Danny Meyer is bringing concretes to the home of Ted Drewes! A native of St. Louis, Shake Shack founder Danny Meyer was no doubt inspired by his hometown legend Ted Drewes and his 1959 creation of the concrete when he conceived of his Shake Shack concretes. Come 2017, Mr. Meyer will be competing on Ted Drewes home turf, although Shake Shack offers much more than Drewes’ frozen custard-centric menu. The new Shake Shack will be located in a totally different neighborhood as well, in the Central West End just east of Forest Park at 32 North Euclid Avenue. This will be the first Missouri Shake Shack.
Category: St. Louis
Gus’s Fried Chicken Hits Knoxville TN Early 2016
Gus’s Fried Chicken, which began life in the 1950s in the small town of Mason, Tennessee, northeast of Memphis, will be opening their 13th store early next year in Knoxville, TN. That’s not all for the spicy-crusted bird that many folks put on their top-ten lists. By early 2016 there should also be new stores in Los Angeles, Detroit, Fort Worth, and Kansas City (where it will face especially stiff competition). Future stores are in the works for St. Louis and Philadelphia.
Free Chocolate Tours of Bissinger’s
One of the benefits to the public of Bissinger’s move last year, in St. Louis, to their new location in a former railroad depot is the opportunity to tour the manufacturing facility. Three times a week, at 10 a.m., free tours, of up to an hour or so, are offered. Not only do you get to see how the candy is made, but samples are offered at the end of the tour! Spaces are limited and the tours are popular, so it’s a good idea to reserve a month or more in advance. Read about the tours in this story in the Belleville News-Democrat.
Gus’s Fried Chicken Coming to St. Louis Burbs
As part of Gus’s World Famous Fried Chicken‘s big expansion this year, they will be setting up shop in the St. Louis suburban city of Maplewood this summer. The address: 7434 Manchester Road. This will be Missouri’s first taste of Gus’s. A Kansas City Gus’s is planned for later this year.
St. Louis Fried Chicken Bracket
The St. Louis Post Dispatch is beginning a fried chicken bracket competition today (by the way, is the food bracket competition the big media gimmick of 2015?). Nothing especially unusual about that, except they managed to fill out four divisions of 16 each, for a total of 64 places that serve fried chicken! Keep in mind they are limiting the bracket to local places, with no chains or drive-thrus. When did fried chicken become such a big thing in St. Louis? Continue reading
LAF in the A.M. March 7th, 2015
A Morning Menu of LAF-Style Food News and Stories to Begin Your Day
HAPPY NATIONAL CROWN ROAST OF PORK DAY!
A Visit to Crown Candy Kitchen
Making Salsa at Boca Tacos Y Tequila of Tucson
The Frito Pie Queen Has Passed Away
A Tale of a Huddy Burger Love Affair
LAF in the A.M. December 30th, 2014
A Morning Menu of LAF-Style Food News and Stories to Begin Your Day
Jacques Torres Pop Up Comes to Pittsburgh
Bauder Pharmacy of Iowa Closing?
Gooey Butter Cake, Frozen Custard, and Chocolate
Owl Bar and Cafe History
LAF in the A.M. December 24th, 2014
A Morning Menu of LAF-Style Food News and Stories to Begin Your Day
El Charro New Concessionaire for Tucson’s Rillito Park Track
Greenwich, CT’s Méli-Mélo Looking to Expand
Chicago Writer Approves of Chicago Shake Shack
Graeter’s Coming to Chicago Region
LAF in the A.M. November 9th, 2014
A Morning Menu of Stories We Think You’ll Find Interesting
Take a Look Inside the New Bissinger Factory
Bissinger’s chocolate arrived in St. Louis, from Europe, in the 1920s and they’re still going strong. They recently opened a new downtown facility in a former railroad depot. Watch the video for a look inside. Continue reading
Bissinger’s, Saint Louis MO
REVIEW
The original Bissinger’s store in St. Louis, a dark wood-lined jewelry store of a chocolate shop, is no more. There are other, more modern branches in the St. Louis area, but it’s not for the St. Louis bricks-and-mortar chocolate shops that we sing our highest praises. Continue reading
Is Texas’ Small-Town Eats Variety Disappearing?
John Burnett, writing for NPR’s Foodways blog, presents his thesis that the variety and authenticity of Texas’ small town eats is getting swamped by barbecue, Tex-Mex cuisine, convenience store fast food, and Sysco. We don’t know that we’d restrict the phenomenon to Texas. Hasn’t this been happening across the country for decades? Continue reading
