Thread by @ianfroeb, This year's edition of the STL 100 came out over the weekend. [...]

This year's edition of the STL 100 came out over the weekend. You can scroll through the whole thing at the link below, but I want to highlight a few items at a time. https://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/dining/the-stl-100-what-we-love-what-we-miss-what-we-will-eat-again/collection_917bd1fd-dd5b-51ca-9270-bcafdf644155.html#22

The STL 100: What we love, what we miss, what we will eat again

This year, the STL 100 celebrates the St. Louis people, restaurants and foods we love and have missed. No awards, no rankings — just appreciation.

https://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/dining/the-stl-100-what-we-love-what-we-miss-what-we-will-eat-again/collection_917bd1fd-dd5b-51ca-9270-bcafdf644155.html#22

I talked to Logan Ely, who announced his new restaurant the Lucky Accomplice mere days after the initial pandemic shutdown, about the past year: https://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/dining/7-pandemic-logan-ely-won-t-stop/article_6d5be8c3-3569-599e-b33f-47b22ec0ab8f.html

7 • Pandemic? Logan Ely won’t stop

When Logan Ely announced his plans to open the Lucky Accomplice, a more casual sibling to his acclaimed Fox Park restaurant Shift (originally known as Savage), it shouldn’t have been

https://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/dining/7-pandemic-logan-ely-won-t-stop/article_6d5be8c3-3569-599e-b33f-47b22ec0ab8f.html

I also talked to Jimmy Trinh, who opened the Banh Mi Shop a couple of weeks *before* the pandemic and had a vantage point onto the Loop over the year: https://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/dining/4-the-banh-mi-shop-one-year-later/article_e0da89ca-a21a-5af8-b13a-b918673b66c5.html

4 • The Banh Mi Shop, one year later

More than once while sitting outside the Banh Mi Shop, Jimmy Trinh has watched Washington University students walk by his Delmar Loop restaurant lugging suitcases.“I stopped one,” Trinh says, “and

https://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/dining/4-the-banh-mi-shop-one-year-later/article_e0da89ca-a21a-5af8-b13a-b918673b66c5.html

It's not all pandemic! Here Anita Matthews of Ms. Piggie's Smokehouse talks that STL icon, the pork steak: https://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/dining/23-at-ms-piggies-pork-steaks-are-a-cut-above-the-rest/article_f417b98e-c920-5f3a-be90-6ceacabce74f.html

23 • At Ms. Piggies’, pork steaks are a cut above the rest

The pork steak is a staple of backyard grilling in St. Louis, but as with most things pig, it reaches its full potential in the smoker. And while the pork

https://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/dining/23-at-ms-piggies-pork-steaks-are-a-cut-above-the-rest/article_f417b98e-c920-5f3a-be90-6ceacabce74f.html

From Colleen Schrappen, a peek behind the scenes at the beloved Wednesday lunch at St. Raymond Maronite Cathedral: https://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/dining/26-wednesdays-mean-lebanese-lunches-at-st-raymond-maronite-cathedral/article_3c8f3af6-0444-5dc2-a379-e5c2c70a8476.html

26 • Wednesdays mean Lebanese lunches at St. Raymond Maronite Cathedral

On Wednesdays, we eat kibbe.“It’s the tradition,” says Denise Seifert of Imperial. “It’s passed down generation to generation.”Midweek luncheons at St. Raymond Maronite Cathedral started almost 80...

https://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/dining/26-wednesdays-mean-lebanese-lunches-at-st-raymond-maronite-cathedral/article_3c8f3af6-0444-5dc2-a379-e5c2c70a8476.html

Valerie Hahn talks to the operator of a pop-up neighborhood food pantry: https://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/dining/17-neighbors-helping-neighbors-with-pop-up-pantries/article_0fd564be-69c8-5525-a5fe-bb649d298b64.html

17 • Neighbors helping neighbors with pop-up pantries

Pop-up food pantries aren’t necessarily new — if you look in alleys or on curbsides, you’ll sometimes find a cabinet, table or box with food for the taking. It’s similar

https://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/dining/17-neighbors-helping-neighbors-with-pop-up-pantries/article_0fd564be-69c8-5525-a5fe-bb649d298b64.html

And to wrap up this thread, how the walk-up window became a pandemic lifeline for Earthbound Beer and an example of following your employees' lead: https://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/dining/13-opening-the-window-at-earthbound-beer/article_7d9ccb24-9638-5fb5-ba2a-636d6bb2700e.html

13 • Opening the window at Earthbound Beer

Earthbound Beer installed its walk-up window a few years before the pandemic, during the renovation of the Cherokee Street building that is now its brewery and tasting room. Inspired by

https://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/dining/13-opening-the-window-at-earthbound-beer/article_7d9ccb24-9638-5fb5-ba2a-636d6bb2700e.html

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