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Kitchen Q&A: Family Matters

Kitchen Q&A: Family Matters

Lester’s “other” Miller moves on.

Kitchen Q&A: Jorge and Nori Calvo

Kitchen Q&A: Jorge and Nori Calvo

It takes two to Mango.

What We Talk About When We Talk About Wine

What We Talk About When We Talk About Wine

An amateur wine enthusiast’s report of facts, figures, opinions, and advice from three weeks spent talking about nothing but wine with a dozen St. Louis oenophiles

Liquid Assets: Cellaring Wines

Liquid Assets: Cellaring Wines

It’s the age-old question: Down it or store it?

Rose Revisits: Dressel’s Public House

Rose Revisits: Dressel’s Public House

In the midst of restaurant closings, this one expands.

Review: In the Shadow of The Pageant…

Review: In the Shadow of The Pageant…

A stellar addition to the east Loop

First Look: The Terrace View

First Look: The Terrace View

The Buzz: Ring of Fire

The Buzz: Ring of Fire

The annual National Kidney Foundation Chili Cook-Off and Salsa Competition is not merely a destination for culinary adventurers.

Kitchen Q&A: Eliott Harris

Kitchen Q&A: Eliott Harris

Miso on Meramec becomes “less scene and more cuisine.”

The Best Small-Plate Dining in St. Louis

The Best Small-Plate Dining in St. Louis

15 Reasons the Entrée Should Be Scared

Ins, Outs, and Almosts: August 2009

As of Mid-June Press Date

Liquid Assets: Summer Cocktail Trio

Liquid Assets: Summer Cocktail Trio

A classic, an offshoot, and an upstart

Frugal Foodie: The Bleeding Deacon

Frugal Foodie: The Bleeding Deacon

Don't judge a book by its cover ... or a restaurant by its cavalier name.

Review: Il Bel Lago

Review: Il Bel Lago

Pull in for the copies at Kinko’s; stay for the pollo involtini next door.

First Look: Chuy Arzola's

First Look: Chuy Arzola's

Liquid Assets: Summer Cocktail Trio Recipes

A classic, an offshoot, and an upstart

Kitchen Q&A: Dana Holland

Kitchen Q&A: Dana Holland

Is Babalu’s Snack Shack a sign of the times or the next new thing?

Liquid Assets: Thirsting for Wine Knowledge?

Learning the ABC’s of summer whites

Rose Revisits: Riddles Penultimate Café & Wine Bar

Rose Revisits: Riddles Penultimate Café & Wine Bar

The Loop mainstay is still just short of "ultimate" status

Review: Niche: Carving Its Own...

Review: Niche: Carving Its Own...

Creativity sets Sidney Street’s “other” café apart from the crowd. (Maybe that’s why it’s so impossibly crowded.)

First Look: Bar Oliver

First Look: Bar Oliver

Turns out Richmond Heights’ newest restaurant opened in late April.

Kitchen Q&A: Tony and Kelli Almond

Kitchen Q&A: Tony and Kelli Almond

Almond’s Restaurant is an anomaly. Its owners are hoping that word translates into Spanish.

Cheap Eats ’09

Cheap Eats ’09

How to eat like a king on the pay of a pauper? Simple: Get to know these 35 people, places, items, and trends that make St. Louis a bargain-dining dynamo.

Review: Triumph Grill

Review: Triumph Grill

Get your motor—and your appetite—runnin’.

Frugal Foodie: Vegadeli

Frugal Foodie: Vegadeli

A vegan “deli”? And it’s in Chesterfield?

Ins, Outs, and Almosts: June 2009

As of Mid-April Press Date

First Look: Jade

First Look: Jade

Kitchen Q&A: Greg Maggi

Kitchen Q&A: Greg Maggi

Life after Pujols, popovers, and small plates

The Buzz: The Brew Ha Ha

The Buzz: The Brew Ha Ha

What’s your St. Louis Brew I.Q.?

Liquid Assets: Wine Essentials 2.0

Liquid Assets: Wine Essentials 2.0

How to enjoy—really enjoy—your next bottle

Ins, Outs, and Almosts: May 2009

As of late-March press time

Liquid Assets: So Long Chardonnay, Hello Sauvignon Blanc

Liquid Assets: So Long Chardonnay, Hello Sauvignon Blanc

There's a lot to love about lychee.

Restaurant Round-Up: Lumiere's Other Tables

Restaurant Round-Up: Lumiere's Other Tables

Burger Bar, Asia, House of Savoy, and The Kitchen Buffet and Bistro

Review: BC's Kitchen

Review: BC's Kitchen

No need for the acronym, Mr. Cardwell - your name should be in capital letters.

