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The Ten Best Food Events in St. Louis This Weekend: March 8 to 10

If you fly 30,000 oysters in from the Pacific coast, they will come. We imagine those were the sort of thoughts the folks at Schlafly had when planning their first stout and oyster festival. Help them make their shellfish dreams come true but checking out their event and more this weekend. Friday ... More >>

10 Most Offensive, Ridiculous "Sad Desk Lunch" Photos

The mission of Sad Desk Lunch is stated simply on its website: Sad Desk Lunch isn't about how great your lunch is. And it's not about how crappy your lunch is either. It's about the fact you eat your lunch at your desk during your lunch break where you could roam free ....Eating our sad tupperware ... More >>

Whole Foods Market Signs Lease for Central West End Store

We learned last fall that the St. Louis area was almost certain to receive a third location of Whole Foods Market -- and the first within the city limits. Specifically, we learned that Mills Properties reportedly had a letter of intent from Whole Foods to open in the ground floor of a new building a ... More >>

Ten Best Food Events This Weekend: Oct. 26-28

Friday (Oct. 26): South Grand Creepy Crawl @ participating South Grand restaurants Enjoy drink specials and entertainment at a number of favorite South Grand watering holes. Start with select martini and beer specials set to a villainous theme at Absolutli Goosed, drop sake bombs at Sekisui in a s ... More >>

Ten Best Food Events This Weekend: April 27-29

Friday (Apr. 27): Third Annual Green Ball @ Moonrise Hotel This annual event to reinforce sustainability initiatives features an open bar with local beer and wine, locally sourced cuisine, a green fashion contest and live entertainment. $60 per person. Tickets available at the door. 7 to 11 p.m. ... More >>

Readers' Thoughts on Whole Foods Rumors

​The mere rumor of a third Whole Foods Market for the St. Louis area, this one possibly located within the city limits -- rumors that weren't exactly quashed by Whole Foods' curiously phrased denial -- definitely sparked the interest of Gut Check readers and passers-by.The original post has 39 com ... More >>

Ten Best Food Events this Weekend: July 8-10

City of Maplewood​ Friday (July 8): Let Them Eat Art @ Historic Downtown Maplewood Maplewood's tribute to Bastille Day features 50 venues including Schlafly Bottleworks, Acero, Water Street Cafe and Cocktail Bar full of artists, entertainers and musicians. Have your art and eat out, too! 6 to ... More >>

Today is Whole Foods' Community Support Day

Image via​Each year, the Brentwood and Town & Country Whole Foods locations have a meeting to review applications and discuss which local organizations should be chosen as beneficiaries for the stores' quarterly Community Support Days. On these days, 5 percent of both stores' total proceeds ... More >>

This Week in Gut Check, Regurgitated

Bryan Peters​Gut Check ate some great stuff this week. We tried the fried ribs at the now-defunct Bigg Daddy's, the Brown Bread Ice Cream at Tigin Irish Pub, Ronnie's Strawberry Sorbet at the Fire and Ice Cream Truck and lunched on the Aspen from Kayak's Coffee. What else did we do this week ... More >>

A Rap Tribute to the Whole Foods Parking Lot

​If there is a center of evil in the St. Louis metro area, it is surely the parking lot of the Whole Foods Market in Brentwood. Enjoy sadomasochism but too shy to join a proper BDSM club? Visit the store on a weekend afternoon.Which is why Gut Check found this video "Whole Foods Parking Lot" by a ... More >>

Whole Foods Introduces Five-Step Agricultural Animal Welfare Rating

Whole FoodsA recent addition to Whole Foods Market patrons' batterie de cuisine in the meat department. Click the pic to download the entire brochure. (Go ahead - the file's only 200K!)​For more than seven years, the Whole Foods Market chain has been working on a program that the company belie ... More >>

Rolf's Patisserie Recall Strikes Local Whole Foods Market Locations

​Monday's Morning Brew mentioned a recall of gingerbread houses made by Rolf's Patisserie of Linconwood, Illinois, and sold at Whole Foods Market because of possible S. aureus (or staph) contaminationIn fact, Whole Foods has issued a broader recall of Rolf's products sold in Missouri, Illinois and ... More >>

