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Stadium Foods Ranking In St. Louis

Besides actually watching the games, one of the best parts and experiences of heading to any stadium in St. Louis, is trying out all of the amazing foods they have to offer. A lot of the time, these foods are something that you wouldn’t be able to get anywhere else. So here are how all of the foods stack up at the St. Louis stadiums.

They begin, for instance, with french fries. That’s simple enough. But then they add chili and cheese and maybe some sausage, and before you know it you have consumed half a day’s total allotted calories.

Or perhaps you’re tempted by a Taste of the Hill burger, which was introduced last year at Busch Stadium. That’s two smashed hamburgers covered in marinara sauce and Provel cheese, served on buns made with Budweiser beer and topped with two toasted ravioli.

So fried food is big at stadiums, and, like the patrons, only becoming bigger. Sugar is popular, too, both in liquid (soft drinks) and solid (candy) forms. Also ice cream, which is sort of in between the two.

There is a hockey game going on at the stadium, or a baseball game or a basketball game or something that closely resembles football. The idea is that the game will distract you from the calories you are consuming and the money you are spending for them.

And that’s important right now.

It’s March, and it’s time for a little madness.

Every year, Go! Magazine puts together a food-related bracket at approximately the same time the NCAA holds its own, somewhat lesser-known sports bracket. Coincidentally, our bracket this year also has a sports-related theme: the best stadium food.

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The interior of Cinder House, located on the eighth floor of the Four Seasons Hotel St. Louis downtown. Photo by Cristina M. Fletes, cfletes@post-dispatch.com.


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A look at upcoming special dinners, pop-ups and other restaurant events…

Cinder Bar Launch at Cinder House

When 5-8 p.m. Thursday (March 5) • Where Cinder House, 999 North Second Street • How much Free • More info 314-881-5759

Cinder House, Gerard Craft’s Brazilian-inspired restaurant at the Four Seasons Hotel St. Louis, is introducing a new menu and a new look for its bar. Cinder Bar now features such shareable dishes as piri piri chicken wings, empanadas and stuffed dates with bacon, chorizo and ají panca sauce. Cinder House is celebrating Cinder Bar’s launch with a happy hour featuring passed bites and cocktails, with additional food and drink available for purchase.

Beast Butcher & Block Dinner with Gerard Craft and Cinder House

When 6:30 p.m. March 10 • Where Beast Butcher & Block, 4156 Manchester Avenue • How much $80 (includes food and gratuity) • More info 314-944-6003; beastbbqstl.com

Source: https://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/dining/how-does-stadium-food-stack-up-choose-your-ballgame-bites/article_b23bd465-64fd-5443-8548-4753eb44dadc.html

More International Flights to St. Louis?

Traveling in and out of St. Louis usually is not too difficult when it comes to flying. If you’re looking to fly internationally, usually Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York come to mind. Well now St. Louis is working to attract international flights, and is competing with Cincinnati for British Airways’ next U.S. market.

Other cities will likely be competing for the same flights, and Hamm-Niebruegge estimated a package of between $3 million and $5 million would be competitive. Airline industry publication Anna.Aero reported in December that St. Louis may be contending with Cincinnati for British Airways’ next U.S. market.

Lambert would require an airline to commit to two years of service before offering the incentive package, she said. The hope is the subsidy would let the route become established enough to stand on its own in a smaller market.

Though some airlines have left other smaller markets after the subsidies run out, she said international routes stayed in Austin, Texas and in Nashville. Those are smaller metro areas than St. Louis, but they have exceeded St. Louis in airport passengers after adding international flights in recent years, Hamm-Niebruegge said. They are also much faster-growing regions and both snagged routes St. Louis was trying to win.

About 300 people a day on average fly to Europe from St. Louis, with the largest proportion going to London, Hamm-Niebruegge said. St. Louis also tends to have more business travelers, which are airlines’ “bread and butter.”

“I have no doubt we will make a legacy international carrier successful in this market,” Hamm-Niebruegge said.

The Port Authority had previously committed to the $1.5 million in assistance as part of an effort to establish an international route. It committed another $600,000 for the short-lived Wow Air route. Neither of the subsidies were paid. Airport officials wanted to make sure the new Port Authority board, now made up of completely new members, still supported the effort.

