Mike Shannon

The 6 Best St. Louis Sports Bars for Food

St. Louis has scads of places to belly up and watch the Final Four. But what of that belly? Treat it to some good grub while you cheer on your favorite team during the Final Four at these six places where "bar food" is synonymous with "good food." See Also: The 5 Best Bars for Ma ... More >>

Mike Shannon's Grill Opens Friday in Edwardsville

Mike Shannon, former Cardinals player and current radio-host-turned-restauranteur is at it again. The owners of Mike Shannon's Steaks and Seafood (620 Market Street; 314-421-1540) are opening Mike Shannon's Grill (871 South Arbor Vitae, Edwardsville, Illinois; 618-655-9911), an upscale-casual eatery ... More >>

Mike Shannon's Opening New Concept in Edwardsville

Evan Benn of the Post-Dispatch and Ligaya Figueras of Sauce both reported yesterday that Mike Shannon's Steaks and Seafood (620 Market Street; 314-421-1540) will open an "upscale casual" concept in Edwardsville, Illinois. The new restaurant, Mike Shannon's Grille, will be located in the same shoppi ... More >>

The Five Best 2012 Downtown Restaurant Week Menus

Downtown Restaurant Week begins Monday, August 20, and runs through Sunday, August 26. This year, 20 restaurants are offering three-course meals for $25, excluding tax and tip. Where to begin? You can view each restaurant's menu online, but if you don't have time to read through 20 different menus, ... More >>

Adam Perry Lunch Barbecue Lunch

The Ten Best Places to Eat Out With Grandpa in St. Louis

Selecting Riverfront Times' Best of St. Louis 2011 was no picnic. Choosing the winner meant several worthy candidates would go unmentioned -- until now. In this Gut Check series, we are chewing our way through notable runners up in a number of categories. To see hundreds more winners and finalists a ... More >>

Eat Me in St. Louis: Ten Splurge Restaurants for March Madness Visitors

Hello, fans of North Carolina, North Carolina State, Kansas and Ohio, and welcome to St. Louis for the -- deep breath -- 2012 NCAA Division One Men's Basketball Championship Midwest Regionals! You've come all the way to St. Louis to watch your beloved team fight for a berth in the Final Four. Why n ... More >>

World Series Starts Wednesday at Busch Stadium

The Cardinals are four games away from picking up their 11th one of these.​Wow! What a dizzying game last night. Six home runs in the first three innings?! You gotta be kidding me. And you got to feel bad -- almost -- for the hapless Brewers who committed another four errors last night in Milwauke ... More >>

Cardinals Launch Social Media Campaign for Mike Shannon

cardinals.comHow could anyone not "like" a guy willing to wear this jacket?​Hoping to duplicate what their fan base did in getting Stan Musial the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Cardinals have once more reached out through social media to honor one of their own. The Redbirds want their legenda ... More >>

Bags and Wags

Reminder: First Cardinals' Broadcast of Spring Training Today at Noon

Mike Shannon: "Heh, heh. Wow. Get up, baby!"​Yesterday was the start of the Grapefruit League season for the Cardinals. The club lost 6-3 to the Florida Marlins. The good news: Redbird newcomer Lance Berkman looked strong, going  2 for 2 with a home run. Pitcher Raul Valdes, starting for Adam ... More >>

Reason to Rejoice: Cardinals' Pre-Season Begins Today

Crocus Cardinals = Spring around the corner.​With temperatures plunging back into the 30s today we here at Daily RFT were desperate for some kind of sign that this miserable winter will one day end. We think we've found it. Just as the first crocus blooms suggest the thawing of the spring, so too ... More >>

Ten Best Things To Do This Weekend in St. Louis: December 3 to 5

​No getting around things: It's cold. Really cold. Still, there are plenty of reasons to leave the house this weekend. Start here with the music previews -- and continue below with more local goings-on. Friday Beth Bombara and Benjamin Riley @ The Map Room An acoustic apertif to your Friday n ... More >>

'Stache Bash Changes Addrache -- Moving from Hrabosky's to Shannon's on December 4

Image Via'Stache Bash headed thatta way.​This just in from the folks at the American Mustache Institute. Their annual gala slated for next month is changing addresses -- moving from the bar of one Cardinals' broadcaster to another. That's right, on December 4  'Stache Bash will take place at ... More >>

