Like much of St. Louis, we Feasters here have been all a-twitter, trying to keep up with the public comings and goings of Mr. You Know Who, who's in town to make a real Hollywood movie. The kind with fake snow and key grips and it's just ever so exciting. What's really got us jazzed is trying to keep up with the places—and don't tell us you aren’t keeping a list too—where Mr. C hasn't been.
We began our search at the renowned Lucky House Chinese and Mexican Cuisine, in Maryland Heights. You may know it as one of the few places where you can get General Tso's Chicken and a darned tasty taco salad. We hang there because they let us order some Fujian specialties that're off the menu and (trust us), from our culinary perspective, off the hook as well. We thought Jorge would have become a regular. Nope.
"Who he?" asked the woman behind the counter. "Hey! He's not the guy who called for a take-out order last night and then didn't show up, is he?" We said we didn't think so. The man who made Return of the Killer Tomatoes the cinema classic it is doesn't seem like the kind who'd stiff a take-out Chinese-Mexican joint. But just in case, George, if you're reading this and you've got a hankering for white bean chili and potstickers: tip generously.
Next we checked at the Chipotle over on Olive off Craig Road, where the football-sized vegetarian burrito manages to deliver enough smoky chipotle sauce-soaked calories than are consumed in a week by some African nations. Delicious. Turns out the girls working there were pretty buzzed over the fact that the Insanely Handsome Actor had yet to put in an appearance there and told us all about it: "He doesn’t seem stuck up at all. When he doesn’t come in here he acts just like any other typical person who doesn’t come in here. The way he behaves, you’d never guess he’s really the same person who turned the role of ‘Village Extra’ in the TV mini-series spectacular Centennial into the emotional tour de force it was."
Finally, we stopped by La Pasadita, a grand little Mexican eatery in Overland where, like all the other vatos, we're regularly crowding the seats on weekends for the incredibly savory menudo. This has got to be a natural watering hole for a guy like this, we thought, a screen legend who embodied all the glamour and glitz of Tinseltown back in '87, first on Murder, She Wrote, then on Golden Girls. So we were fascinated when they told us: No ha estado aqui. And then we think they either told us to marry the washing machine or to get out of the way of the soccer match that was on the TV there. Our Spanish isn't all that great.
Anyway, that's one of the many things that are so attractive to us about St. Louis. You hang out in the right places, and it's really refreshing the people you won't see. -- Celeste "Tipper"Vanderbilt, Society Editor
