Maplewood

Maplewood: An Updated Guide to Restaurants on Manchester, from Big Bend to the City Limits

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. Maplewood crams a lot of life into a ... More >>

Guess Where I'm Eating This Scramble and Win $25 to Flaco's Cocina [Updated]!

Guess where we ate this scramble with cheesy scrambled eggs, turkey bacon and breakfast potatoes and win $25 to Flaco's Cocina (8400 Delmar Boulevard, University City; 314-395-4343). Hint: We dined at a popular restaurant in Maplewood. Rules: To be eligible, you must leave a valid e-mail address (o ... More >>

Guess Where I'm Eating Truffle Fries and Win $25 to Graham Grill and Bayou Bar [Updated]!

Guess where we ate truffle fries and you could win $25 to Graham Grill and Bayou Bar (600 West Woodbine Avenue, Kirkwood; 314-965-2003). Hint: We dined at restaurant in Maplewood. Rules: To be eligible, you must leave a valid e-mail address (or Twitter handle or Facebook profile URL) in the comment ... More >>

Till Death...

Tidbits: Food Trucks in Maplewood, New Chef at Ritz-Carlton

- Maplewood could become the latest St. Louis County municipality to allow food trucks to roam its streets. Maplewood-Brentwood Patch reports on this week's meeting of the Maplewood City Council at which Councilman Tim Dunn proposed a six-month trial for food trucks provided that they avoid the main ... More >>

Guess Where I'm Eating Eggs Benedict and Win $25 to Addie's Thai House!

You can win $25 to Addie's Thai House (13441 Olive Boulevard, Chesterfield; 314-469-1660) to and all you have to do is guess where we ate eggs benedict. Hint: We dined at a bar/restaurant in Maplewood that's popular for its weekly Sunday brunch menu. Rules: To be eligible, you must leave a valid e- ... More >>

Guess Where I'm Eating Shrimp and Grits and Win $10 to Joe's Chili Bowl [Updated]!

You can win $10 to Joe's Chili Bowl (808 Chestnut Street; 314-241-7070) and all you have to do is guess where we ate this plate of shrimp and grits. Hint: We dined at a restaurant in Maplewood. Rules: To be eligible, you must leave a valid e-mail address (or Twitter handle or Facebook profile URL) ... More >>

Guess Where I'm Drinking this Blackberry Cider and Win $10 to Gioia's Deli!

You can win $10 to Gioia's Deli (1934 Macklind Avenue; 314-776-9410) and all you have to do is guess where we drank this blackberry cider. Hint: We sipped this sweet cider at a restaurant in Maplewood. Rules: To be eligible, you must leave a valid e-mail address (or Twitter handle or Facebook profi ... More >>

Guess Where I'm Eating Brunch and Win $10 to Joe's Chili Bowl [Updated]!

You can win $10 to Joe's Chili Bowl (808 Chestnut Street; 314-241-7070) and all you have to do is guess where we ate this French toast with hazelnut-crusted bacon. Hint: We dined at a restaurant in Maplewood. Rules: To be eligible, you must leave a valid e-mail address (or Twitter handle or Facebo ... More >>

Taste of Maplewood

Ten Best Food Events this Weekend: May 20-22

Egan O'KeefeA scene from 2009's Taste of Maplewood​The weather forecast for the weekend may be full of storms and gloom, but forget about it! There's plenty of booze, food and tunes to keep everyone out of the house. Take, for instance, the Missouri Brewfest in Westport or the 30th Annual Fine ... More >>

This Week's Tip of the Tongue Newsletter

​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 newsletter, we prepare for Taste of Maplewood and check out some cooking classes that focus on grilling. Subscribing is e ... More >>

Wall Ball Headlines a Great Weekend of Art; Our List of All the St. Louis Openings

Wall Ball presents the rare opportunity to bid on artwork while witnessing its creation. Over 70 artists will participate at Saturday's event at NEO on Locust. More details on this event -- and many more exhibits -- after the jump. The Bubble Bus blows up the spot again this year at Wall Ball.R ... More >>

This Week's Tip of the Tongue Newsletter

​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 newsletter, we celebrate the onset of Spring with the Maplewood and Kirkwood Farmer's Markets and Black Bear Bakery's brunc ... More >>

