Heads Up: St. Louis Cooking News
Apr 3, 2008 MO, St. Louis, chefs
More national attention for upcoming St. Louis cooks this time by way of another great Joe Bonwich article about Brett Eisen. Eisen a Senior at Parkway Central is traveling to Miami next week where he will be vieing for a Johnson & Wales University National High School Chef of the Year award as one of nine finalists.
Tags: Brett Eisen, Joe Bonwich, Johnson & Wales, Post Dispatch
Hop Alley?
Mar 31, 2008 MO, St. Louis, general food
Sorry, Bill, I can’t get behind this one.
I forget which but there is one ballpark that has a small public field on the lot outside the stadium. As anything is better than a pile of mud, they could easily erect something like that for the time being so that things look a little nicer on that stretch of downtown. I’m sure it would cost next to nothing.
And yes, it is food related. There is food at the stadium is there not?
Thank you Bill McClellan
Mar 29, 2008 general food, restaurants
Spot on McClellan column discussing Ballpark Village and how “the tax breaks are going to go to the out-of-town developer who is working with the out-of-town owners of the Cardinals to give large chain restaurants an advantage over locally owned restaurants.”
No, Bill, it is not a good thing.
Balaban’s Closing and Joe Bonwich
Jan 31, 2008 restaurants
In today’s Post Dispatch there is an article Joe Bonwich wrote about Balaban’s closing. It’s a great piece and there’s some really interesting information about the restaurant’s history.
It’s definitely worth a read if you find yourself with a few minutes to spare.
I also ran across this article recently on thecommonspace.org that Joe Bonwich wrote in 2001 about life as a critic when he worked at the RFT.
If you like negative reviews and wish he’d write more, read it. I agree with him, and he made his case far more eloquently than I did in the “St. Louis Good” forum topic.
And if you’re a person that dislikes the term “St. Louis Good”, he nails it with this one:
…I’m fairly well convinced that our best stack up favorably against the best in all but the very top echelon of American food cities. Yet even the Zagat guides have stopped doing one for our hometown.
Tags: American food, Balaban's, Joe Bonwich, Post Dispatch