Source: https://www.stltoday.com/business/local/port-authority-moves-again-to-attract-international-flights-to-st/article_595a5793-b3cd-5553-b5cc-f2e297ec330b.html

Soybeans Holding Up Traffic In St. Louis

Nobody likes to sit in traffic, and if anyone tells you otherwise, they are lying. There are a million reasons for traffic to cramp your day, and usually none of them are good. But what if you had a reason to laugh about the traffic in St. Louis, just one time? Well today is your lucky day, as a soybean spill is causing the traffic out there.

UPDATED at 10:45 a.m. Friday with the opening of one eastbound lane.

ST. LOUIS — A tractor-trailer hauling soybeans toppled on eastbound Highway 40 (Interstate 64) in St. Louis on Friday morning, leaving a mix of beans and diesel fuel spread across the road. 

The crash occurred shortly after 6 a.m. just west of Market Street. Eastbound lanes were closed at the crash site and eastbound traffic was diverted onto Vandeventer Avenue for about four hours.

One eastbound lane was reopened about 10 a.m., but two lanes remained closed, according to the Missouri Department of Transportation.

To check updates on road closures, go to this site.

Police initially reported it as an injury crash, but arriving EMS crews said no one had been hurt.

Source: https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/somebody-spilled-the-beans-soybeans-stop-some-traffic-on-highway/article_1b76deed-79cb-5751-b5ce-1a043dab2044.html

Police Only Responding to Certain Crimes?

St. Louis has crime like any other city, and most citizens usually feel safe with the knowledge that police will respond in the event of a crime being committed. Well that is not always the case with St. Louis city police, where they are not actually required to respond to certain crimes that are committed.

ST. LOUIS (KMOV.com) — You spend thousands on your car and if it’s broken into or stolen, you expect police to respond. News 4 has learned there are several crimes, including auto theft, where police are not required to dispatch an officer.

News 4 began investigating after receiving multiple complaints from people, including Nate Schwartze, saying police were taking a long time to respond or not responding at all. 

He said he and his wife parked their truck in Soulard on January 31st around 7 p.m. for a date night. When the couple returned to their truck about an hour and a half later, they discovered their vehicle and the car parked next to theirs were broken into. 

Schwartze said he called police at 8:26 p.m. and asked for an officer to respond. 

“She said you know we don’t send officers, somebody will call you back” said Schwartze. “I said are you serious? I think I said are you serious a couple of times because frankly I just could not believe that I was calling about an actual crime and they weren’t going to send officers.”

The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department categorizes its calls as part of its ‘call reduction initiative.’ Through this initiative, dispatchers can take what is considered a low priority crime report over the telephone without ever sending an officer. Those crimes include destruction of property, stealing, auto theft and stolen guns. 

“I honestly thought it was a joke at first,” said Schwartze. 

St. Louis city’s Director of Public Safety, Jimmie Edwards, said this policy is helping prioritize the police department’s resources. 

“It’s not necessarily tied to a lack of or a shortage of policing. That is a fact a problem for us in the city of St. Louis, but it’s certainly it’s not a problem of us responding,” said Edwards. 

Edwards told News 4 even if the department was fully staffed, the policy on prioritizing calls would likely not change. 

“No matter how fully staffed we are, we are probably getting more calls than we have police officers,” said Edwards. 

If a car break-in was happening at that moment, an officer would be dispatched, according to Edwards. He said he expects officers to respond to all crimes, even low priority, when there is time. 

“It’s easy for our officers to be criticized but I can tell you every single day they put on that uniform or they are under cover, they go out in the city of St. Louis to keep us safe and I think they do a relatively good job,” said Edwards. 

News 4 asked what warrants an officer to be dispatched to a scene. Edwards said calls are grouped into three categories: priority one, two, and three. 

Priority one calls include homicides and rapes and typically get a response in around six minutes. Priority two also dispatches an officer. Those are crimes in progress, like a car break-in. Response time is around 12 minutes. Priority three are crimes that have already happened and there is not evidence to collect at the scene, which includes a car break-in. Police do not track response time for these types of calls, according to Edwards. 

According to police, an officer arrived to Soulard about an hour and a half after Schwartze called 911. He said he had to leave to go pick up his daughter and assumed they weren’t coming. 

He worries if police don’t respond to these crimes, there won’t be a deterrent for other criminals. 

“These are the sorts of things that police kind of exist to help with,” said Schwartze. “This is why as a taxpayer you think that the police are there.”

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Source: https://www.kmov.com/news/st-louis-city-police-only-expected-to-send-an-officer/article_b0019522-52c1-11ea-9566-1bc250f62791.html