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Chapter 3
Origin of Endless Punishment
When our Lord spoke, the doctrine of unending torment was believed by many of those who listened to his words, and they stated it in terms and employed others, entirely differently, in describing the duration of punishment, from the terms afterward used by those who taught universal salvation and annihilation, and so gave to the terms in question the sense of unlimited duration.
For example, the Pharisees, according to Josephus, regarded the penalty of sin as torment without end, and they stated the doctrine in unambiguous terms. They called it eirgmos aidios (eternal imprisonment) and timorion adialeipton (endless torment), while our Lord called the punishment of sin aionion kolasin (age-long chastisement).
Meaning of Scriptural TermsThe language of Josephus is used by the profane Greeks, but is never found in the New Testament connected with punishment. Josephus, writing in Greek to Jews, frequently employs the word that our Lord used to define the duration of punishment (aionios), but he applies it to things that had ended or that will end.1 Can it be doubted that our Lord placed his ban on the doctrine that the Jews had derived from the heathen by never using their terms describing it, and that he taught a limited punishment by employing words to define it that only meant limited duration in contemporaneous literature? Josephus used the word aionos with its current meaning of limited duration. He applies it to the imprisonment of John the Tyrant; to Herod's reputation; to the glory acquired by soldiers; to the fame of an army as a "happy life and aionian glory." He used the words as do the Scriptures to denote limited duration, but when he would describe endless duration he uses different terms. Of the doctrine of the Pharisees he says:
"They believe that wicked spirits are to be kept in an eternal imprisonment (eirgmon aidion). The Pharisees say all souls are incorruptible, but while those of good men are removed into other bodies those of bad men are subject to eternal punishment" (aidios timoria). Elsewhere he says that the Essenes, "allot to bad souls a dark, tempestuous place, full of never-ceasing torment (timoria adialeipton), where they suffer a deathless torment" (athanaton timorion). Aidion and athanaton are his favorite terms for duration, and timoria (torment) for punishment.
Philo's Use of the WordsPhilo, who was contemporary with Christ, generally used aidion to denote endless, and aionian temporary duration. He uses the exact phraseology of Matt. 25:46, precisely as Christ used it: "It is better not to promise than not to give prompt assistance, for no blame follows in the former case, but in the latter there is dissatisfaction from the weaker class, and a deep hatred and æonian punishment (chastisement) from such as are more powerful." Here we have the precise terms employed by our Lord, which show that aionian did not mean endless but did mean limited duration in the time of Christ. Philo adopts athanaton, ateleuteton or aidion to denote endless, and aionian temporary duration. In one place occurs this sentence concerning the wicked: "to live always dying, and to undergo, as it were, an immortal and interminable death."2 Stephens, in his valuable "Thesaurus," quotes from a Jewish work: "These they called aionios, hearing that they had performed the sacred rites for three entire generations." 3 This shows conclusively that the expression "three generations" was then one full equivalent of aionian. Now, these eminent scholars were Jews who wrote in Greek, and who certainly knew the meaning of the words they employed, and they give to the aeonian words the sense of indefinite duration, to be determined in any case by the scope of the subject. Had our Lord intended to indoctrinate the doctrine of the Pharisees, he would have used the terms by which they described it. But his word defining the duration of punishment was aionian, while their words are aidion, adialeipton, and athanaton. Instead of saying with Philo and Josephus, thanaton athanaton, deathless or immortal death; eirgmon aidion, eternal imprisonment; aidion timorion, eternal torment; and thanaton ateleuteton, interminable death, he used aionion kolasin, an adjective in universal use for limited duration, and a noun denoting suffering producing improvement. The word by which our Lord describes punishment is the word kolasin, which is thus defined: "Chastisement, punishment." "The trimming of the luxuriant branches of a tree or vine to improve it and make it fruitful." "The act of clipping or pruning--restriction, restraint, reproof, check, chastisement." "The kind of punishment which tends to the improvement of the criminal is what the Greek philosopher called kolasis or chastisement." "Pruning, checking, punishment, chastisement, correction." "Do we want to know what was uppermost in the minds of those who formed the word for punishment? The Latin poena or punio, to punish, the root pu in Sanscrit, which means to cleanse, to purify, tells us that the Latin derivation was originally formed, not to express mere striking or torture, but cleansing. correcting, delivering from the stain of sin." 4 That it had this meaning in Greek usage, see Plato: "For the natural or accidental evils of others no one gets angry, or admonishes, or teaches, or punishes (kolazei) them, but we pity those afflicted with such misfortune for if, O Socrates, if you will consider what is the design of punishing (kolazein) the wicked, this of itself will show you that men think virtue something that may be acquired; for no one punishes (kolazei) the wicked,
looking to the past only simply for the wrong he has done--that is, no one does this thing who does not act like a wild beast; desiring only revenge, without thought. Hence, he who seeks to punish (kolazein) with reason does not punish for the sake of the past wrong deed, but for the sake of the future, that neither the man himself who is punished may do wrong again, nor any other who has seen him chastised. And he who entertains this thought must believe that virtue may be taught, and he punishes (kolazei) for the purpose of deterring from wickedness?" 5