Kakao Maplewood Open for Business

Aimee LevittBrian Pelletier behind the counter of Kakao Chocolate's new location on Manchester Avenue in Maplewood.​Nobody thought it would actually happen, least of all owner Brian Pelletier, but on Thursday, February 3, just two months after signing the lease and two days after an ice storm ... More >>

Lavender Lemonade at Foundation Grounds Coffee House

Image via​Do the day-to-day realities of being a grown-up ever get you down? Update your anti-virus software! Oil change is due! The washing machine broke! Does the endless succession of problems to solve and commitments to honor ever seem too daunting to even contemplate? Some people are custom- ... More >>

Nightclubbing: Maya Music Room Adds to Maplewood's Venue Resurgence

Grace WoodardMaya Cafe in Maplewood debuted a new music room this month, making it the third venue on the block.​Maya Cafe (2726 Sutton Boulevard) is an established pan-Latin restaurant and bar in the heart of Maplewood. The Sutton Boulevard location has been open for about ten years, and this ... More >>

The Jive and Wail Opening an Outpost Downtown

Lewis Reed, president of the Saint Louis Board of Aldermen, took to his Twitter account yesterday to announce the opening of a downtown outpost of the Jive and Wail. The popular Maplewood branch of the dueling-piano bar, incidentally, was the RFT's "Best Place to Go Cougar Hunting" in 2009. Set to o ... More >>

Charming Cops and Another Stalker: Last Week in craigslist Missed Connections

Each week, we scour the local Missed Connections section of Craigslist, in search of the best posts. It appears that, this past week, area police officers were incredibly charming, because four different women have posted to reconnect with them. Also, just like last week, we've found another stalker ... More >>

Things That Make You Go BOOM!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ajourneyroundmyskull/ / CC BY 2.0​On Monday, an 89-year-old lady walked into Maplewood's City Hall. She'd found something that belonged to her husband, and brought it in because she didn't know what to do with it. Yeah, it was a HAND GRENADE (possibly from WWII). This ... More >>

Maplewood Official is Cuckoo for Clooney

Yesterday, my colleague Kristen Hinman wrote an open letter to George Clooney after observing the actor dining at Niche restaurant last Saturday.Hinman's letter (published in Daily RFT) elicited a quick e-mail from Maplewood Community Development Director Rachelle L'Ecuyer who e-mailed in to tell us ... More >>

Backstoppers Fundraiser Tonight at Boogaloo and Fumanchu

Backstoppers Benefit: Saturday, August 2 at Stone Spiral

Taste of Maplewood This Evening

Also Now Open: Fu Manchu

She's Marge and in Charge

Today's Restaurant Tidbits

Review Preview: La Gra Italian Tapas

The Week in Gut Check

Horse's Kick

Monarch, 7401 Manchester Road, Maplewood; 314-644-3995.

Paintings Inspired

Tonight, Make Mine Maplewood

Shandy

Schlafly Bottleworks, 7260 Southwest Avenue, Maplewood; 314-241-2337.

Can You Dig It?

Warriors come out and play

Best Lunch Counter

Tiffany's Original Diner

Best Décor

Monarch

Rémy Martin V.S.O.P. Fine Champagne Cognac

Maplewood Liquor, 7203 Manchester Road, 314-645-5731

What's Brew With You?

The new Bottleworks is full of Schlafly goodness -- and bison!

Expedition Reserve Pale Ale

Schlafly Bottleworks, 7260 Southwest (at Manchester), Maplewood, 314-421-2337

Peripatetic Aesthetic

Shuttling with ArtDTour

Best Margarita

Maya Café

Wal-Mart World

Callow's handiwork in Maplewood may spell money trouble for the city

Piece of Cake

Atomic Cowboy, 7336 Manchester, 314-645-0608

Maya Way

Maplewood's Maya Café harks back to another Loop's heyday

Peter Meter

Week of December 26, 2001

Selling Out

To save Maplewood, some residents have to go

Side Dish

Penzeys Spices in Maplewood is to spice what Nordstrom's is to retail clothing -- a place shopped will go out of their way to find

Side Dish

Diving into the stream of consciousness and coming up with St. Louis food news

Best Shoe Store

Dreamland Shoe Co.

Best Exploitation-Video Selection

Movies Unlimited