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Planter’s House co-owners Ted Charak (left), Jamie Kilgore (center) and Ted Kilgore (right) toast the pending opening of their new bar.
The bar will offer a variety of single-serving original and classic cocktails, as well as large format cocktails like punch bowls and bottled cocktails. Planter’s House also has a wine list, and its beer taps feature local brews. The food menu is divided into small bites (Nosh), entrees (Satiate) and desserts (Indulge). Helming the kitchen is Bradley Hoffmann, former executive chef at the now-defunct Salt. Leslie Gillette, Salt’s former pastry chef, is sous chef at Planter’s House.
A view of the main bar area at Planter’s House.
Co-owner Jaime Kilgore decorated the back room at Planter’s House, called the Bullock Room. The room pays homage to St. Louisan Tom Bullock, an African-American bartender at the St. Louis Country Club at the turn of the 19th century and the author of a cocktail book called The Ideal Bartender.
Voissey of Reason, named in honor of widely known Hendrick’s Gin ambassador Charlotte Voissey, is a festive drink with its pink hue and frothy cap of egg white foam.
Bramble On is a sweet and smoky combination of chipotle-infused mezcal, Byrrh (an aperitif), mulberry syrup, lime juice and pimento bitters. All syrups and shrubs are made in-house, along with some cordials. “Everything is house-made except tonic water,” said co-owner Ted Charak. For that, the bartenders are using a newly released tonic syrup by local distiller Pinckney Bend.
Planter’s House uses specially made ice by local ice-carving company Ice Visions for its highballs and Collins drinks. Pictured here is the Dutchtown Collins that uses long, rectangular-shaped ice that keeps cold a combination of Bols Genever, a nectarine shrub, black pepper syrup and club soda.
Planter’s House has a selection of nearly 40 bourbons. The Old…But Still in Fashion holds Old Fitzgerald Bottled-in-Bond bourbon.

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