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It's hard to believe that Basil Spice is not even four years old. The restaurant is so welcoming, the food and the service so reliable, that it feel as if it has always been a part of South Grand's restaurant scene. Try the pla song kruang, a piec...

Quincy Street Bistro meets all the obvious requirements for a great neighborhood restaurant: It exudes a casual, come-as-you-are feel; the staff is friendly; the grub is tasty and inexpensive. Whether you want a beer and a bite while you watch the...

Painted across the brick exterior of Harlem Tap Room are the words, "Every Goodbye Ain't Gone." As translated by Keith Green, the third generation of the Nance family to run this bar in the Ville, the motto reminds people that leaving isn't the sa...

Though a wine bar by name, 33 Wine Shop & Tasting Bar has always done right by beer. Indeed, original owner Jake Hafner is now opening a craft brewery, the Civil Life Brewing Company, in Tower Grove South. Dylan Mosley is the head brewer at the Ci...

Olympia Kebob House & Taverna founder Peter Nicholas immigrated to St. Louis from Greece and opened his modest little joint on McCausland Avenue 31 years ago. The business has remained in the Nicholas family through the decades, and during that ti...

A home base for many of the city's best blues players, Beale on Broadway is the sort of place where you don't have to check the schedule before you go. The venue's de facto slogan is "Live Blues Seven Nights a Week," and that's usually what you ge...

Most mornings when you're nursing a particularly nasty hangover, the thought of ingesting anything more extravagant than plain toast, tap water and six ibuprofen is enough to cause your stomach to rebel. But despite your instincts to lay low with ...

One of the first cupcake-centric spots in St. Louis, Jilly's Cupcake Bar has gained national attention thanks to its victorious appearance on the popular Food Network show Cupcake Wars. The cupcakes here aren't decorated so much as crafted, a city...

In an era that welcomes, nay, requires constant advances in technology, sometimes it's nice to just step back in time for a moment and forget about newfangled fancy confections. Jennifer's Pharmacy & Soda Shoppe helps us remember what's really imp...

Ted Drewes really is good. And when you're at Ted Drewes on Chippewa Street, you can order a sundae or a shake or a float or even an orange slushy, but if you really want to get some Ted Drewes, you've got to walk away from that counter with an up...

Located in an unassuming hideaway near a strip mall on Delmar Boulevard, Stan's Pawn Shop is about as fancy as it looks — which is to say, not at all. With A Tribe Called Quest blasting overhead, a clerk who just might be wearing a Harley-Davidson...

Pork is the unquestioned king of barbecue meats in St. Louis, but if there's ever a revolution, the flash point might be this small joint in a Chesterfield strip mall. Paul Lamers and Mark Ruck opened this, their first restaurant, after winning fa...