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  • 3 days ago | stltoday.com | Ian Froeb

    I didn’t set out to find the absolute, No. 1 best doughnut shop in St. Louis. Which is good, because after weeks of eating doughnuts at a clip that would terrify Homer Simpson, I’ve reconfirmed my belief that we are spoiled for great doughnuts in the metro area. St. Louis is the best doughnut town in the country. Classic glazed and raised doughnuts as airy as a cumulus cloud. Blueberry cake doughnuts so moist that you don’t mind using the word moist. Apple fritters as big as a dinner plate.

  • 1 week ago | stltoday.com | Ian Froeb

    Chef Mike Randolph knows how to build an acclaimed restaurant. A decade ago, he did it twice in six months in the Delmar Loop. Randolph’s Público and Randolfi’s Italian Kitchen ranked Nos. 1 and 2 in the Post-Dispatch’s list of 2015’s best new restaurants. Recognition from the prestigious James Beard Awards followed in 2016. Randolph was a semifinalist for best chef in the Midwest, Público for best new restaurant in the country. Randolph also knows how fickle the restaurant business can be.

  • 2 weeks ago | stltoday.com | Ian Froeb

    For a brief time last decade, I thought ramen would eat St. Louis. Oodles of noodles loomed over the metro area. The number of ramen restaurants that eventually opened didn’t match the hype, though — certainly not compared to the region’s earlier booms of food trucks and barbecue joints. Still, that ramen moment delivered two great restaurants, Chris Bork’s Vista Ramen and Marie-Anne Velasco and Qui Tran’s Nudo House.

  • 2 weeks ago | stltoday.com | Ian Froeb

    ST. LOUIS — Dallas Holland-Mims is still overcoming the shock of Friday’s deadly tornado, but she is already making plans to find a new home for her devastated restaurant. Holland-Mims opened Beyond Sweet Kitchen + Bar in December 2023 at 5143 Delmar Boulevard. The restaurant showcased swanky cocktails and a photo gallery of St. Louis celebrities. The tornado demolished most of the building’s top floor. Holland-Mims was not at her restaurant when the storm hit. Frantic employees called her.

  • 3 weeks ago | stltoday.com | Ian Froeb

    Does any everyday flavor inspire more diverse reactions than banana? I can’t even make up my own mind about the fruit. As a kid, I happily ate the banana Runts other kids scorned. Today, though, when a smoothie disappoints me, it usually tastes of little else besides its banana ballast.

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