

  • Dining

    January 27, 2011

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

    ​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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 28, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2010

    New Crop of Area Farmers Markets

    ​In addition to the upcoming farmers market in downtown's Old Post Office Plaza, the St. Louis area will get at least two more new farmers markets this season. On the Missouri side, Webster Groves has approved a farmers' market in its Old Orchard district. The market's twenty-week run will b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2009

    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 >>

  • Dining

    October 7, 2009

    Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fond

    A long-delayed visit to an Edwardsville culinary gem.

  • Calendar

    August 26, 2009

    Break It Down

    A long-delayed visit to an Edwardsville culinary gem.

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2009

    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 >>

  • Music

    April 29, 2009

    Target Market

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

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 31, 2008

    Your Weekly St. Louis Food Blog Digest

    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 >>

  • Music

    October 22, 2008

    Kentucky Knife Fight

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

  • Blogs

    October 3, 2008

    Your Weekly St. Louis Food Blog Digest

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

  • Blogs

    August 28, 2008

    MP3: Left Arm, "Electric Babies" Shows

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

  • Blogs

    August 1, 2008

    Your Weekly St. Louis Food Blog Digest

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

  • Music

    February 27, 2008

    The Haddonfields

    ...Get a Nightlife
    (Knowhere Records)

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2008

    Your Weekly St. Louis Food Blog Digest

    ...Get a Nightlife
    (Knowhere Records)

  • Blogs

    July 20, 2007

    St. Louis Weekend Concert Calendar: July 20-22

    ...Get a Nightlife
    (Knowhere Records)

  • Blogs

    June 13, 2007

    In This Week's Issue

    ...Get a Nightlife
    (Knowhere Records)

  • Blogs

    June 12, 2007

    Review Preview: Erato

    ...Get a Nightlife
    (Knowhere Records)

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2007

    STL Stalker: Tim Robbins

    ...Get a Nightlife
    (Knowhere Records)

  • Music

    April 11, 2007

    Eight Days a Week

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

  • Calendar

    October 18, 2006

    Owl Art

    And other art, and owls

  • Dining

    April 13, 2005

    Stag

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

  • Calendar

    October 13, 2004

    Art (De)Tour

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

  • Music

    September 29, 2004

    Best Open-Mic Night

    The Stagger Inn...Again

  • Best of St. Louis

    September 29, 2004

    Best 'Ville

    Belleville

  • News

    November 19, 2003

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

    Week of November 19, 2003

  • Music

    September 24, 2003

    Best Bluegrass Band

    Cumberland Gap

  • Dining

    June 11, 2003

    Orange Mind-Eraser

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

  • Best of St. Louis

    September 25, 2002

    Best Porches

    Edwardsville, Illinois

  • Best of St. Louis

    September 25, 2002

    Best Open-Air Market

    Soulard Farmers Market

  • Best of St. Louis

    September 25, 2002

    Best East Side Restaurant

    Neruda

  • Calendar

    October 17, 2001

    Go EAST

    Cross the river for a taste of culture this weekend

  • Calendar

    October 13, 1999

    HEAD EAST

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

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