Sunset Hills

The 9 Best Bike Shops in St. Louis

The weather right now screams for bike rides: Gone is the face-melting heat, gone is that freak cold snap from last weekend. So, stash your car keys in the junk drawer, lace up your shoes, and get to one of St. Louis' nine best bike shops listed below (in no particular order). And for more great ... More >>

Vianney, Rosati-Kain Win National Recognition for Academics. WTF?!?

As a former Jr. Billiken of St. Louis University High School, it hurts my blue-and-white heart to type these words. But the Cardinal Newman Society in Virginia has released its 2012 Catholic High School Honor Roll Top 50. Not a single St. Louis institution made the Top 50, but two got special recogn ... More >>

Trattoria Toscana Relocating West on Gravois

Reminder: You have until Monday to nominate your choice for St. Louis' most underrated Italian restaurant. If I were to make a nomination, one place I'd definitely consider would be cozy Trattoria Toscana (9416 Gravois Road, south St. Louis County; 314-631-4321). Now comes word from Joe Bonwich of t ... More >>

Q: What do you call a restaurant-winery combo in Chesterfield? A: Tame old tame old.

Ten Best Food Events This Weekend: March 2-4

Friday (Mar. 2): Canvas, Cocktails 'n More @ South Broadway Art Project Bring your own drinks and snacks, and enjoy an art workshop that focuses on winter and spring trees in paintings and drawings. $25 per person. 7:30 p.m. Saturday (Mar. 3): St. Louis Garden Blitz @ Missouri Botanical Garden C ... More >>

Emails from Speed Camera Vendor Demonstrate Persistent Salesmanship

​Arnold councilwoman Doris Borgelt doesn't know what to make of the emails sent to her from John Baine, co-founder of the somewhat controversial speed-camera company B&W Sensors. On the annoying spectrum, the electronic messages seem to fall somewhere between Viagra deals and spam emails to jo ... More >>

Señoritas Pique in Sunset Hills Closed

​Señoritas Pique inside the Quality Inn at 3730 South Lindbergh Boulevard in Sunset Hills has closed. The Mexican restaurant, a spinoff of Señor Pique in Ballwin, opened in late 2010.Señor Pique manager Jennifer Jimenez confirms the news to Gut Check. "The restaurant was doing good," she says, ... More >>

Suspects Charged in Sunset Hills Home Invasion

Joshua Hammett and Todd McCubbins held a woman captive as they robbed her home, according to police.​St. Louis County prosecuting this morning charged Joshua J. Hammett, 35, of the 6500 block of Morganford Street in St. Louis, and Todd M. McCubbins, 36, of the 3700 block of Blow Street in St. Lou ... More >>

September 2011 Openings & Closings

Ian Froeb​In what has become a trend, September was a busy month for openings, including Tucci & Fresta's Trattoria & Bar, a higher-end restaurant from the founders of the Pasta House Co., and the highly anticipated, members-only Blood & Sand.Oddly, it was also a busy month for restaur ... More >>

In Honor of St. Louis Craft Beer Week, Gut Check Plans to Launch Our Own Brew

Image viaSt. Louis Craft Beer Week offers lots and lots of fancy-pants brew-centric events.​Call us crazy, but sometimes Gut Check International HQ misses the good ol' days when Anheuser-Busch drove this city like a team of clydesdales and you could actually buy a Busch beer at the stadium tha ... More >>

Helen Fitzgerald's Steve Buncher: Featured Bartender of the Week

Welcome to Girl Walks into a Bar, a weekly Gut Check feature that spotlights local bars and bartenders. This week Katie Moulton profiles Helen Fitzgerald's bar manager Steve Buncher. Below is a Q&A with Buncher, followed by the recipe for his "Triple S" shot. Katie Moulton​ When Girl Walks In ... More >>

St. Louis Gets $550,000 in Aid for Bike and Pedestrian Trails

​Governor Jay Nixon was in St. Louis yesterday to announce that the region would soon receive more than $550,000 in federal grants to build and improve its trail system for bicyclists and pedestrians. The money comes via the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, which applied for, and was awar ... More >>

Chips and Salsa Off the Old Block: A Visit to Señoritas Pique

Ian FroebTacos al pastor, with a side of papas picositas, at Señoritas Pique​A Mexican restaurant attached to a Quality Inn in Sunset Hills? The prospect might seem daunting, but what if I told you it's a sibling of one of the area's better Mexican restaurants, Señor Pique in Ballwin?Does that m ... More >>

Help Sunset Hills Tornado Victims, Enjoy a Tropical Moose Waffle

Image via​Looking for a way to help the victims of the New Year's Eve tornado that struck Sunset Hills? Bring a monetary donation to the Grantwood Village town hall tomorrow (January 8) between noon to 3 p.m. The snow-cone wizards from Tropical Moose will be on hand with "Walkaway Waffles" -- name ... More >>

Ass Clowns Off to Rollicking Start in 2011; Vote For Yours Today!