Use of GehennaSo of the place of punishment (gehenna) the Jews at the time of Christ never understood it to denote endless punishment. The reader of Farrar's "Mercy and Judgment," and "Eternal Hope," and Windet's "De Vita functorum statu," will find any number of statements from the Talmudic and other Jewish authorities, affirming in the most explicit language that Gehenna was understood by the people to whom our Lord addressed the word as a place or condition of temporary duration. They employed such terms as these "The wicked shall be judged in Gehenna until the righteous say concerning them, 'We have seen enough.'"5 "Gehenna is nothing but a day in which the impious will be burned." "After the last judgment Gehenna exists no longer." "There will hereafter be no Gehenna."6 These quotations might be multiplied indefinitely to demonstrate that the Jews to whom our Lord spoke regarded Gehenna as of limited duration, as did the Christian Fathers. Origen in his reply to Celsus (VI, xxv) gives an exposition of Gehenna, explaining its usage in his day. He says it is an analogy of the well-known valley of the Son of Hinnom, and signifies the fire of purification. Now observe: Christ carefully avoided the words in which his auditors expressed endless punishment (aidios, timoria and adialeiptos), and used terms they did not use with that meaning (aionios kolasis), and employed the term which by universal consent among the Jews has no such meaning (Gehenna); and as his immediate followers and the earliest of the Fathers pursued exactly the same course, is it not demonstrated that they intended to be understood as he was understood?7
Professor Plumptre in a letter concerning Canon Farrar's sermons, says: "There were two words which the Evangelists might have used--kolasis, timoria. Of these, the first carries with it, by the definition of the greatest of Greek ethical writers, the idea of a reformatory process, (Aristotle, Rhet. I, x, 10-17). It is inflicted 'for the sake of him who suffers it.' The second, on the other hand, describes a penalty purely vindictive or retributive. St. Matthew chose--if we believe that our Lord spoke Greek, he himself chose--the former word, and not the latter."
All the evidence conclusively shows that the terms defining punishment--"everlasting," "eternal," "Gehenna," etc., in the Scriptures teach its limited duration, and were so regarded by sacred and profane authors, and that those outside of the Bible who taught unending torment always employed other words than those used by or Lord and his disciples.
Professor Allen concedes that the great prominence given to "hell-fire" in Christian preaching is a modern innovation. He says: "There is more 'blood-theology' and 'hell-fire,' that is, the vivid setting-forth of everlasting torment to terrify the soul, in one sermon of Jonathan Edwards, or one harangue at a modern 'revival,' than can be found in the whole body of sermons and epistles through all the dark ages put together. Set beside more modern dispensations the Catholic position of this period (middle ages) is surprisingly merciful and mild."3
Whence Came the Doctrine?
Of Heathen OriginWhen we ask the question: Where did those in the primitive Christian church who taught endless punishment find it, if not in the Bible?--we are met by these facts:--1. The New Testament was not in existence, as the canon had not been arranged. 2. The Old Testament did not contain the doctrine. 3. The Pagan and Jewish religions, the latter corrupted by heathen additions, taught it (Hagenbach, I, First Period; Clark's Foreign Theol. Lib. I, new series.) Westcott tells us: "The written Gospel of the first period of the apostolic age was the Old Testament, interpreted by the vivid recollection of the Savior's ministry. The knowledge of the teachings of Christ to the close of the Second Century, were generally derived from tradition, and not from writings. The Old Testament was still the great store-house from which Christian teachers derived the sources of consolation and conviction." 9 Hence the false ideas must have been brought by converts from Judaism or Paganism. The immediate followers of our Lord's apostles do not explicitly treat matters of eschatology. It was the age of apologetics and not of contentions.10 The new revelation of the Divine Fatherhood through the Son occupied the chief attention of Christians, and the efforts seem to have been almost exclusively devoted to establish the truth of the Incarnation, "God in Christ reconciling the world unto himself." We may reasonably conclude that if this great truth had been kept constantly in the foreground, uncorrupted by pagan error and human invention, there would have been none of those false conceptions of God that gave rise to the horrors of medieval times,--and no occasion in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries for the rebirth of original Christianity in the form of Universalism. The first Christians, however, naturally brought heathen additions into their new faith, so that very early the doctrine of the annihilation of the wicked, or their endless torment, began to be avowed. Here and there these doctrines appeared from the very first, but the early writers generally either state the great truths that legitimately result in universal good, or in unmistakable terms avow the doctrine as a revealed truth of the Christian Scriptures. "Numbers flocked into the church who brought their heathen ways with them." (Third Century, "Neoplatonism," by C. Bigg, D.D., London: 1895, p. 160.)
At first Christianity was as a bit of leaven buried in foreign elements, modifying and being modified. The early Christians had individual opinions and idiosyncrasies, which at first their new faith did not eradicate; they still retained some of their former errors. This accounts for their different views of the future world. At the time of our Lord's advent Judaism had been greatly corrupted. During the captivity 11 Chaldæan, Persian and Egyptian doctrines, and other oriental ideas had tinged the Mosaic religion, and in Alexandria, especially, there was a great mixture of borrowed opinions and systems of faith, it being supposed that no one form alone was complete and sufficient, but that each system possessed a portion of the perfect truth. "The prevailing tone of mind was from a variety of sources," and Christianity did not escape the influence.
