Do you still miss meeting a friend for lunch at Cardwell’s at the Plaza? Or a spur of the moment dinner there, when you didn’t feel like cooking? Bill Cardwell! Why did you take that away from us?

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Lee Redel and John Rice opened Redel’s in 1985. According to Redel, their restaurant’s success was due in part to the trust they shared with one another. Forty years later, he trusted Rice to tell their story.

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The Sunshine Inn was a vegetarian restaurant in the Central West End. Its imaginative menu, which included the Garden of Eden salad and the Golden Lion sandwich, appealed to a diverse clientele.

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Cafe Natasha served Persian food in the University City Loop and on South Grand. But Hamishe Bahrami’s story started in a small village in Iran.

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In the 1980s and ‘90s there was a restaurant in St. Louis where you could get grasshopper fritters and anchovy soufflés. It was Fio’s La Fourchette.

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How does one open a restaurant with little money, no knowledge of cooking and no knowledge of the restaurant business? Let’s ask Karen Duffy.

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For almost 25 years, Hamburger Heaven was a mecca for high school students throughout the area. Why did throngs of adolescents flock to the funny little building on Olive Street Road in University City? Let’s find out.

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The Greek Gourmet was a popular cafeteria in west St. Louis County in the ‘80s and ‘90s. But this story is less about Moussaka and Baklava, and more about a woman who grew up picking cotton.

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