Our town’s most romantic and authentic French restaurant, Chez Leon, hosts its annual Bastille Day festival July 14, featuring live music, toasts, and Francophile extraordinaire Leon Bierbaum leading diners in a rousing rendition of the Marseillaise. It’s a prix-fixe menu, although…

Ricardo’s, An Italian Cafe, kicks off its anniversary week next Tuesday, July 7 to celebrate 20 years in business at 1931 Park Avenue in Lafayette Square. Tuesday evening from 7-9 p.m., Ricardo’s will feature a tasting of 15 Italian wines accompanied…

Mark Baehmann

Big news in the Missouri wine community coming out of Ste. Genevieve: Mark Baehmann, who’s been at Mount Pleasant Winery for the past 17 years, has taken the job of winemaker at Chaumette Vineyards and Winery. Prior to Mount Pleasant,…

The Crossing in Clayton will host a wine dinner Tuesday, July 7th, with food from Crossing chef/owner Jim Fiala, including grass-fed beef tenderloin from Rain Crow Ranch in Doniphan, cheeses from Goatsbeard Farm in Harrisburg and Missouri chanterelle mushrooms with…

The Gateway City Barbecue Festival, noted in this space about a week ago, has been postponed until fall. The organizers at the Old Rock House south of downtown noted that what sounded like a perfect match — a barbecue contest over…

It’s always nice to make the national lists, but there’s some inconsistency in the recent inclusion of the St. Paul sandwich at Wong’s Inn, 2666 South Big Bend in Maplewood, on Playboy.com’s list of Best Sandwiches in America.

Let’s parse the…

A little bird tells me that Eric Brenner, chef at Moxy and sometime consultant to Sub Zero and several other restaurant projects around and out of town, is putting in his two-cents’ worth on a revamping of the combined Molly’s and…

As first reported here back in September, St. Louis’ only Peruvian restaurant, Mango, plans to move into the former Mosaic space at 1101 Lucas, just off of 11th Street and Washington Avenue downtown. The move is now official, with a target date…