The Apocryphal Book of EnochMore than a century before the birth of Christ 12 appeared the apocryphal Book of Enoch, which contains, so far as is known, the earliest statement extant of the doctrine of endless punishment in any work of Jewish origin. It became very popular during the early Christian centuries, and modified, it may be safely supposed, the views of Tatian, Minucius Felix, Tertullian, and their followers. It is referred to or quoted from by Barnabas, Justin, Clement of Alexandria, Irenaeus, Origen, Tertullian, Eusebius, Jerome, Hilary, Epiphanius, Augustine, and others. Jude quotes from it in verses 14 and 15, and refers to it in verse 6, on which account some of the fathers considered Jude apocryphal; but it is probable that Jude quotes Enoch as Paul quotes the heathen poets, not to endorse its doctrine, but to illustrate a point, as writers nowadays quote fables and legends. Cave, in the "Lives of the Fathers," attributes the prevalence of the doctrine of fallen angels to a perversion of the account (Gen. 6:1-4) of "the sons of God and the daughters of men." He refers the prevalence of the doctrine to "the authority of the 'Book of Enoch,' (highly valued by many in those days) wherein this story is related, as appears from the fragments of it still in existence." The entire work is now accessible through modern discovery.
A little later than Enoch appeared the Book of Ezra, advocating the same doctrine. These two books were popular among the Jews before the time of Christ, and it is supposed, as the Old Testament is silent on the subject, that the corrupt traditions of the Pharisees, of which our Lord warned his disciples to beware, 13 were obtained in part from these books, or from the Egyptian and Pagan sources whence they were derived. At any rate, though the Old Testament does not contain the doctrine, 14 Josephus, as has been seen, assures us that the Pharisees of his time accepted and taught it. Of course they must have obtained the doctrine from uninspired sources. As these and possibly other similar books had already corrupted the faith of the Jews, they seem later to have infused their virus into the faith of some of the early Christians. Nothing is better established in history than that the doctrine of endless punishment, as held by the Christian church in medieval times, was of Egyptian origin, 15 and that for purposes of state it and its accessories were adopted by the Greeks and Romans. Montesquieu states that "Romulus, Tatius and Numa enslaved the gods to politics," and made religion for the state.
Catholic Hell Copied from Heathen SourcesClassic scholars know that the heathen hell was early copied by the Catholic church, and that almost its entire details afterwards entered into the creeds of Catholic and Protestant churches up to a century ago. Any reader may see this who will consult Pagan literature 16 and writers on the opinions of the ancients. And not only this, but the heathen writers declare that the doctrine was invented to awe and control the multitude. Polybius writes: "Since the multitude is ever fickle there is no other way to keep them in order but by fear of the invisible world; on which account our ancestors seem to me to have acted judiciously, when they contrived to bring into the popular belief these notions of the gods and of the infernal regions." Seneca says: "Those things which make the infernal regions terrible, the darkness, the prison, the river of flaming fire, the judgment seat, etc., are all a fable." Livy declares that Numa invented the doctrine, "a most effective means of governing an ignorant and barbarous populace." Strabo writes: "The multitude are restrained from vice by the punishments the gods are said to inflict upon offenders, for it is impossible to govern the crowd of women and all the common rabble by philosophical reasoning: these things the legislators used as scarecrows to terrify the childish multitude." Similar language is found in Dionysius Halicarnassus, Plato, and other writers. History records nothing more distinctly than that the Greek and Roman Pagans borrowed of the Egyptians, and that some of the early Christians unconsciously absorbed, or thoroughly appropriated, the doctrines of the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans concerning post-mortem punishment, and gradually corrupted the "simplicity that is in Christ" 17 by the inventions of antiquity, as from the same sources the Jews at the time of Christ had already corrupted their religion. 18 What more natural than that the small reservoir of Christian truth should be contaminated by the opinions that converts from all these sources brought with them into their new religion at first, and later that the Roman Catholic priests and Pagan legislators should seize them as engines of power by which to control the world?
Coquerel describes the effect of the sudden increase of Pagans into the early Christian church: "The, at first, gradual entrance and soon rapid invasion of an idolatrous multitude into the bosom of Christianity was not effected without detriment to the truth. The Christianity of Jesus was too lofty, too pure, for this multitude escaped from the degrading cults of Olympus. The Pagans were not able to enter en masse into the church without bringing to it their habits, their tastes, and some of their ideas."19 Milman and Neander think20 that old Jewish prejudices could not be exterminated in the proselytes of the infant church, and that latent Judaism lurked in it and was continued into the darker ages. Chrysostom complains that the Christians of his time (the Fourth Century) were "half Jews." Enfield 21 declares that converts from the schools of Pagan philosophy interwove their old errors with the simple truths of Christianity until "heathen and Christian doctrines were still more intimately blended and both were almost entirely lost in the thick clouds of ignorance and barbarism which covered the earth. The fathers of the church departed from the simplicity of the apostolic church and corrupted the purity of the Christian faith." Hagenbach reminds us that 22 "There were two errors which the newborn Christianity had to guard against if it was not to lose its peculiar religious features, and disappear in one of the already existing religions: against a relapse into Judaism on the one side, and against a mixture with Paganism and speculations borrowed from it, and a mythologizing tendency on the other." The Sibylline Oracles, advocating universal restoration; Philo, who taught annihilation, and Enoch and Ezra, who taught endless punishment, were all read by the early Christians, and no doubt exerted an influence in forming early opinions.
