Last Meal in St. Louis
Posted on July 14, 2022 by Ching under Food and Drink, Travel.
Brian and I hit Einstein Bros. for breakfast before starting our drive home. It was my first time eating one of their breakfast sandwiches and it was quite good, actually. Check out some sandwich pics below.
I kinda wish we had an Einstein Bros. here in Wichita.
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Padrinos Mexican Restaurant
Posted on July 13, 2022 by Ching under Food and Drink, Travel.
Padrinos is good stuff! Donnie and Tiffany Lesperance ate there earlier that week and really liked it so we decided to bring our group over there and hoped that they would join us. They decided to eat dinner with their housemates though, so we ended up going without them. That meant they did not have Mexican food two days in a row, which is completely unheard of!
Clockwise from left: Bo Tolbert, Ryan Kellenbarger, Chris Wilson, me, Ramon Lozano, Kendra Wicks, and Brian.
They put a “Reserved” sign at our table and everything.
Brian always gets a super basic bean and cheese burrito.
Here are some pics of the rest of our food.
My sangria was pretty good.
Ramon enjoyed his drink, too.
Anyway, this place was pretty good. I liked it even better than the other place we went to – El Burro Loco. I highly recommend it. Until next time, GNG.
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Mack’s Bar and Grill
Posted on July 12, 2022 by Ching under Food and Drink, Travel.
It was a miracle of miracles. We managed to pry our friends Donnie and Tiffany Lesperance away from eating Mexican food. That’s all they ever eat. Well, that and Texas Roadhouse. LOL.
We managed to convince them to go with us to Mack’s Bar and Grill because (a) it was close to the tournament venue, (b) it was known for good pizza, and (c) had great reviews. Brian is kind of big of the reviews and usually stays away from any place with less than four stars. It’s just one of his quirks.
The restaurant serves other food too, besides just pizza. Here are some pics of the other food our group ordered.
Anyway, the food was pretty good and the service was great. Overall, it lived up to the online reviews and I wouldn’t mind going there again if I’m back in the area.
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Pictures from Our Dinner at Salt + Smoke
Posted on July 11, 2022 by Ching under Food and Drink, Travel.
We had such a great experience on our last visit to Salt + Smoke that we decided to go back. Unbeknownst to us, there are multiple Salt + Smoke locations in St. Louis. Anyway, we ended up at a different one and it wasn’t as good as the first one that we tried the year before.
The food was decent but not as good as I remembered. The popovers, which I loved on that first visit, were just okay. Probably because these weren’t as fresh. We were the only table in the entire restaurant for a long time but service was slow and not as friendly as it was at the other place. Despite being the only ones there, the server hardly checked on us or refilled our drinks.
The menu items and the sauces were the same but, even though it was the same food, the experience really wasn’t as good. Bottom line? Not all Salt + Smokes are created equal and, if you find one that you like, you’ll probably have better luck if you go to that same one rather than going to the “closest” one as we had done.
Here are some pictures of our food from this visit.
Until next time, GNG.
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Life-Changing Cheddar Grits
Posted on July 8, 2022 by Ching under Food and Drink, Travel.
I’ve never really liked grits but, after our last trip to St. Louis, I realized the reason I don’t like grits is because I’ve never really had good grits before. Chris Wilson, Brian, and I had breakfast at this place called Songbird. It was there that I tasted the best grits I’d ever had.
It doesn’t look like much but these grits tasted amazing. They were so good, the three of us almost went back there again the next day, except I had to play early in the morning and the restaurant wouldn’t have been open in time.
Here are pictures of the rest of our food. Brian had a basic breakfast sandwich (above). I had the farm toast with shaved ham and a fried egg.
Chris had a muffin breakfast sandwich.
Besides the very photogenic food, the restaurant itself was quite photogenic also with its brightly painted interior.
Here’s us, waiting for our food with eager anticipation.
Chris and Brian enjoyed some coffee while we waited.
Brian, my little coffee connoisseur, said their coffee was pretty good.
Here’s a pic of Chris’ cappuccino.
The three of us agreed this restaurant was one of the highlights of our trip. It was a real gem and one heck of a find!
It was truly a farm to table experience. They grew their own herbs out back and, I’m guessing that the “locally-sourced honey” on the menu came from this beehive.
I’m so glad that we came across this place while looking for breakfast options that day. I highly recommend checking out Songbird out if you’re ever in the St. Louis area. I plan to return one day, when we go back to claim the bottle of wine we won from our AirBnB host. LOL. Until next time, GNG.
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