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The 35 Best Restaurants in St. Louis — And One Restaurant of the Year

The best? It depends. The best place to announce the million-dollar contract you just got for your published memoirs isn't the same place you'd celebrate the removal of your ex-beloved's tattooed name from your — you get the point. Whether you're wishing to spend lottery winnings, some (ahem) soon-to-come stock profits, "at least I wasn't fired" money or mere pocket cash, the following restaurants should be on your list.

Here's the countdown, chosen to represent a range of restaurants within St. Louis Magazine's four-tiered pricing structure, beginning with the least expensive.

Table of Contents (October 2008)

The Scooter Diaries

Observations of a brand-new scooter commuter

Sidelined

As a college football star, Muhammad Abdulqaadir seemed destined for the NFL. But when the feds tagged his father as a possible terrorist after 9/11, the offers to play dried up. Is Abdulqaadir simply not good enough for the league, or has the image-conscious NFL blackballed him because of his father's past?

In a Dark Time, the Eye Begins to See

Most kids' understanding of "good and evil" comes via a video-game console. At the St. Louis Holocaust Museum, they learn that evil is very real — but so is goodness

Kitchen Q&A: Josh Allen