Kirkwood

Fresh, Bright Vegetarian Fare Shines at Sunset 44 Bistro in Kirkwood

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 proselytize ab ... More >>

Happy Hour at Bar Louie in Kirkwood: Business-Casual Wining and Dining

Bar Louie-Kirkwood (110 South Kirkwood Road, Kirkwood; 314-238-2300) The Hours: Monday through Friday from 4 to 7 p.m. The Deal: $3 drafts, $4 wines, $5 signature martinis, half-off select small plates.

Imperial Couple Charged with Making Counterfeit $$$

On Monday a couple from Imperial in Jefferson County tried to pull a fast one on the Walmart in Kirkwood, according to the U.S. Attorney for Missouri's Eastern District. Misty Ann Root, 38, and Daniel Wayne Flynn, 37, were reportedly caught with $240 in phony $20 bills. Later that evening, authoriti ... More >>

Sapore Italian Café Announces Move to Kirkwood

Sapore Italian Café (Baxter Road & Andersohn Drive, Manchester; 636-256-3949) announced this week that it will move to Kirkwood next month. The restaurant posted the following its Facebook page on Tuesday: We are excited to announce we are moving to Kirkwood mid-November! Our new home will be in ... More >>

New Local Harvest Grocery Opens in Kirkwood

Local Harvest Grocery (3108 Morgan Ford Road; 314-865-5260) this morning opened its new location at 12309 Old Big Bend Road in Kirkwood. As co-owner Patrick Horine told Gut Check this spring, Local Harvest didn't look to Kirkwood -- Kirkwood looked to Local Harvest. "We were approached by a family ... More >>

Exercise, American Style

Pedestrian Hit by Train in Kirkwood

KMOV and KTVI both report that a pedestrian was hit by an Amtrak train just before 5 p.m. near Leffingwell and Scott avenues in Kirkwood (the railroad crossing at the intersection, above). The person was wearing headphones at the time, and witnesses claimed the train blew its whistle prior to the at ... More >>

Local Harvest Announces Two New Locations [Updated]

The double threat of Local Harvest Grocery (3108 Morgan Ford Road; 314-865-5260) and Local Harvest Cafe & Catering (3137 Morgan Ford Road; 314-772-8815) is doubling its number of locations. The Tower Grove South venture announced yesterday that it will open new spots downtown and in Kirkwood. The K ... More >>

Mel Bay Music Center to be Razed

​Remember when you were younger (and had ambition), you decided to learn to play the guitar? And that St. Louis's celebrated musician of yore, Mel Bay, was going to teach you oh so easily through his instructional books? Even if you didn't actually practice from a Mel Bay book or even want to ... More >>

The Veggielante Goes Vegan at Pi

​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 >>

Ranoush Opens Second Location Today

Jennifer SilverbergRanoush owner Aboud Alhamid​Delmar Loop Syrian restaurant Ranoush (6501 Delmar Boulevard, University City; 314-726-6874) will open its second location at 200 North Kirkwood Road in downtown Kirkwood at 5 p.m. today.Owner Aboud Alhamid tells Gut Check that the menu at the new loc ... More >>

An Edgy Sign for Staid Kirkwood?

Despite the occasional shocker of a Cookie Thornton or a Michael Devlin, the St. Louis suburb of Kirkwood is pretty much a bastion of family-friendly, American-heartland wholesomeness -- certainly not a place you'd expect anything remotely risqué to come out of the local Historical Society. But che ... More >>

Restaurant Tidbit Smörgåsbord: The Tavern, Vito Racanelli and More

Robin WheelerVito Racanelli Jr. of Onesto Pizza & Trattoria​It's only the second full week of October, but it's already been a busy month for local restaurant news -- so busy that our friends in the local have scored several scoops of their own.- Evan Benn reports at Off the Menu that The Tave ... More >>

Note to Detractors: RFT Does Some Good in the World, at Least For Kirkwood Historic Preservation

image viaCan Fielding Dawson (and RFT's Literary St. Louis feature) save this historic mansion?​After her husband died, Marianne Burnside put her house at 750 North Taylor Avenue in Kirkwood up for sale. It was just too big for one person, she said. Unfortunately, the 135-year-old mansion, val ... More >>

News Tidbits from the Tavern Kitchen & Bar, Mihalis

​I was in Seattle last week, drooling over the fresh seafood at Pike Place Market -- the rare tourist destination that lives up to (maybe even exceeds) the hype -- so pardon me for tipping my cap to Gut Check's fellow bloggers for the news I missed.First up, George Mahe reported on Relish that the ... More >>

Lake Saint Louis Approves Smoking Ban, Mayor Still Needs to Sign into Law

​The Lake Saint Louis board of aldermen became the first city council in St. Charles County to pass a smoking ban. The board approved the ban in a 4-2 vote last night. The law still needs signature from Mayor Mike Potter who has voiced concerns about the ban. Like a similar ban in Kirkwood, the La ... More >>

