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P’sghetti’s Pasta and Sandwiches

Phone: 314-849-5334

3340 Lindbergh Blvd

St. Louis, MO 63123

Psghetti’s Pasta and Sandwiches is a small family place in South County. They are best known for their bread that has a little sweetness to it. It is different but it makes their sandwiches and garlic bread taste so good. This place has all of the Italian pasta favorites from, spaghetti, mostaccioli, garlic bread. In addition to those they also have pizza bread, roast beef sandwiches, sub sandwiches, toasted raviolis, and much more. P’sghetti’s is a place where you order at the counter and then they will call your number when your food is ready. I ordered the hot roast beef sandwich with a side of au jus. The bread makes this sandwich unlike any other roast beef sandwich. The sandwich is very cheesy and very good.

Prices: Prices are reasonable for the food you get. An order of pasta is less than five dollars and you can get a side of garlic bread for a couple of bucks. I recommend going to P’sghetti’s and getting something with the bread.

Qdoba Mexican Grill—Multiple Locations, Find Location

Qdoba is like a Mexican Subway. Pick your burrito, tacos or nachos and pick the toppings to go on it. It is a good place to go and grab a quick burrito when you are short on time. The burritos are huge. Qdoba has very good burritos and great queso cheese dip. The best thing to do is to get the queso on the burrito. I like the queso burrito with chicken. I went back again and got the shredded beef queso burrito. They are both very good. The shredded beef is tender and something different than just getting chicken. The nachos always look good. Next time I go back I am going to get the nachos.

Prices: I ordered a shredded beef queso burrito and a drink for around $8.

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St. Louis Bread Company—Multiple Locations

The St. Louis Bread Co. has grown tremendously over the past 6 years or so, and they have become annoyingly big. Service has suffered, prices have risen and I can hardly find a place to sit at lunch time. I remember when I could place a special order and they would not mess anything up, now it is a rarity when I place a special order and something is not messed up. I also remember when two people could eat at The St. Louis Bread Co. and it would cost under $12, now it is hard for two people to eat there and it cost under $20.

Enough about the bad. The St. Louis Bread Company is a very good place to eat. They serve good food. They have good sandwiches, salads and soups. You cannot go wrong with the french onion soup in a bread bowl. This is the best thing the Bread Co. serves. Also on the menu are good coffee drinks, if you like coffee.

SoCo’s Deli and Gyros

Phone number: 314-843-7900

5530 S. Lindbergh Blvd

St. Louis MO, 63123

This deli offers all of the sandwiches that you would expect from a deli. This place offers chicken, turkey, roast beef and gyros. You can get a sandwich or a wrap. I went with the Italian beef. The sandwich was good, not great. It could of used some more cheese. I also tasted the Philly beef. It was the same as the Italian beef but without the banana peppers. The sandwiches were $5.50 and a salad was $1.70. It is a pretty good deal for a sandwich. Next time I will get the Gyro and let you know if they should include the Gyro in their name or not.

Steak ‘n Shake—Multiple Locations

Steak n Shake does not want to be considered as a fast food restaurant, but if you have a drive through, it is fast food. Steak n Shake’s motto is “Famous for Steakburgers”. The steak burger is pretty good but not as good as Culver’s. Steak n Shake has great chili, and they have those unique fries that are really skinny. Steak n Shake is a good place to go and get some hearty food. Prices are reasonable. I ordered the cheeseburger platter and it cost around $6. I recommend going there.

Schottzie’s

Phone number: 314-842-7244

11428 Concord Village Ave

St. Louis, MO 63123

Shotzie’s is a small little bar situated between Lin Ferry and Lindbergh. This place is always packed with people all day long. This place is a local place that serves good food and cold beer. This place has some of the best St. Louis style pizza around. This sauce is sweet and it is very cheesy. This place has a huge menu filled with all of the fried bar favorites, to home style foods like country fried steak and mashed potatoes. This is a definite recommendation to go and get their pizza. It might be the best in St. Louis.

