Richmond Heights

Guess Where I'm Eating This Sandwich and Win $25 to Serendipity Homemade Ice Cream [Updated]!

Guess where we this chicken sandwich with zucchini, squash, roasted peppers, arugula and goat cheese on grilled flatbread and you could win $25 to Serendipity Homemade Ice Cream (8130 Big Bend Boulevard, Webster Groves; 314-962-2700). Hint: We dined at spot in Richmond Heights. Rules: To be eligibl ... 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 >>

New Buffet Restaurant for Richmond Heights

Looks like the former Outback Steakhouse at 6710 Clayton Road in Richmond Heights, next to the AMC Esquire 7, will soon have a new tenant after several years of sitting empty. Signage is up announcing Dynasty, featuring hibachi, sushi, seafood and a buffet. (Or a buffet featuring hibachi, sushi, sea ... More >>

Review Preview: BlackFinn American Grille

Last week, I found much to admire in, of all places, an upscale national chain restaurant at a shopping mall. Will lightning strike twice this week as I visit another (slightly less) upscale national chain restaurant at a shopping mall: BlackFinn American Grill (South Brentwood Boulevard & Clayton R ... More >>

Guess Where I'm Eating this Sandwich and Win $25 to Olympia Kebob House & Taverna!

Guess where we ate this vegetarian sandwich and win $25 to Olympia Kebob House & Taverna (1543 McCausland Avenue; 314-781-1299). Hint: We ate this meat-free meal in Richmond Heights. Rules: To be eligible, you must leave a valid e-mail address (or Twitter handle or Facebook profile URL) in the comm ... More >>

Rev. Larry Rice Opens "Day Center" for Homeless at Galleria on Thursday

Reverend Larry Rice is poised to pull off another high-profile attempt to house St. Louis's homeless -- in the Galleria mall in Richmond Heights. Starting Thursday afternoon, the ritzy shopping center is becoming, in Rice's words, a "day center." "We're going to get lunch for them, have a few ... More >>

[UPDATED] Hadley Township Developers Want Huge Handouts From Richmond Heights

Response from the city appears at the end of this article.At long last Richmond Heights believes it has a plan for the long suffering Hadley Township, the mostly African-American neighborhood east of Hanley Road and south of Dale Avenue that city officials have allowed to rot for a decade under the ... More >>

March 2012 Openings & Closings

March followed the trend of the past year or so, with openings (including new food trucks) far outpacing closings. That said, it's difficult not to focus on one particular closure as the month's big news: Monarch, which ended its nine-year run. (Still no word on what will happen to its Maplewood s ... More >>

Richmond Heights Approves Protections for LGBT Community

​The Richmond Height City Council last night approved an ordinance providing discrimination protection for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered residents. The measure passed by a vote of 6-2, making Richmond Heights the fifth city in the region to offer such protection. St. Louis, Clayton, Oli ... More >>

This Weekend, Catch Live Music at...Schnucks?

The check out at the Schnucks in Richmond Heights is a gridlock six carts deep and ten lanes wide. The soundtrack is a chorus of bar-code beeps. But if you walk away from the registers, toward the expansive produce section, the mood shifts. The lights are softer, the ceiling higher and what you hear ... More >>

Year of the Dragon

Get Low

Storm Shutters Richmond Heights Restaurants [Updated]

​Big Bend Boulevard has reopened south of Clayton Road in Richmond Heights, but utility crews remain on the scene, repairing damage from Sunday's severe storms. Those storms have forced at least two area restaurants to close temporarily.Pointer's (1023 South Big Bend Boulevard; 314-644-2000) remai ... More >>

What St. Louis Is Stockpiling for Snowpocalypse 2011

​If you stopped by the Schnucks in Richmond Heights between noon and one o'clock today, hoping to find milk, eggs and bread before Snowpocalypse 2011 descends upon us in a fury of snow, ice and wind...you were in luck, actually. From what I could see, all three staples were fairly well stocked, th ... More >>

Get Up in Dem Guts

Richmond Heights Wants to Become "Tourist Destination" -- by Taxing the Hell Out of Tourists

Admit it: You'd pay ungodly tax rates to vacation here.​With a tax rate on hotel rooms of 15.67 percent, the suburb of Richmond Heights already has one of the higher hotel tax rates in the nation -- higher than such tourist meccas as San Francisco and New York City, the St. Louis Business Journal ... More >>

Review Preview: Fozzie's Sandwich Emporium

Jennifer SilverbergThe "Just Beet It" salad at Fozzie's Sandwich Emporium​This week I visit Fozzie's Sandwich Emporium, a small new Richmond Heights restaurant that serves sandwiches (of course), burgers, hot dogs, salads and more. Join me after the jump for a sneak preview of my review.

