St. Louis’s Perfect Slinger #35: Carondelet Diner

I received an email from the former owner of Riverside Cafe. She wanted to let me know that she and her family were opening up a new restaurant and that she really wanted me to try her slinger. Her slinger was always one of my favorites and I was very sad to see her larger [...]

St. Louis’s Perfect Slinger #34: Bailey’s Range

On a Friday evening that saw the Four Hands Brewery opening up for their soft opening, we ended up at Bailey’s Range. When we arrived at the Four Hands, we were informed that they had been out of Four Hands beer for over an hour. Well, we were disappointed but then we decided to hit [...]

Courtesy Diner Kingshighway Revisted

A friend of mine from out of town, Kalamzoo, MI to be exact, wanted to try her first slinger. She’d seen me eat a couple and she was finally ready to throw down. Well, I had to think where could I take her that I knew would have a good slinger? Well, my first thought [...]

St. Louis’s Perfect Slinger #33: The 1904 Beerhouse

My wife noticed that a slinger could be had at the 1904 Beerhouse. OK, when are we going? It has been too long since I have reviewed a slinger. If you saw me on HEC-TV,  you know that I realize this has been too long. So, here we are and what was really delightful about this [...]

Part 32 of the Continuing Series, St. Louis’s Perfect Slinger: Piccadilly At Manhattan

I’ve been so busy with fish frys, steak sandwiches, beers, and other such nonsense, I didn’t realize I hadn’t gone out for a slinger in forever and a day. I looked back through my posts…it has been over two months since I’ve gone out to review a slinger. Who in the hell let me go [...]

The Return to Chris’s Pancake House

So, I have never done this before, but I think I need to revisit Chris’s Pancake House. Hopefully, someone who’s reading this will have read the original trip to Chris’s Pancake House. If not, just click there. Their slinger was the gold standard of slingers for a very long time, until Big Ed’s Chili Mac, [...]

The Slinger Casserole

Sometime last year…I was told that since I have such ideas as to what a perfect slinger should be…I should make one myself and blog about that….well…I’m no good at making hash browns…just can’t do it…so that idea is basically nixed. However, this is about as close as I’m going to come that until such [...]

Part 31 of the Continuing Series, St. Louis’s Perfect Slinger: Murdoch Perk

With all the beer talk, the Poutine, the Potato Chips, I wonder if anybody has forgotten that we still love the slinger here at the 13 Blog… Of course not…so here we go one more time. Thanks to a reader, we were going to head to the Southtown Pub for their Sunday Brunch Slinger…well…we couldn’t [...]

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 29 of the Continuing Series, St. Louis’s Perfect Slinger: Shady Jack’s Saloon

This past weekend we took another trip out to find a slinger…my last one before the baby actually…  What we didn’t know when we got in the car was that we would be ending up in on the Near North Side in a biker bar… But let’s back up a little bit.  One of my [...]