Pizza

It's Not Delivery, It's Plastic Fragments: DiGiorno, California Pizza Kitchen Pizzas Recalled

Gut Check was just talking to ourselves the other day: "Self," we said, "it's been a while since we reported on any foods being recalled because of plastic contamination." So we ambled on over (virtually speaking) to the FDA's recall, withdrawal and safety alert website and, lo and behold!, there's ... More >>

No, He Meant the Champagne of Beers and Not-Poisoning a Prince of Saudi Arabia: A Q & A with Andrew Jennrich of Farmhaus

This is part two of Gut Check's Chef's Choice profile of Andrew Jennrich of Farmhaus. Read part one, a profile of Jennrich, here. Part three, a recipe from Jennrich, will be available on Friday. Is it unseemly to be thankful for the financial stresses that others have faced? Of course. So put it ... More >>

Excuse Me, Waiter, There's A Mouse In My Salad

Though stuffed dormouse was once a Roman delicacy and some rural Koreans still enjoy a glass or two of baby mice wine as a health tonic, here in 'Merica, we're not so fond of eating rodents. Which is probably why a patron at Katie's Pizzeria Café (6611 Clayton Road, Clayton; 314-727-8585) was non ... 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 >>

First Look: Jet's Pizza in Ballwin

The St. Louis pizza scene has the thin crust covered, but a new addition is looking a little deeper into the market: Jet's Pizza (14940 Manchester Road, Ballwin; 636-220-8929) has set foot in Missouri with its first store in Ballwin. Jet's, a national pizza chain with more than 275 locations nation ... More >>

Jet's Pizza Opens in Ballwin

Does St. Louis need another pizza joint? That's merely a rhetorical question, you understand. Jet's Pizza is now open at 14940 Manchester Road in Ballwin. This is the first Missouri location for a chain that brothers Eugene and John Jetts founded in Sterling Heights, Michigan, in 1978. The chain ... More >>

Guess Where I'm Eating This Pizza and Win $25 to Guido's Pizzeria & Tapas [Updated with New Clue]

Guess where I'm eating this pizza, and you could win a $25 gift certificate to Guido's Pizzeria & Tapas (5046 Shaw Avenue; 314-771-4900). No, the answer isn't Guido's Pizzeria & Tapas. Rules: To be eligible, you must leave a valid e-mail address (or Twitter handle or Facebook profile URL) in the c ... More >>

Guess Where I'm Eating Deep-Dish Pizza and Win $25 to Mile 277 Tap & Grill [Updated]!

You can win $25 to Mile 277 Tap & Grill (10701 Watson Road, Sunset Hills; 314-645-3277) to and all you have to do is guess where we ate deep-dish pizza. The details of this one are important, though. Not only must you correctly name the restaurant we dined at, but where in St. Louis we were. Up to ... More >>

RFT vs. Our Readers: Best Pizza (Thick Crust)

As we celebrate the Riverfront Times Best of St. Louis 2012, Gut Check is asking you, dear readers, to settle the disagreements between our picks and our readers' poll. When it comes to deep-dish and/or thick-crust pizza, two names tower above all the others. We picked one of them as "Best Pizza (T ... More >>

Vote for St. Louis' Most Underrated Pizza: Semifinals

Gut Check's call for nominations for St. Louis' most underrated pizza prompted a flood of suggestions. Using a patented and utterly arbitrary system, we narrowed these down to a field of seven semifinalists -- though, again, we've included a write-in option. The top three vote-getters move onto the ... More >>

Pi Pizzeria Retiring Its Food Truck from Regular Duty

In 2010, Pi Pizzeria launched St. Louis' food-truck boom with its Pi on the Spot truck. This afternoon, the restaurant announced that its truck will end its regular operations on Tuesday, July 31. We've enjoyed bringing our Pi to guests who couldn't otherwise enjoy Pi in our full-service restaurant ... More >>

Guess Where I'm Eating this Spicy Pizza and Win $20 to Porter's Fried Chicken [Updated]!

You can win $20 to Porter's Fried Chicken (3628 South Big Bend Boulevard, Maplewood; 314-781-2097), and all you have to do is guess where we ate this pizza topped with mozzarella, volpi sopressata, red chilies, oregano and spicy tomato sauce. Hint: We dined at a pizza place in downtown St. Louis. ... More >>

With Tavolo V and Pazzo's, Michael Del Pietro adds two new arrows to his restaurant quiver

The Five Best (Cheap) Italian Restaurants 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 >>

Pizza My Heart: Mr. X will ignite your lust for crust

The Five Best Thin-Crust Pizzas in St. Louis

Selecting the Riverfront Times Best of St. Louis 2011 was no picnic. Choosing the winner meant several worthy candidates would go unmentioned -- until now. This year, Gut Check is celebrating five contenders in several categories.Jennifer SilverbergThe Best Thin-Crust Pizza in St. Louis​Want to st ... 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 >>

Bridge & Tunnel Pizza Now Il Posto Pizzeria

New name, menu for Bridge & Tunnel Pizza​Bridge & Tunnel Pizza (1131 Washington Avenue; 314-621-2400) is now Il Posto Pizzeria. Assistant manager Nick Smith tells Gut Check that new manager Franco Bongiovani is the driving force behind the changes, which go beyond the name."We have changed ... More >>

