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1831 Sidney St. St. Louis, MO 63104

314-773-7755 

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  • American, Contemporary, New American
    Sun-Thu 5pm-9pm, Fri-Sat 5pm-10pm
    $$$, $$$$
    All Major Credit Cards, cash, ATM/Debit
  • Dressy-casual attire
    Banquet Facilities, Patio/Sidewalk Dining, Private Party, Wheelchair Accessible
    Dinner, Evening
    Full bar
  • Accepted, Highly Recommended
    Free, Street, Valet
Description

The most consistently exciting and satisfying restaurant in St. Louis, Niche offers a cosmopolitan haute cuisine experience without the big-city pretense - or price tag. The space is beautiful and the Benton Park location ideal, but the focus here is the food. Executive chef Gerard Craft and his talented staff serve dishes both trendy (pork belly, ahi tuna crudo) and familiar (short ribs, butternut squash soup), but the common thread is attention to detail and reverence for flavor. The can't-miss dish is the pork belly - you may know it as uncured bacon - braised overnight for ten hours; the creamy fat acts as an indulgent sauce for the richly flavored meat.







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  • 2009 | Best Place to Eat Out Alone

    Yes, Niche is one of the best restaurants in St. Louis, and, yes, Gerard Craft is one of the city's most acclaimed chefs, and blah, blah, blah. This isn't about Niche. This is about you. You're on your own tonight. Maybe you're on your own every night. Whatever the case, tonight you've decided you're going to do dinner right. Have a seat at Niche's bar, order the tasting menu and then let Craft, executive pastry chef Mathew Rice and their more-than-able lieutenants take care of the rest.... More »

  • 2008 | Best Desserts

    "Pastry chef" seems an inadequate title for Mathew Rice, who masterminds the desserts at the Benton Park restaurant Niche and its new, adjacent bakeshop, Veruca. "Mastermind" works -- though that too seems to miss something essential about Rice's baking. His desserts plug into someplace deep in the unconscious, where the simple pleasures of our childhood reside: tollhouse cookies, Hostess snack cakes, s'mores. Rice interprets each in a way that brings both a smile of recognition and the... More »

  • 2007 | Best Local Chef

    Gerard Craft isn't St. Louis' best chef because he might serve you bacon ice cream. That just makes him a badass. No, Craft is St. Louis' best because he's likely to pair that bacon ice cream with that hippest of hip meat cuts, pork belly, to a create a dish that isn't simply a clever joke or a lovely presentation -- though of course it's both those things -- but almost indescribably awesome, sweet and savory and smoky and unlike anything you've eaten in this town. If the pork belly... More »

  • 2006 | Best Desserts

    It's a good thing Niche serves its desserts at the end of the meal. Sure, it's customary to do it this way, but if pastry chef Mathew Rice's sultry sweetness came out first, no part of the feast following would be able top the dessert course -- not even at Niche. The dessert list here, dubbed "Sweet Dreams," is brief and frequently changes to highlight seasonal fruits and offer lighter options when the weather warrants. The sorbets, all made in-house, are tongue-ticklingly tart and provide ... More »

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Back to TopMenu
Main Menu
Snacks
$5.00
White Anchovies
toast, smoked paprika
$5.00
Spiced Nuts
$6.00
Marinated Olives
First Things First
$10.00
Celery Root Soup
grapefruit, wheat berries. tarragon
$9.00
Endive Salad
celery root, beet, pecorino, focaccia, buttermilk dressing.
$12.00
Carrots Three Ways
orange-cumin, yogurt, espelette
$16.00
"bbq" Trotter
foie gras, calvados, tobacoo, grapefruit, mint
$13.00
Pig's Head
pig head, jonah crab, green garlic, rice chip
$15.00
Trout Gravlax
rue, watercress, creme fraiche, egg yolk, smoked salt
$13.00
Day Boat Scallops & "orange"
buttermut squash, tangerine, bitter orange, almond
$18.00
Lobster
pullman, celery, green apple, togarashi, brown butter hollandaise
On To Bigger Things
$26.00
Hen Of The Woods Mushroom
chorizo spice, egg, salsify, date, lemon
$34.00
Wild Steelhead
fennel, blood orange, pistachio
$29.00
Pork Shoulder
popcorn polenta, verjus, coriander, daikon, walnuts, red grapes
$28.00
Beef Short Ribs
celery root, cracked wheat, garlic, chive
$27.00
Double Star Farms Chicken
parsley root, sassafras, carrot
$32.00
Filet Of Beef
potato, leeks, rosemary, whey
To Share
$6.00
Potato Puree
olive oil, thyme
$6.00
Stone Milled Polenta
thyme, honey, goat cheese, walnuts
Sweets
$8.00
House Made Sorbet And Ice Creams
available with hot fudge sauce
$10.00
Chocolate
beet sponge cake, dark chocolate ice cream, orange-sambuca sorbet, yogurt
$10.00
Vancherin
lemon meringue, thyme, hickory, lavender
$10.00
Carrot
custard, cream cheese ice cream, mint, white chocolate
$12.00
Selection Of Farm House Cheeses

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