Child Nutrition Bill Blocked

When the House voted on the Child Nutrition Bill yesterday, Republicans moved to amend. The Associated Press reports that the amendment to the $4.5 billion bill that would improve the nutritional quality school lunches and provide more free meals to needy kids was blocked by an amendment to require ... More >>

Former Employee of Brentwood Whole Foods Market Alleges Termination for Blowing Whistle on Bad Organic Practices [Updated]

​A former employee of Whole Foods Market in Brentwood claims that she was fired after alerting management of multiple instances in which the produce department had not followed the proper standards for handling organic produce, according to a lawsuit filed last week in St. Louis County Circuit Cou ... More >>

Organization Sues to Get Bluefin Tuna Endangered Species Protection

The Center for Biological Diversity is suing the National Marine Fisheries Service for failing to protect Atlantic bluefin tuna after the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. In a press release the agency states that the species has been threatened by overfishing, with the oil spill endangering br ... More >>

Freddie Holland of Match Foods, Inc.

This is part one of Robin Wheeler's Chef's Choice profile of Freddie Holland of Match Foods, Inc., maker of Match Meats. Part two, a Q&A with Holland, will be posted tomorrow, and part three, a recipe, follows on Friday. Robin Wheeler​"I was raised on a farm. We raised our cows with bottles, ... More >>

Whole Foods Announces Grass-Fed Beef Nationwide, but One Missouri Ranch Has Been Doing it For Years

The cow head represents Doniphan, Missouri, locaton of Rain Crow Ranch, which supplies grass-fed beef to health food mega chain Whole Foods Market.​Whole Foods recently announced all of its more than 280 stores now have grass-fed beef for sale, but grass-fed evangelists who operate one Missouri ra ... More >>

FoodWire: "Buycott" at Whole Foods Tonight

​Whole Foods Market CEO John Mackey penned a Wall Street Journal op-ed calling for the government to stay out of health care. In response, some supporters of President Obama's health-care plan called for a boycott of Whole Foods. Now, the St. Louis Tea Party Coalition is showing its support for Ma ... More >>

Barley and Me

Between Wine and Ale

The Morning Brew: Tuesday, 1.13

In today's news: the FTC vs. Whole Foods, country-of-origin labeling and a close call for some rare lizards.

The Morning Brew: Monday, 11.24

We've just upgraded our blogging software, so if anything looks wonky or doesn't work, please bear with me as I learn what I'm doing! An investigation into allergy warnings and the lack thereof on Whole Foods products. (Chicago Tribune) Unsurprisingly, the current economic downturn is bad news ... More >>

Don't Just Survive, Thrive

Satisfy everyone this holiday season

Oktoberfest, the Natural Way

Drink up!

Please, Please Cheese Me

Fascinating fromage

The Morning Brew: Tuesday, 8.12

The Morning Brew: Wednesday, 8.6

Butt? Of Course.

Matriculating in pork

Beers to Christmas

The Morning Brew: Monday, 10/8

The Morning Brew: Thursday, 9/27

Reminder: "Farmer's Market" Class

To Market!

The Morning Brew: Wednesday, 8/22

The Morning Brew: Monday, 8/20

The Morning Brew: Friday, 8/17

The Morning Brew: Wednesday, 8/15

Don’t Pass on Grass

Small Plates: Thursday, 7/26

Whole Foods CEO Exposed

Small Plates: Friday, 6/8

Small Plates: Thursday, 6/7

Peep This!

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Brentwood

"It is a priority of Whole Foods Market to only use products that meet our strict quality standards."

Week of August 31, 2006

Best Cheese Counter

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Compost This

The Natural Living Expo & Health Fair wants you to feel good

Strike Three

Managers park semis, regulars get crabby and allegations fly

Best Takeout Counter (Grocery Division)

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Side Dish

The new Whole Foods Market is a treasure trove for foodies