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Niche
St Louis, MO

1831 SIDNEY ST.
314-773-7755
WWW.NICHESTLOUIS.COM

With plaudits encompassing everything from "fresh ingredients" to "inventive preparations" to "knowledgeable servers" to "yummy wine and cocktails," Gerard Craft’s restaurant is the hands-down winner for best restaurant in St. Louis. Featuring what was described as "hearty and soul-satisfying farm-to-table cooking," Craft's menu tantalizes diners with offerings like a foie-gras banh mi with carrots, radishes, cilantro and jalapeno; lasagna stuffed with truffled béchamel, wild mushrooms, fontina cheese, a farm egg and sage brown butter; and a crispy pig trotter stuffed with a mixture of leg meat and chanterelle mushrooms. Reviewers rave, "Amazing things are done with unexpected ingredients," "went four times over the past year and I have yet to be disappointed" and “could hold its own against many restaurants in bigger cities.”