After a highly exclusive soft opening phase in April that left the public eagerly anticipating the grand opening, Ramsay’s Kitchen by Gordon Ramsay has finally opened at the Four Seasons St. Louis at 999 North Second Street in downtown St. Louis and is now accepting reservations from the general public. “St. Louis is an incredible foodie destination, with its own vibrant Midwest flavours and influences,” Ramsay in a release. “I’m delighted to open Ramsay’s Kitchen at Four Seasons Hotel St. Louis, a stunning restaurant with amazing views of the Gateway Arch and famed Mississippi River.
This Friday, the Missouri Botanical Garden will be doing something sure to shock the conscience of every good St. Louisan: They'll be showing how to serve up cicadas. The cicada scampi and spicy deep-fried cicada — yes, those are the actual dish names — will be part of an cooking demonstration at MoBOT's Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly House, a fun afternoon inspired by the cicadapocalypse now blanketing a big swath of St. Louis County with the long-gestating bugs. But not everyone finds the idea so fun.
When a kitchen fire broke out and shuttered the doors at beloved Tower Grove South bar Stella Blues (3269 Morgan Ford Road) in early April, the owner and staff vowed the closure would be temporary. But if we know anything from the rash of kitchen fires that have closed local restaurants in the last few years, there’s no such thing as a sure return. Yet things are looking up for Stella Blues — thanks to strong community support and good insurance coverage.
An honorary member of the Ku Klux Klan, Darrell McClanahan III, will be allowed to remain on Missouri’s gubernatorial primary ballot, despite the state Republican party going through the motions of trying to boot him off. On Friday, Judge S. Cotton Walker of the Cole County Circuit Court ruled in favor of the accused antisemite and self-avowed pro-white man, writing that he is on the ballot because the Missouri Republican Party accepted his candidacy.
Mayor Tishaura Jones held a press conference this morning with Greater St. Louis Inc. and the St. Louis Development Corporation asking them to create a plan to address two troubled downtown buildings: the Railway Exchange Building and Millenium Hotel. In a post to X (formerly Twitter) Jones said she asked the two organizations “to deliver a plan for bold action” to address the buildings, which she says have been neglected for far too long. “We want downtown to be [a] place where you can feel safe doing something or nothing,” Jones added.
Social justice warrior (and Missouri Attorney General) Andrew Bailey has a new cause to rally behind for right-wing clout. He said his office plans to “enforce the Missouri Human Rights Act,” because, he says, Kansas City Chiefs Kicker Harrison Butker was targeted for his religious beliefs. How?
Frankly, St. Louis would be disappointed if beloved Hill sandwich shop Gioia's Deli (Multiple locations including 1934 Macklind Avenue, gioiasdeli.com) celebrated another year of greatness with anything other than its notable hot salami. And naturally, Gioia's doesn't disappoint. That's a long way of saying that next Thursday, Gioia's is turning an astonishing 106 years old, and to commemorate the occasion, the James Beard Award winner is "rolling back the years and the prices."
The legalization of adult-use cannabis in Missouri continues to be more than just fun, or pain relief, for the state's smokers. It's also meant serious bucks for the state's veterans and other beneficiaries of the constitutional amendment that legalized weed. Today, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services announced it had transferred $15,229,302 of adult-use revenue to various agencies.
In April, one of St. Louis' favorite bars shut its doors indefinitely after a kitchen fire. Stella Blues Bar (3269 Morgan Ford Road), beloved for its cash-only, dirt-cheap neighborhood vibes and its delicious Korean-inspired fare (dreaming of that kimchi pizza), quickly vowed it would be back. "We love our community as much as they love us," bar manager Zoe McKelvie told the RFT at the time.
Aaron Neiman was excited to move to St. Louis for a job as a lecturer at Washington University. His position in the anthropology department was his first job after earning his Ph.D. Before the April 27 protest on campus, he’d accepted a different position with the university, one that would allow him to spend more time on his research.
The St. Louis Circuit Attorney's Office has agreed to review the 1988 rape conviction of a man whose attorneys say was targeted by police. Fredrico Lowe-Bey has been in prison for more than 30 years after being found guilty of raping a woman who was abducted in the early morning hours of May 21, 1988, in the city’s Tiffany neighborhood. The victim had gotten into a fight with her boyfriend and began walking home, but a man pulled up in a car, jumped out and dragged her into an alley, where he sexually assaulted her.