Fozzie's Sandwich Emporium Now Open

Ian Froeb​George Mahe first reported on Feast (the blog) that the awesomely named Fozzie's Sandwich Emporium has opened at 1170 South Big Bend Boulevard in Richmond Heights. The small free-standing building -- formerly a Chinese restaurant, thoroughly renovated -- includes some outdoor seating and ... More >>

Where Do Old Nuns Go When Their Convent Shuts Down?

Image sourceMaybe retired nuns get to sit in the sun all day and drink piña coladas like this sister.​Do you send them to an old nuns' home? Isn't that what most convents are turning into these days anyway? In the case of the Franciscan Sisters of Mercy who live in St. Mary of the Angels Con ... More >>

The End Is Nigh

FoodWire: St. Louis Bread Co./Panera Bread Announces It'll Make Calorie-Counting A Cinch

​Direct from Richmond Heights headquarters today: Panera Bread says it'll be posting calorie counts on all the menus at its company-owned Panera Breads and St. Louis Bread Cos. by April 2010. The hometown baker says it expects the franchise-operated outlets to do the same by the end of 2010. "We a ... More >>

Highway 40 to Open December 7

Interstate 64, a.k.a. Highway 40, will open December 7 -- a month before the deadline to complete the massive rebuilding of the roadwayAt a press conference this morning near the intersection of Hanley Road and the highway, Missouri Department of Transportation (MODOT) director Pete Rahn said the pr ... More >>

Forty Files: Highway 40 Photo Documentary, Vol. 9

Here's the latest picture in my occasional photo documentary on the Highway 40 construction. Follow the jump at the bottom of this post to compare yesterday's pic with one from last week. Also, discover the real reason I take these photos!The view Thursday, August 20, from the Boland Place overpass ... More >>

Forty Files: Highway 40 Photo Documentary, Vol. 8

"This project is moving along great, and that's because of the Labor Union and all the organized trades that have all played their part." Wait a second! That's the radio ad for the labor union! I've been brainwashed. Could it be because the radio spot runs every ten minutes during Cardinals games!? ... More >>

Developer Has Big Goaaal! in Mind in Richmond Heights

​A firm called Gateway Real Estate Partners has proposed building a $395-million soccer stadium and mixed-use development in Richmond Heights. The 18,000-seat stadium and related development would sit south of Highway 40 and east of Hanley Road on the land that was to house the failed Hadley Towns ... More >>

Forty Files: Highway 40 Photo Documentary, Vol. 7

Wow. We forget to take a photo for one week (one stinking week!) and all of the sudden there's a highway. (Or, part of a highway at least.)​As you can see from the last photo we took on July 24 (viewable after the jump), a lot of progress has been made on the Highway 40 rebuild in the past few day ... More >>

Forty Files: Highway 40 Photo Documentary, Vol. 6

What's going on with the Highway 40 construction? Glad you asked. As you can see from this photo captured late last week in Richmond Heights, construction crews are still pushing a lot of dirt around. That said, the project is actually beginning to look like a road. ​Comparing this photo with one ... More >>

Forty Files: We Have Sound Walls and Gravel and No Big Bend Bridge

What's going on with the Highway 40 reconstruction, you ask? Well, it's been several weeks since we updated our photo-log of the highway project, and as you can see from the picture below everything is moving along swimmingly. In this shot from June 5, it appears they're working on installing a soun ... More >>

Friday Filler -- Fill Dirt, That Is

So, it's been a few weeks since we updated our ongoing photo documentary on Highway 40 re-construction. Here's the scene today in Richmond Heights as viewed from the Boland Place overpass looking east toward Big Bend Boulevard. As you can see from the photo below, the crew has moved a few dirt piles ... More >>

Bye-Bye Highway 40, Hello Highway Dirty

It's been a week since RFT uber-blogger Chad Garrison posted this photo of the dirt rut formerly known as Highway 40 (shot from the newly finished Boland Place overpass in Richmond Heights.) The shot looks directly east, toward Big Bend Boulevard.As you can see from the photo below, not much has cha ... More >>

Cheap, Cheap, Fun, Fun

Affordable clothes make for a good time

Scenes from Election Day: The Heights in Richmond Heights, St. Louis County

Photo: A Sticky Election Poll, Vote with Your Gum

Out-of-control shoplifting at the St. Louis Galleria. Violent attacks in the Delmar Loop. Is MetroLink a vehicle for crime?

The Boulevard at Sunset

Eat, drink and donate

Lighten Up, Dennis: Readers want Dennis Brown to rejoin the rank of the commoners

Going Ratty

Fairy Thee Well

Go! 10/5-10/7

Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid

B Cool

Fashion Forward

What's Hotter than Hott? Torrid.

Sugar and Spice

Can even make shopping today nice

Easy Street

Best Way to Blow Your Low-Carb Diet

The Pointersaurus Challenge

Rat Times at Richmond Heights

Has the MetroLink expansion unearthed a rodent invasion?

Best Basketball Court

Chaney Elementary School

The Health (Club) Menace

Competition is healthy for the marketplace -- except when the government tips the scales

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.