Kirkwood

First Look: Sushi Bistro Rolls Sushi and Hibachi Into a Single Concept in Downtown Kirkwood [Photos]

In late February, Kirkwood welcomed a new seafood-centric restaurant to town: Sushi Bistro (343 South Kirkwood Road, Kirkwood; 314-966-5545). The sushi bar and hibachi grill is run by owners Jimmy Li and Zhenkun Lin with chef Andy Chi, whose experience comes from rolling sushi on the East Coast for ... More >>

Kirkwood Native Nikki Glaser to Premiere Comedy Central Special This Friday

It's pretty cool to watch someone that you know grow into a well-deserved position within in the comedy and entertainment worlds. Kirkwood native, podcast superstar, MTV talk show host and generally nice person Nikki Glaser's half-hour comedy special airs this Friday on Comedy Central. See Also: - ... More >>

Pi Pizzeria's "Grove" Pizza: One of 100 St. Louis Dishes You Must Eat Right Now

The Gut Check One Hundred is our accounting of the 100 dishes in St. Louis that you must eat right now. These are the best dishes at the newest restaurants and the newest dishes at the best restaurants. These are the 100 dishes that define St. Louis dining in 2013. Our list culminates this fall when ... More >>

Two Arrested For Burglarizing Home of Rams Coach, Stealing Gold NFL, NCAA Rings

Two dudes in their mid-twenties have been charged with breaking into the home of Rams tight-ends coach Rob Boras and stealing electronics, video games and jewelry -- jewelry that included Boras' NFC Championship ring and three gold NCAA rings. The crooks have been arrested, but the rings are still n ... More >>

First Look: Manila Bistro Offers Flavors of the Philippines in Kirkwood

It's hard to imagine that St. Louis' longest standing Filipino restaurant concept, Manila Cafe, started out with just two tables on Cherokee Street in 1978. Its history spans various incarnations at dining destinations such as annual local festivals, Union Station, South Grand and downtown Kirkwood. ... More >>

October 2012 Openings & Closings

As has been the pattern for many, many months now, October saw far more openings than closings. In fact, Gut Check can confirm only one actual closing for the month: the Kirkwood location of Trattoria Branica. (There is one other possible closing.) Openings included a new barbecue joint at Mad Art ... More >>

First Look: Local Harvest Grocery in Kirkwood

On Thursday, October 18, a second Local Harvest Grocery (12309 Old Big Bend Road, Kirkwood; 314-966-6566) opened its doors. This is the first location in St. Louis county, with its flagship, Local Harvest Grocery (3108 Morgan Ford Road; 314-865-5260), in south city. Co-owners Patrick Horine and Madd ... More >>

Camel Suspected of Fornicating Llama To Death While En Route to Kirkwood Festival

As always, the Greentree Festival in Kirkwood had fun stuff this year: a parade, arts & crafts, funnel cakes. But the petting zoo was one llama short. That's because the animal was transported to the festival on September 14 in the same trailer as a camel, and while in transit, the camel had sex ... More >>

"Web's #1 Site For Women!" Tries to Trick Panera Bread, Gets Dumped

More corporate intrigue from the yeasty world of Panera Bread, a.k.a. Kirkwood-based St. Louis Bread Company.The editors at SheKnows.com -- the "#1 Site for Women!" -- wanted Panera to know that their online advertising dollars were going to good use. Even if, in fact, they really weren't. So the s ... More >>

MTV Picks Up Late Night Show Starring Kirkwood-born Comic Nikki Glaser

This autumn, Jon Stewart, Chelsea Handler and Conan O'Brien may be getting a lil' STL-flavored competition in their late-night time slot. (If that sounds obscene to you....GOOD). Nikki Glaser -- a 28-year-old Kirkwood native, standup comic and Instagram enthusiast -- will be co-starring in a new wee ... More >>

