International restaurants in St. Louis

Recent Critic Reviews

Ian Froeb writes for Riverfront Times on Ice Kitchen

"So you're familiar with tapas?"

I don't fault the server for asking the question. On two previous visits to Ice Kitchen, two different servers had made the same inquiry. They were just following orders, I'm sure. Yes, I'm familiar with tapas. You're familiar with tapas. All of us in St. Louis, in this unexpectedly lovely late summer of 2009, are familiar with...
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Rose Martelli writes for Riverfront Times on Cafe Balaban

The lifespan of a restaurant — any restaurant other than fast-food joints and coffeeshops, any establishment that shoots out of the gate beholden to a finely hewn culinary genre, a name-brand chef, a marketing concept — follows a trajectory like that of a pro athlete's career, or a bottle of dependable-but-not-immortal wine. It tends to mature and then devolve along a bell...
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Rose Martelli writes for Riverfront Times on Kitchen K

Scenes from an Italian restaurant:
Tuesday, 8:22 p.m. Todd Sanders, the apron-swaddled owner of 10th Street Italian -- an almost alarmingly modest ten-week-old walk-in eatery in downtown St. Louis -- asks his last two customers of the night if they live in the neighborhood.
He's surprised, perhaps not surprisingly, to hear that they don't. In fact, they're west-county...
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