Main Dish Recipes

Rick Lewis of Quincy Street Bistro: Recipe for "Chicken 'n Biscuits"

This is the part three of Gut Check's Chef's Choice profile of Rick Lewis of Quincy Street Bistro. Read part one, a profile of Lewis, here. Read part two, a Q & A with Lewis, here. "Seeing as how we are a comfort food restaurant, I thought the 'Chicken 'n Biscuits' may be a fun one for the at-home ... More >>

A Taste of France at Cuisine D'Art

Emily Wasserman​The Place: Cuisine d'Art (701 North New Ballas Road, Creve Coeur; 314-995-3003), a small, locally owned French-themed café and catering company with large breakfast, brunch and lunch menus. The Lunch: Chicken salad crowns, served with a side salad and a banana ut muffin, for ... More >>

Dogs Dine Out: You'd Pick Café Provencal Over Kibble, Too

Deborah HylandGut Check's official dog-food critic, Steuben, tastes the cheese puff yappetizer.​Imagine the horror of a restaurateur approached about working with Three Dog Bakery (1134 Town and Country Crossing Drive, Town and Country; 636-527-3364) to co-host a Dogs' Night Out at his or her ... More >>

Get cooking: The recipes from our feature story

Chef's Choice Recipe: David Timney's Shrimp Pasta with Vodka Sauce

With a growing wholesale fresh pasta business, Mangia Italiano executive chef David Timney (profiled on Gut Check yesterday) hopes to see more home cooks using the restaurant's product. Dierbergs now carries Mangia's fresh pasta under the store's brand name, and Mangia's staff do in-store demos on ... More >>

Cooking With Match: Match Burger

flickr.com/photos/creativilleIn this week's feature article, I report on Match, a meat substitute created by Allison Burgess, a lifelong St. Louisan. If you'd like to try some, I'll be posting recipes here on Gut Check all week long.Just in time for the Fourth, here's Clint Whittemore's Match burger ... More >>

Kitchen Nightmares: The Mixing Bowl

Fare St. Louis

Bistro Alexander aims to break the mold (and the Review Generator 3000).

The Unreal Guide To Soulard Mardi Gras

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Pacific Rimshot

Oishi offers Japanese cooking as performance art

La Choy Chicken Chow Mein

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Number Crunch

Give us Five!

BBQ PDQ

Fat Toney’s gives Soulard a ribbing

Mississippi Yearning

Robbie Montgomery opens a second Sweetie Pie's, as soul-warming as the original

Afghan Revel

Sameem is a dream fulfilled -- for the owner and for us

There Goes the Eruv

You'll dig the delightfully unorthodox (yet totally Orthodox) food at Shmeers

Outta Sight

Juniper Grill triumphs even as a small, unassuming storefront bistro in Soulard

Eat More Beaver

Missourians have a healthy appetite for wild game meat. Some say raccoon tastes better than roast beef.

All Abroad!

Bring an adventurous palate to these great spots, and your inner cheapskate will thank you

Lame Time

Q's Sports Bar & Grill commits some flagrant fouls

Ragin' Cajun

Looking for cold beer and down-home Cajun classics? Head to Graham's.

Summit Kind of Wonderful

Venture into no-man's land for extraordinary Nepalese cuisine

Please Pass the Macaroni

Bellaluna combines family recipes with culinary panache

Hill-Swallowing

A new book shares the history and the recipes of the Hill

Hot and Bothered

Provisions Bistro turns up the heat after morphing out of its Grenache beginnings

Flying Fish

Goofy name aside, Wholly Mackerel has a promising future

Wonderful Life

Bosnian immigrants bring a taste of home to St. Louis

Hama Time

Renowned local sushi chef Naomi Hamamura opens up another location of Sansui

Babylon Rising

The South Grand strip takes on yet another cuisine

Old Hat

Café Balaban, revered as one of St. Louis' great restaurants, is riding on its reputation

Thai Score

Peasant dishes taste like a million bucks at Thai Country Cafè

Raw Fish

Trying for exotic food in a luxurious atmosphere, Mandarin Bay flounders

Urban Chic

Sqwires proves just how cosmopolitan St. Louis can be

Flat Feed

Defying the new trend of sky-high entrées, Sidney Street Café chef Sue Dill lies low

Side Dish

Local chefs share memories of childhood comfort foods

Flower Power

David Slay's new restaurant, Zu Zu's Petals, reminds diners that it is indeed a wonderful life

The Story of Eau

The Chase Park Plaza harks back to its heyday with the addition of a spectacular new restaurant

Jim Dandy

Jimmy's Café on the Park delivers great food in an engaging atmosphere

Pick Your Poisson

The Gulf Coast Café fills the vacant niche for seafood both on the South Grand strip and in the city of St. Louis

Russian Roulette

A visit to Astoria European Cuisine yields mixed but largely enjoyable results

Show of Farsi

Pickles and pomegranates rule the day, with enjoyable results, at Café Natasha

'Cue, Part II

Following the smoke signals to more of this town's best barbecue

Teppan Dancing

Going east -- 15 miles or so -- for great Japanese food

Lorenzo's Toil

Dishing the latest addition to the Hill's restaurant menu

BUTTER UP

Indulging a taste for decadence at the elegant Chez Leon

RAW POWER

They Might Be Giants

Alternative Route

Cardinal Rule

Get Yer Yia-Yia's Out