Early Christianity AdulteratedThe Edinburgh Review concedes that "upon a full inspection it will be seen that the corruption of Christianity was itself the effect of the debased state of the human mind, of which the vices of the government were the great and primary cause." "That the Christian religion suffered much from the influence of the Gentile philosophy is unquestionable."23 Dr. Middleton, in a famous "Letter from Rome," shows that from the pantheon down to heathen temples, shrines and altars were taken by the early church, and so used that Pagans could employ them as well as Christians, and retain their old superstitions and errors while professing Christianity. In other words, that much of Paganism, after the First Century or two, remained in and corrupted Christianity. Mosheim writes that "no one objected (in the Fifth Century) to Christians retaining the opinions of their Pagan ancestors;" and Tytler describes the confusion that resulted from the mixture of Pagan philosophy with the plain and simple doctrines of the Christian religion, from which the church in its infant state "suffered in a most essential manner." The Rev. T. B. Thayer, D. D., 24 thinks that the faith of the early Christian church "of the orthodox party was one-half Christian, one-quarter Jewish, and one-quarter Pagan; while that of the gnostic party was about one-quarter Christian and three-quarters philosophical Paganism." The purpose of many of the fathers seems to have been to bridge the abyss between Paganism and Christianity, and, for the sake of proselytes, to tolerate Pagan doctrine. Says Merivale: In the Fifth Century, Paganism was assimilated, not abolished, and Christendom has suffered from it more or less even since. The church was content to make terms with what survived of Paganism, content to lose even more than it gained in an unholy alliance with superstition and idolatry; enticing, no doubt, many of the vulgar, and some even of the more intelligent, to a nominal acceptance of the Christian faith, but conniving at the surrender by the great mass of its own baptized members of the highest and purest of their spiritual acquisitions." 25 It is difficult to learn just how much surrounding influences affected ancient or modern Christians, for, as Schaff says (Hist. Apos. Ch. p. 23): "The theological views of the Greek Fathers were modified to a considerable extent by Platonism; those of the medieval schoolmen, by the logic and dialectics of Aristotle; those of the latter times by the system of Descartes, Spinoza, Bacon, Locke, Leibnitz, Kant, Fries, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel. Few scientific divines can absolutely emancipate themselves from the influence of the philosophy and public opinion of their age, and when they do they have commonly their own philosophy, etc."
Original Greek New TestamentThat the Old Testament does not teach even post-mortem punishment is universally conceded by scholars, as has been seen; and that the Egyptians, and Greek and Roman Pagans did, is shown already. That the doctrine was early in the Christian church, is equally evident. As the early Christians did not obtain it from the Old Testament, which does not contain it, and as it was already a Pagan doctrine, where could they have procured it except from heathen sources? And as Universalism was nowhere taught, and as the first Universalist Christians after the apostles were Greeks, perfectly familiar with the language of the New Testament, where else could they have found their faith than where they declare they found it, in the New Testament? How can it be supposed that the Latins were correct in claiming that the Greek Scriptures teach a doctrine that the Greeks themselves did not find therein? And how can the Greek fathers in the primitive church mistake when they understand our Lord and his apostles to teach universal restoration? "It may be well to note here, that after the third century the descent of the church into errors of doctrine and practice grew more rapid. The worship of Jesus, of Mary, of saints, or relics, etc., followed each other. Mary was called 'the Mother of God,' 'the Queen of Heaven.' As God began to be represented more stern, implacable, cruel, the people worshiped Jesus to induce him to placate his Father's wrath; and then as the Son was held up as the severe judge of sinners and the executioner of the Father's vengeance, men prayed Mary to calm the anger of her God-child; and when she became unfeeling or lacked influence, they turned to Joseph and other saints, and to martyrs, to intercede with their cold, implacable superiors. Thus theology became more hard and merciless--hell was intensified, and enlarged, and eternalized--heaven shrunk, and receded, and lost its compassion--woman (despite the deification of Mary) was regarded as weak and despicable--the Agape were abolished and the Eucharist deified, and its cup withheld from the people--and woman deemed too impure to touch it! As among the heathen Romans, faith and reverence decreased as their gods were multiplied, so here, as objects of worship were increased, familiarity bred only sensuality, and sensuous worship drove out virtue and true piety, until, in the language of Mrs. Jameson's "Legends of the Madonna," (Int. p. xxxi): One of the paintings in the Vatican represents Giulia Farnese (a noted impure woman and mistress of the pope!) in the character of the Madonna, and Pope Alexander VI. (the drunken, unchaste, beastly!) kneeling at her feet in the character of a devoted worshiper! Under the influence of the Medici, the churches of Florence were filled with pictures of the Virgin in which the only thing aimed at was a cheap, gaudy, ornamented beauty. Savonarola thundered from his pulpit in the garden of S. Marco against these impieties." 26
Chapter 4--Doctrines of "Mitigation" and of "Reserve" - Contents
Spirit of the Word - Covenant Eschatology - Introductory Note - New Stuff
1 See my "Aion-Aionious," pp. 109-14; also Josephus, "Antiq." and "Jewish Wars."
2 "De Præmiis" and "Poenis" Tom. II, pp. 19-20. Mangey's edition. Dollinger quoted by Beecher. Philo was learned in Greek philosophy, and especially reverenced Plato. His use of Greek is of the highest authority.
