Archive for the ‘Illinois’ Category
Friday, June 27th, 2008
Not to be confused with the famous version, at Erato on Main last night, while Kevin Willmann was away at the STL Mag A-List awards claiming his Reason to Take a Drive victory, sous chef Jon Olson was serving up Gulf Pompano en Papillote with shaved fennel, local baby onions, ...
Posted in Illinois, chefs, restaurants | 4 Comments »
Friday, June 13th, 2008
This weekend at Erato on Main Kevin Willmann is trying to win some sort of Kona Kampachi contest and will be serving what he once called "assuming fish with unassuming fish." At least he called it that to me.
Not a fan of the duo overall "because one always upstages ...
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
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Wednesday
This week at Maplewood Farmers' Market I made it in time to be one of those people that swept the Our Garden strawberries out from everyone. As I approached the booth there were ten pints and by the time I left the booth there was one. ...
Posted in Illinois, St. Louis, farmers' markets, missouri | 6 Comments »
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
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With the sun shining last week,the Maplewood Farmers' Market migrated over to their usual spot and with it a few more vendors arrived.
Though The Root Cellar was still slinging the most in the way of lettuces, herbs, and the new addition of radishes, Claverach made their first ...
Posted in Illinois, St. Louis, farmers' markets, missouri | 4 Comments »
Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Blake Brokaw, the guy that once upon a time brought us St. Louis favorite Tangerine, is overseeing the menu at a new restaurant/lounge in Belleville called Seven.
Located at 7 South High Street, Belleville, IL, 62229 they'll be firing up the burners for the first time tonight to unleash their menu ...
Posted in Illinois, restaurants | 12 Comments »
Monday, April 7th, 2008
If you've not been paying attention, with three trips in nine days, and probably a dozen so far this year, stlbites has much love for Erato on Main and their entire staff.
But as much as we like the staff it's Kevin Wilmann's daily changing menu of whatever looks freshest that ...
Posted in Illinois, chefs | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
In the CMS that I use for stlbites I can see what people were inputing into search engines before they chose to right click their way on in.
Surprisingly, one of the most searched terms is "clover coffee machine" and as such one of my most viewed posts is the one ...
Posted in Illinois, coffee, general food | 5 Comments »
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
[flickr align="right" style="padding-left: 10px;"]photo:2226152172(small)[/flickr]Former Edwardsvillian Webdesigner Bill Klingensmith of myDarndest was recently in town and made some updates to the Goshen Coffee/222 Artisan Bakery website in the form of adding a blog.
The first post went up last week, and for the high-rolling wanna-be-baker, Matt Herren and 222's new(ish) head baker ...
Posted in Illinois, cooking, events | 1 Comment »
Thursday, February 21st, 2008
This just in from the Local Harvest newsletter...
Tomorrow Only (i.e Friday, February 22 from 8am until 7pm) Local Harvest will have baked goods from 222 Artisan Bakery.
For those of you that just won't believe me when I say that 222 is worth the journey to Edwardsville you get a one ...
Posted in Illinois, groceries | 1 Comment »
Sunday, February 10th, 2008
SCAA Midwest Reginonal Barista Competition Round 1 Day 2 that is...
I'm not yet styling a DSLR like some of the other photo snappers I saw (McCracken), so while I'm sure some better shots will come out of the weekend, what I lack in quality I make up for in swiftness ...
Posted in Illinois, coffee, general food | 6 Comments »
