Dining

St. Louis-based dining critics & food writers dish on 2023 trends and highlights, and talk about what’s to come in 2024.

Some St. Louis restaurants are now saying they want only vaccinated patrons to dine indoors — and some are demanding proof. Two restaurateurs explain how that’s going.

Tim Eagan wants to start serving food at the Eat-Rite Diner location south of downtown in about a month.

It might seem that restaurant owners Joe Jovanovich and Mohammed Qadadeh have enough on their plates just keeping their eateries open. They run the Pat Connolly Tavern and American Falafel, respectively, and are busy finding innovative ways to operate and pay their employees during the challenging year that is 2020. Yet they’ve also stepped up to address food insecurity among their neighbors in the midst of all that — as have many of their peers in St. Louis’ vibrant, and hard-hit, restaurant industry.

Without support from diners, no restaurant can survive. Frank Williamson, organizer of St. Louis Black Restaurant Week, says attracting customers can be…

Michael and Tara Gallina are the proprietors of Rooster and the Hen, a culinary concept — they say — that seeks to delight eaters through thoughtfulness;…

The restaurant business is known for having small profit margins. It’s competitive and sometimes it’s the small things that make the difference between a…