st. louis food: part 1!

i was in st. louis over thanksgiving break, and i can testify that it is a wondrous place. this, like any city, is in part because i had really good tour guides, who knew where to take me. and, who knew where to eat.

not including traveling, i spent three full days there. the following include some of the places i ate, and where i would be happy to eat again. first up is...

in addition to pancakes, uncle bill also likes tudor-style buildings...

of course, i had pancakes, because otherwise everything would feel wrong. i chose german-style potato pancakes with applesauce on the side, because st. louis has a big german population. i discovered they are like very thin latkes, mixed with flour. yes, please.

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next up we have....

pho grand is authentic vietnamese cuisine. if you don't believe me, you can visit their website, which is so cool it has an intro complete with authentic vietnamese music. i must admit, this restaurant made me sad to reside in BG. in BG, we cannot get veggie spring rolls with sweet chili dipping sauce..

and we cannot get pho xao chay AKA rice noodles with tofu and veggies.

and we certainly don't have fancy coffee with condensed milk out of a rube goldberg machine that starts out looking like this...

and ends up like this.

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and, finally, i give you this restaurant...

here at mokabes, i had what was probably my favorite meal (vegetarian / vegan brunch) and took my worst two pictures. don't believe me? take a looksee...

ok, first of all, it was a buffet, and second, it was dark, and its embarrassing to take a flashy pic of one's food in a hipster restaurant. but let me say that this was absolutely amazing.

some of the things on my plate include vegetarian biscuits and gravy, quiche, stuffed french toast, veggie sausage, eggs, and cranberry chutney, and the first little seiten cutlet i've ever enjoyed. there was also lots of fruit, tofu scramble, banana bread, blondie brownies, and, to drink, orange/strawberry juice...

here is the link to their website. their slogan is, 'you should be at mokabe's,' and they are right.

tomorrow, pizza review of st. louis. one word: provel