First Look: Sammy's Beach Bar and Grill

First Look: Sammy's Beach Bar and Grill

He’s the suntanned, guitar-playing, island-shirt–wearing, sexagenarian rock star and restaurateur whose success in both businesses is somewhat attributable to the margarita

Kitchen Q&A: Pepe Kehm

Kitchen Q&A: Pepe Kehm

His spaghetteria sizzled, his fusion fizzled… dare we ask what’s next?

Liquid Assets: The Return of Absinthe

Liquid Assets: The Return of Absinthe

It’s no hallucination—the green fairy is back.

Review: SLeeK

Review: SLeeK

Truth in nomenclature at Lumière Place

Frugal Foodie: Bobo Noodle House

Frugal Foodie: Bobo Noodle House

Zoe Robinson’s Bobo is anything but so-so.

First Look: McCormick & Schmick’s

First Look: McCormick & Schmick’s

Give me carte blanche and a million dollars and what kind of restaurant would I open in St. Louis? Easy: a seafood place.

Kitchen Q&A: Greg Perez

Kitchen Q&A: Greg Perez

No one can think it up, talk it up, and then make it happen better than Greg Perez.

Frugal Foodie: Local Harvest Café and Catering

Frugal Foodie: Local Harvest Café and Catering

The best chef in the world, to me, is the one who, when you are hungry, is close by and willing. So everybody, meet Clara Moore, general manager and chef at Local Harvest Café.

Liquid Assets: Whisky, Back in the Saddle Again

Liquid Assets: Whisky, Back in the Saddle Again

In the Old West, whiskey was served in the bottle and garnished with a glass. Now, any bartender worth his Celtic-salt–rimmed glass is referred to as a “mixologist.”

Review: Napoli2

Review: Napoli2

A repeat or a reinvention? A little of each, thank you

First Look: Andria's Steak House

First Look: Andria's Steak House

One word will spell success for restaurants in 2009. It has little to do with prix fixe or coupons or 2-for-1s. Or early bird specials or kids-eat-free. The word is value.

Get Your Bourbon On!

Get Your Bourbon On!

Delicious bourbon drink recipes from this month's Liquid Assets column.

Ins, Outs, and Almosts

Ins, Outs, and Almosts

Restaurant closings, openings, moves, and other updates

Kitchen Q&A: Jorge Carvalho

Kitchen Q&A: Jorge Carvalho

The executive chef and manager of the CWE's Coco Locou Brasil shares some of his wackiness with SLM.

The 30 Best Dishes in St. Louis

The 30 Best Dishes in St. Louis

Table of Contents (February 2009)

Kitchen Q&A: Dave Owens and Margaret Kelly

Kitchen Q&A: Dave Owens and Margaret Kelly

Chef Favorites

Chef Favorites

A sidebar to The 30 Best Dishes in St. Louis

Ins, Outs and Almosts

As of Late-December Press Time

Liquid Assets: Happy Together

Liquid Assets: Happy Together

Does a certain food truly get you in the mood? And even if it does, is it cause and effect … or just wishful thinking?

Frugal Foodie: Deluxe Fine Food & Spirits

Frugal Foodie: Deluxe Fine Food & Spirits

Get hip, cats and kittens, to a brand-new scene. You rockabilly kids will think it’s peachy keen. It’s called Deluxe, only sets ya back a few bucks. Ain’t nothin’ real “fine” about this...

First Look: Gio’s Ristorante and Bar

First Look: Gio’s Ristorante and Bar

To open a restaurant anytime requires vision and commitment. To do so in a recession—especially after a highway closure—requires steely confidence.

Review: Herbie’s Vintage 72

Review: Herbie’s Vintage 72

Balaban’s becomes Herbie’s, and a classic is reborn

Kitchen Q&A: Paul Poe

Kitchen Q&A: Paul Poe

Liquid Assets: The Next Cult Cabernets

Liquid Assets: The Next Cult Cabernets

The phenomenon of the “cult cabernet” first emerged in Napa Valley in the early ’90s, when several ultra-small production cabs hit the market.

Frugal Foodie: Mi Ranchito

Frugal Foodie: Mi Ranchito

There are as many items on the menu at Mi Ranchito as there are people in Mexico. If you don’t find that joke very clever, rest assured that there is, in fact, nothing funny about the size of Mi...

First Look: Napoli 2

First Look: Napoli 2

magine you are the owner of one of the city’s most successful Italian restaurants and are offered the proverbial deal you can’t refuse for your long-anticipated second location.

Review: Luciano’s Trattoria

Review: Luciano’s Trattoria

With The Crescent bustling, this one’s back on the radar

Frugal Foodie: The U

Frugal Foodie: The U

We are now a city of pancetta at 3 a.m

Liquid Assets: Bubbles on the Brain

Liquid Assets: Bubbles on the Brain

Despite their increasing popularity, sparkling wines—what I call “bubbles”—are still reserved mostly for special occasions.

