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…

Work has been going on feverishly, so watch for a November opening of Sammy Scott’s, a new soup and sandwich place in the Schnucks Bellerive center with lead partner David Miller, grandson of Lester Miller of Lester’s fame (and, in business, of…

Barely a year after it opened, the first St. Louis location of the Iowa-based “loose meat” restaurant chain Maid-Rite is for sale and apparently closed (no one answered the phone on several tries). Maid-Rite shares the space with the only Missouri-side location of…

An intrepid spy saw the sign, and a representative of Dunkin’ Donuts confirmed the news: The company will be returning to St. Louis by the end of the year.

The first locations, two of them, are expected to open at the…

Pablo Weiss, circa 2007

It’s sometimes difficult to remember that when Pablo Weiss opened KitchenK in 2003, there really wasn’t a whole lot on Washington Avenue yet. In the six years since, the area between 8th and 14th has arguably become oversaturated…

Pinnacle Entertainment “announced” today that Cincinnati-based Jeff Ruby’s Steakhouse would be the lead fine-dining restaurant in the new River City Casino in Lemay, scheduled to open next year.

I put the “announced” in quotes because press materials for the casino have noted the…

Farm to Fork, a benefit for Farm Aid featuring an all-star list of local chefs and farmers, will be held at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 2 at Overlook Farm in the City. More on the event in a minute; the unusual…

If you haven’t made dinner plans for tonight, consider one of the following restaurants. They’re all said to be featuring “food from family farms” on tonight’s menu, and a portion of the proceeds will go to Farm Aid.

A Fresh Gathering;…

That rumor I posted several weeks ago is no longer a rumor: Owner Pete Spoto confirmed over the weekend that he and the Fox Theatre had come to terms for a second location of City Diner on the southwest corner of Grand…