A Little Lunch Music

The Ten Best Things to do in St. Louis This Weekend: November 18 to 20

​Welcome to the weekend, St. Louis music fans! And what a weekend: At least five locals are releasing albums in the next three days (that's the cover of Dubb Nubb's Sunrise Sleepy Eyed pictured here). On the national side, we're especially excited about Lydia Loveless and Kings Go Forth. Loom ... More >>

The Franchise Grows: Dunkin' Donuts Heads for Telegraph Road

The city's Dunkin' Donuts tally could climb as high as 22 franchises.​Gut Check's journey through the city's Dunkin' Donuts renaissance is nothing new. More than a decade after the last of the fried dough franchise closed in the city, St. Louis was reintroduced to the chain in March 2010 with ... More >>

Pi to Open New Location at Mercantile Exchange Downtown

Courtesy: StandPoint Public AffairsA rendering of the new Mercantile Exchange project downtown​The ever-expanding Pi pizza empire -- I think it's safe to call it an empire at this point, no? -- will open its fifth location at the new Mercantile Exchange development downtown, the restaurant and the ... More >>

Bradley Cook: Kirkwood Man in Sex Slave Case Now Charged with Murder for Hire

Prosecutors whipped out some incredible, new allegations this week.​New allegations surfaced yesterday involving the gruesome sex slave case out of Missouri involving a woman allegedly held against her will since the age of sixteen.On Tuesday federal prosecutors in Kansas City charged one of the m ... More >>

NYT Mag Features St. Louis-Style Pizza (Well, Sorta)

New breakfast of champions?​Our cardboard-and-paste indigestion-inducing flatbread beloved, delectable hometown pizza was served up on a national platform over the weekend, via The New York Times Magazine. In an image shot by Ron Haviv and splashed across the mag's brand new photography sectio ... More >>

Target Unleashes P Fresh Stores in St. Louis

Katie Moulton​ Target is going "P Fresh": sounds like a personal problem to us here at Gut Check, but the retailer isn't being shy - just a little coy - about its new store concept. Next Sunday, March 27, three local Target stores will relaunch with the P Fresh concept, which features an exp ... More >>

When Criminals Imitate the "People of Walmart"

Police describe the suspect as "heavy set" and bald with some bad tattoos on his forearm.​St. Louis County police are looking for the man pictured here in connection with the theft and fraudulent use of a credit card stolen from a vehicle in October. The suspect later used the credit card to purch ... More >>

New Pi Location Coming to Chesterfield

Pi announced this week that it will open yet another location in its rapidly growing pizza empire. Unlike the original location in the Delmar Loop or the additional spots in Kirkwood or the Central West End, the Chesterfield Pi will be carryout-only. The new Pi is slated to open next month at the he ... More >>

Kirkwood Man Files Lawsuit to Halt Funding of Shooting Memorial

Image sourceMichael Moore​Before we get too far into this story, know that Michael Moore does not oppose the building of the Memorial Walkway in Kirkwood which commemorate the night in February 2008 when Charles Lee "Cookie" Thornton went ballistic and opened fire on a city council meeting, ki ... More >>

This Week in Gut Check, Regurgitated

​This week was full of celebratory cheer at Gut Check and hippie communes everywhere, as both Earth Day and 420 took place. You can keep the holiday spirit alive all year long with Eco-Friendly Drinks and Alice B.Toklas' Recipe for Haschich Fudge. And if that just wasn' ... More >>

Wine Buy the Bottle - Great Values in St. Louis: Grapevine Wines

Given Gut Check's never-ending quest for obsession with great wine values, we figured it'd be a good idea to check in from time to time with local merchants. They pick three wines they consider to be excellent values, and Gut Check buys and tries one of them. Price is important, but value is really ... More >>

Family of Charles "Cookie" Thornton Evicted From Home in Meacham Park

Thornton's mother was evicted today from the home she shared with her son in Meacham Park.​Updated 4:23 p.m. The home of Charles Lee Thornton, a.k.a. "Cookie" Thornton, was seized today by creditors.Thornton made national headlines two years ago this past February, when he went on a rampage, shoot ... More >>

2009 in Review: January

​​When Gut Check learned that the Chocolate Oreo Milkshake at Baskin Robbins had been named the worst food in America, checking in at 2,600 calories and 263 grams of sugar...well, we just had to try it! The grim results and the rest of the month in review after the jump.

