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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Dec 04
Bob has a new interview with Rue Lafayette Cafe owner Araceli Kopiloff-Zimmer on Show Me Talk Radio. It’s about half way down the page. This is one of a series of interviews that Bob is doing about local restaurants and restaurateurs.
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Oct 13
Join me as I begin my regional chicken potpie canvass. Today’s yield includes CPPs at the Ivory Street Bistro in deep south St. Louis and Picadilly at Manhattan, so deep in the heart of Maplewood that it lies just across the city limits in St. Louis.
Nick Collida, Picadilly owner, apologized. “You don’t mind if my potpie doesn’t have a bottom crust do you? He asked. “Not at all,” I replied. “I order your CPP because I like to scrape the puff pastry that drips over the sides of the bowl and tease it back into the pie . Collida’s pie comes in a large soup bowl with a large tablespoon as the operating weapon. The pie contains lima beans because “I don’t like peas in there,” Collida explains. All-white chicken, carrots, corn and onions are mates in the pie. “It’s like a chicken stew,” of his family recipe.
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