First Look: Triumph Grill

First Look: Triumph Grill

While it’s true this restaurant has a motorcycle theme, resist any temptation to prejudge it. Like its namesake motorcycle, Triumph is handsome, classy and cool.

Review: Revival

Review: Revival

A one-word response to Revival? Hallelujah!

Kitchen Q&A: Patricia Corrigan

Kitchen Q&A: Patricia Corrigan

Liquid Assets: Thanksgiving Wines

Liquid Assets: Thanksgiving Wines

What to drink on Turkey Day

Frugal Foodie: Everest Café and Bar

Frugal Foodie: Everest Café and Bar

If they ever decide to spin off an Extreme Makeover: Restaurant Edition series from that Ty Pennington show, St. Louis’ own Everest Café and Bar could serve as a pretty great template for how to...

First Look: Mia Rosa

First Look: Mia Rosa

Fifteen years ago, when tapas were virtually an unknown, I invited a friend to a new “tapas bar” (which, naturally, led him to believe we were heading across the river).

Review: Cielo

Review: Cielo

The Four Seasons’ sole restaurant hits the stratosphere

Kitchen Q&A: Kirk Warner

Kitchen Q&A: Kirk Warner

The 35 Best Restaurants in St. Louis — And One Restaurant of the Year

The 35 Best Restaurants in St. Louis — And One Restaurant of the Year

The best? It depends. The best place to announce the million-dollar contract you just got for your published memoirs isn't the same place you'd celebrate the removal of your ex-beloved's...

Liquid Assets: 55 Is Alive!

Liquid Assets: 55 Is Alive!

Heading south can be a good thing when it comes to wine

Frugal Foodie: Pam's Chicago Style Dogs & More

Frugal Foodie: Pam's Chicago Style Dogs & More

If you look very closely, you can see Chicago here in the tiniest—you might even say most obsessive—of details.

First Look: Tani Sushi Bistro

First Look: Tani Sushi Bistro

The popularity of sushi is easy to explain, but the density of local sushi restaurants is not.

Review: The Shaved Duck

Review: The Shaved Duck

Dispute the name? You might. Dispute the food? You won’t

The Green Restaurant Scene

The Green Restaurant Scene

You’ve heard of white-tablecloth restaurants? There’s a new color in town, and it’s challenging and transforming the dining industry

Prix Fixer Upper

The revival of prix fixe—and six other local restaurant survival tactics

Kitchen Q&A: Josh Allen

Kitchen Q&A: Josh Allen

Kitchen Q&A: Christopher Lee

Kitchen Q&A: Christopher Lee

First Look: The Stable

First Look: The Stable

In the restaurant industry, it always helps to have a hook. In the case of The Stable, it’s a treble hook—restaurant, microbrewery and distillery.

Review: Amigos Cantina

Review: Amigos Cantina

Kirkwood’s first cantina hits the piñata dead on

Frugal Foodie: Mattingly Brewing Company

Frugal Foodie: Mattingly Brewing Company

Call Mattingly Brewing Company a big-tent pub and bistro.

Kitchen Q&A: Bill Cardwell

Kitchen Q&A: Bill Cardwell

Frugal Foodie - Pi and Katie's Pizza

Frugal Foodie - Pi and Katie's Pizza

Review - Scape

Review - Scape

A destination bistro in the CWE? Seems like old times

First Look - Winslow's Home

First Look - Winslow's Home

Liquid Assets - Summer Beers

Liquid Assets - Summer Beers

A Refresher Course

Kitchen Q&A: Brett Eisen

Kitchen Q&A: Brett Eisen

First Look - Fu Manchu

First Look - Fu Manchu

Liquid Assets - Rosé

Liquid Assets - Rosé

Not just for Frenchmen anymore

Review - Off The Vine

Review - Off The Vine

Does St. Louis really need another bistro? If it's as good as this South City spot, then the answer is yes

Frugal Foodie - Mamacita's

Frugal Foodie - Mamacita's

Kitchen Q&A: Christina Machamer

Kitchen Q&A: Christina Machamer

Christina Machamer dished to SLM during Week 2 of FOX-TV's Hell's Kitchen

Frugal Foodie - Tip Top Food & Spirits

Frugal Foodie - Tip Top Food & Spirits

It's a bar and grill that couldn't exist anywhere but Soulard

Liquid Assets - New Season, New Wine

Liquid Assets - New Season, New Wine

Summer wine ... and the livin' is easy

Review - Tsunami

Review - Tsunami

Sushi is more creative than authentic, but this West County spot's attempt at Pan-Asian cuisine is one of the best in town

First Look - The Fountain on Locust

First Look - The Fountain on Locust

Could it be this generation's Crown Candy Kitchen?

Drafting Philanthropists

Drafting Philanthropists

What to taste when you tap into spring's headiest charitable event