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On a recent visit to the Kitchen Kulture booth at Tower Grove Farmers’ Market, I chatted with Chris Meyer, who mentioned their upcoming Preservation Dinner Series at The Fortune Teller Bar on Cherokee Street. As Meyer described the dinners’ concept so that I might pass along the information to you, my inner Gollum reared its ugly head, thinking, “No sharing—my precious.”
If you’ve been to their booth (menu below) or one of Meyer’s and Mike Miller’s brunches at Sump Coffee,
Humo—“smoke” in Spanish—will be the first of the three dinners in the series. Sal (salt) and Vinagre (vinegar) will follow. Each dinner, according to Meyer, will have an “underlying theme or region.” Humo’s focus, for example, will be southern since “the South is America’s compass for smoked and cured food.”
Paired with beers yet to be determined, the first dinner will make use of The Fortune Teller Bar’s “funky feel,” Meyer explained, and offer an additional challenge since the space lacks a kitchen. Another element of local “cross fertilization,” as she called it, is the fact that muslin napkins with four different patterns will be part of the place settings. Even better, those napkins, created by Amanda Gray-Swain’s Sprouted Designs, can go home with diners.
If all of that isn’t enough to convince you to attend one of the dinners, consider that your presence on Cherokee Street, which was recently rocked by an isolated incident of domestic violence, will show that you, like the tight-knit community surrounding The Fortune Teller Bar, support great things happening in the city.
Humo is Monday, July 1, at 7 PM (the bar opens at 6 PM) and costs $65 per person, including 4 beer pairings. Call (314) 277-3881 for reservations.
