Jell-O Desserts

Upstream With a Paddle: From cops to cottonmouths, float trips can be perilous if you're not prepared

Eat, Drink and be Merry to Help an RFT Staffer Rebuild His Home [Updated]

Image viaGut Check invites you to eat, drink and donate to help this RFT staffer rebuild his home.​Update: A friendly reminder, Gut Check readers: We're eating and drinking tomorrow after work at Three Kings Public House (6307 Delmar Boulevard, University City; 314-721-3355). Twenty percent of ... More >>

Watch It Wiggle

Image viaGut Check invites you to eat, drink and donate to help this RFT staffer rebuild his home.​Update: A friendly reminder, Gut Check readers: We're eating and drinking tomorrow after work at Three Kings Public House (6307 Delmar Boulevard, University City; 314-721-3355). Twenty percent of ... More >>

Applebee's Gets Toddler Drunk: Six Kiddie Cocktails They Should Try

​An Applebee's in suburban Detroit accidentally gave a two-year-old a margarita in a sippy cup instead of the apple juice his mom ordered, a mistake that wasn't discovered until the kid's blood alcohol level was .10 -- beyond the legal limit for drivers. The kid was okay, after a trip to the d ... More >>

Drunken Dunkin' Donuts!

​It's a positively Homer Simpsonian concept with a Mr. Burns execution. Chef Zac Young of Flex Mussels in New York City and Top Chef: Just Desserts has been injecting doughnut holes with upscale booze. Of course, it's a hit. How could it not be? It's doughnuts and alcohol! But not everyone can ... More >>

We're Number Six! What St. Louis Needs to Do to Become America's Drunkest City in 2012

Bravo, St. Louis! We worked hard, and we did it: Men's Health has named us America's sixth-drunkest city -- and the drunkest city in the entire Midwest! Daily RFTSt. Louis: Where the squirrels go to hide their Everclear!​But we can do better. What do Fresno, Reno, Billings, Riverside and Aus ... More >>

Jell-O Pudding Pops: Better Than Ever -- Or Are They?

The legendary Bill Cosby appears at the Fox Theatre on Sunday afternoon, October 24. (Tickets are still available for the 3 p.m. show.) The 73-year-old is known for many things: comedy, acting and, of course, being the patron saint of pudding. Specifically, Jell-O Pudding and its associated products ... More >>

Double D Lounge's Tanner Scott: Featured Bartender of the Week

Welcome to Girl Walks into a Bar, a weekly Gut Check feature that spotlights local bars and bartenders. This week Alissa Nelson profiles Double D Lounge bartender Tanner Scott. Below is a Q&A with Scott, followed by a video of him mixing a Creamsicle cocktail. Alissa NelsonJell-O shots, anyone? Jel ... More >>

Food Supply Crisis Hits Circle of Concern Food Pantry

circleofconcern.org​It's a news story we've seen repeatedly since the economic downturn: food pantry shortages. Locally the situation's getting dire for Circle of Concern Food Pantry in an area that many St. Louis residents don't consider when they think of hunger: west county. "Circle's ser ... More >>

Fish Fry Frenzy, Week 4: St. Mary Magdalen in Brentwood

Church fish frys don't have marketing budgets. But at St. Mary Magdalen in Brentwood, they've at least got someone with a sense of humor and an eye for cute graphics. Why else would they have yard signs dotted with colorful fish, proclaiming, "God's Cod!" with their fish fry times? Robin WheelerNow ... More >>

Fish Fry Frenzy, Week 3: Epiphany of Our Lord

A church with a bowling alley's a bit out of the ordinary. Epiphany of Our Lord Catholic Church is also a school, though. What? Your school didn't have eight lanes and an arcade with a smoking lounge and bar? Or a Lenten fish fry in the gym next door? Robin Wheeler​Having learned from last ... More >>