​Oh, my. Where to begin? 2011 is just seven-days-old and we're having trouble narrowing down the field for this week's Ass Clown. Must've been something in that $6.99 bottle of Asti Spumante on New Year's Eve that has everyone acting the fool.  Here, then, are the candidates who bubbled their ... More >>

Family Charged with Looting from Tornado Victims

Introducing the front runners for this week's Ass Clown competition:Omer, Elvis and Hajro Ferhatovic​Yesterday prosecutors charged the Ferhatovic family, father Omer, 52, and brothers Elvis, 25, and Hajro, 22, with looting from homes destroyed following last Friday's tornadoes.

Sunset Hills Tornado Won't Stop Massage Envy (w/ Pics!)

courtesy of Massage Envy A photo of tornado damage, taken by employees of the Sunset Hills Massage Envy.​On Friday, when a tornado hit Sunset Hills and other south county suburbs, the Massage Envy franchise on Lindbergh Road was not spared.The place suffered more than 25 holes in the roof, ... More >>

Nine Confirmed Tornadoes Touch Down Near St. Louis New Year's Eve

crh.noaa.gov​The National Weather Service has confirmed that nine twisters struck ground in and around St. Louis around mid-day December 31. The tornadoes destroyed several homes in Robertsville and Sunset Hills. In St. Louis an EF-1 twister with winds between 80 and 100 m.p.h. carved a path (righ ... More >>

Growlers Pub Closes Creve Coeur Location

Mike Sweeney had the scoop on STL Hops this morning: Growlers Pub has closed its original location at 763 Old Ballas Road in Creve Coeur. An employee at the Sunset Hills location, which remains open, confirmed the closure. The Creve Coeur Growlers opened in 1996. All things considered, a run of four ... More >>

5 Questions with B&W Sensors' John Baine -- The Guy Behind Those Danged Speed Cameras

​His company has been compared to acne and derided as nothing more than a money grab. Still, these are heady times for John Baine, co-founder of Sunset Hills-based B&W Sensors. Just last week yet another St. Louis suburb announced that it would use his company's controversial speed cameras to ... More >>

Cool Valley Latest North County Suburb to Employ Speed Cameras

Updated 4:50 p.m. Speeders on South Florissant Road in Cool Valley beware. The city announced today that they'll soon become the fourth north St. Louis County 'burb to employ controversial speed cameras. "We have three schools, a great deal of pedestrian traffic on South Florissant, and w ... More >>

From Iceland, With Joy

Arizona, Traffic Surveillance Capital of America, To End Speed Cameras; Will Missouri Follow?

redflex.com​Here's an interesting story out of Arizona, home of the two biggest photo-enforcement firms operating in the United States in Redflex and American Traffic Solutions. (ATS is the company that operates red-light camera tickets in St. Louis and most other municipalities in Missouri.)Last ... More >>

The Morning Brew: Friday, 8.7

Nepal faces a severe food shortage. (AFP)Burger King apologizes after a Sunset Hills franchises kicks out a family with a shoeless baby. (AP)From the people who brought you Bacon Salt, it's bacon-flavored lip balm. (Uncrate.com)

Storied Future

Monday, March 23, Morning's Newz

The Post-Dispatch reports that one of two survivors in that grisly car crash Saturday in Des Peres is being told that he's in the hospital because he fell down a flight of stairs. The man's family and friends fear that the reality of the situation -- that his fiance and three friends perished in the ... More >>

William Stage is "Fool for Life"

Former RFT scribe William Stage is out with a new work of fiction titled Fool for Life. The novel chronicles the life of a St. Louis process server and freelance writer in search of both love and the parents who put him up for adoption fifty years ago. In other words, this fictional tale very much p ... More >>

Drink of the Week:
Bomb Pop Martini

O'Leary's
3828 South Lindbergh Boulevard
Sunset Hills
314-842-7678

Go! 9/14-9/16

Laumeier, After Dark

Salute the Dynasty

Go! 3/23-3/25

St. Patrick's Day Column

Country Life

LOMA merges art and music under the stars

Bye, Summer

So sad to see you go

Garden State

Many gardens, four tours

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Week of June 15, 2005

Letters

Week of June 8, 2005

St. Louis in Verse

Instead of in chorus

Best Beer Selection in a Bar

Growlers Pub

Sounds Around Town

Week of July 21, 2004

Sounds Around Town

Week of March 10, 2004

Sounds Around Town

Week of January 28, 2004

Sounds Around Town

Week of October 29, 2003

Sounds Around Town

Week of October 8, 2003

The Conquest of Clayton

Luciano's Trattoria marks another delicious victory for the Del Pietro restaurant empire

Hard Hat

Week of May 28, 2003

Best Outdoor Graffiti

Mary Miss' Abandoned Pool Installation

Hangin' Out

Revisiting the '70s at South County's Note Bar

Developing Situations

The following TIF projects have been approved by St. Louis County municipalities, according to the St. Louis County Department of Planning.