food

The Pointer’s Pizza Pointersaurus challenge has been tried many times, probably because it sounds a lot easier when you aren’t staring at that football field of a pizza. Here are the rules: The contest costs $50 and is a 28″ Pointersaurus pizza which weighs ten pounds. Two people are allowed one hour to eat the pizza with either two meat toppings or four vegetable toppings. You must make a reservation at least one day in advance and the contest is only done at 3 PM each day. [Read More]

Last weekend Food Network was in town to shoot a segment for the show “The Best Thing I Ever Ate” and it shot a little deal about the toasted ravioli, the reigning king of “St. Louis foods”, at Charlie Gitto’s on The Hill. The crew was asked if they wanted to go out to St. Charles County to sample their best local flavors, but apparently Applebee’s hanging a Francis Howell jersey on the wall doesn’t mean you have any local claim to the Quesadilla Burger and it’s ability to “Take your taste buds for a Southwest joyride. [Read More]

Dude just wanted to get a Moon’s Over My Hammy…really really bad. Now he’s got a hole in his leg after unsuccessfully attempting to break-in to the South Hampton Denny’s (just south of hwy 40) and approaching a cop with his hands in his pocket. According to police, witnesses stated the suspect approached the restaurant attempting to get inside. Restaurant employees informed the suspect the restaurant was closed. The suspect broke a window and was partially inside the restaurant when the first officer arrived. [Read More]

Anheuser-Busch InBev Monkey Unicorn, the long-named local brewery, has had to issue its third beer recall in just over a month. This one because of this little issue of glass shards getting in to a few lots of Stella Artois 10-packs. Luckily this recall, as with the prior two, have been confined to Europe, also known as “Not Here” which means it went to terrorists, which is cool I guess. USA! [Read More]

St. Louis is buzzing with the news of a place to get a donut from a hot broad! Prepare to start living…really living! Opening in Soulard “soon”, there aren’t much in the way of details about the “Sultry Donut”. Their website has a bunch of nothing and this: The Sultry Donut and Café is opening up soon!! Check back for latest renovation pictures, future menu items and pictures of our staff. [Read More]

[Editor’s Note: Readers that pay careful attention to the metadata above the title will find that I didn’t write this post. Scandalous! Yes, this is written by a someone that might just be popping up more and more on the site if our fine readers find him worthy. He will go by “The Viking__” and if that sounds familiar it should as he has been a commenter on this very site for some time now. [Read More]

St. Louis takes a step closer to killing everyone as Hardee’s, the fast food chain known for big burgers and calls St. Louis it’s corporate home, is currently market testing that crazy but beautiful behemoth pictured above: The foot-long hamburger. The foot-long burger idea was hatched two months ago from a product development chef at Carl’s [Jr., the other half of Hardee’s], says Brad Haley, marketing chief. The chain is especially eager to create products that appeal to its core customers: young men ages 18 to 24. [Read More]

Editor’s Note: This post was sent to us from a guest writer, Lance K. I gotta say when I first read this, I thought “I don’t remember writing this!” so I thought this was the perfect post to ease in our Guest Author feature. If you have any interest in guest authoring a post here, drop me a line at [email protected] …also love that he’s clinging to the “VP Fair” name. [Read More]

Its not just the bus boys at your local Denny’s you have to keep your guard up around to make sure they don’t steal stuff, its everyone, in all kitchens apparently…from the crack-head dishwashers to the fancy chef being recruited to come work for you. All of them. Not you though. The rest of them. Chef Mark A. Curran has been the public face of the fine-dining restaurant Araka, but now he’s accused of burglarizing and stealing from the restaurant. [Read More]

MSN recently named our very own Carl’s Drive-in one of America’s best burger joints: Wash down a top-notch hamburger with a frosty mug of root beer brewed by owner Frank Cunetto. The secret to a great burger is getting it from the grill to the customer as fast as possible, says Cunetto, who’s spent 20-plus years slinging meaty rounds for the cherished few seats at his counter. The menu’s short and includes fries, onion rings and made-by-hand milkshakes with an almost sippable consistency. [Read More]