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First Look: The Organic Cave, the Paleo Diet-Based Bakery

Gluten-free and paleo bakeries have finally reached "flyover country." The Organic Cave (3323-1 Domain Street, St. Charles, MO 63301), located in St. Charles County, is a gluten-, grain-, GMO-, soy- and dairy/casein-free bakery that uses no processed sugars. Even without these items, the bakery is s ... More >>

Ten Best Food Events This Weekend: Nov. 9-11

Friday (Nov. 9): ARTstravaganza Moonlight Opening Reception @ the St. Louis Artists' Guild Enjoy a wine tasting and hors d'oeuvres during the opening evening of this weekend juried art show of fine, folk and fun artwork. Free. 5 p.m. 25th Anniversary @ Hank's Cheesecakes To celebrate Hank's 25th A ... More >>

Strange Bedfellows Agree: TIFs for Whole Foods and Mercedes-Benz Are Absurd

It's no surprise that Rex Sinquefield's Show-Me Institute opposes the granting of tax increment financing (TIFs) to developers who want to build a Whole Foods store in the Central West End and a Mercedes dealership just south of Forest Park. To them, these are an offensive and unnecessary handouts. ... More >>

Report: Whole Foods Market to Open in Central West End [Updated]

In January, Gut Check passed along the whispers we heard that Whole Foods Market was contemplating a third area location, this one possibly within the City of St. Louis, to join its existing stores in Brentwood (1601 South Brentwood Boulevard; 314-968-7744) and Town & Country (1160 Town and Country ... More >>

Ten Best Food Events This Weekend: Aug. 24-26

Friday (Aug. 24): Murder in Maybury! @ Maggiano's Little Italy A three-course family-style dinner and two drinks get accompanied by a murder mystery. Call 314-824-2402 for reservations. 6:30 p.m. 8th Annual Downtown Restaurant Week @ Downtown St. Louis Choose from twenty downtown restaurants that ... More >>

Treat Your Mama

Ten Best Food Events This Weekend: February 24-26

Saturday (Feb. 25): Winter Farmers Market @ Schlafly Bottleworks Schlafly hosts its monthly winter farmers market featuring a list of vendors that might include 4 Seasons Baked Goods, Marcoot Jersey Creamery, Ozark Forest Mushroom and more. Free admission. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Spring Seed and Tool Sw ... More >>

More Whole Foods for St. Louis?

You want to keep a secret? Don't breathe a word of it inside Whole Foods Market (1601 South Brentwood Boulevard, Brentwood; 314-968-7744). The Brentwood store in particular is so terribly laid out and so perpetually packed that you can't mutter about the cost of certifiably sustainable salmon witho ... More >>

The St. Louis Food Lover's Gift Guide: Culinary Classes

Image viaClass is in session at the Kitchen Conservatory​With a little planning and a couple of cocktails the holidays can go down smoother than a pint of spiked egg nog. Gut Check's assembled a series of guides to help find the perfect present for the food lover in your life while maintaining ... More >>

Where to Shop for Last-Minute Groceries on Thanksgiving

​It's almost certainly happened to you -- likely more than once.You've begun your preparations for Thanksgiving dinner, your relatives are inbound, and you suddenly realize that you're out of milk or butter or, God help you, turkey.OK, we're not sure anyone can help you find a (not-frozen) turkey ... More >>

Reine Bayoc of SweetArt Bakeshop, Part 2

This is part two of Emily Wasserman's Chef's Choice profile of chef Reine Bayoc of SweetArt. To read part one, click here. Part three, a recipe from Bayoc, will be posted tomorrow.Chrissy WilmesBayoc with some of SweetArt's baked treats​Did your family cook when you were a child? Yes, my mothe ... More >>

Ten Best Food Events this Weekend: May 20-22

Egan O'KeefeA scene from 2009's Taste of Maplewood​The weather forecast for the weekend may be full of storms and gloom, but forget about it! There's plenty of booze, food and tunes to keep everyone out of the house. Take, for instance, the Missouri Brewfest in Westport or the 30th Annual Fine ... More >>