GUT CHECK CONTEST! Win a $25 Gift Certificate to Mike Shannon's Steaks and Seafood

When it comes to bargain hunting and coupon clipping, Gut Check's mother-in-law is nearly as obsessive as Gut Check. The two best Mike Shannon imitations win a prize!​On the other hand, she's a little scattered. So it is that Gut Check finds ourself in possession of two $25 gift certificates ... More >>

St. Louis Cardinals Twitter Accounts You Should Follow

​Keep up on the latest 140-character bursts of news, humor and statistics related to the St. Louis Cardinals on Twitter with this list of accounts you should follow, curated by the RFT staff. The tweeters below are all real people with opinions and we've excluded those Twitter accounts that simply ... More >>

FoodWire: Mike Shannon's Steaks and Seafood Highway 40 Reopening Specials

​Downtown institution Mike Shannon's Steaks and Seafood (620 Market Street; website) is celebrating the reopening of Highway 40 -- I-64, if you're nasty -- by offering a special four-course menu for $40. The $40 prix-fixe menu is available for 40 days, from this past Monday, December 7, through Fr ... More >>

Reminder: Downtown Restaurant Week 2009

www.downtownrestaurantweek.netA friendly reminder that Downtown Restaurant Week 2009 begins next Monday, August 3, and runs through Sunday, August 9. This year, 25 downtown restaurants are offering three-course meals for $25 per person, tax and tip excluded. Downtown Restaurant Week also affords di ... More >>

Charity Begins at Dinner

Downtown Restaurant Week 2009

www.downtownrestaurantweek.netIt's that time of year again: Downtown Restaurant Week 2009 begins on Monday, August 3, and runs through Sunday, August 9. This year, 25 downtown restaurants are offering three-course meals for $25 per person, tax and tip excluded. Downtown Restaurant Week also affords ... More >>

Map Locations At A Glance: Miscellaneous

Map Locations At A Glance: Restaurants

FoodWire: Small Fire at Mike Shannon's

Mike Shannon's Steaks and Seafood (620 Market Street; Web site) will be closed till dinner tomorrow after a small fire, reports the Post-Dispatch. The first comment on the article is priceless.

Baseball Announcer Catch-Phrases are Hopelessly Out of Date

Via InsideSTLImagine if you will, Mike Shannon as the color man for the NBA. Baseball announcers are delightfully, hopelessly behind the times when it comes to coining catch-phrases to describe the on-field action. So much so, that when young bucks and young Bucks try to roll out a new one-liner, Am ... More >>

Tasteful Affair 21: Let's Make A Meal

Cureiosity Kills No One

Prepare to get your grub on at Downtown Restaurant Week

Go! Top Nine Weekend Events, July 25-27

Wine Spectator Restaurant Awards 2008

Live on the Levee Restaurant/Band Pairings

Rant Radio: RFT readers weigh in on the meltdown at KWMU

Taste of St. Louis 2007 Preview

Get Your Prix-Fixe

When Is a Person Responsible for Getting His Ownself Shitface Drunk?

When Is a Person Responsible for Getting His Ownself Shitface Drunk?

"Better to have a stunning signature building than more of the faux-retro corporate sellout theme park that is our new Busch."

Week of October 26, 2006

Satire Alert!

Time to come clean, dear reader: Sometimes Unreal makes stuff up!

Spoiler Alert!

Frank Gehry's Ballpark Village: An Appreciation

A Whole New Ballgame

Riverfront Times uncovers secret plan for Ballpark Village cultural landmark.

What's up with Belliard and his tongue?

Week of August 17, 2006

Were there any Prince Alberts in the Negro League locker rooms?

Week of August 10, 2006

Ballpark Frank

The lowdown on eats at the new ballyard

Git Up, Baby!

Mike Shannon’s redone his namesake steak house -- and it’s a real humdinger

Meal Ticket

Downtown Restaurant Week is so yummy, you'll want to dine out six nights in a row

Best Sports-Broadcast Personality

Mike Shannon, KMOX (1120 AM)

Send in the Marinos

Longtime Pasta House man Tony Marino opens up his own place in Ballwin

Best Sports Announcer Who's a Former Major-Leaguer

Mike Shannon

FLOTSAM & JETSAM

The wit and wisdom of Cardinal broadcaster Mike Shannon; the boys on the bus at the Post

Short Cuts