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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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
Illinois Times review of Niche from June 12, 2008.
...a riff on a Reuben: rye gnocchi with pickled mustard seeds, horseradish, and house-corned meat. In less skilled hands this could have been a disaster - heavy gnocchi, overpowering condiments - but this was fabulous: light pillows with a distinctive rye taste ...
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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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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Last night, in telling my mother and sister about some of the better things I've eaten recently, the looks of horror on their faces, while not entirely unexpected, were a bit stronger than anticipated as I spoke of offal like tongue, and testicles, and cheek.
My sister did not understand why ...
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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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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these courageous couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.
Of course in the case of Ellie and I we'll call it sleet; and in place of couriers we'll call ourselves diners; and instead of appointed rounds there was ...
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
Joshua Galliano and I had hoped previously we might get some locals nominated for this years James Beard Awards, so it was exicting news when Stephanie (bakemeacake over on the forum) pointed us to yumsugar's post regarding this years long list of James Beard Award nominees.
Up for Best Chef Midwest ...
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Thursday, November 15th, 2007
Joshua Galliano, Executive Chef at An American Place restaurant, posted a call to the St. Louis dining public over on Eat@Joe's that we all go out and register for the James Beard Awards nominations so we can "stuff the open nominations with St. Louis restaurants as a way ...
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Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
Friday we went to Niche on a whim. Nothing to really report there. You know how I feel, and the food was great. The short ribs Ellie had were especially awesome.
What sucked is that we missed the lamb special for the night. I mention it because ...
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