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Riddle's Penultimate Café & Wine Bar
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6307 Delmar Blvd. University City, MO 63130

314-725-6985 

http://www.riddlescafe.com  

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6307 Delmar Blvd. University City MO 63130

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  • American
    Sun 5pm-12am, Tue-Sat 5pm-1am
    $$$ $$, $$$
    MasterCard, Visa, American Express, Diners Club, cash
  • Casual attire
    Smoking, Patio/Sidewalk Dining, Takeout, Private Party, Catering, Wheelchair Accessible
    Dinner, Late Night
    Live Entertainment
  • Accepted, Recommended
    Garage, Street
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CLOSED Weighing in at a hefty 330-plus selections, Riddle's wine list is among the most comprehensive anywhere. But Riddle's is not just for lovers of the grape: Peppered with Cajun allusions and ranging from burgers to the signature shrimp Sara, the menu has something for everyone. You can't go wrong with the filet mignon marchand de vin and a side of "magical" garlic potatoes. Live music in the bar can be overwhelming, so if your agenda is cozy conversation, get a table in the backroom.








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  • 2006 | Best Wine List in a Restaurant

    There are other restaurants that make impressive showings with their wine lists --Tony's, Eleven Eleven Mississippi, Sidney Street Cafe--but none with the underdog panache of Riddles. Because a place like Riddles just isn't supposed to have such a mind-blowing wine list. It's a juke joint, a place where live blues and bluegrass come at you from a cramped storefront window, a place where a hodgepodge of college kids and over-the-hill hippies peacefully co-exist. It's a pile of bricks in ... More »

  • 2004 | Best Wine List in a Restaurant

    Every wine list tells a story. At many restaurants wine lists are composed as hastily assembled afterthoughts to the menu, or as thinly veiled attempts to turn mad coin on extortive markups. Those stories begin, Once upon a time there was a restaurant-owning schmuck who really didn't know or care about wine. Weighing in at a novella-length 30 pages, the wine list at Riddle's recounts the heroic tale of owner Andy Ayers and his nineteen-year quest to bring an exhaustive, eclectic and lovingly... More »

  • 2001 | Best Restaurant Character

    If you've ever eaten at Riddle's Penultimate (and if you haven't, you should), you've no doubt seen the big guy with the beard, the beret and an apron bustling out of the kitchen into the dining room. That would be Andy Ayers, the world's youngest 48-year-old, Missouri-wine evangelist and all-around wine connoisseur (with 30-some Missouri and more than 300 total choices on his wine list), sometime food-related political activist, music impresario, friend to the local farmer and owner since... More »

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Main Menu
Starters & Smaller Portions
$5.95
Crostini Harrisburg
crostini (“little toast” in italy) made with crusty, just- baked breadsmith baguette spread with fresh herb-enhanced chèvre-style goat cheese from harrisburg, missouri and an excellent italian sun-dried tomato on top
$7.95
Smoked Peruvian Blue Tilapia
fresh from the pristine streams of the andes mountains, peruvian blue have a thicker fillet, firmer texture, and sweeter taste that what you’re used to.we smoke it over hickory and it set atop a bed of caponata, a delicious south italian eggplant stew, then finish with shallot-tarragon aioli.
$7.25
Chilled Caponata
this is one of my favorite things to eat. a delicious italian eggplant stew with onions, tomatoes, olives, and capers, served chilled with warm pita bread.
$8.50
Crawfish Shreveport
crawfish tailmeat marinated in lime juice and cayenne, is treated to a lovely sweet onion and poppyseed dressing and mixed with fresh vegetables for a bright marinated salad.
$7.50
Blue Cheese Stuffed Mushroom Caps
big caps stuffed with a mixture of blue cheese and quite a good shot of avery island, louisiana tabasco sauce.
$7.50
Crawfish Stuffed Mushroom Caps
large caps piled high with a rich stuffing of crawfish newburg, spiked with dry sherry and a good shot of cayenne pepper.
$7.50
Combination Stuffed Mushroom Caps
you don’t have to decide on one stuffing! big caps, half of them stuffed with blue cheese stuffing and half stuffed with crawfish stuffing.
$8.95
Shrimp Remoulade
big, wild, gulf shrimps served with our version of the traditional new orleans mustard sauce zippy with tarragon & cayenne.
$8.25
Shrimp Cocktail
big, wild, gulf shrimps served with the traditional american tomato cocktail sauce, this one made with fresh southern illinois horseradish ground fresh for us at rothman’s deli, 4720 delmar.
Homemade Soups
 
Beef Shitake Barley Soup
a savory fall classic with rich beef broth, toothsome barley, local shiitake mushrooms, and beef tenderloin bits from our delicious hand-cut filet mignons
 
Chilled Orange Apricot Soup
a perennial favorite, this soup has a yogurt base, a hint of spice, and an extremely refreshing quality.
 
