Chef Adjo Honsou, winner of PBS's The Great American Recipe, has created this love letter to her home country of Togo (and all West African food) for everyone in St. Louis to enjoy. Right here in University City.
Great apps, cheap beer, burgers, fries, and friends. You can find them all at Friendly's! Or at the other Friendly's, which isn't affiliated with the first Friendly's. And isn’t as good. Probably.
We review Bissinger’s new Chocolate Cafe located at the Bissinger's/Chocolate Chocolate Chocolate factory just off Kingshighway and 44 and get into everything from their tours to their new sandwiches and all the chocolate. So much chocolate.
Bissinger's Chief Chocolate Officer, Dan Able Jr., gives us the full history behind St. Louis’ Chocolate Chocolate Chocolate Company and their acquisition of Bissinger’s
Father Dom joins us to talk about The Ultimate St. Louis Breakfast, an upcoming event to sample some of STL's best sweet and savory breakfast treats. Mix and mingle with local chefs Lia Holter, Mathew Unger, Anne Carpenter, Bethany Budde-Cohen, Matt Sorrell and Father Dom. The menu features a range of breakfast classics prepared with a creative twist, including tomato basil scones with sausage gravy, chicken and waffles, veggie strata drizzled with home grown basil pesto olive oil, a pastry combo of strudels, doughnuts, and other treats. Plus, brunch punch, breakfast beverages and handcrafted
A Towers Grove Farmers Market favorite/charming bakery and cafe that's relocated a couple blocks to a great new space in Edwardsville. It was extraordinarily hard for us to go outside of our comfort zone, driving 30 minutes into Illinois, but it was worth it. Hope you'll join us!
Great new spot in the Loop for middle eastern cuisine with some Iraqi touches that may surprise you. Make sure to try something from the juice bar and save room for dessert!
We heard about this guy, Joe (MojitoEngineer on Reddit), who's been traveling to St. Louis for work and offering a free dinner out, to internet strangers interested in joining him for a good meal and conversation. So, we decided to return the favor by bringing him to our favorite Thai restaurant, Fork & Stix.
Gerard Craft (Niche Food Group) brings his latest restaurant to The Foundry with fusion BBQ and three stories of dining experiences.
NPR said Arepas are "conquering the globe" back in 2017, so it's about time for St. Louis to embrace them.
Guests Ellie Brink (Head Baker, Strange Donuts) and Tom Inglish (Videographer) join us to talk about one of the longest running staples of St Louis style pizza in the region, Pirrone's Pizzeria, with two locations in Florissant and St Peters. We talk about Strange Donuts' amazing fever dream videos, the family tree of Pirrone's pizza, how important shape is to "St Louis style", how much is too much pizza, The secrets to "Jerry's Special", and more!
Tim Eagen has transformed the historic, downtown Eat Rite restaurant into a beautiful new space that honors the site and delivers new, amazing diner food at a great price.
Wine, wood-fired pizza and amazing atmosphere in the Central West End. We discuss Scarlett's Wine Bar with Joshua Sturma, the owner of one of STL's favorite breakfast spots, Hatch'd!
We brought some friends to check out the new exhibit at 21 Museum Hotel and enjoy the new brunch menu at their Spanish-inspired restaurant, Idol Wolf.
After we get over ourselves having to drive an extra ten minutes to Chesterfield, we get serious and ask....is this the best Indian restaurant in St Louis?
Author/illustrator/former St. Louisan Sarah Becan (Let’s Make Ramen!, Let’s Make Dumplings!) joins us to talk about her background and process for making comics about food, and gives us some info about her brand-new comic book cookbook with Flour, Water, Salt, Yeast author Ken Forkish, Let’s Make Bread!, out now from Ten Speed Graphic!
The new, highly-praised sandwich shop in the Bevo Mill area....and the word on the street is they might actually be vegan
A new, innovative salad spot in the Grove, shortening the trip from farm to table with on-location vertical farming PLUS every 8-year-old's favorite technology...conveyor belts!
The final 24 sandwiches in our Sandwich Quest, including local favorites, St Paul, Hot Salami, and BRAINS!
We went with our new Friend/Fish Fry Correspondent, Allyson Whipple, to her favorite fish fry spot, Holy Trinity Serbian Orthodox Church to hear her expertise and spicy hot takes on STL's various Lent offerings.
48 classic sandwiches. We sought out the best version of each of them in St Louis. Come join us on our magical breaded mystery tour!
Burgers from the makers of Pizza Champ!
A new local hot sauce made by a cat. It's true. No need to fact check. A cat made this hot sauce. It's got to be a world record or something.
BBQ flavors from around the country, right here inside a favorite Cherokee St bar
The latest ramen house in St Louis might be the best
