St. Louis Food Lovers (original) (raw)
Mon, Jan. 19th, 2009, 03:48 pm
fancychopstix: Restaurant Recommendation
I need a quick restaurant recommendation for dining in the city, price is not a concern but a high-quality food and service experience is.
Tue, Apr. 22nd, 2008, 12:43 pm
cpt_babypants: Good food/beer/conversation
Hey St. Louisans! I have a kind of specific restaurant request. My friends and I have a sort of drinking/discussion group that meets fairly regularly. We usually meet on Friday nights. Because we enjoy drinking and conversation we need not just a good beer menu but a place that doesn't get too loud in the evenings. A reasonably central location would be good since we are spread out all over the area as well. The atmosphere should be pretty casual. We are definitely not a dress up kind of group. Any suggestions would be much appreciated. TIA.
Wed, Dec. 5th, 2007, 12:32 pm
cpt_babypants: Blackberry Cafe
If you work or live in the Clayton area, I highly recommend the Blackberry Cafe on Forsyth next to the metrolink station. I have eaten there two days in a row (I am out here for training). The first day I had a spicy tuna wrap which was excellent. And today I had the soup and salad combo with chicken tortilla soup. Originally I had stopped in for a gyro but everything else sounded so good I had to try it. I may still get my gyro when I'm back monday for more training.
The service is very friendly. It is run by the owner and his wife. If it's your first time in he'll happily tell you all about the place and it's specialities. Also, Wash U employees get a discount!
Thu, Jul. 27th, 2006, 11:23 am
museum_mile: Peruvian Restaurants.
Do any of you know of any Peruvian Restaurants? Do you have any kind of review-type responses for it? Or addresses/websites?
Thanks.
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stlouis
Mon, Apr. 24th, 2006, 09:58 am
My friends and I went out to Wasabi in Clayton Saturday night. It wasn't until after we'd gotten there and picked up an RFT we realized we were eating at the #1 sushi place in St. Louis. We got a Philadelphia roll, Crazy Roll and a Shogun Roll along with a couple of other individual pieces of bluefin, eel and salmon. It was fabulous. I think any food is made better by being served on a little boat. All rolls are served with a salad and an order of Miso soup. The salad wasn't that great but the miso was nice. We also split some warm sake between us. My only two complaints were the service was a little rushed since we came in near closing. Our server came up to us twice in a 15 second period to ask if we were ready to order. Also, I was a little rusty with the chopsticks, which is really more on me than them. Excellent food. I can see why they were voted number one.
On a slightly related note. I now want to visit many of the places in the 2006 restaurant guide from the RFT. My birthday is coming up in a couple weeks. I wonder where I can convince my friends to take me. Maybe Cunetto's? Iron Barley? Pueblo Solis?
On another slightly related note. I didn't know we had an El Burrito Loco (voted #1 burrito) in St. Louis. I ate at the one in Atlanta a couple of years ago. The burritos are HUGE and they have such a great variety of burritos beyond the standeard Chicken/Steak/Ground Beef/Veggie combo most mexican places have. If they are as good as their southern counterpart, I highly recommend them.
x-posted to my own journal.
Wed, Mar. 29th, 2006, 11:47 am
cpt_babypants: Farmer's Markets
Are there any good farmers markets in the NoCo area. I'd love to shop at one more often but I hate driving to clayton or soulard to do it.
Thu, Feb. 16th, 2006, 09:25 am
Last night
mangledpuppies and I went to Kitchen K for dinner. We got rockstar parking, which was awesome. The space is big, but comfy. It manages to be modern and cool-looking, but not offputting. And it's fun to see the working kitchen.
We did start with a couple of missteps, though. The boy's water glass had something in it, and it took a bit to get a fresh one. Then after getting our bottle of wine, his wineglass smelled a bit like wet dog. This was fairly quickly rectified, and the waiter had even replaced the wine in a greater amount than we lost. After this everything went pretty darn well.
Our wine was a 2003 Bogle Petite Sirah. I find the whole presentation of the wine to be a bit ostentatious and nerdy, particularly when the waiter is shaky pouring the wine. But we did it, and the wine was nice--drinkable and pleasant, but no stand-out. We started with the Maryland Crab Cakes, which had tons of crab, a few vegetables, and virtually no filler. Very good, especially with the sweet potato/lobster bisque that was served as a sauce.
For dinner the boy had a ribeye with mushroom/lentil ragout and broccolini. The steak was cooked to medium-rare perfection, so tender and tasty and beautifully complimented by the full-bodied ragout (where they snuck in some sort of sausage, which you'd think they might declare on the menu considering some people's dietary restrictions). I had duck breast with sweet potatoes and broccolini. The duck was quite lovely--all medium and moist and yummy. The ancho/ginger glaze and the sweetness of the potatoes set off the richness quite well. It would have been nice had we not both gotten broccolini (seems like laziness in the kitchen), but it is good so I won't complain too much.
We both got chocolate desserts (there were no other options, not even a fruity one). He had a dark chocolate bread pudding, and I got a chocolate flourless cake. These are my two all-time favourite desserts, except for the part where I prefer my bread pudding to be not-chocolate. However, this was pretty darn good, especially in conjunction with my rich, fudgy cake. These were accompanied by a basic black coffee, which was probably the best choice given the amount of wine we drank.
(crossposted to my own journal, of course)
Tue, Jan. 31st, 2006, 09:50 am
The boy and I got to Red Moon a few minutes early, so we sat at the bar. There were those tasty good styrofoam style chips in paper cones, along with spicy mustard, in place of bar nuts. These were amazing. He got a glass of pinot noir, I had some Malbec. Both were decent enough wines, good for sipping and enjoying the atmosphere. The place was lowlit, but not so much that you couldn't see anything. I'd call it the perfect level. Everything was red and textured and beautiful, somehow modern and clean as well as feeling a bit street and gritty. I adored it.
When the next couple arrived, we got our table. There we had some seeded flat bread with a strange Asian-style black bean spread, the texture of tapenade. This was much less successful than the chips and mustard at the bar, but not so bad as to be gross. The last members finally showed up, so we got to ordering. W got a bottle of delicious syrah that the boy and I helped him drink. The table pretty much shared everything, so I'm just going to make a list of what I tasted (and remembered, as I was a bit tipsy by the end of the meal).
All in all, I'd have to say that I give the place two thumbs up. Our server, Chad, was very knowledgeable about the wine list and attentive without being annoying. These are all good things. Particularly when we're going to be going back for dinner soon.