Each month, we scour the city for the best version of a single dish. Be it French fries or foie gras, Buffalo wings or BLTs, we report which three spots are dishing up St. Louis’ best – and exactly what we loved about them. But who says we have to pick just three? Our writers taste dozens of these delicious dishes before they pick the three best and, let’s face it, you can never have too much of a very good thing. Every month on Extra Sauce, our Short List writer will reveal whose version of the dish came oh-so close to making the top three but fell just shy of taking home a medal. In this month’s Short List, Sauce contributor Rebecca Pastor found who served up the city’s best crab cakes. See who made the cut here. And whose did she slide into the fourth place slot? Find out in this month’s Extra Sauce.
Photo by Ashley Gieseking
This article appears in Oct 1-31, 2010.