You can follow the progress toward the opening of Six Row Brewing Co. at Forest Park and Spring in Midtown on its Twitter feed by owner and brewmaster Evan Hiatt, who went to SEMO and interned at Les Bourgeois and River Ridge…

Add another microbrewery to the local landscape: The Brewery at Cedar Creek in New Haven, Mo. Cedar Creek is a conference center run by the Vatterott family of Vatterott College fame. The family confirmed that, in addition to serving as an…

There’s a sign up at 7314 Manchester in Maplewood indicating that the space will soon house Vom Fass, an unusual retailer that started in Germany in about 1995 and is now in more than a dozen countries. The only other…

As noted by the sign on the door, the Nepali/Indian/Korean restaurant Everest, which began its life in Downtown West on Washington Avenue before moving to the Grove, will be opening a satellite location at 711 Olive. That space hasn’t been great…

At least they appear to be independents. Taj Palace is in an outbuilding in the Target parking lot in a space that housed a broasted chicken place for what seemed like about six weeks and a noodle place before it.…

Molly Killeen

No less than the New York Times currently has an article online (and in Wednesday’s paper) about our own local delicacy, gooey butter cake, as prepared by Molly Wessel Killeen, a native of Arcadia Valley, Mo. (about 80 miles south of…

Ami’s Manhattan-style pizza as served in O’Fallon. (Photo by Katherine Bish)

A’mis, which spun out of a Talayna’s at 9824 Manchester in Rock Hill about 20 years ago and opened a location at Highway K and O’Fallon Road in O’Fallon, Mo.…

Phelim O’Toole

A group of 20 firemen, all but one working in the city of St. Louis, will open Phelim O’Toole’s Firehouse Grill in the space formerly occupied by Soda Fountain Square at 1801 Park Avenue in Lafayette Square. Sqwires owner…

Home boy Larry Forgione of An American Place (well, OK, St. Louis also shares him with a little town on the east coast) is one of the featured chefs at the 2009 James Beard Foundation Dinner and Auction, which will be…

Open nominations began Tuesday for the 2010 James Beard Awards, which means the general public can submit the names of their favorite restaurants for consideration for the award. (Click on the link to do that.) The large list then goes to…