3 "Solom. Parab."
4 Donnegan, Grotius, Liddel, Max Muller, Beecher, Hist. Doc. Fut. Ret. pp. 73-75.
5 The important passage may be found more fully quoted in "Aion-Aionios."
6 Targum of Jonathan on Isaiah, xvi: 24. See also "Aion-Aionious" and "Bible Hell."
7 Farrar's "Mercy and Judgment." pp. 380-381, where quotations are given from the Fourth Century, asserting that punishment must be limited because aionian correction (aionian kolasin), as in Matt. xxv: 46, must be terminable.
8 "Christian Hist. in its Three Great Periods." pp. 257-8.
9 Introduction to Gospels. p. 181
10 The opinions of the Jews were modified at first by the captivity in Egypt fifteen centuries before Christ, and later by the Babylonian captivity, ending four hundred years before Christ, so that many of them, the Pharisees especially, no longer held the simple doctrines of Moses.
11 Robertson's History of the Christian Church, vol. 1. pp. 38-39.
12 The Book of Enoch, translated from the Ethiopian, with Introduction and Notes. By Rev. George H. Schodde.
13 Mark vii: 13; Matthew xvi: 6, 12; Luke xxi, 1; Mark viii, 15.
14 Milman Hist. Jews; Warburton's Divine Legation; Jahn, Archaeology.
15 Warburton. Leland's Necessity of Divine Revelation.
16 Virgil's æneid. Apollodorus, Hesiod, Herodotus, Plutarch, Diodorus Siculus, etc.
17 II Cor. 11:3.
18 Milman's Gibbon, Murdock's Mosheim, Enfield's Hist. Philos., Universalist Expositor, 1853.
19 Coquerel's First Historical Transformations of Christianity.
20 See Conybeare's "Paul," Vol. I, Chapters 14,15.
21 See also Priestley's "Corruptions of Christianity."
22 Hist. Doct. I Sec. 22.
23 Vaughan's Causes of the Corruption of Christianity; also Casaubon and Blunt's "Vestiges."
24 Hist. Doct. Endelss Punishment, pp. 192-193.
25 Early Church History, pp. 159-160.
26 Universalist Quartarly, January 1883.
Chapter 4--Doctrines of "Mitigation" and of "Reserve" - Contents
Spirit of the Word - Covenant Eschatology
Chapter 1 - The Earliest Creeds
Chapter 2 - Early Christianity-A Cheerful Religion
Chapter 3 - Origin of Endless Punishment
Chapter 4 - Doctrines of Mitigation and Reserve
Chapter 5 - Two Kindred Topics
Chapter 6 - The Apostles' Immediate Successors
Chapter 7 - The Gnostic Sects
Chapter 8 - The Sibylline Oracles
Chapter 9 - Pantaenus and Clement
Chapter 10 - Origen
Chapter 11 - Origen-Continued
Chapter 12 - The Eulogists of Origen
Chapter 13 - A Third Century Group
Chapter 14 - Minor Authorities
Chapter 15 - Gregory Nazianzen
Chapter 16 - Theodore of Mopsuestia and the Nestorians
Chapter 17 - A Notable Family
Chapter 18 - Additional Authorities
Chapter 19 - The Deterioration of Christian Thought
Chapter 20 - Augustine--Deterioration Continued
Chapter 21 - Unsuccessful Attempts to Suppress Universalism
Chapter 22 - The Eclipse of Universalism
Chapter 23 - Summary of Conclusions


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King Louie's L'Etoile d'Or Grille
During a rare cool eve in New Orleans, we found a restaurant tucked away off the French Quarter that perfectly embodied everything good about outside dining: an open-air brick patio, lush plants and a huge, wood-burning brick oven where racks of golden-brown chickens and ducks rotated slowly over a thick bed of coals. If only something like that could be…
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Best Snow Cone
Tropical Moose
Forget the plastic spoon they give you and just dive in. Taking your first gulp of a Tropical Moose snow cone is the next best thing to rubbing your face in the fresh snow of a peak in the Alps. That's because at Tropical Moose they don't crush their ice; they shave it. Each cone (served in a plastic cup…
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Best Diner
Courtesy Drive-In
There are certain things you come to expect in a diner that you might not tolerate anywhere else. A true diner is apt to be one big smoking section, and there won't be anything on the menu (certainly not the chili cheese fries) that won't clog an artery. Carcinogens and cholesterol boosters aside, you get a lot at a diner…
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Best Ice Cream Parlor
Frozen Assets
There's Chocolate Ice Cream, and then there's Really Good Chocolate Ice Cream, and then there's Serious Chocolate Ice Cream. The capitalizations here are not just for emphasis; those are the proper names of three actual flavors of frozen goodness at Frozen Assets. As impressive as that reads on paper, things get even better in person at this simple Central West…
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Best Lunch Counter
Spencer's Grill
Time stands still at Spencer's Grill. Literally, as the clock (a designated landmark) on the sign outside this old-fashioned diner hasn't worked in who-can-remember-how-long, and figuratively, as walking into this one-room establishment is like stepping into a Thornton Wilder play, or at least a Garrison Keillor short story. Open only from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m., Spencer's Grill is a…
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Best Milkshake
Crown Candy Kitchen
A milkshake at Crown Candy Kitchen is so mighty, it determines the course of the rest of your day: which movie you go see later (better make it the frenetic, fast-paced action pic), what you have for dinner (water is a wise choice) and whether you take an afternoon nap (duh). Built on a foundation of Crown's house-made ice cream…
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Best Soul Food
Del Monico's Diner
It's almost not right to categorize the cafeteria-style offerings at Del Monico's as "food." That word tends to imply something in solid form, whereas everything at Del Monico's goes down the gullet like heavenly mush. Of course that's how it should be with soul staples such as mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, peach cobbler and mac-'n'-cheese -- just four of the…