Remember "Cum Gum"? Five TV Commercials for Extinct Foods

"Here it comes," she's about the enjoy the "gum that goes squirt," so says the old-school commercial for Freshen-Up gum.​Food products come and go, often with good reason. What seems like a good idea might leave diners gagging in retrospect a decade down the road. Some products die because t ... More >>

20 Unholy Recipes: Dishes So Awful We Had to Make Them

After about a year of perusing old-school cookbooks looking for weird recipes and spotting bizarre trends (hot dogs eggs, inside a Jell-O mold) from the '50s, food blogger Robin Wheeler compiled her twenty most stomach-turning concoctions. (Do not view this list before lunch. Jeez, or maybe after ... More >>

Throwback of the House: Apricot Salad Ruins Teeth, Christmas

On Christmas Eve, work was the last thing on my mind. My husband, daughter and I were in Sedalia, Missouri, with my parents, bracing for the incoming snowpocalypse and preparing for the next day's food orgy to honor Baby Jesus.Robin Wheeler​My mom, Maxine, held a yellowed index card with a hand-w ... More >>

2009 in Review: May

​​It was the month of Kristen! My colleague Kristen Hinman won three prestigious journalism awards for her stellar feature about Missouri hog farmer Russ Kremer, "The Pope of Pork": a James Beard Foundation award, an Associaton of Alternative Newsweeklies award and an Association of Food Journal ... More >>

Review Preview: Phuc Loi

This week I visit Phuc Loi, a small Vietnamese restaurant at 3723 Gravois Avenue in Tower Grove South. (It's the tiny storefront with the blue awning and what looks like two men right outside the entrance in the photo above.) When the guy behind the counter at Phuc Loi asks if you're sure you want p ... More >>

Throwback of the House: Multi-Generational Poke Cake

Robin Wheeler​Even when I was a kid, I wasn't much of a fan of Jell-O. The only Jell-O-related food I really liked was poke cake. Make a white cake from a mix, poke holes in the top, pour ungelled Jell-O -- I preferred orange since I like that baby aspirin taste -- cover the cake and chill. The r ... More >>

The Novice Foodie: Monarch, Fit for a Queen (and Her Hungover Husband)

The first time my husband and I ate at Monarch was for my 29th birthday. This was not so long ago, when our visits to nicer restaurants were reserved for a birthday or our anniversary. I'd chosen Monarch because we'd never been there and also because I'd loved chef Josh Galliano's food when he was a ... More >>

Introducing Sweet Scout: The Sweet Scout is Introduced to Crème Brûlée

User "Jellyfish Juice," Wikimedia Commons​Adrienne Jones is a writer, photographer and world-class eater who blogs at A Girl and Her Camera. She loves desserts and has been known to take to a frosting tub with little more than a spoon and a well-tuned sweet tooth. She will report on her lates ... More >>

Innovations in Sneaking: The Solid-State Cocktail

Fernando de Sousa, Wikimedia Commons While I'm constantly amazed at the number of movie theaters in St. Louis that offer beer, wine and decent coffee, there still aren't many places you can enjoy a good cocktail during the show. What's a sneak to do?1. Pre-mix the cocktail and bring it in a bottle ... More >>

Throwback of the House: The Pickle Stretcher Salad Is Not Funny

Todd Ehlers, Wikimedia CommonsNo one can beat a joke dead into the dirt like I can. Since last week's meat-stretching edition of Throwback, my brain has been on a giant innuendo feedback loop. You know what cracked me up? Pickle Stretcher!Oh, the hilarity of the Pickle Stretcher Salad recipe in 196 ... More >>

Throwback of the House: The Bombs Wobbling in Air

Todd Ehlers, Wikimedia CommonsHalfway through summer vacation, and my daughter is completely sick of my face. I know I'm not much fun for a five-year-old, what with my crappy food and my perpetual hangover. A kid can only take so many viewings of the Ice Age trilogy before she revolts against poor p ... More >>

Throwback of the House: Orange Jell-O for the Diet-Conscious Dearly Departed

Todd Ehlers, Wikimedia CommonsRobin Wheeler writes for the blog Poppy Mom. After years of making and eating fancy food, Robin is sick of it all. She's returning to the basics: recipes that haven't surfaced in three decades. She reports on the results for Gut Check every Tuesday.This week, I looked ... More >>

