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 reveals 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 Shannon Parker found the city’s tastiest onion rings. As always, though, one restaurant’s rings came close to making the top three but – after much tasty decision making – landed in the fourth place slot. Find out this month’s Short List runner-up here.
And don’t forget to check out the Extra Sauce section throughout the month for more recipes, interviews, pictures and video from our November issue!
This article appears in Nov 1-30, 2010.