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Best Concrete
The Cardinal Sin
Sinful, indeed. As in, lust for just a lick propels you down to south city, envy wracks your wayward soul as those in line before you turn away from the old-school custard hut with concretes in hand, gluttony and greed double-whammy you upside the head once that paper chalice of vanilla custard, hot fudge and whole bing cherries becomes yours,…
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Best Seafood Restaurant
R.L. Steamers - CLOSED
R.L. Steamers hasn't lost any of its whimsy since moving from its small Dogtown location (now Spaghetteria Mama Mia) to the hinterlands of Chesterfield. In fact, the same damn signs with puns that made us moan before ("Frankly, Scallop, I don't give a clam") are still sprinkled throughout the larger space. Fortunately, the move hasn't affected R.L. Steamers' reputation for…
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Best Smoothie
Kaldi's Coffeehouse & Market Bakery
Really, all you do to make a smoothie is dump some fruit and some juice into a blender, then press the magic button. It's not that hard and takes maybe five minutes tops. But then, there's the flavor-combination factor -- and this is where Kaldi's reigns supreme: They know what fruit works with what juice and when to add some…
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Best Steak House
Citizen Kane's
If a major Midwestern city doesn't have a good steak joint, it's time to call in the Department of Agriculture for a full-scale investigation. There are about 40 steak houses listed in the St. Louis Yellow Pages, give or take a few. But there are only a handful of really good, genuine ones. Most serve top-notch beef, and all charge…
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Best Hot Dog
Woofies Hotdogs
Historians trace the sausage's beginnings to ancient Mesopotamia -- modern Iraq -- where the ancients first learned to stuff animal intestines with meat. Three millennia would pass before the concept was refined: In the 1850s, a butchers' guild in Frankfurt-am-Main unveiled a smoked, spicy sausage in a thin casing, immediately throwing off the balance of power in Europe. This sausage…
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Best Vegetarian Restaurant
Finding truly vegetarian restaurants in any city -- let alone a Midwestern meat-and-potatoes city like St. Louis -- is a daunting task. Fortunately, it's a lot easier than it used to be for non-meat eaters to find something more appetizing than an off-the-menu plate of rice and steamed vegetables. But Tangerine doesn't just nod to vegetarians, it caters to them.…
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Best Roast Beef Sandwich
O'Connell's Pub
Lion's Choice is a fine local chain, but it is, after all, merely a chain. The sandwich at O'Connell's, meanwhile, is one of a kind. When was the last time you ordered a roast beef sandwich and were asked how you like your roast beef cooked? Or the last time you were summarily presented with a sandwich so hefty it…
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Best Italian Restaurant (Cheap)
Spaghetteria Mama Mia
When you think cheap Italian, you often think soggy, bland garlic bread, watery marinara, pasta primavera made from frozen vegetables or Tony Soprano after his waste-management business has suffered an off month. And you certainly don't think authentic Irish neighborhood, though Dogtown is where this city's best cheap Italian food lives. Since owner Pepe Kehm executed a fantastic revamp earlier…
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Best Fried Chicken
Hodak's Restaurant
When you're famished and have less than $10 in your pocket, Hodak's is the place to head. For $6.40 you get a fried half-a-chicken that's the next best thing to Mom's (and maybe better, depending on the mom). Portions are nothing short of huge. The coleslaw and crinkle-cut fries that accompany each order are enough to satisfy most appetites, but…
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Best Italian Restaurant (Not Cheap)
Giovanni's on the Hill
Giovanni Gabriele's restaurant is one of those places you go to when you're in the mood to dress up and splurge. Once the valet whisks your car away, the doorman will point to the beautiful dining room where the host will greet you and lead you to your table. Your path is lit by the soft glow of antique chandeliers;…
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Best Taco
El Gallo Jiros
Figuring out what doesn't belong in a taco is easier than listing what should be there. No lettuce. No cheese. No tomatoes. No crunchy shells. Instead, fried flour tortillas, the small size, doubled up so the filling doesn't soak through. Onion. Cilantro. Meat of your choice. Green and red sauce on the side, along with a lime wedge. And that's…
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Best Indian Restaurant
India Palace
You just got off a four-hour flight with nothing more for sustenance than Beer Nuts and a soda. Take the money you saved on that cut-rate airline and head for India Palace. The sign out front is neither obvious nor fancy, but the food and the setting (on top of the Bridgeton Howard Johnson hotel) are fabulous. No matter how…
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Best Chicken Wings
J & A's Bar & Grill
