It’s a Short Trip to Big Flavor: Menus stay fresh with produce from local fields
When you’re cooking fresh, colorful meals, there’s a lot to be said for a tomato that ripened on the vine instead of on a truck from California. If it comes from a St. Louis tomato patch, it might well wind up on a local restaurant table with other fruits and vegetables from the metropolitan area.…
He Said / She Said: Dennis and Emily crunch through the best fried chicken
Fried chicken – and all of its crispy, greasy, artery-clogging goodness – takes us back to our childhood. For some reason or another, it vanished from our adult lives, only to be replaced by inevitably bland and overcooked grilled chicken breast sandwiches. E: Luckily, as food-savvy adults we understand that anything can be enjoyed in…
Mess up the gravy, and your turkey’s cooked
Thanksgiving 2004 is sure to go down as the most catastrophic in Usher family history, and like it or not, I accept complete responsibility: The menu (all six courses) was my design; I insisted on cooking everything (including the cranberry sauce and two other condiments); and the meal was at my house (in a brand-new…
Hungering to Do Without: Spirits stay high during the 30-day Ramadan fast
At sundown each night for most of October, thousands of people across St. Louis will eat dates and milk. These will be the first things to cross their lips since dawn. They’ve been fasting during daylight hours since Sept. 24, when Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, began. They’ll keep it up until…
Review: Bar Louie in St. Louis
GAL’S PERSPECTIVE First off, Bar Louie in the Central West End has come a long way from the dingy space that used to contain M.P. O’Reilly’s. It has been sanitized, spruced up and somehow purged of the smell of college-girl throw-up. The newly renovated space flows much better and provides enough light to finally be…
Review: Pujols 5 Westport Grill in St. Louis
I have always had trepidations regarding celebrity restaurants. More often than not, they seem designed to cash in on fleeting fame for a quick buck with contrived spaces and generic, low-cost (read: low-quality) food. Did anyone have a good meal at Planet Hollywood? I doubt it, and if people say they enjoyed the food at…
Beefalo Teriyaki Steak
4 servings