One step into Schottzie's bar and grill and you will be smelling like smoke for the next three days. But don't let the smoke filled place scare you away. The inside is an open room with about 20 tables and a bar along one wall. Schottzie's has some of the best food in South County, MO. The menu is stacked with the usual bar food, and even some unexpected food that is not found in all bars. They have chicken fried steak, shrimp, meatloaf, and all kinds of other stuff. The best thing at Schottzies is the pizza. The pizza at Schotzie's is some of the best in St. Louis. The pizza has a good sweet sauce and has a crispy thin crust. Schottzie's is also a great place to drink and hang out for a few beers.

I went to Schottzie's for lunch and ordered the chicken fried steak sandwich, and a house salad. The best part of the house salad is that it comes with a hot, soft pretzel. The country fried steak sandwich could have been better but it was still good. It was not as good a Kenrick's steak sandwich, but it is still good. The salad was a good salad with a lot of cheese, and a hot soft pretzel. While the menu is full of sandwiches, dinners, and other bar food, the pizza is a must have at Schottzie's.

Prices: $4.75 for a sandwich, $1.75 for fries, $4.50, and $1.25 for an iced tea

White Castle—Multiple Locations

White Castle’s is one of St. Louis’ gems. What a great place to eat at any time of the day or night. It was about two o’clock in the morning, and we drove through White Castle. There is nothing better than their little jalapeno cheeseburgers and chicken rings with cheese at two in the morning. This was after a night of drinking at the baseball game and then drinking some more at a bar. Good thing I didn’t drive. There are only a limited number of restaurants that will hit the spot under these circumstances and White Castle is one of them.

White Castle has some of the best drunk food ever. And the thing that is different about White Castle’s drunk food is that it still taste delicious when you are not drunk. For example, Eat Right has some of the best food at three in the morning, but there is no way I would set food in that place in daylight. The little White Castle hamburger is so tender and good it is like no other hamburger I have ever tasted. The menu has a ton of good food listed on it. Usually when I go to a place to eat I stick to one or two things, but at White Castle I can’t ever make up my mind. They have hamburgers, cheeseburgers, fish sandwiches, fish nibblers, chicken rings, cheese sticks, and more.

We are lucky here in St. Louis because we are blessed with so many White Castles. If you go about 120 miles west to Columbia, Missouri you can’t find one anywhere. This is a disgrace because when I would go down there to visit I would get hammered and I would want some White Castle’s and I would always be disapointed by some place I would end up eating.

Prices: Around 55-70 cents for a hamburger or cheeseburger. $2.50 for some chicken rings with cheese. Prices are very cheap.

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Sam's Steakhouse
10205 Gravois Rd
St. Louis, MO 63123
Phone Number: 314-849-3033

Sam's Steakhouse in Affton is a great place to eat. Be prepared to spend around $100 on two people. The inside was nice. There were two sections. One was for non smoking and the other was the bar area and it was smoking. The bar area looked much nicer than the non-smoking section, so we sat in the bar area. The non-smoking section looked dated and from the 80's. The smoking section was very nice and looked like it had an original feel to it. Plus, the Blues game and ALCS game was on at the time, so the woman, and I wanted to watch those. The only TV was in the bar area. There was even a live piano player in the bar area, which made the atmosphere even better. The service was very good. Our meal was not too long and not to short. I hate when I am waiting forever for the next course. They did not do that at Sam's everything was perfect.

The daily special was a filet and lobster for $37.95 and the wife ordered that. I ordered the filet and shrimp for $33.95. Both came with a salad and a side. The Filet was very good. I ordered mine, medium. The steak was still red in the middle, just the way I like it. The Steak was tender, and juicy. And when it was topped with the Sam's Steak sauce that was put on it it was very good. The shrimp were very good as well. They were huge shrimp. They were a little spicy and really buttery. They were very good as well. I had a piece of lobster, but I think the shrimp were much better. I would suggest ordering the shrimp. Overall the place was very good and I would go back to get the same thing.

Prices: 33.95 for a 10oz filet and shrimp, salad and a side. $37.95 for the daily special. $4.25 for a bottle of Bud Light. $4.50 for an Amberbock Draft.

Taco Bell

Taco Bell has many locations throughout the St. Louis area.

Taco Bell is the most well know Mexican fast food restaurant. Although it is the most well know that does not make it the best. Del Taco is better than Taco Bell. The problem with Del Taco in the St. Louis are is that they have the wrong people running the stores and the inside of the stores are disgusting. Unlike the disgustingness of Dell Taco, Taco Bell keeps many of their stores clean, or at least cleaner than Del Taco.

