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
Karen Duffy, Missouri Restaurateur of 2009 (along with partner Tim Kirby) as designated by the Missouri Restaurant Association, has been in business at Euclid and McPherson in St. Louis since 1972. “Duff’s is a way of life; I wouldn’t know how to open a new restaurant today,” says Karen. “We started with nothing. We borrowed on our credit card to start Duff’s and got our silverware from the Goodwill and bought a used cooler from O’Connell’s Irish Pub that we still use. Today, people are opening million-dollar restaurants. But I love the business. Every day you think that you have everything figured out, but you don’t. It’s a hard, hard business.”
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Dec 09
Owner Marcia Sindel of La Dolce Via, 4470 Arco Avenue, St. Louis, was the subject of a Bill McClellan column in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch last summer. He announced a benefit that her friends and customers were throwing for her in September which would help pay part of the bills for hand surgeries and gallbladder removal. “She has had no health insurance for 15 years,” McClellan reported.
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