Part 30 of the Continuing Series, St. Louis’s Perfect Slinger: Big Ed’s Chili Mac

Off on another trek to get another slinger at another diner in the City of St. Louis. This time we returned to a place where we’d had a slinger fail: Ed’s Chili Mac’s Diner. This time, with my paternity leave going, we knew they’d be open and I’d be able to get a slinger. What [...]

Part 25 of The Continuing Series, St. Louis’s Perfect Slinger: The U’s Proper Slinger

Alrighty then! So, I’m really stupid late on this particular post.  For that I apologize greatly, but better late than never.  Also, we’re going to use stock photos from the first visit to The U when I got their slinger burger. So let’s get down to it I suppose.  This weekend, we were going to [...]

Part 24 of the Continuing Series, St. Louis’s Perfect Slinger: Tiffany’s Diner

Good morning! Welcome back to the show that never ends, but does seem to take long breaks these days.  Sorry!! Well, I have some good reasons…most of which being that my life is changing and getting far more hectic far more quickly than I expected.  I’m also hard at work on the Floodplain Footy, and [...]

Part 18 of the Continuing Series, St. Louis’s Perfect Slinger: The Goody Goody Diner

Here we go again! Off on another slinger trip.  As seeming regular now, this trip for the next great slinger in St. Louis City started off with failures.  First we headed downtown to the Missouri Grille…fail…they weren’t open yet. Then off to Jack Patrick’s. ..fail..they weren’t open yet either.  So, we turned the car and [...]

Part 15 of the Continuing Series, St. Louis’s Perfect Slinger: City Diner

A couple of weeks back, after my wife and I had been out to a fish fry at St. Pius, we had gone out and were having a nice time, she says to me, are you hungry?  Well, I wasn’t starving but I surely could eat.  So she wants to know if I’d like to [...]

Part 13 Of The Continuing Series, St. Louis’s Perfect Slinger: Courtesy Diner Hampton

So, as we set out on what was to become the The 13th Slinger Review for the 13 Blog, I reflected a little bit as to where this silly blog has gone. I’m really proud of where we’re headed here and I want to thank all of my loyal readers, who seem to be growing. [...]

The U’s Slinger Burger

This past Saturday, I chose to make my return to a little sandwich shop in Midtown St. Louis called The U.  It had been a very long time since I’d been there and now they’re serving breakfast.  When you serve breakfast in St. Louis, you’d better have a slinger.  So, with a faithful friend we [...]

Part 8 of the Continuing Series, St. Louis’s Perfect Slinger: The White Knight Diner

Today my companion and I went on our next diner jaunt, The White Knight Diner on 18th and Locust. Let me preface this entry with a short story. I was telling the story of how this little blog got started to Christine, the owner of the Riverside Cafe, on Tuesday when we were enjoying the [...]

Part 7 of the Continuing Series: St. Louis’s Perfect Slinger, The Buttery Restaurant

So, this morning, my faithful diner companion and I went off on our next adventure. I, searching for the next great slinger, and he, enjoying my company. We decided to head deep into the the heart of South St. Louis today at The Buttery Restaurant. Located on Grand Blvd in the neighborhood of Gravois Park, [...]

Part 5 of the Continuing Series: St. Louis’s Perfect Slinger, Billie’s Fine Foods

With my future father in law, though not so future now, in tow, I headed out on our next diner adventure. Being as the fiancee’s bridal shower was today, and was being held at his house, he decided it would be a great day for us to head out to a diner. He chose Billie’s [...]