Taco Bell serves all of the well know favorites from tacos to burritos. There are always so many choices when eating at Taco Bell. The items that I usually order are the nacho supreme and the soft taco supreme. I have not ordered the cheesy gordita crunch in a while but that is also one of my favorites. While Taco Bell is a fast food chain it is still good to eat every once in a while. They have very good melted cheese

Shogun Japanese Steak House
10550 Baptist Church Road
St. Louis, MO 63128
Phone Number: 314-842-8889

I have never been to Shogun before, but I always have fun at the place where the people cook the food in front of you, so I was excited. We sat at a table that seats eight, there was six of us, so I felt sorry for the two people that were stuck with us. Inside Shogun there is a bar with a sushi bar. There are also tables around the bar area that do not have the grill, if you are looking to order something that is not cooked in front of you. We wanted to be entertained so we sat at the table with the grill. The menu for what you can order and have it cooked in front of you consists of chicken, steak, shrimp, scallops, and lobster. And they also have various combination of two meats. Most dinners came with fried rice, soup, salad, and two shrimp.

I ordered the combination of steak and scallops. Our salad and soup were the first things to come out. The soup was just a broth of some sort, but the salad had a good tasting oriental dressing to it. After we were done with the soup and salad the chef came out and brought all of the food. He started out by lighting a big fire on the grill and threw the rice on shortly after. When the rice went on the grill he also threw the vegetables on the grill, started chopping them up and throwing them at people. I didn't catch one. But, he did squirt a bunch of sake in my mouth out of the bottle. It was a nice surprise. I was expecting water, but it felt like I was in Cancun again with people blowing whistles and squirting alcohol down my throat. Back to the food. The chef did all of his little tricks and cooked the food, portioned it out and went about on his way.

The steak was very good and tender, but the best part of the meal was the scallops. These scallops were tender and delicious. Next time I go I am going to get all scallops. That's how good they were. All in all it was a great experience and I would go again.

Prices are a little expensive. It is about $20 for a dinner. Some are a little more and some are a little less.

Red Burrito

I have seen the Red Burrito's being put into the Hardee's locations over the past few years. I guess Hardee's can't live on their burgers alone. Didn't Hardee's try to differentiate themselves from all of the other fast food restaurants by just offering burgers and nothing else? Well I guess they are not concentrating on their burgers, because those are not even that good anymore. But, to put in a Red Burrito? That just goes against their whole plan.

Anyway, I went into Hardee's on Lemay Ferry, in the Deirberg's Plaza to get breakfast one day and I saw that they have a salsa bar for the Red Burrito part of the place. Any place that has a salsa bar, or sauce bar of any kind is one step ahead of the other restaurants. I like to get as much of something or as little of something as I would like.

Red Burrito is just like Taco Bell. I was really hoping that Red Burrito would have a fish taco, but to my disappointment they didn't. I ordered a soft taco, and a chicken quesadilla. They tasted just like Taco Bell. But, if I had a choice of going to Taco Bell and Red Burrito, I would choose Red Burrito. This is solely based on the fact that Red Burrito has a salsa bar. Taco Bell should really look into getting one of those. I bet they will do much better business.

Prices: One soft taco and a chicken quesadilla - $5.71

Subway - Multiple Locations

Subway has become an American institution. They continue to develop more sandwiches and a wide variety of sandwiches. It is hard not to find a Subway anywhere in St. Louis, they are all over the place. Subway keeps it simple. They make sandwiches how much more simple can it get. Subway has something for everyone. With turkey, ham, roast beef, salami, steak, etc., everyone can find something they like at Subway. Subway is fast, good, and a pretty good price. Many places have tried to duplicate Subways success by making sandwiches, but Subway is still dominant.

When I went to Subway the other day I ordered a turkey and roast beef sandwich. They really need to work on the toasters at Subway, because It doesn't really toast a good sandwich. It is like a microwave that stales the bread. I thought they would have found something better than this by now. But, the sandwiches are still very good. I get a six inch and put the toppings and a few sauces and I am good to go. Prices are good, food is good, and Subway is usually very fast, even when there is a long line.