Photo by Laurie Skrivan (Post-Dispatch)
Quincy Street Bistro
Another year, another chef change for Quincy Street Bistro. Chris Ladley — who had succeeded Chris Tirone, who in turn had succeeded Rick Lewis, the chef who had reinvented the Princeton Heights neighborhood tavern as a destination for comfort food with a St. Louis accent — left the restaurant last fall. The chef now, his kitchen staff tells me, goes by Chef Birk. The Quincy Street Bistro concept has proved itself strong enough to weather its kitchen carousel, and if the excitement that greeted its transformation a few years ago has settled into pleasant familiarity, that doesn’t make its chicken and biscuits, toasted ravioli with smoked hog-head meat or (my new favorite) pit-beef sandwich any less appealing.
Hours: Lunch and dinner Monday-Saturday
Opened: 2011
Must order: Pit-beef sandwich ($10)