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Located in St. Charles along historic Main Street, the Vine offers upscale wining and dining. As its name suggests, the restaurant features an extensive wine menu and, for true oenophiles, the Wine of the Month Club. Accompanying the Vine's wine selection is a menu of typical wine-bar starters, including a cheese platter and charcuterie. The restaurant also serves soups, salads and crêpes, as well as main dishes such as chicken chasseur, filet mignon and bouillabaisse. Spices for the Vine's dishes come directly from Old Town Spice Shoppe across the street. Diners with a sweet tooth can choose from the restaurant's ever-changing dessert menu. The Vine also features indoor and outdoor seating.
The days when the dining-room captain would roll out the gueridon and proceed to carve, flambé and toss your food have pretty much passed. The thing that was most frequently tossed, of course, was the caesar salad. When you think about it, the caesar was an unlikely candidate to be plucked from the hordes of aspiring greens and thrust into stardom. If you pitched the concept today — romaine lettuce, grated Parmesan cheese, anchovies, croutons and a creamy dressing — the salad moguls would thank you for your time and show you the door. Be that as it may, the caesar lives on in a kind of Gloria Swanson-esque glory, and we're the richer for it — when it's done right. When you're looking for a caesar, the trick is to stick to the basics: simple ingredients, excellently sourced, and no frou-frou add-ons. The best caesar in St. Louis remains the version served at the Vine Wine Bar & Bistro in St. Charles. The Vine's Caesar captures the pure essence of the dish, with crisp greens and shaved curls of salty Parmesan. To eat one is to discover anew why the classic is a classic — and that the caesar is still ready for its close-up.
The days when the dining-room captain would roll out the gueridon and proceed to carve, flambé and toss your food have pretty much passed. The thing that was most frequently tossed, of course, was the caesar salad. When you think about it, the caesar was an unlikely candidate to be plucked from the hordes of aspiring greens and thrust into stardom. If you pitched the concept today -- romaine lettuce, grated Parmesan cheese, anchovies, croutons and a creamy dressing -- the... More »
In the past few years it has become all too easy to take the Caesar salad for granted. Imposing itself on two out of every three menus, spilling across ever bigger plates, crying for help from the portion police, the king of salads has, alas, been relegated to a mere commoner. Caesar Cardini, the noted Mexican restaurateur said to have concocted the dish back in the 1920s, surely would have mourned his namesake becoming such an afterthought. And so it is that the discovery of a truly... More »
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