Four burgers in five days pretty much screams meat sweats even if brisket isn't part of the equation. But sometimes you gotta take advantage of your burger surroundings and so here ya go - 4 epic burgers meals in the city that never sleeps. Unless you happen to eat four burgers in five days of course.
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The things you just may not know about your hometown. Like finding out that St. Louis is the chess capital of the world. A fact to surely take pride in but something that also seems just a little trivial when placed next to the earliest memories of one's life. The first time I saw fireworks was off the banks of the mighty Mississippi. The heat of a humid St. Louis summer is synonymous with watching professional baseball(Go Cards!). And then there is the food that I grew up with. Late night burger runs at Steak 'n Shake. Toasted Raviolis, Provel laced pizza, heck veal parms - it ain't easy finding a veal parm sandwich these days. But that was not the St. Louis that Cheap Eats experienced. Like the saying goes, "you can't go home again" and we didn't. Our time was spent throwing the spotlight on a barbecue scene that is coming into its own over the last fifteen or so years. And bold St. Louisans who resist the constant temptation to settle in the idyllic if less historic suburbs west of the city proper in order to bring life to a city that was once the center of the Midwest. St. Louis has changed . . . some, and I'm proud to say that. So even though I look fondly on the this town as where it all began for me, let's sink our teeth into a side of my hometown that is just as fresh and as different for you as it was for me.
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Four burgers in five days pretty much screams meat sweats even if brisket isn't part of the equation. But sometimes you gotta take advantage of your burger surroundings and so here ya go - 4 epic burgers meals in the city that never sleeps. Unless you happen to eat four burgers in five days of course.
(more…)
The things you just may not know about your hometown. Like finding out that St. Louis is the chess capital of the world. A fact to surely take pride in but something that also seems just a little trivial when placed next to the earliest memories of one's life. The first time I saw fireworks was off the banks of the mighty Mississippi. The heat of a humid St. Louis summer is synonymous with watching professional baseball(Go Cards!). And then there is the food that I grew up with. Late night burger runs at Steak 'n Shake. Toasted Raviolis, Provel laced pizza, heck veal parms - it ain't easy finding a veal parm sandwich these days. But that was not the St. Louis that Cheap Eats experienced. Like the saying goes, "you can't go home again" and we didn't. Our time was spent throwing the spotlight on a barbecue scene that is coming into its own over the last fifteen or so years. And bold St. Louisans who resist the constant temptation to settle in the idyllic if less historic suburbs west of the city proper in order to bring life to a city that was once the center of the Midwest. St. Louis has changed . . . some, and I'm proud to say that. So even though I look fondly on the this town as where it all began for me, let's sink our teeth into a side of my hometown that is just as fresh and as different for you as it was for me.
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