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ThreeOneFour wrote:I know it's got typical bar food, but the attraction for me is the fried chicken special. I'm sure a lot of you stay away from fried chicken completely, but for me it's a guilty pleasure, one that I'd give up all other culinary guilty pleasures to savor. Not only is the chicken delicious, they practically give it away. You can get 1/2 fried chicken with a variety of sides- and on Wednesdays they sell it for $5.95. (I don't know what full price is, but I'm sure it's still a steal.)

Fried Chicken? Actually, thats a pretty big deal in the old school SStL bar scene. How about the brain sandwich (another SStL fav)?

^ You're right about chicken- I know that not far from Ferguson's, you can also get some great chicken at Crusoe's (Osceola @ Compton) and Skip's (South Broadway @ Osceola). I've never tried a brain sandwich, and I'm not sure that I ever will even though I have a sense of adventure about food, but I'm sure there must be some bars in the city that still serve them. I know there's a bar in South County that has them on the menu, but I cannot recall the name of the place.

^^^agreed. I also consider myself a rather adventurous gourmand and I will never eat a brain sandwich. My old man, however, loves them. Personally, the organ meat that I actually enjoy the taste of, and not eat for novelty purposes, is sweetbreads. Very good.



Back to the Fried Chicken thing. There is varying POV's on this but I'm convinced the South City Fried Chicken phenomena is German in origin. Freeburg, IL and it's surrounding farming communities are both heavily German (Alsace-Lorraine) and very, very big on Fried Chicken.



I'll call my dad and get then names of the bars that serve the brain sandwich. I recall one or two in Dutchtown and one on Broadway south of Soulard.

ttricamo wrote:Back to the Fried Chicken thing. There is varying POV's on this but I'm convinced the South City Fried Chicken phenomena is German in origin. Freeburg, IL and it's surrounding farming communities are both heavily German (Alsace-Lorraine) and very, very big on Fried Chicken.

That makes perfect sense- we went to the Millstadt Homecoming this past summer and had some excellent fried chicken there.

Friendlys is about the best South City 'sports bar' I have been to in a long time. It is like a mini Dave & Busters. They have a wide array of bar games including pool, darts etc..but they also have skee ball, a boxing game, some electronic poker game, free popcorn(popcorn maker), a wall of flat screen TVs and shuffle board. They also have a young, cool crowd. Not your typical south city pub. Highly recommend.



Black Thorn for pizza before that (right up the street) would get the night off to a great start.

^ Not gonna lie. That post kind of makes it seem like you have a drinking problem...

^Lemmon's has the same pizza and is much larger. Usually I call ahead so the pizza is close to ready when I get there.



What was the place that was there before the Royale? For some reason I thought it had a 'shot' wheel.

How about Milo's on the Hill? Great patio in a cool neighborhood. Love the Boce ball when it starts getting warm out.



Every Monday night during NFL season, the have 10 cent wings and 50 hotdogs. The dogs suck, but the wings are great. Some friends and I have made it a tradition and Milo's reserves our table (without us asking). When we show up at 7:00 every Monday, they have our beers and wings ready. Great sign of a neighborhood bar!

^^The "Royale" used to cater to hockey fans. I forget the old name, though.

Before it was The Royale the name of the bar was the Real Bar or Reale Bar. I never went there, but dated a girl briefly whose softball team used to stop and have drinks after games at Tower Grove Park. If I remember correctly from what she told me at the time (and this is going back 5 yrs. or so) the owners moved out of state and sold the place to Steve Smith.



Also, I just noticed the Bleeding Deacon when I stopped to get gas the other day at the Quik Trip at Gravois and Chippewa. Definitely need to stop by that joint sometime.

juiceindogtown wrote:

I can't believe no one has mentioned Seamus McDaniel's yet.

May seem as if I am playing favorites, but Seamus has some of the best bar & grill food in town. Been all over town, always go back to Seamus McDaniels.



I don't know if anyone mentioned Joanie's and Johnny's (how could anyone leave that place out).



The Scottish Arms is one of the best 'pubs' in town. Great food too!

Matt Drops The H wrote:The Filling Station

I didn't know they had food. I lived near there for a couple years and am not a "Venice" type of guy, so I went there a lot. Shot a lot of pool on their crappy outdoor table.



Led to a really funny incident in which a drunk hippie stumbled over from Venice and got into an argument about the Iraq War with one of TFS's regular patrons. Not the anti-war type. Good stuff.

Anyone have recommendations for south broadway bars in Carondelet? Or places to avoid? Looking to set up a bar crawl since I see a lot of interesting places on this stretch.

Blackthorn in Tower Grove Heights is the place to go for a pizza and a bucket.
The Mack in south Hampton for cheap burgers on Monday or Friday or half off pizza on Sunday and watch the rams game
Peppers on Saturday night for a pony show

The Iowa Buffet is my favorite neighborhood bar - Iowa and Winnebago in Gravois Park. The food is great, burgers every day and BBQ on the weekends. Great prices too. The place is a real gem.