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Jilly's Cupcake Bar & Cafe Wins Cupcake Wars A Second Time

Congrats to Jilly's Cupcake Bar & Cafe (8509 Delmar Boulevard, Ladue; 314-993-5455), two time winner of Food Network's Cupcake Wars! Back in February, Jilly's cupcake chef, Casey Shiller, and its executive chef, Dana Holland, duked it out against other past competitors for a chance at redemption. Th ... More >>

It's Deschutes Base Camp Week in St. Louis!

It's freakin' beer mania here in St. Louis this week! Deschutes Brewery is in town from Portland, Oregon, and they're partnering with various bars and restaurants in town to bring you a plethora of beer-related activities and events. The festivities, which Deschutes calls Base Camp for Fanatics, o ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

Hwy 61 Roadhouse & Kitchen on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives Tonight

Guy Fieri has not had a good month. As you might have heard, Pete Wells of the New York Times visited the spiky-haired one's new Times Square restaurant and dropped one of the most astonishing negative reviews you'll ever read. Guy Fieri Inc. continues unabated, however. And on tonight's first-run ... More >>

Dressel's Was on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives Last Night (Whoops)

Despite spending way too much time on the Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives page of the Food Network website, charting the path that Guy Fieri cut through St. Louis earlier this year, I somehow missed that last night's new episode -- "Pubs and Grub" -- included Dressel's (419 North Euclid Avenue; 314-361- ... 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 >>

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 >>

Food Network's "St. Louis Dog" at Busch Stadium Frankly Disappoints

The "St. Louis Dog" is this year's signature offering from the Food Network's food cart at Busch Stadium. This cart, located across from section 144 in the main concourse, debuted last season at Busch and eight other Major League stadiums, serving two steak sandwiches: the "Red, White, and Blue," wh ... More >>

Legends Restaurant Partners with East St. Louis High School Culinary Arts Program

On the heels of its grand opening, Legends Restaurant and Sports Bar (517 Missouri Avenue, East St. Louis, Illinois; 618-779-9982) is also busy preparing to open its kitchen to students from East St. Louis High School. Working alongside the high school's culinary arts program, Legends will bus in j ... More >>

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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 >>

Shocking Photo of Guy Fieri Emerges

This gesture is OK.​So we've been a little obsessed with Guy Fieri the past couple of weeks, thanks to the feature story about former Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives producer David Page in our sister paper City Pages. The latest embarrassing revelation about the spiky-haired superstar chef isn't ... 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 >>

Team Fieri Slams City Pages Article

​Yesterday, we told you about the profile of television producer David Page in our Twin Cities sister paper City Pages. Page, who created the smash-hit Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, made several sensational claims about Guy Fieri, including that the spiky-haired star styles himself a mafia don and ... More >>

"You Can't Send Me to Talk to Gay People Without Warning!": Behind the Scenes with Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives and Guy Fieri

​City Pages, our sister paper in the Twin Cities, this week runs a profile of David Page, the journalist turned television producer who created Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives -- and made Guy Fieri a star.Page's company produced eleven seasons of the smash-hit show before the Food Network dumped him t ... More >>

Get a Taste of St. Louis at Soldier's Memorial this Weekend

Sarah Rusnak​Taste of St. Louis returns this weekend, and Gut Check can't help but think that the word "taste" doesn't even begin to encompass the event. Not only can you try food from 45 area restaurants, but you can also peruse the work of local and regional artists and rub elbows with some of o ... More >>

Casey Shiller of Jilly's Cupcake Bar: Recipe for Banana Toffee Cupcakes, a.k.a "Space Monkeys"

This is part three of Emily Wasserman's Chef's Choice profile of confectioner Casey Shiller of Jilly's Cupcake Bar. Part one can be found here. Part two, a Q&A with Shiller, is published here. Emily Wassermancaption​Walking into Jilly's Cupcake Bar (8509 Delmar Boulevard, Ladue; 314-993-5455) ... More >>

Mike Johnson of Cyrano's, Boogaloo, Part 2

This is part two of Chrissy Wilmes' Chef's Choice profile of chef Mike Johnson of Cyrano's and Boogaloo. Part one can be found here. Part three, a recipe from Johnson, will be published shortly. Chrissy Wilmes​Did your family cook when you were a child? Not a lot. We ordered out, or I ended up ... More >>

Food TV and Cooking Channel Ban Shark Meat

Image via​Food Network and Cooking Channel have pulled all recipes with shark meat from their websites and will no longer feature shark on any of their shows. Food Network and Cooking Channel's shark removal was prompted when 31,000 people signed a petition at Change.org in ten days, decryin ... More >>

Mike Johnson of Cyrano's, Boogaloo

This is part one of Chrissy Wilmes' Chef's Choice profile of chef Mike Johnson of Cyrano's and Boogaloo. Part two, a Q&A, will be posted tomorrow, and part three, a recipe from Johnson, will be published on Thursday. Chrissy Wilmes​Within his career as a chef, Mike Johnson of Cyrano's and Boo ... More >>

Wanna Be the Next Food Network Star?

