There is a Chinese restaurant on the west side of Lindbergh Boulevard, just north of the intersection of Lindbergh Boulevard and McDonnell Boulevard, adjacent to the old McDonnel-Douglas office campus. During the week, the restaurant runs a buffet for the Boeing crowd, but on Saturdays they offer dim sum instead of the buffet. Most of the clientele for the dim sum is oriental and most of the wait staff pushing the dim sum carts from table to table did not speak English. I don't know if dim sum is offered on Sunday, too. Jim E. wrote: > I know this has come up here before, but where can I get Dim Sum > in Saint Louis? Or nearby.. don't even have to be great, just good. > I'm desperate! > > -- > Jim Everman mailto:[email removed] > http://www.Anet-STL.com/~everman/ > > Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by > stupidity.
St. Louis, MO
Dim Sum
NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 11:40:27 CDT Organization: Primary Network http://www.primary.net Xref: usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu stl.dining:991 There isn't any place to get decent dim sum in ST. Louis. The DIM SUM at China Royal is disgusting slop. Greasy, no taste morsels prepared for people who don't know what real dim sum is. Although many years ago it was fair, the same cannot be said today. My advice is stay far away. Speaking of food in St. Louis, the person who does the resturant reviews for the Post Dispatch ( the only local paper here) doesn't know the difference between a dog turd and a hamburger. Directions to DIM SUM in St. Louis.. take Southwest Airlines to Chicago. FC
The place on Page which has dim sum on weekends is Eat First Garden. It's an inauspicious name, but the one time I tried it, I thought it was good and very authentic.
I first brought up the place on Page. The one I was referring to was Hunan Garden. I have visited Eat First and found the food unpalatable - it looked and tasted like it was weeks old. They may improved since I last visited a year ago (that wouldn't have taken much, believe me) but it is not a place I care to visit again. The name is probably right, come to that.
Cache-Post-Path: [email removed] X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b2 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Lines: 23 X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Complaints-To: [email removed] NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 17:11:51 EDT Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 16:12:07 -0500 Xref: usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu stl.dining:995 CGatton wrote: > > The following is not a recommendation, because I haven't tried their Dim Sum - > but their is a Chinese place on Page, between I-270 and Lindbergh (North Side) > that has Dim Sum on weekends, If someone else has tried it and has a comment, > I'd appreciate hearing from them. I have eaten lunch there many times and > found the food good and the service fine. That must be Hunan Garden? Yesterday at work, I attempted to call China Royal (or whatever it is) and found they have no listing in the Yellow Pages. While I was muttering, my cube mate, a Mr. Lin, ask me what the problem was. When I told him I was trying to find out if China Royal served Dim Sum on Sunday, he said, "Yes, they do, but don't go there - many much better places for Dim Sum in Saint Louis." (Did I mention he is Chinese?) He then recommended I try Hunan Garden on Page or Great Chef Garden on Manchester at 141. My current plan is to check out Great Chef Garden tomorrow...
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Cache-Post-Path: [email removed] X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b2 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Lines: 26 X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Complaints-To: [email removed] NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 18:44:43 EDT Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 17:45:10 -0500 Xref: usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu stl.dining:1009 CGatton wrote: > > I first brought up the place on Page. The one I was referring to was Hunan > Garden. I have visited Eat First and found the food unpalatable - it looked > and tasted like it was weeks old. They may improved since I last visited a > year ago (that wouldn't have taken much, believe me) but it is not a place I > care to visit again. The name is probably right, come to that. Somehow I missed your mention of Hunan Garden.. my loss. Oh well, I went there today and was very pleased. The food was great and a decent assortment. There should be something there to please anyone. We got there a few minutes before 11 am, and got seated quickly, but there was a waiting list when we left. Be advised. ;-) Oh yeah, we "pigged out" and left feeling stuffed. The bill was $22 for the two of us. I'm not in a real hurry to try Eat First or China Royal, but would return to Hunan Garden or Great Chef Garden any weekend