{"id":30329,"date":"2025-12-26T14:26:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T20:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=30329"},"modified":"2025-12-26T14:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T20:26:10","slug":"good-eats-st-louis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=30329","title":{"rendered":"Good Eats, St. Louis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recalling some of the food we ate while we were in St. Louis a couple of months ago… The first place we tried was Truck Norris in Ellisville<\/a> because it was close to both MPC Ellisville<\/a> and our hotel in Chesterfield. This place originated as a food truck, which ended up getting wrecked so then they had to find a brick and mortar. Thus, Truck Norris, the restaurant, came to be.<\/p>\n

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Brian found this place while googling restaurants nearby with good reviews. <\/p>\n

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They have lots of beers on tap but are most known for their “totchos” – short for tater tot nachos, which ironically we did not have. We should have tried it but we only found out after we had already ordered our food.<\/p>\n

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Here are some pictures of the food we did have…<\/p>\n

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The next day we had lunch at a place called Ukraft in downtown St. Louis after checking out the Gateway Arch. It was highly recommended by one of the employees we met at the Arch. It was also just a short walk so we didn’t have to move our car.<\/p>\n

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I honestly don’t even remember what we ordered but we both enjoyed our meals. The chips were homemade and they gave you a generous helping. Our sandwiches and my side of slaw was good. My favorite part, however, was the brunch punch. It was alcoholic but tasted like fruit juice.<\/p>\n

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Later that evening we met up with my friend Christie Pink and her partner Travis at Billy G’s, a local restaurant chain. <\/p>\n

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Here are some pics of our dinner.<\/p>\n

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After dinner, we went to check out this place called the District<\/a> which is an entertainment area with a music\/event venue (the Factory), and several restaurants and bars.<\/p>\n

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We walked around and checked out a couple of places including a local brewery. It was a little bit chilly that night, which I wasn’t quite prepared for, so we didn’t get to enjoy much of the outdoor space but overall I found the District pretty cool. Will have to return to check it out over the summer or some other time when there’s better weather.<\/p>\n

Anyway, that was pretty much the dining we had during our quick St. Louis getaway. The dining was mostly a side thing, though. Our main mission that weekend was for me to check off the St. Charles Chicken N Pickle<\/a> location, which we accomplished. Five more locations to go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recalling some of the food we ate while we were in St. Louis a couple of months ago… The first place we tried was Truck Norris in Ellisville because it was close to both MPC Ellisville and our hotel in Chesterfield. This place originated as a food truck, which ended up getting wrecked so then […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,21],"tags":[2639,2638,3820],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30329"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30329"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30334,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30329\/revisions\/30334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}