Greenpeace Releases New Seafood Scorecard for Supermarkets

Image viaOrange roughy, a species singled out for protection by Greenpeace​Greenpeace has released its latest report on the sustainable-seafood efforts of major supermarkets.The bad news is that none of the major chains scored over 70 points on the 100-point scale, the mark for being considered a ... More >>

Arby's Flash Mob Turns Spontaneous Joy Into Marketing

Ah, Corporate America. Once again you've taken something good and pure, created by the people, and turned it into a bland advertisement for bad food. Last week a well-choreographed flash mob infested Times Square to do a "spontaneous" dance routine to an Arby's commercial broadcast on a giant scre ... More >>

Wingding: Readers discuss our dinner-party experiment

What happens when you take the same shopping list to four very different markets? An RFT food experiment.

St. Louis Teapartier Gina Loudon Wants You to BUYcott Stuff Associated With Arizona

Image viaLocal Tea Partier Gina Loudon on The Daily Showa few months ago.​From the uber-conservative local lady that brought you the Buycott of Whole Foods last fall (then went on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to chat about it): The St. Louis Tea Party's Gina Loudon is showing solidarity with Ar ... More >>

Walmart Is Evil After All!

Image sourceDavid Warner and Kristine Cortese, owners of City Feed and Supply, with their son.​Several weeks ago, Gut Check regurgitated (ahem!) news of a food experiment conducted by Corby Kummer, The Atlantic's food writer. Kummer had chefs at an Austin restaurant prepare two identical meals ... More >>

Jonathan Franzen's New Novel (and Oprah-Snubbing?) Due Out in September

courtesy Farrar, Straus and GirouxPlease, oh please let not the presence of the bird mean this will be as awful as Franzen's New Yorker essay about birdwatching. Thank you.​Webster Groves native Jonathan Franzen's first novel since 2001's The Corrections will be out this September. Titled Freedom, ... More >>

St. Louis Buycotters Featured on The Daily Show

The Daily Show correspondent Wyatt Cenac spent some QT in Town & Country earlier this fall, hanging with the Whole Foods buycotters/teapartyers. Bill Hennessy and Gina Loudon, among others, get featured in the final cut:  The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cWhole Foods Boyco ... More >>

St. Louisan Looking for Cheap Health Care Ends Up In Mexico

toddalbert.comChina may be cheaper, but Mexico is closer...​Ahh, it's a beautiful sunny day and all is well and good in the anti-health-care heartland that is St. Louis. It seems like just yesterday that a few ass clowns were inciting a near-riot at a town hall meeting on health care and today com ... More >>

More Cheese, Please

Burrito? Valentine? Done and Done!

Want a hot guy with your free burrito? Get in line.It may have escaped your notice amid all the excitement over the Lincoln and Darwin Bicentennials, but Valentine's Day is nigh. (Or, as we like to call it here at Gut Check, Amateur Night.) But what if you don't have a valentine yet?Don't despair, l ... More >>

The Morning Brew: Friday, 1.30

In today's news: a trade dispute over Roquefort, the food crisis in Zimbabwe and much more.

The Bear Market: Costco Take-N-Bake Pizza

We could pretend that going to the supermarket is a new kind of adventure now that times are tight. Shopping trips become infinitely more exciting when you add the element of mental calculation. It's almost like going on The Price is Right, except without Bob Barker. How much food can you get for 2 ... More >>

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Grecian Formula

Three new restaurants make up a minor Greek invasion -- and two are definitely worth visiting

Buffalo Bill's Orange Blossom Cream Ale

Wild Oats Market, 8823 Ladue Road, Ladue; 314-721-8004

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Week of March 23, 2005

Farmers' All Natural Creamery Non-Homogenized Grade A Organic 2% Milk

Hartford Coffee Company, 3974 Hartford Street, 314-771-5282

Cappuccino

Backyard, south city, 8:30 a.m.

Art House Movies

Contemporary gets a silver screen

If You Could Trade Places With Anyone for a Day, Who Would You Choose?

Week of February 4, 2004

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Borsao 2001 Red Wine

Viviano's Italian Grocer, 5139 Shaw Avenue, 314-771-5476

Do You Believe There's a Guardian Angel Watching Over You?

Week of December 25, 2002

Bread

St. Louis Bread Co.

What's the Last Thing You Mooched Off Someone?

Week of December 12, 2001