FoodWire: October Openings and Closings

October has ended its wet, wet reign, so we look back on the soggy month's restaurant openings and closings. As always, if I missed one, please let me know in the comments. Gracias in advance.Ian FroebBeechwood Bistro by Sage fell victim to the Union Station curse.​OpeningsThe Wedge (under new man ... More >>

FoodWire: Sapphire Pan-Asian Closed

Sapphire Pan-Asian (4753 McPherson Avenue) has closed. As Joe Bonwich was the first to report, the restaurant served its final meal this weekend. Sapphire opened in November 2007, replacing Zoë Pan-Asian Café.The space will become the third location of Pi (website), after the original at 6144 Delm ... More >>

A Peach of A Day

It's a Lovely Day for a Snow Cone, Don't You Think?

Steve TruesdellOK, so summer has arrived with a wallop this year. It sucks. But we can spend the next few months either complaining about how underwear-meltingly hot it is, or we can do what little we can to relieve the misery that is summer in the Midwest.How about a snow cone? I had one just yeste ... More >>

FoodWire: Various Restaurant Tidbits

Lots of news items the past few days...- The Post-Dispatch reports that an employee of Downtown West pub Maggie O'Brien's (2000 Market Street) was shot and killed during a robbery last night. No arrests, as of yet.UPDATE: As I was writing this, my colleague Chad Garrison posted an item about the kil ... More >>

By the Boards: Dennis Brown on the STL Theater Scene May 7-10

After the deep darkness that has pervaded area theaters during the past few weeks -- most notably with heavyweight dramas by Brecht, Büchner and Kafka -- the first lilting notes of an impending musical summer can be heard. This weekend (through May 9) the Kirkwood Theatre Guild concludes its produc ... More >>

A Carny's Transient Life Revealed -- in Film Showing Saturday

Among the myriad cinema options this weekend, consider one interesting local connection for the documentary Carny -- Kirkwood native Virginia Lee Hunter is the director of photography. The 75-minute Saturday matinee screening at the Tivoli is the culmination or a lot of hard work, and angling by Hun ... More >>

Tacos de Kirkwood: Amigos Cantina brings the suburbs a little taste of Cherokee Street

Charles Lee "Cookie" Thornton: A Perspective Worth Reading

Your Weekly St. Louis Food Blog Digest

Why Charles Lee "Cookie" Thornton May Have Crumbled

Charles Lee "Cookie" Thornton

Daily Web Crawl

Elections and Self-Promotion: The American Way

To Market, to Market

Vote for Irene Allen!

We announced the Music Award nominees. Not everyone was pleased.

Monster Next Door?

From Webster Groves High to Imo’s Pizza to a cheap apartment in a forlorn corner of Kirkwood. For years Michael Devlin was all but invisible. Now he’s Public Enemy No. 1.

The Birds Are Back!

Meat Beaters

Unreal mingles with true meat-masters, joins the campaign to save CBGB and receives a dispatch from Redbird Nation. Plus, what's Keebler doing handing out roach clips?

Post Mortem Postmortem

Letters from the issue of Wednesday, March 16, 2005

Unchained Melody

Dewey's Pizza aims to keep it all deliciously local

Taking the Plunge

St. Louis' suburban cities have been competing for years to build the biggest and best places to play. Around here, keeping up appearances is serious business.

Best Comic-Book-Store Chain

Fantasy Shop

A Chorus Line

Conceived by Michael Bennett, book by James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante, music by Marvin Hamlisch, lyrics by Edward Kleban (Stages St. Louis)

Able Kane

Our reviewer presents a bouquet of rosebuds to Citizen Kane's steakhouse

NO MERCY FOR THE KIRKWOOD SCHOOLS