At some point after 1964 -- when (as legend has it) a bar owner in Buffalo slathered deep-fried chicken wings with her own hot-sauce concoction -- ordering wings and a beer became part of this nation's food culture. We don't like the way things have been trending, however: baked wings to reduce the fat, mild sauces, serving only the oh-so-polite…
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Best Vietnamese Restaurant
Mai Lee
St. Louis is blessed with exceptional Vietnamese cuisine. This year the nod goes to Mai Lee, one of the area's longer-lived Vietnamese joints. Start with the pho tai, the cheap-as-dirt beef soup that's a meal in itself. Mai Lee's version is as good as it gets, with plenty of fresh mint leaves, bean sprouts and jalape�o slices on the side.…
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Best Use of the Worst Cheese
The Famous Gerber
Sometimes two wrongs make a right. Sometimes three wrongs do. The latter is the case with the Famous Gerber. Wrong No. 1: Its main ingredient is Provel "cheese." Wrong No. 2: Served on French bread and topped with a melted portion of said "cheese" (the ham hides underneath), it's got this off-putting, uniform whiteness to it. Wrong No. 3: It…
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Best Thai Restaurant
Thai Country Café
Many a meeting has been spoiled when someone said, "Meet me at Thai Café in the Loop." Did she mean Thai Café, Thai Country Café, Thai Seafood Café or Thai Gai Yang Café? Surely the owners know the difference, given that all four restaurants are run by the same family. But why did they choose to invite such confusion? Naming…
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Best Barbecue
Smokin Al's
We know how people react to barbecue. We've seen 'cue lovers go to the mat over sauce vs. dry, beef vs. pork, vinegar sauce vs. ketchup-based sauce, hickory vs. all other wood. To our taste buds, the worst barbecue in town is still good, because there's nothing better than gnawing on a smoky, meaty rib with an ice-cold one nearby.…
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Best Chinese Restaurant
In Soo
In Soo creates the Chinese food that all others in this category should aspire to offer. Don't let the modest digs fool you; this is no ordinary St. Louis strip-mall Chinese. Devotees, of course, have followed the peregrinations of proprietor In Soo Jung as she trundled her Shu Feng operation from Olivette to Chesterfield and back -- hiatuses, name changes…
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Best Charity Barbecue
Webster Lions Club
The Webster Lions Club's barbecue concession at the Sappington Farmers' Market is a polished operation. From the custom-built twenty-foot grill-on-wheels to the picnic tables under a tent right down to the mustard self-serve station, this operation radiates professional barbecue-tending. But what keeps folks coming back is the food. The chicken is great with the Lions Club's tangy sauce slathered across…
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Best Dim Sum
Lu Lu Seafood Restaurant
Everything that makes dim sum such a dining delight (particularly for weekend brunch) can be found in abundance at Lu Lu, the seafood-favoring restaurant that opened last fall where Chaney's barbecue joint used to be. There are more than 100 items to choose from, an awesome range of choices that span from tasty safe bets (hot-and-sour soup, shrimp dumplings, rice…
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Best Farmers' Market
Soulard Market
There aren't too many places left in the world where one can buy an eggplant, a bag of mini-doughnuts, 80 square feet of carpet, a live chicken, six pairs of tube socks, cut flowers, a loaf of sorghum bread and a pair of hog's balls all in one swipe. We're tremendously lucky in St. Louis to have the pleasure of…
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Best Sushi
A sad fact about sushi restaurants: Even when the fish is fantastic, the surroundings often feel icky. There's almost always a weird, hushed quality to the room -- kind of like how people muffle their speech and behavior in a bookstore even though it's not a library, it's a bookstore. Restaurants are meant to be boisterous, social, outward experiences, but…
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Best Indian Market
Peacock Market and Café - CLOSED
The Peacock South Asian Market and Café is a family-owned and -operated business that offers home-cooked vegetarian meals on its restaurant side and, on its market side, all of your Indian shopping needs: food, music, natural healing products and a remarkably extensive Indian DVD and video selection. The market, which is open Tuesday through Sunday from 11 a.m. till 9…
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Best Spring Rolls
Vietnam Palace
Never let it be said that St Louisans lack access to a wide array of variations on the spring roll. Seemingly endless combinations of lettuces, herbs, noodles, vegetables, sprouts and tofu produce the perfect lead-in to a meal of Vietnamese or Thai origin. Some are steamed, others tightly wrapped in rice paper, some may accidentally split open to display the…
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Best Asian Market
The Asian Farmer's Market
When you get down to it, most Asian markets are pretty much the same: They all have that intriguing, odd smell; they all carry the same selection of sauces and condiments; and every one of them sells weird candies that you never see anywhere else. There's nothing wrong with sameness, of course. The whole point of a local market is…
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Best Eggplant Caponata
In St. Louis there are basically two places you can go to find caponata, the Italian eggplant-spread appetizer: in a can and boring at a specialty grocer, or fresh and decadent at Adriana's. Co-owner Diana Guimbarda's secret is the marinating process. Guimbarda combines fried eggplant, jumbo capers, green olives, tomatoes, onions, celery, vinegar, sugar and olive oil into a rich…
