If you find yourself in St. Louis looking to dine slow, these are the restaurants Slow Food St. Louis recommends.

• Annie Gunn’s
• Big Sky Cafe www.allgreatrestaurants.com
• Blood & Sand
• Brasserie by Niche
• Bridge
• Cafe Osage – http://www.bowoodfarms.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/cafe.showpage/pageID/3/index.htm
• Dressel’s Public House
• Farmhaus – Former Erato on Main chef, Kevin Willmann, brings his Souther influence farm-to-table style to the West-side.
• Five – Five’s New American Menu celebrates the people of this country, and the food of the region, by sourcing the freshest organic and natural ingredients available from local farms.
• Franco
• Local Harvest Cafe – Owned by Local Harvest Grocery, Chef Clara Moore is lucky enough to cook with some of the freshest local products available.
• Harvest – Owned by Chef Nick Miller and his wife Krissie, Harvest Restaurant has been a leader in the use of local, sustainable foods in an upscale setting for over a decade.
• Home Wine Kitchen
• Kakao Chocolate
• Mad Tomato – With a philosophy that cooking with the freshest ingredients makes the best food, Mad Tomato utilizes only organically or locally grown/raised fruits and vegetables; antibiotic and hormone-free proteins; and seafood in no threat of endangerment.
• Niche – Utilizing as much local product as possible, Gerard Craft and his staff have embraced St. Louis highlighting the best of what we have to offer on the way to a 2008 Food and Wine Best new chef win.
• Pint Size Bakery
• Rooster
• Schlafly Bottleworks – From a Farmers’ Market in their parking lot to SLOWednesday, Schlafly and their Maplewood Bottleworks facility have shown a continued commitment to going slow.
• Sidney Street Cafe
• Stellina Pasta Cafe
• Stone Soup Cottage
• Taste by Niche – Niche’s sister restaurant with a heavy inspiration of locally cured meats and classic cocktails created by master mixologist Ted Kilgore.
• Winslow’s Home -
• Ya Ya’s Euro Bistro

If you know of any restaurants we may have overlooked that strive to serve foods that are good, clean and fair, please let us know.