From the Vault: Flaco’s Tacos
Feb 9, 2010 St. Louis, menus, missouri, restaurants
Although I’ve slacked a bit in recent years, for the meals outside of St. Louis, I have the vast majority of every restaurant menu I’ve ever eaten from over about the last 12 years. Or at least that’s what I thought. As it turns out, that must be a recent thing because I apparently used to keep them from St. Louis too. Tonight’s find amongst a stack of assorted menus from the mid to late nineties, filed next to a two-year run of clipped Post Dispatch Patricia Corrigan reviews in which you can read again and again that quantity apparently trumps quality, I spotted the Holy Grail of shuttered St. Louis restaurant menus: Flaco’s Taco
Three shots at glory are yours, after the jump…
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Tags: Flaco's Tacos
A Slow Taste of Tuscany @ Onesto November, 18
Nov 11, 2009 St. Louis, chefs, events, menus, missouri, restaurants, slow food, sustainable agriculture
A Slow Taste of Tuscany
St. Louis, MO / November 10, 2009 / www.slowfoodstl.org/sfstl_tuscan_dinner.pdf – Wednesday, November 18, 2009, join Slow Food St. Louis and Welcome Books as they team up with Onesto Pizza & Trattoria to present a celebration and special dinner commemorating the release of Welcome Books’ new book: SLOW: LIFE IN A TUSCAN TOWN.
In the spirit of The Oxford Project and American Farmer, SLOW: LIFE IN A TUSCAN TOWN, by Douglas Gayeton, is a magical and utterly unique portrayal of rural Italian life, and a tribute to the region’s kaleidoscope of charming local characters whose livelihoods and shared culture center on the growing, preparing, eating, and everyday pleasures of food. Gayeton’s imaginative and interactive portraits are layered with handwritten notes, anecdotes, recipes, quotes, historical facts and sayings that cleverly bring context and color to the subject of each sepia toned image. The book also features a preface written by Slow Food International founder, Carlo Petrini, and an introduction by notable Slow Food USA member, Alice Waters.
With support from Zagat, in celebration of the book’s release, Welcome Books has contacted leaders of Slow Food and other sustainable food organizations nationwide to host dinners across North America.
As Slow Food St. Louis co-leader, Bill Burge said, “When Welcome Books contacted me about finding a local Italian restaurant doing things ‘Slow’, Vito was the first person I thought of. Every Wednesday we see him hounding the best farmers at the Maplewood Farmers’’ Market to source the finest products he can for his customers. He obviously feels it’s the right thing to do, and we couldn’t be more pleased to have the opportunity to have teamed up with Vito and Michele.”
The dinner will feature
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Tags: Michele Racanelli, Onesto, Slow Food St. Louis, Slow: Life in a Tuscan Town, Vito Racanelli, Welcome Books, zagat
Event: Farmers’ Dinner at Atlas, August 31
Aug 6, 2009 St. Louis, farming, menus, missouri, restaurants, sustainable agriculture, wine
If you’re not already signed up for the August 31 Iron Chef Battle Royale at Kitchen Conservatory where my friend (or is that soon to be former friend?) Chuck Friedhoff and I pit ourselves against the ass-trouncing duo of Monarch’s Josh Galliano and Sidney Street Cafe’s Kevin Nashan, you should consider heading on over to Atlas where owners Michael Roberts and Jean Donnelly will once again host their annual Farmers’ Dinner (which I sadly keep missing every year).
Though it is subject to change, the menu is after the jump.
Tags: Atlas Restaurant, Wine Dinner
taste. by niche
Jul 20, 2009 St. Louis, chefs, menus, missouri, restaurants
Niche Taste Bar is, without question, the hippest thing that has ever opened in St. Louis.
Tags: Gerard Craft, Niche, Niche Taste Bar, Taste
Oh where, oh where is the Katie’s Pizzeria website?
Mar 6, 2008 menus, restaurants
I commented on this briefly before, and I’d always meant to write a post about it in more detail, but now I don’t have to because Ann Lemmons took care of it in her commentary on restaurant websites on KWMU.
These days, restaurants need web sites. Fewer people are reading newspapers and magazines, but diners need to get their information from somewhere. Especially for younger people, that “somewhere” is usually the internet.
Lots of restaurants have web sites. The good ones can be very informative. The others, well, they can provoke frustration, and do more harm than good. Restaurateurs need to think about what potential customers need to know.
Enter the newest offender: Katie’s Pizzeria.
Everyone’s talking about it; theres’s a nice write up in Sauce; but try as I might, I can not find a website for this restaurant.
Lucky for you I scanned the menu.
As for my brief thoughts on Katie’s as I obviously went there…
I was there during the day so I can’t comment on the movies everyone seems to mention, but the atmosphere was nice and laid back.
I really dig their bar of mixed wood strips which reminds me of an ambitious 8th grade shop class project. Along with the other unstained and quickly built counters and shelves the restaurant has a definite shabby chic sort of vibe, but the ceiling lamps, which are sort of a 60s mod style, help tip the scales a little more towards chic.
Prosciutto Sliced Apple and Brie pizza is the only one I’ve tried so far so I can’t really comment in detail about the food. The crust is sort of a free-form flat bread style pizza and it is thin–though not St. Louis thin. Mine was slightly crisp and it appeared some where cooked a bit more than mine which probably resulted in a still more crunch.
I’ve never had brie on pizza and it should have been an obvious choice because it melts so well and resulted in a nice creaminess. Being the dominant flavor, however, I did wish for a little more salty prosciutto and tart apple to cut through the brie as it was a bit on the cheesy-weezy side of things.
That’s not to say I didn’t enjoy it though, I just felt like it was missing something that would have taken it from being a really good pizza to a really great one. Arugula maybe?
I’m looking forward to sampling the rest of their pies in the coming months, and although I didn’t take any pictures other than the one out front, here is one Katie’s review at Respublica, and a second at St. Louis Eats and Drinks. Both have pictures.
From the mountains of Panama and Ethiopia, to the urban-jungles of Portland and Chicago, journalist Michaele Weissman takes us behind the scenes for a look at the world of third-wave specialty coffee. How did we get to Starbucks, and where we go from here?