Cheryl Baehr

4 days ago | stlmag.com | Cheryl Baehr

For nearly a decade, Stellar Hog’s Alex Cupp has been considered one of the region’s premier pitmasters, revered for all of his smoked meats but especially his brisket. A chef-turned-barbecue genius, Cupp says the cut was the first thing that he really set out to perfect, and his painstaking efforts have yielded what many consider to be perfection of the form.

1 week ago | stlmag.com | Cheryl Baehr

ST. LOUIS/ST. LOUIS COUNTY: Baumann’s Fine Meats  Subscribe to the St. Louis Dining In and Dining Out newsletters to stay up-to-date on the local restaurant and culinary scene. We will never send spam or annoying emails. Unsubscribe anytime. A Brentwood staple since 1988 (and a St. Louis staple for four decades before that), Baumann’s is the quintessential classic butcher shop, known as much for its beef jerky and andouille as its hand-cut steaks and chop.

1 week ago | stlmag.com | Cheryl Baehr

This March, chef Alec Schingel opened the highly anticipated Robin Restaurant (7268 Manchester, Maplewood), an expansion of his popular pop-up series, the Robin Project, which he founded in 2022. For Schingel, who has worked in revered kitchens around the world, the restaurant brings him back to his Midwestern roots. It celebrates the foods that inform his identity while allowing him to redefine what fine dining can be: a balance between elevating dishes and keeping the experience comfortable.

2 weeks ago | stlmag.com | Cheryl Baehr

Thirteen years ago, Fred Domke decided to bake some bread one weekend while his wife, Sharon, was out of town. Later that night, he had a dream that he was baking bread with the unhoused people he worked with at Bridge of Hope Ministries in The Ville neighborhood—a dream that inspired him to open the nonprofit bakeshop Bridge Bread.

2 weeks ago | stlmag.com | Cheryl Baehr

The tornado that left a path of destruction in its wake throughout the parts of Clayton, the Central West End, and many north St. Louis neighborhoods devastated several area restaurants, with those along the Delmar Maker District bearing much of the storm’s brunt. In the midst of so much despair, the restaurant community is stepping up to provide a source of hope, thanks to the efforts of the international aid organization World Central Kitchen.