Dining

Ian Froeb has spent a decade ranking St. Louis' best restaurants. He’s still hungry for more.

Jane Sacro Chatham of Vicia is up for emerging chef and Loryn Nalic of Balkan Treat Box for best chef: Midwest.

Keep Quiet adds a speakeasy to Midtown, Gelateria closes temporarily after a fire and more restaurant news.

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.