Readers' Choice

2006 Results:

GENERAL CATEGORIES

Favorite Restaurant
Eleven Eleven Mississippi
Sidney Street Café
Harvest Seasonal Market Cuisine and Monarch Restaurant Wine & Bar (tie)
Mosaic Modern Fusion

Place to Impress a Client
Tony's
Eleven Eleven Mississippi
An American Place and Annie Gunn's (tie)
Busch's Grove

Place to Recommend
Eleven Eleven Mississippi
Atlas Restaurant and Modesto (tie)
Monarch Restaurant & Wine Bar
Trattoria Marcella

Place to See and Be Seen
Busch's Grove
Eleven Eleven Mississippi and Lucas Park Grille & Market (tie)
J. Buck's Restaurant
Tony's

Business Lunch
Eleven Eleven Mississippi
Cardwell's at the Plaza
Annie Gunn's and Cardwell's in Clayton (tie)
Mosaic Modern Fusion

Place for a First Date
Sidney Street Café
Baileys' Chocolate Bar
The Boathouse in Forest Park
Cyrano's

Place to Break Up
Lucas Park Grille & Market
Riddle's Penultimate Café & Wine Bar
Tony's
Kaldi's Coffeehouse

New Restaurant
Terrene
Niche
Boogaloo
Aya Sofia and Copia Urban Winery and Market (tie)

Carry-Out
Joanie's To-Go and The Pitted Olive (tie)
House of Wong
Mai Lee Restaurant and Pho Grand Restaurant (tie)
Fat Toney's BBQ and Frazer's (tie)

Place to Go Before a Show
Vito's
Blueberry Hill
Mirasol
Nadoz Café at The Coronado

Ready-to-Heat Meals
Gourmet to Go and The Pitted Olive (tie)
Straub's Markets
Whole Foods Market
The Art of Entertaining

Chef
Brian Hale of Monarch Restaurant & Wine Bar
Grace Dinsmoor of Modesto
Ivy Magruder of Eleven Eleven Mississippi
Andy White of Harvest Seasonal Market Cuisine and Gerard Ford Craft of Niche (tie)

Place to Splurge
Tony's
Sidney Street Café
King Louie's
Monarch Restaurant & Wine Bar

Use of Local Produce
Riddle's Penultimate Café & Wine Bar
Harvest Seasonal Market Cuisine and Schlafly Bottleworks (tie)
Terrene
An American Place

Outdoor Dining
Bar Italia Ristorante and Caffé
John D. McGurk's Irish Pub
The Boathouse in Forest Park
King Louie's and Norton's Café (tie)

Wait Staff
Tony's
Eleven Eleven Mississippi
Monarch Restaurant & Wine Bar and Sidney Street Café (tie)
Juniper Grill

Wine Tasting
The Wine Merchant Ltd.
33 Wine Shop and Tasting Bar
Erato Wine Bar
Remy's Kitchen and Wine Bar

Place to Take Active Little Kids
Fitz's American Grill & Bottling Works
Hartford Coffee Company
The Boathouse in Forest Park
Soda Fountain Square

Place for a Large Group
Eleven Eleven Mississippi
Modesto
Mike Shannon's Steak and Seafood and Monarch Restaurant & Wine Bar (tie)
Kemoll's Italian Restaurant

Wine List
Riddle's Penultimate Café and Wine Bar
Monarch Restaurant & Wine Bar
33 Wine Shop and Tasting Bar
Erato Wine Bar

Winery
Mount Pleasant Winery
Augusta Winery and Montelle Winery (tie)
Stone Hill Winery
Chaumette Vineyards and Winery

Local Brewery
The Saint Louis Brewery, home of Schlafly beers
Trailhead Brewing Co.
Square One Brewery
O'Fallon Brewery

Place for a Nightcap
Baileys' Chocolate Bar
Fox and Hound Tavern
33 Wine Shop and Tasting Bar
Cyrano's

Beer Selection
Growlers Pub
Cicero's
Tin Can Tavern & Grille
Blueberry Hill

Coffee Roaster
Kaldi's Coffee Roasting Co.
Northwest Coffee Roasting Co.
Chauvin Coffee Co.
Hartford Coffee Company and Shaw's Coffee Ltd. (tie)

Butcher
Straub's
Kenrick's Meat Market and Catering
Hanlen's Meat Shoppe and Catering and LeGrand's Meat Market and Catering (tie)
Baumann's Fine Meats

Food Event
Taste of Clayton
Taste of St. Louis
Harvest Festival
Rib America Festival

Caterer
Patty Long Catering
Russo's Gourmet Catering Co.
Bryan Young's Catering Plus and The Butler's Pantry (tie)
Catering St. Louis

Cooking Classes
Kitchen Conservatory
Viking Culinary Arts Center
Whole Foods Market
Dierbergs School of Cooking

Cheese Case
Whole Foods Market
The Wine and Cheese Place
The Wine Merchant
Smoke House Market

CUISINE CATEGORIES

American Cuisine
Eleven Eleven Mississippi
An American Place
Annie Gunn's
Harvest Seasonal Market Cuisine
The Cheesecake Factory