As cannabis becomes increasingly commonplace in Missouri, and the companies peddling it work hard to set themselves apart from the pack, a growing number of more obscure cannabinoids are popping up in their products. When I saw Good Day Farm's High Dose Daydream THCV-infused gummies at Codes Dispensary marketed as a sativa-like product — my personal preference when it comes to weed — my interest was piqued. Spoiler: I didn't find them to be too reminiscent of sativa-forward products; however, the THCV gave the gummies something unique.
This week sees Australia’s finest Ramones-aping, smoke-breaking, lightning-struck band of unruly reprobates, the Chats, pull their 6-litre GT-R up in St. Louis for a Friday night rager at Off Broadway — and hopefully you already have your tickets, because they are otherwise long since sold out (though we’re betting you could get the band to let you in the back door if you offer ’em a carton of Missouri’s relatively reasonably priced smokes). Elsewhere, guitar whiz Gary Clark Jr. makes his now-annual pilgrimage to our fair town for a Thursday night affair at the Factory, BJ the Chicago Kid posts up for a two-night stay Tuesday and Wednesday at City Winery, and Kublai Khan teams up with Harm’s Way for a crushing Thursday night karate competition at Red Flag. All that plus Austin's premier purveyor of "glam senselessness and country sensibility" (that would be the delightfully named Pelvis Wrestley) in our picks for this week’s best shows!
Loretta Boesing’s son is a transplant survivor who needs medication every 12 hours. His family, like many others, decided to try a mail order pharmacy. They say it nearly killed him.
So the insufferable, attention-starved Valentina Gomez, who is vying to be Missouri’s next secretary of state, posted a video of herself jogging through historic Soulard in a tactical vest saying, “Don't be weak and gay.” This stunt sparked global headlines about Soulard being a (shudder) gay-friendly neighborhood. Explore St. Louis could spend tens of millions on a marketing campaign and not achieve such a feat. You just can't buy this kind of press.
Bob Cassilly played a profound role in reshaping the look and feel of St. Louis. The sculptor turned curator and creator of City Museum, Turtle Park, and many other beloved local installations remains one of St. Louis’ most esteemed residents more than a decade after his tragic death in 2011. But before Cassilly became a visionary for a new urban landscape, he played just as significant a role in preserving one of the world’s most beloved masterpieces, Michaelangelo’s sculpture Pietà. While the media covered the incident at the time, it’s become a forgotten chapter in Cassilly’s remarkable life.
A bill under consideration by the St. Louis Board of Aldermen would raise sales taxes to fund early childhood education programs. However, public schools currently cannot qualify for the funds — and the state legislation that backers say would change appears very unlikely to pass this session. Board Bill 7, sponsored by Ward 10 Alderwoman Shameem Clark Hubbard, would add a question to the November 2024 ballot asking voters to approve a levy that would increase the city’s sales tax by 0.5 percent.
Lawyers seeking to stop the activities of the St. Louis Charter Commission made their case in court yesterday before Circuit Court Judge Joseph Whyte — arguing that the commission was formed in a way that's contrary to law and must be declared invalid. The lawsuit was filed by Charles Lane, a city resident and occasional plaintiff on litigation affecting taxpayers. Lane's suit is funded by a coalition of lawyers and gadflies calling themselves the Holy Joe Society.
A year or so ago, literally moments after I'd filched a bite, and then another, of my son's hot chicken sandwich from Chuck's, I was wrenching my car into gear and scorching my Michelins all the way to Rock Hill. And never mind the nonsense about the 20-minute distance between any two points in this town; that journey seemed to take forever. I can completely promise that I'd never experienced this rather ugly, certainly greedy and exceedingly "present-day" must-have-now!
When Honey’s first launched in North City in 2016, it was a home-based bakery business. But in 2022, on Valentine’s Day, the bakery moved into a storefront at 5051 Riverview Boulevard in Walnut Park. Since then, it has evolved further: Now, it’s a takeout restaurant open for pre-orders only, and as a result has expanded both its offerings and its reach.
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