Ladue News Gives Cafe Madeleine Props
Friday, October 23rd, 2009
FOODIES AND THEIR FAVES
by Trish Muyco-Tobin
Dining out isn’t all about food. Sure, the food has to please your palate, but diners also want to feel welcome and appreciated, and they expect efficient service. We asked three St. Louis foodies about the places they frequent and why.
Joan Beuckman of Warson Woods
Retired broadcast newswoman Joan Beuckman has a philosophy about dining out. “Whether it’s the service or the fact that you can always get a good table, people keep going back to the same place for many reasons, but overall it’s because being in the restaurant makes them feel good,” she says…Beuckman frequents the following:
BREAKFAST/BRUNCH
Cafe Madeleine — The setting (in Piper Palm House at Tower Grove Park) is beautiful, and the menu includes first-class cheeses and a great omelet station.
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The Butler’s Pantry, one of St. Louis’ largest catering companies with $5.4 million in local off-site sales volume last year, is rehabing the laundry facility of the old City Hospital into an 8,000-square-foot event venue called Palladium Saint Louis. “The people who did the laundry here 100 years ago had the best-kept secret in the fantastic view,” Chris Goodson, principle of the Gilded Age, which developed the space for the Butler’s Pantry. Construction on the $3 million-plus project will be completed within the month, and the venue will open Nov. 7… “There’s a certain level of craftsmanship you find in buildings done around the turn of the century and the early 1900s that at this point in time are just not as cost effective to do new,” said Mark Herman, the designer chosen to help create The Palladium. “Some of the moldings, tile work and brick work in today’s market are not feasible.”