Dec 09
Recently I lunched for $5.40 at Joe Clark’s Restaurant and Bar in Fenton.
Clark’s has a steamtable-cafeteria line. You pick up your tray and utensils and slide it along the salads, desserts, entrees, and rolls. My teriyaki beef patties were splendid as were the mashed potatoes and brown gravy, canned corn and a cup of homemade ham and bean soup. Fried chicken is the Monday lunch special but they were sold out when I arrived. The place started in 1951 as Joe Clark’s Dining Room. A sign outside still says “Joe Clark’s Dining Room. Steaks 5-10”. The hours have long been changed. Lunch has been a fixture for years and the bar operation opens at 8 a.m. (Lunch is served from 11 to 2 weekdays).
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Dec 09
Book signing at Rue Lafayette, the new café across from Lafayette Park, St. Louis.
The exciting new French café/boutique, Rue Lafayette, at 2024-26 Lafayette Avenue, is drawing repeat lunch customers for strong Trieste coffee from San Francisco; croissants, especially the ham and cheese and chocolate varieties; quiches, including Lorraine, tomato and chili, and onion rosemary, and the soup of the day. The unfulfilled can order Chef Natalia’s individual-size coconut cake with Italian meringue or chocolate brownie cake. Informal seating is in the café itself or within the boutique where Natalia’s business partner, Aracelli Kopiloff-Zimmer, offers custom jewelry, French soaps, scarves, hats and other special accessories and an array of antiques and art, especially “breweryana” art collected by Aracelli’s husband, Rick Zimmer.
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Apr 20
Click the link below for an mp3 file of Bob’s interview with Donna Linn of Show Me Talk Radio.
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Enjoy!
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