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kanafeh from afandi sweets & cafe Credit: michelle volansky

To go along with our Best New Restaurants of 2021 list, here are some of the local dishes we’re still thinking about long after we ate them.

Meera Nagarajan, executive editor Roasted pumpkin with green curry – Indo Cauliflower tacos – Fresh Gatherings Vegetable kebab – Sultan Mediterranean Restaurant Aloo gobi – Copper Chimney

 Liz Wolfson,  managing editor Spring vegetable soup – Root Food + Wine Baklava with pistachios – Afandi Sweets & Cafe Prosciutto di parma with peaches – Louie

onion rings from perennial on lockwood Credit: izaiah johnson

Lauren Healey, digital editor
Charred cabbage salad – Elmwood
Burrata pizza – Noto Italian Restaurant
Kale salad with chicken thigh and sauteed mushrooms – Planter’s House

Adam Rothbarth, staff writer
Squash blossom machete – Fonda La Poblanita
Onion rings – Perennial on Lockwood
Sampler platter – Chez Ali

Michelle Volansky, senior designer
Kanafeh – Afandi Sweets & Cafe
Roasted sawara – Indo

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Meera began working at Sauce in 2008 and is responsible for the design of Sauce Magazine. She has a masters in journalism with an emphasis in magazine design from Mizzou and she has a habit of hoarding...

Lauren is a longtime journalist who has honed her writing, reporting, editing and photography skills in various roles at newspapers, magazines and websites in the Midwest. Her time spent with Sauce since...

Michelle is a graduate of the Illustration program at Missouri State University and spends her non-Sauce time on freelance illustration projects, painting her nails and day drinking. Michelle is starry-eyed...