Indian Food and Cooking

Anis Hyderabad Cafe Opens in University City

Gut Check learned back in February that an Indian restaurant would open at 8613 Olive Boulevard, the Jeffrey Plaza strip-mall address that previously housed the very-short lived Ethiopian spot Red Sea Cafe & Bar and, before that, Hooked Seafood Bar. See Also: - Red Sea Cafe & Bar Already Closed G ... More >>

An Updated Guide to Restaurants in University City: Delmar Boulevard, from Big Bend to 170

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. View West Delmar in a larger map The ... More >>

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 >>

Bombay Food Junkies Truck to Bring Vegetarian Indian Street Fare to St. Louis

Since moving to the United States from their native Bombay, (or Mumbai, as it is now known), India, Krupa and Sid Panchal haven't found anything like the street food they enjoyed in their home city. So the wife-and-husband team are taking matters into their own hands: In the next few months, the Pan ... More >>

Tikka Tikka Taco Truck Looks to Kickstarter for Startup Help

Do you like Indian food? Do you patronize food trucks? Do you have even one measly dollar to spare? Michael Swaleh wants to talk to you. Swaleh and his brother, Shaun, have turned to Kickstarter to raise $60,000 to buy the food truck that will launch their concept, Tikka Tikka Taco.

St. Louis Food Blog Digest, 8.13-8.19

Gut Check dishes on our favorite St. Louis food blogs. Sweet Art: Amrita made lemon tart with candied raspberries. Family Style Food: Karen shared planked salmon with Indian spices and raita. A Veggie Venture: Alanna made cucumber salad using Julia Child's recipe in honor of the 100th anniversa ... More >>

St. Louis Food Blog Digest, 3.10-3.16

Gut Check dishes on our favorite St. Louis food blogs. Sweet Art: Amrita shared salted caramel ice cream. Cupcake Project: Stef made Easter egg cupcakes with "yolk" centers. The Sweets Life: Natalie shared Bailey's dark chocolate pudding. Rhubarb and Honey: Kimberly made potato and asparagus fla ... More >>

Tandoori Knights

8:30 p.m. Friday, November 25. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

Joe Lally and Tandoori Knights Lead This Week's Show Announcements

Bloodshot Bill and King Khan are coming to Off Broadway in November as Tandoori Nights. ​ All hail shirtless wonder King Khan, for he is headed back to St. Louis with his homey Bloodshot Bill as Tandoori Knights. The wild duo will be at Off Broadway on November 25. Allegedly, they started play ... More >>

Reine Bayoc of SweetArt Bakeshop, Part 2

This is part two of Emily Wasserman's Chef's Choice profile of chef Reine Bayoc of SweetArt. To read part one, click here. Part three, a recipe from Bayoc, will be posted tomorrow.Chrissy WilmesBayoc with some of SweetArt's baked treats​Did your family cook when you were a child? Yes, my mothe ... More >>

The Veggielante Puts Schlafly's Tap Room to the Test

​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 >>

Taste of India Closed? [Updated]

Google Maps​A reader contacted Gut Check via Twitter with word that Taste of India (3279 Hampton Avenue; 314-646-8488) might be closed. The restaurant wasn't open for its regular lunch hours when I visited today. The reader said it has been this way for "weeks."The restaurant's phone number remain ... More >>

Gokul Opens New Location Today

Ian Froeb​It's this restaurant critic's dream come true: and Indian restaurant within walking distance of my office. Gokul opened today at 6101 Delmar Boulevard, the space vacated by Miss Saigon.This is the second location for the all-vegetarian restaurant.The original Gokul Snacks & Sweets re ... More >>

Ian Froeb's 100 Favorite St. Louis Dishes, #72: The Lunch Buffet at Mayuri

Ian FroebThe lunch buffet at Mayuri in Creve Coeur​I'm counting down -- in no particular order -- 100 of my favorite dishes in St. Louis. Some are well-known, others obscure. Some are expensive, others dirt cheap. All of them, I guarantee, are delicious.Please do not hesitate to share your own fa ... More >>

Gyro Scoop: Meaty Middle Eastern pleasures abound on South Grand

Sneakonomics 101 - Sneakonomies of Scale

Fernando de Sousa, Wikimedia Commons Recession. Literally, a pulling back a of a surging, forward-moving tide. The moon never considers whether the tide is a good thing or a bad thing, what its ideal point is along the sand. That's a detachment I sometimes envy when considering the other recession. ... More >>

FoodWire: Creve Coeur Indian Restaurant Ruchi Now Mayuri

A few weeks ago, I noticed an ad in the dead-tree Riverfront Times for a new Indian restaurant called Mayuri. I filed the name away for future exploration.Today, I decided to have lunch at the Indian restaurant Ruchi, which I reviewed in 2007 and which the RFT named Best Indian Restaurant last year. ... 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 what's new on the menu at Café Osage; get the details on the upcoming Fiesta in F ... More >>

A Table for How Many? at Gokul

Stefani Pollack is the author of the food blogs Cupcake Project and Food Interviews. She is also a member of the St. Louis Dinner Club. She blogs about her large-group dining experiences for Gut Check.Gokul Snacks & Sweets10633 Page Avenue, Overland314-428-8888When 12 Turns Into 22When I called ... More >>

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Central Station

Even after 30 years, Duff's can incite rapture in diners

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Babylon Rising

The South Grand strip takes on yet another cuisine

Play Ball!

While you're downtown to see the Cards this summer, try something besides a ballpark dog