Dining by Delorean: Asia

User "Grenex," Wikimedia Commons Ian hops in Gut Check's time machine and returns to restaurants Riverfront Times has reviewed in the past.It's fitting that I'm visiting Lumière Place for this inaugural installment of Dining by Delorean. Casinos operate outside the usual space-time continuum. Is it ... More >>

Bar of the Week: The Cat's Meow

User "Grenex," Wikimedia Commons Ian hops in Gut Check's time machine and returns to restaurants Riverfront Times has reviewed in the past.It's fitting that I'm visiting Lumière Place for this inaugural installment of Dining by Delorean. Casinos operate outside the usual space-time continuum. Is it ... More >>

Cruel and unusual punishment: Malcolm sentences himself to Prison Loaf

User "Grenex," Wikimedia Commons Ian hops in Gut Check's time machine and returns to restaurants Riverfront Times has reviewed in the past.It's fitting that I'm visiting Lumière Place for this inaugural installment of Dining by Delorean. Casinos operate outside the usual space-time continuum. Is it ... More >>

St. Patrick's Day the Unreal Way

User "Grenex," Wikimedia Commons Ian hops in Gut Check's time machine and returns to restaurants Riverfront Times has reviewed in the past.It's fitting that I'm visiting Lumière Place for this inaugural installment of Dining by Delorean. Casinos operate outside the usual space-time continuum. Is it ... More >>

Mormon Accents

The Mexican calls out Romney and explains how to type in Spanish.

Feel Like Family

The Mexican calls out Romney and explains how to type in Spanish.

Fiji Natural Artesian Water

Convenient Food Mart
5253 Mattis Road
south St. Louis county
314-729-7336.

The Jeff Weaver Wire Watch -- Special Sidney Ponson Edition!

Convenient Food Mart
5253 Mattis Road
south St. Louis county
314-729-7336.

The Jeff Weaver Wire Watch -- Special Sidney Ponson Edition!

Convenient Food Mart
5253 Mattis Road
south St. Louis county
314-729-7336.

Green Party

Convenient Food Mart
5253 Mattis Road
south St. Louis county
314-729-7336.

Go! 3/16-3/18

Convenient Food Mart
5253 Mattis Road
south St. Louis county
314-729-7336.

Puddle of Fun

LocoRoco is the perfect one-night stand.

Food to Float Your Boat

Get gourmet on Missouri's rivers

Margaritaville Lives

We picnic with Parrotheads, get literary with book-minded bands and witness an old-fashioned blues royale

Everybody's Doing It

Unreal plays fair with an all-inclusive sex survey and celebrates the St. Louis Centre skybridge's dramatic relocation to the Loop

Hard Times Ahead

Unreal gets all hot and bothered over some very special plants (and a rather steamy billboard) and finds the key to St. Louis' revival. Plus, a local blogger is driven mad by public breastfeeding.

Lardee's

Unreal kicks it with a 64-year-old college student, attends a Jell-O-shot-fueled party at the Tri-City Speedway and peruses a local mom's Blog o' the Week; plus, why eat a Thickburger when you can have Butter on a Stick?

Evanescence

Anywhere But Home (Wind Up)

BANG sugar BANG

Friday, October 8; Lemmons

Who's the Cos?

Bill Cosby: man, comedian, legend

What’s the Zaniest Thing You’ve Done on a Dare?

Week of June 9, 2004

On the House

The Black Rep's Home the Musical is a bit of a fixer-upper

Please Pass the Macaroni

Bellaluna combines family recipes with culinary panache

Extremities

Boarding, biking & blading confab

Hot Damn! Cherries

Hill Bar, 2225 Macklind Avenue, 314-773-4455

Family Tradition

Corky's Restaurant lifts classic American comfort food to new heights

Labradford

E Luxo So (Kranky)