Thursday, July 31st, 2008
What a busy day for St. Louis restaurant gossip...
The buzz on this one is unfortunately not true. Via email Gerard Craft said "we looked at it but that is definitely a no go and was more than a month a ago."
Lots of hopeful fingers can uncross for now.
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
From the same source as the Andy White news I'd also heard that Brian Hale was parting ways with Monarch on less than savory terms. As I didn't think that was the case, I just got off the phone with Hale who confirmed that the parting of ways is ...
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
This is why you want to buy tickets for Art of Food
222 Artisan Bakery / Goshen Coffee - Debbie Sultan / Matt Herren
222 Artisan breads in roll form: bacon, brioche, and sun dried tomato olive and feta
Goshen-roasted Costa Rican pour-over drip coffee
Bailey's Chocolate Bar / Rooster – Robin ...
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
you would be at Mad Art Gallery this Saturday for Slow Food St. Louis's annual fund raiser, The Art of Food.
Full event details are at artoffood.org though what you'll really want to know is who the chefs are:
Debbie Sultan & Matt Herren - 222 Artisan Bakery and Goshen Coffee
Joshua Galliano ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
The folks over at ToastedRav.com threw up a new Raiding the Kitchen for Niche and what did Gerard Craft offer them as Recipe of the Day?
Slow Roasted Pork Cheek.
Here's to a run on local pork cheeks.
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
The opening Iron-Chef-style battle at Clayton Farmers' Market has pulled the stops for the initial judging...
Clayton Farmer's Market on Saturday, June 28th at Straub's will be the scene of a star-studded Iron Chef competition. Celebrity judges are: Gerard Craft Chef/Owner of Niche (featured in this month's Food &Wine), ...
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Monday, June 9th, 2008
Where can you get good food on a Monday?
It's a great question with few answers. But later this month the list will get another notch when Niche starts serving seven days a week.
June 16th is the day I've heard tossed around but I'm not sure if it was stone-set ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Maybe you were wondering why Niche updated their website recently adding that snappy flash intro, and a bunch of new cook and staff bios, and that awesome picture of Gerard and Mathew that says more than words ever could about their friendship and generosity.
Well, wonder no more because while the ...
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Judith Evans made a brief, but nice, blog post about the Chef's Garden event held over the weekend on her Recipe Exchange blog on stltoday.com.
If you don't know, Chef's Garden, utilizing a term coined by Joel Salatin, is a Beyond Organic purveyor of Micro Greens, Micro Herbs, and Specialty ...
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Sunday, March 2nd, 2008
There is a fantastic article in this month's Sauce Magazine about a Chef's Round table discussion with Catherine Neville and five prominent restaurateurs in various stages of their St. Louis careers--two old-timers (Bill Cardwell, Zoë Robinson), one mid-timer (Jim Fiala), and two relative new comers (Larry Forgione, Gerard Craft).
Everyone should ...
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