​Are you the next Bobby Flay? The next Rachael Ray? The next Paula Deen? We hope not -- one of each of them is more than enough. But if you've always dreamed of televised culinary superstardom, your big break might have arrived.Food Network Star (formerly known as the Next Food Network Star) has a ... More >>

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 and Butterbeer at Home

Chrissy Wilmes​There's something wonderful about waiting in line in a swarm of like-minded fans for the release of a film you're ecstatic about. Waiting in a crowd of hundreds of excited Muggles dressed in their Hogwarts' finest, however, is downright magical. And perhaps the theater was as ... More >>

Interview & Recipe: Maggie McHugh Talks About Recipe Records, Her Rock & Roll Cookbook

Recipe RecordsMaggie McHugh and Lanea Stagg, co-authors of Recipe Records, in the kitchen.​Music and food make a wonderful pair, and so do Maggie McHugh and Lanea Stagg, co-authors of Recipe Records, a locally released rock & roll themed cookbook featuring easy and tasty recipes inspired by so ... More >>

Jilly's Cupcake Wars-Winning Treats: Gut Check Investigates

Amanda WoytusPrize-winning cupcakes from Jilly's​After Tuesday night's show, the secret's out: Jilly's Cupcake Bar (8509 Delmar Boulevard, Ladue; 314-993-5455) won Food Network's Cupcake Wars challenge. Chefs Casey Shiller and Dana Holland took home the $10,000 prize and bragging rights by bak ... More >>

Casey Shiller of Jilly's Cupcake Bar on Cupcake Wars and Why People Love Tiny Cakes

Ettie Berneking​They can't talk about it. Everyone there knows how it ends, but no one can say a thing. If that sounds intense, it's because it is. The cupcake market has become a competitive niche. And Jilly's Cupcake Bar (8509 Delmar Boulevard, Ladue; 314-993-5455) knows just how intense th ... More >>

35 Things to Do Instead of Attending the Guy Fieri Food Tour

​Sunday Food Network "personality" and "chef" Guy Fieri brings his Guy Fieri Food Tour to the Touhill Performing Arts Center at UMSL. The event is a rock & roll celebration of all things Guy, and each evening culminates with the spiky-haired, backwards-sunglasses-wearing, sold-out-to-the-Natio ... More >>

Ten Best Food Events this Weekend: May 27-30

Photo by Steve Mitchell/Festival Partners LLC​Summer's so close, we can taste it. Find out exactly what flavors lead into the season at events such as Rib America Festival and the Third Annual Rib-Off at Iron Barley during the extended holiday weekend. Friday (May 27): Rib America Festival @ ... 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 >>

Oh, God, the New Rachael Ray-Guy Fieri Show Sounds Even Worse Than We Thought

​Last month, we learned about several new shows coming to the Food Network. The most ominous of the many ominous new titles was something called Guy vs. Rachael's Celebrity Smackdown.Well, Guy Fieri went on The Rachael Ray Show yesterday, and the two announced the new show. It's even worse you pro ... 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 >>

Ten (Imaginary) Shows We'd Watch Instead of the Food Network's Latest Garbage

Guy Fieri, starring in exactly none of our proposed Food Network shows​The Food Network this week announced several new series to debut this year and next. Frankly, even by the Food Network's ever-lower standards, the list is unappetizing.Among these new shows is an unholy marriage of Guy Fieri an ... More >>

This Week in Gut Check, Regurgitated

Food Network​Like everyone else in St. Louis, Gut Check was pretty excited about opening day. However, we're even more excited about new food options available at Busch Stadium, from healthy, gluten-free eats, to the Food Network's "Signature" Busch Stadium sandwich. What else did we do this ... 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 >>

Watching the Rotisserie Chicken Channel, Eh?

Image via​A colleague who apparently has far more interesting Google Alerts than I do passed along this story from our neighbors to the north. Starting today, restaurant chain Swiss Chalet will operate a television channel that shows nothing but a chicken cooking on a rotisserie grill for twenty-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 >>

St. Louis Events Mark National Eating Disorders Awareness Week

A highlight of National Eating Disorders Awareness Week in St. Louis will be a screening of the 2007 documentary America the Beautiful paired with an appearance by filmmaker Darryl Roberts.​The National Eating Disorders Association has declared February 21-26 National Eating Disorders Awarenes ... 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 >>

Sprout Recall Hits Illinois Farm Despite Lack of Evidence.

The Los Angeles Times reports yet another alfalfa sprout salmonella contamination scare. This time the sprouts are from Tiny Greens Organic Farm in nearby Urbana, Illinois. Farm owner Bill Bagby Jr. said that samples tested from his farm were clean. The FDA's results are the same, but interviews wit ... More >>

Video: Food Network Stars Show Off Their O (This Dish Is Tasty) Faces

Grub Street, the food blog of New York magazine, put together a video montage of various Food Network celebrities reacting to just how damn delicious their dishes are. A similar video, featuring only Giada De Laurentiis, floated around the Internet a few months ago. The technical problem that kept o ... More >>

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South Park Mocks Food Network, Foodies, You

This week's episode of South Park ruthlessly mocked Food Network, celebrity chefs, foodies and, most likely, you (and me). At any rate, I could post any number of scenes, but I think this might be my favorite.Because this is South Park, though the truly NSFW language is bleeped, you should use prope ... 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 >>

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