For the first time in at least 25 years, I went to a conveyor belt sushi restaurant this weekend, right here in St. Louis! If you’ve ever played the game Sushi Go (or Sushi Roll), it’s emulating the Japanese kaiten-zushi experience: While you sit in the restaurant, plates of sushi move past you on a … Read more
I’m always happy to eat a marschino cherry. One, maybe two at most. The tricky thing about these cherries is that they’re typically found in drinks, which means at some point I have to fish the cherry out of the glass. This is particularly difficult if the cherry is in a narrow champagne glass in … Read more
I have a new request for Yelp, Google, and other places that provide information about restaurants and bars: Add a decibel rating. Perhaps I’m just getting old, but twice this weekend and once a few weeks ago I experienced issues with music and restaurants and bars in St. Louis that resulted in people at the … Read more
A few days ago, a cozy restaurant in St. Louis called The Gelateria opened their doors to find that an electrical fire had reduced everything to ashes. They will need to rebuild the entire interior, including the kitchen. They started a fundraiser to help cover their staff wages for the next few months while the … Read more
Random idea for today: You go to a restaurant with not one, but two tasting menus across several courses, each created and served by a different chef. You vote on your favorite of the two courses, and at the end of the night, one of the chefs is declared the “winner” (purely for pride). The … Read more
There’s an Italian restaurant in St. Louis called Edera that I greatly enjoy, and they recently started posted photos of “chalets” they set up on their large patio. Even without knowing anything else, I was entranced by the idea of eating in one of these: I looked into the chalets and learned that they’re just … Read more
Earlier this week, Megan and I decided that we were going to pick up lunch from a local Chinese restaurant on Thursday (today). We don’t always plan ahead for restaurant meals, but it aligned with another errand. We even picked what we’re going to order a few days in advance. Here’s my question: Wouldn’t the … Read more
There’s one particular element of restaurants that has amazed me ever since I worked as a server years ago: How do they know the quantity of ingredients to order from suppliers so they’re not wasting tremendous amounts of food every week? As it turns out, it’s a guessing game even for restaurants. As reported by … Read more
On Friday I had one of the best meals I’ve ever eaten in a restaurant. I was visiting Kansas City with Megan, and a friend invited us to join him and his wife at a place called Corvino. He has a special connection to the restaurant, and I’ve found that some of my most memorable … Read more
Whenever my mom made cookies when I was a kid, my favorite part was cleaning the raw dough out of the bowl with my mouth. To this day, I continue to love cookie dough. In fact, back in the days when my metabolism was a beast, I would occasionally buy rolls of cookie dough without any … Read more