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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Sunday, January 6th, 2008
Amy Zupanci, current employee of Niche but native of Edwardsville, IL, is planning to open a fine dining restaurant around Main Street in Edwardsville later this year.
With my frequent trips across the river I'd heard rumor of this previously, but the Edwardsville Intelligencer has now confirmed it with this article.
It's ...
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
If you didn't look at the bottom of that Erato menu I posted, they're having a Spanish Wine Dinner on November 28th. Here are more details as reprinted from their event card:
7:30 November 28th
Featuring the wines of America premier Spanish importer Jorge Ordonez and the culinary creations of Chef ...
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Monday, November 5th, 2007
So it's time to round out the 222 Artisan Bakery free ad campaign with the obligatory comments on the open house. If you were hoping for pictures, well that's just too bad. I didn't take any. You should have gone.
I merely sampled, enjoyed, and was quickly blown ...
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Monday, November 5th, 2007
Ian seems to like it, Bonwich felt mostly the same, and Sauce gave their chef an awfully nice write up/interview. Add to that the suggestions by Wayno on Chowhound and Matt at 222, and at last, so as to break up my apparent love letters ...
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Friday, November 2nd, 2007
If you're unfamiliar, let me tell you a quick story -- at least as I understand it:
A man meets a woman in San Francisco. They both go to baking school. They fall in love and move to Seattle to follow their joint-love of coffee. Then, tired of being in ...
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