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 [...]

The Deconstructed Slinger #1: The Potatoes

This is the first post in a new series as suggested by Andrew Veety.  He told me he couldn’t tell one slinger apart from another and wanted some more information on these plates of awesome that I can’t seem to get enough of. (I did clean up the wording a little bit, and he didn’t [...]

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 9 of the Continuing Series, St. Louis’s Perfect Slinger: The 12th Street Diner

Let me start off this entry with a quick story.  As my local readers know, yesterday was really slick and nasty and snowy in the morning.  So, after I woke up I saw that I had a text from my wife asking if we were still planning on going out.  Well, I really wanted my [...]

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 [...]

St. Louis’s Perfect Slinger Part 1: The Hoagie Diner

**Note** This is the first in the continuing series in search of St. Louis’ best Slinger. I chose to move it to my current blog in order for all three to be in the same place. This particular entry is an abbreviated piece of a larger blog, before this became a continuing series. So we [...]