Riddle’s Garden Vegetable Soup
vegan, low chlo., low cal. and all delicious
Entree And Seafood Specials
$21.95
Shrimp Sara
jumbo wild gulf shrimp are sautéed with fresh garlic and mushroom, served with a rich, deeply-flavored sauce of white port wine, tomato, artichoke heart and cream. a riddle’s original for over 20 years
$18.50
Chicken Major Grey
a boneless breast of carefully raised, antibiotic-free ashly farms chicken is sautéed with green onion, flamed in brandy and served with a sauce of sour cream, mango chutney and the excellent curry blended for us by the st. louis herb society. a riddle’s original for more then 20 years.
$29.95
Filet Marchand De Vin
char-grilled to order, served with a long simmered french-creole sauce of beef stock, mushroom, prochuitto, red wine and garlic.
$17.50
Chicken Rose
a boneless breast of carefully raised , antibiotic free ashley farms chicken is sauteed with onion and bell pepper, served in a sauce of rose wine and soy sauce, brown sugar and vinegar. another riddles original for more than 20 years.
$29.95
Filet Marchand De Vin
char-grilled to order, served with a long simmered french-creole sauce of beef stock, mushroom, prochuitto, red wine and garlic.
$28.95
Grilled Fillet Mignon
hand-cut eight-ounce steak of magnificent american angus beef, grilled to order
$16.95
Memphis Pulled Pork Bar-be-que
whole pork butts from the happy pigs raised hormone- and antibiotic-free by the family farm owners of the ozark mountain pork co-op in mountain view, missouri are dry-rubbed two times, then slow-smoked over hickory wood in our kitchen for nine hours. served with our own blackstrap bar-be-que sauce and fresh cut cabbage slaw
Fresh Vegetable Selections
 
Homegrown Summer Squash
with prosciutto & romano
 
Homegrown Basil Pesto Linguine – It’s High Basil Season!
 
Sweet Potatoes Whipped
with butter and maple syrup
 
Boiled New Potatoes
with fresh dill butter
 
Broccoli
fresh and steamed
Pasta Selections
$12.95
Spaghetti Conroy
garlic-butter sauce with white wine, sauteed onion, mushroom, and bell pepper, tossed with parmesan cheese.
$14.95
Cavatelli With Broccoli
fresh broccoli in a rich cream sauce with sliced mushrooms & parmesan cheese.
$16.95
Cavatelli Tutto Mare
a rich cream sauce with fresh mushrooms, shrimp, crab and whiting tossed with a touch of the very fine curry blended by the st. louis herb society and parmesan cheese.
$15.75
Cajun Cavatelli
a rich white sauce with mushroom, bell pepper, crawfish tail meat, like tiny lobster tails, and a dash of cayenne pepper.
$13.50
Lasagna
baked in layers with our own flacorful red sauce, a mixture of cheeses and italian sausage that we make ourselves from ozark mountian co-op pork as well as pastured ground beef by karlios hinkebein in cape girardeau, missouri.
$13.50
Spinach Lasagna
a meatless lasagna baked in layers with white sauce, creamed spinach & chesses. a riddle’s favorite ror over twenty years.
$12.95
Spaghetti Bolonese
red meat sauce rich with pastured missouri ground beef raised by karlios hinkebein in cape girardeau, missouri and our own italian sausage made with ozark mountain co-op pork.
Lighter Fare
$8.95
The Better Burger
½ pound of pastured beef raised by karlios hinkebein in cape girardeau, missouri
$9.95
The Better Cheeseburger
ketchican sandwich – smoked salmon & boursin cheese on foccacia bread
$9.95
Bbq Ashly Farms Chicken Breat Sandwich
$6.95
$9.95
Our Popular Salads
eden, chef or mayfair
$9.95
$13.50
Soup & Salad
small salad/cup of soup or large salad/bowl of soup
Homemade Ice Cream
We Make Our Own Ice Creams Here In The Restaurant Using A Quarter-century Old White Mountain Ice Cream Freezer With An Oak Tub Packed With Ice And Rock Salt
 
Belgium Chocolate
 
French Vanilla
 
Oreo
 
Sweet Cherry
 
Kahlua Cappucino
Desserts
$5.00
Penultimate Almond Cheesecake
always hand-made in our kitchen, cool, creamy and dense with a graham cracker crust.
$8.95
Bananas Flood
an extravaganza!! banana slices sautéed with pineapple and coconut, flamed with dark myers jamaican rum and poured around a big serving of our own homemade ice cream
 

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