Meacham Park Residents Not Satisfied with Kirkwood Race Reconciliation

​A "mediation agreement" that was supposed to ease racial strife in Kirkwood was greeted with a cool reception yesterday from residents in the predominately African-American neighborhood of Meacham Park.The agreement, facilitated by the Department of Justice and signed by Kirkwood leaders last wee ... More >>

FoodWire: Pi Opens Third Location Today, 12.15

How about some Euclidean geometry? San Francisco-style pizzeria Pi debuts at 400 North Euclid Avenue at 5 p.m. today, December 15. This is the popular, Obama-approved eatery's third location, following the original Delmar Loop restaurant and the Kirkwood spot, which opened only a few months ago. The ... More >>

St. Louis County Voters Embrace Future; Vote "Yes" for Smoking Ban

That crisp, clean air you're smelling this morning? Ladies and gentlemen, that's progress! That's (dare we say it?) the future! ​Yes, like a scene out of a movie, yesterday the George McFlys of the world stood up to the bully Biffs and victoriously took back our future. By an overwhelming mar ... More >>

St. Louis County Police Now Have Crime-Mapping Database

The St. Louis County Police Department has joined the ranks of their comrades in blue in the city and created a crime-mapping database for use by the public. ​The database (viewable at maps.stlouisco.com/police/index.html) features crime happenings for the past 90 days in municipalities patrolled ... More >>

Pi Cubed: Obama's favorite pizza joint pushes back opening of second location

FoodWire: Pi, Pi and More Pi

Lots of news today about Pi (6144 Delmar Boulevard; website), which began a year and a half ago as a Delmar Loop restaurant serving San Francisco-style deep-dish pizza and is about to become a mini-empire. First, the second location of Pi -- a.k.a. Pi Squared -- at 10935 Manchester Road in Kirkwood ... More >>

The Morning Brew: Friday, 7.17

Kirkwood residents will vote this November on a proposed smoking ban. (Post-Dispatch)The recession and federal food-safety legislation have the organic-food industry worried. (Reuters)From Australia, via the Baltimore Sun, comes word of a my kind of cat, camped out in a beer fridge. (The Standard)

Here's Betting Kirkwood Voters Will Approve a Smoking Ban in November

flickr.com/photos/lolololoriAdorable downtown KirkwoodAfter a citizen's group forced the Kirkwood City Council to consider an initiative to ban smoking in city bars and restaurant, the measure will now go before voters. Earlier this month Kirkwood residents opposed to public smoking collected enough ... More >>

Calls for Smoking Bans Push Forward in Kirkwood, Wildwood; Hearing Tomorrow in St. Louis

deviantart.comNot one of the seventh-grade Wildwood students proposing a smoking ban.The St. Louis Board of Elections yesterday certified that a petition drive for a smoking ban in Kirkwood had enough signatures to require action.If the Kirkwood City Council does not deal with the issue by September ... More >>

That Note I Left on Your Car: Another Week of 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.Mystery Love Note!Mysterious car note - w4m - 22 - (Kirkwood)"soooo Thursday morning after I got off work I found a note on my car, typed on a type-writer o ... More >>

Over the River and to Kirkwood

Christmas is closer than you think

In This Week's Issue: Amigos Cantina and Lake Water

Review Preview: Amigos Cantina

To Market, To Market: It's May, and farmers' markets are bustin' out all over!

Farmers' Market Season Calendar

Restaurant Tidbit: 10th Street Italian

Charles Lee "Cookie" Thornton: Meacham Park Boils Over

Jam in the Morning

Sylvilagus Floridanus (Eastern Cottontail)

Webster Groves

One Burger, One Guac and One Beer

Let's belly up to tLet's belly up to the William D. Alandale Brewing Co. in Kirkwood

Can a Mystic Voyage Get You to Kirkwood?

Probably.

Letters Column

Week of April 13, 2006

The Secret of Massa's' Success

What makes this place so popular? Certainly not the food.

Small World

Support li'l entrepreneurs this Sunday at the Magic House's annual Kids' Flea Market

Best Post Office

Kirkwood Post Office

A Mayor Runs Through It

With the determination of a Missouri mule, Mayor Mike Swoboda drags a $40 million development into the heart of Kirkwood

Best Cookies

Kirkwood Bakery

Best Weird Vegetable To Cook At Home

Long beans at Global Foods

Best Place To Buy Yard Ornaments

Cara Tera Landscaping

Best Place to Buy Garden Supplies

OK Hatchery Feed & Garden Store

Best Sidewalk

Downtown Kirkwood

Not Your Ordinary Joe

Joseph's of Kirkwood is every bit the equal of its downtown counterpart

Around the World

A minitour of area ethnic eateries and groceries

Shore 'Nuff