Bar and Grill
Blueberry Hill
O'Connell's Pub
Fast Eddie's Bon-Air and Tin Can Tavern & Grille (tie)
Llywelyn's Pub

Bakery
McArthurs Bakery
Companion Bakehouse and Missouri Baking Co. (tie)
Lubeley's Bakery & Deli, Inc.
Black Bear Bakery

Daily Breakfast
Chris' Pancake and Dining
City Diner
Uncle Bill's Pancake & Dinner House
City Coffeehouse & Creperie

Brunch
Duff's
MoKaBe's
Bristol Bar and Grill
Mélange

Barbeque
Smokin' Al's
Phil's BarBQ
Fat Toney's BBQ
Mama's Coal Pot and Marion's St. Louis Rib Co. (tie)
Bandana's Bar-B-Q

Cajun/Creole
Broadway Oyster Bar
The Gumbo Shop
Norton's Café
Boogaloo

Chinese
House of Wong
Yen Ching
Sesame Chinese Restaurant
LuLu Seafood Restaurant

Cocktails
Absolutli Goosed
The Famous Bar
Baileys' Chocolate Bar and The Royale (tie)
Sub Zero Vodka Bar

Coffeehouse
Kaldi's Coffeehouse
Coffee Cartel and Hartford Coffee Company (tie)
Soulard Coffee Garden and Café
Shaw's Coffee Ltd.

Deli/Kosher
Kopperman's Specialty Food & Delicatessen
Amighetti's Café and Bakery and Mom's Deli (tie)
Pumpernickle's Real Delicatessen
Posh Nosh

Desserts
Cyrano's
Baileys' Chocolate bar
Cravings Gourmet Desserts and The Blue Owl Restaurant and Bakery (tie)
Shaw's Coffee Ltd.

Diner
City Diner
Courtesy Diner
Carl's Drive-In
Eat-Rite Diner

Eastern European/Bosnian
Grbic Restaurant
Bosna Gold
Stari Grad
Taft Street Restaurant & Bar

English/Irish/Scottish
John D. McGurk's Irish Pub and the Scottish Arms (tie)
Llywelyn's Pub
Dressel's
O'Connell's Pub

French
Chez Leon
Cafe Provencal
Atlas Restaurant and Café de France (tie)
Pomme Restaurant

Fusion
Mirasol and Mosaic Modern Fusion (tie)
Monarch Restaurant & Wine Bar
Red Moon
Remy's Kitchen and Wine Bar

Greek
Olympia Kebob House and Taverna
Momos Quzaria Taverna
Spiro's Restaurant
Michael's Bar and Grill

Indian
House of India
India's Rasoi
India Palace
Priyaa Indian Cuisine

Italian
Trattoria Marcella
Cunetto's House of Pasta
LoRusso's Cucina
Mangia Italiano and Zia's Restaurant and Catering Co. (tie)

Mediterranean
Remy's Kitchen and Wine Bar
Aya Sofia
Bar Italia Ristorante & Caffé
Café Natasha's Kabob International

Mexican
Pueblo Solis
Arcelia's Mexican Restaurant
Hacienda Mexican Restaurant
Chimichanga's Mexican Restaurant
Chevy's Fresh Mex

Japanese/Sushi
Wasabi Sushi Bar
Miso and Sekisui (tie)
The Drunken Fish
Nobu's Japanese Restaurant

Middle Eastern
Saleem's Lebanese Cuisine
Café Natasha's Kabob International
Aya Sofia
Simon's Café

Pan-Asian
Zoe Pan-Asian Café
Red Moon
609 Restaurant and Lounge
Sekisui Pacific Rim

Pizza
Blackthorn Pub
Dewey's Pizza
Joanie's Pizzeria and Racanelli's (tie)
Vito's

Seafood
Blue Water Grill
Bristol Bar and Grill
Broadway Oyster Bar
St. Louis Fish Market

Spanish/Latino
Modesto
BARcelona Tapas Restaurant
Mirasol
Guido's Pizzeria & Tapas

Soul Food
Sweetie Pie's
Mama's Coal Pot
Del-Monico Diner
Diner's Delight

Sports Bar
St. Louis Sports Zone
Weber's Front Row
Sportsman's Park Restaurant
Flannery's Pub
Kreiger's - Your Home Town Sports Grill

Tapas/Little Plates
Modesto
BARcelona Tapas Restaurant
Mirasol
Momos Quzaria Taverna and Mosaic Modern Fusion (tie)

Tex Mex
Chuy Arzola's
Hacienda Mexican Restaurant and Nachomama's (tie)
Tejas Grill and Cantina
Salina's Mexican Café
Chevy's Fresh Mex

Thai
King and I Restaurant
Sen Thai Bistro
Thai Country Café
Blue Elephant Royal Tha

Steakhouse
Citizen Kane's
Tucker's Place
Kreis' Restaurant & Bar and Sam's Steakhouse (tie)
Annie Gunn's

Vietnamese
Pho Grand
Lemon Grass
Mai Lee Restaurant
Miss Saigon

Vegetarian
Terrene
MoKaBe's
Cardwell's at the Plaza
King and I Restaurant