Worth the Weight at Feraro's Jersey-Style Pizza

Ian Froeb A slice of the deep-dish pizza at Feraro's​The Place: Feraro's Jersey-Style Pizza, the Soulard (1862 South 10th Street; 314-588-8345) and south county (11726 Baptist Church Road, South St. Louis County; 314-843-3456) purveyor of New Jersey-style pizza.The Lunch: A "personal"-sized ... More >>

The Veggielante Puts the Good Pie to the Test

​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 >>

Slice Is Nice: With its brick oven, Pizzeria Tivoli is a welcome addition to Princeton Heights

Review Preview: Pizzeria Tivoli

Ian FroebPizzeria Tivoli opened this past summer.​This week I try the wood-fired pizzas at Pizzeria Tivoli (5861 South Kingshighway Boulevard; 314-832-3222). It says something about the number and range of pizzerias in St. Louis that Pizzeria Tivoli isn't the first place in town where I've eaten p ... More >>

Updated! Fast Food Industry Mag QSR Names Pi Pizza Truck Among Top 20 Food Trucks in U.S.

{Updated 2/9/11 4 p.m. with comment after the jump from Pi co-owner Chris Sommers.} In its February issue, QSR Magazine, which covers the fast-food industry waterfront, names Pi Pizzeria's Pi on the Spot among the Top 20 food trucks in the nation. Writes Daniel P. Smith of QSR (which we're pretty ... More >>

Peel Wood Fired Pizza has all of Edwardsville beating a path to its wood-burning oven door

Pi Pizza Truck Hits Bureaucratic Bump in Edwardsville

Last Wednesday, January 19, Restaurant Pi's popular pizza truck toddled over the state line to Illinois to peddle pies in Edwardsville. Alerted on Twitter, east-side Pi fans flocked to the parking lot of Fond restaurant to scarf down their choice of pepperoni, sausage, spinach-mushroom and tomato-b ... More >>

St. Louis National Pizza Co. Now Open

Ian Froeb​After a lengthy gestation, St. Louis National Pizza Co. opened its doors last week at 3201 South Grand Boulevard. Owner Brian Williams has lived in Chicago and New York as well as the Gateway City, and his pizzeria offers all three distinct styles of pizza. That's right: Provel, mozz and ... More >>

Chris Kelling, Pi Pizzeria CWE Bartender, Mixes...an Aperol Spritz!

Welcome to Girl Walks into a Bar, a weekly Gut Check feature that spotlights local bars and bartenders. This is part one of Alissa Nelson's two-part profile of Pi Pizzeria bartender Chris Kelling. Part two, featuring a Q&A with Kelling, will be posted here tomorrow. Alissa Nelson​Chris Kellin ... More >>

Chef's Choice, Part 2: Marc Baltes of Pi Pizzerias

This is part two of Robin Wheeler's Chef's Choice interview with Marc Baltes of Pi Pizzerias; to read part one, click here. Part three will be published later today. Robin Wheeler​Favorite local ingredient? Greenwood Farms bacon. Five words to describe your food. Fresh. Simple. Generous. Bal ... More >>

Cold Pizza Pi!

​Need a reason to put pants on come Sunday morning? If you can get clothed and get yourself to Pi in the Central West End by 11 a.m., you can have cold pizza for breakfast. Beginning this weekend the restaurant will offer a selection of its thin-crust and deep-dish pies -- with meat or with ... More >>

Chef's Choice Recipes: Jon Feraro's Fast Pizza Recipe

Robin Wheeler​"Here is a little recipe very similar to the way I make pizza in the shop and at home," says Jon Feraro of Feraro's Jersey Style Pizza, who was profiled in yesterday's Chef's Choice. "If you follow these steps, you can impress your friends and family with fresh Jersey-style pizza at ... More >>

Chef's Choice: Jon Feraro, Feraro's Jersey Style Pizza

Robin WheelerJon Feraro, Owner of Feraro's Jersey Style Pizza​Who is Jon Feraro and just what does he think he's doing, bringing New Jersey-style pizza to the center of the Provel universe?He's a 36-year-old former financial entrepreneur. "I got into executive recruiting and owned a company for a ... More >>

Finding 'Nino's: Ian goes in search of an old-school pizzeria on the Hill and encounters something even better

Best Of Food & Drink 2009

Review Preview: Laganini Pizzeria & Restaurant

This week I visit Laganini Pizzeria & Restaurant, which opened in January in the Bevo neighborhood. As I'm reminded whenever I mention (however glancingly) my opinion of the native style, pizza is a contentious subject in St. Louis. Let me fan the flames once again by asserting that Laganini Piz ... More >>

Crust Achin': Ian ventures forth in search of the good pizza and finds the Good Pie

Go Hungry: The newest venture from the Del Pietro family, Sugo's Spaghetteria piles it on

Gut Check: Obama had one Pi time in St. Louis

Gut Check celebrates the election season — with polls!

Magnum Pi: Can Ian make peace with Provel? Solve for Π.

Lust for Crust: Katie's ain't your typical St. Louis pizza joint

Days of Wine and Pizza

St. Louis by the Slice

The Lou hits your eye with a big pizza pie.

That's Amore

Pizzeria della Piazza hits the spot with a pizza that’s hot

Parlor Game

The St. Louis Pizza Haus proves that even when pizza's kinda bad, it's still pretty good

Slice of Life

Jon Feraro's Jersey-style pies are the real thing

That's Amore

La Pizza is the marvelous neighborhood pizza place we've all been waiting for

Thick Crust

Black Thorn Pub & Pizza

Viva Vito's

SLU expansion couldn't keep a good restaurant down

Talk of the Town

More new restaurants to drool over