Today is shaping up to be a Black Monday, of sorts, for the St. Louis restaurant scene: Sauce reports, and I can now confirm, that the Natural Fact Deli in Webster Groves has closed. A sign on the front door thanks the restaurants' customers.
A couple other restaurant closings of which some of you might have already heard. Still working to confirm those before I report, but stay tuned.
- Ian Froeb
Update (1/16/09 5:15 p.m.): The shooter has been identified and charged. According to the Post, Ryan H. Miller, 31, of the 3900 block of Jamieson Avenue in St. Louis, has been charged with felony discharge of a firearm at a building, felony first-degree property damage and misdemeanor property damage. There's a pretty active comments thread under way at ksdk.com.The Post-Dispatch reports that an unidentified man fired multiple shots at Llywelyn's Pub in Webster Groves (17 West Moody Avenue) last
Robin Wheeler writes for the blog Poppy Mom. She also has a strange attraction to drinking establishments with jars of pickled -- or possibly fossilized -- eggs. She reports on these dives for Gut Check every Friday.No, the Dive Bomber didn't get confused and visit the popular Webster Groves sports bar. This Weber's is tucked behind the new Billy Goat Chip Company on Macklind at Loughborough. I visited Weber's with my friends Deborah and Larry on a March Madness night. So of course the televise
The Public High League once dominated the local gridiron scene, and suburban districts were perennial doormats. Now it's the other way around. Ever wonder why?
flickr.com/sterlinglupine​For nearly three weeks, a pantless man in a black four-door sedan with silver streaks (or stripes) running down its side has been on the prowl in Webster Groves.
The most recent incident took place Wednesday, October 28, at the corner of Fairview and Cornelia, when an eighth grader at Hixson Middle School was approached by a man who asked her directions to Elm Avenue, a major north-south thoroughfare in Webster.
The student quickly ran away when she
