Dining

In the first year for a new category honoring beverage professionals, two local women made the list, and are celebrating each other.

The Research Chefs Association conference at Union Station will cover topics on flavor dynamics, new products and technologies and emerging trends for consumer food products.

Cherokee Street got a coffee shop focused on “connection and irreverence,” St. Charles grew a mushroom farm and Olivette added a brewery at a time when many brew halls have shuttered.

Established St. Louis favorites SweetArt and La Pizza expanded while Delmar Loop offerings shrank.

Owner Reine Keis will also be relocating her main restaurant from its longtime Shaw home to the Coronado building in Midtown in the spring.

St. Louisans are under consideration for best chef, Midwest; best restaurateur, a new category for beverage professionals — and more.

St. Louis boosters have worked in recent years to elevate its reputation as a dining destination, despite being ignored by the world’s preeminent culinary institutions.

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.