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Best Mexican Market
Carnicería Latino Americana
In searching for Mexican market perfection, one of the most important attributes is product density. But it's not only the quantity of products being shown off that's relevant, it's the intense and somewhat chaotic mélange of color displayed. At a quick glance, nothing should be clearly decipherable. There should be a mix of dried goods, a small select variety of…
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Best Caesar Salad
Chef David Guempel's Zinnia is a sweet spot in an improbable locale: a former gas station on Big Bend, just north of Laclede Station Road. The place is painted an unlikely color -- bright purple -- and its kitchen turns out a terrific Caesar salad. Traditionalists may quibble that the greens are not tossed tableside, as Tijuana restaurateur Caesar Cardini…
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Best Fresh Seafood Counter
Bob's Seafood
It all boils down to freshness -- and variety, variety, variety. That explains why about 90 local restaurants procure their fresh fish from Bob and Barbara Mepham's little store, tucked away in University City's Market in the Loop. The world has gotten smaller since the advent of overnight shipping. Fish caught in the Baltic Sea off Denmark can show up…
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Best Tapas
Modesto Tapas Bar & Restaurant
The popularity of tapas in St. Louis seems to ebb and flow. Seems it's on the upswing again, with several restaurants either featuring tapas as their main focus or offering Spanish-influenced tapas-like dishes. Which is fine with us; what's mystifying is why its popularity ever fades: What could be better than gathering with friends, sharing small plates of creatively rendered…
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Best Meat Counter
Have you ever eaten a great steak at a steakhouse and vowed to re-create that baby on your backyard grill? If you're like most folks, the vastly inferior version you end up with began with a slab of beef purchased at your neighborhood behemoth grocery store, enshrouded in plastic wrap in a Styrofoam tray equipped with one of those absorbent…
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Best Guacamole
Pueblo Solis
So important was the small but mighty protein-packed avocado that the Aztecs called it ahuacatl, or "testicle." And when they mashed it to make guacamole, they did it right, tossing in tomatoes, onions, chiles and maybe some coriander leaves. At the court of Montezuma, agave worms were included. Today Mexican restaurants add all sorts of other nonessentials, from sour cream…
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Best Grocery Store
We know what you're thinking: "With all the corner markets around town, plus two natural-foods supermarkets, you bozos choose a local chain that doesn't even have a store within the St. Louis city limits? What a cop-out!" OK, we'll be the first to admit Dierbergs isn't perfect. No local grocery store is perfect, which is a shame, because everyone in…
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Best Mexican Restaurant
Arcelia's Comida Authentica - CLOSED
Arcelia's has a few quirks. For instance, they charge for separate checks and for that second basket of chips. But that's not a bad tradeoff for the casual feel, the Lafayette Square ambiance and the food. We do love the food. Arcelia's serves superb Mexican food, not the Tex-Mex variety (well, okay, they cave in with the fajitas). Try pozole,…
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Best Coffee
Shaw's Coffee
Shaw's Coffee presents those jonesing for St. Louis' best cup of joe with a true coffee mecca. Instead of bulk bins of pre-roasted beans lining the walls, a roaster dominates the richly accented main room, attesting to the management's dedication to providing the freshest coffee for its discerning clientele. Using green beans imported from the world's principal growing regions, roasters…
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Best Greek Restaurant
Olympia Kebob House & Taverna
In a city that doesn't pay much attention to Mediterranean cuisine, Olympia mounts a nightly one-restaurant crusade toward Greek-eats awareness. First and foremost, of course, are the gyros, which are the best in town by far (perfectly charred meat, pillowy pita, rich tzatziki) and come to the table so speedily that it's akin to Clark Kent quick-changing in a phone…
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Best Doughnuts
World's Fair Donuts
When Terry and Peggy Clanton bought the doughnut business at the corner of Vandeventer and Shaw in 1976, they renamed it World's Fair Donuts because of the building's address. (Get it? 1904 Vandeventer?)They've been open almost every day since then, fourteen hours a day, except for Christmas, Thanksgiving and New Year's Day. Perseverance has paid off: The Clantons' doughnuts are…
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Best Bosnian Restaurant
St. Louis foodies should consider themselves incredibly lucky to live in a city with one of the nation's largest Bosnian populations (and, hence, a good number of Bosnian restaurants). Yet when was the last time you went out for goulash? For that matter, has there ever been a time when you suggested dinner "in South City" and actually ventured further…
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Best Bagels (Orthodox)
Valentine's Bakery
Did you ever, ever, ever think you'd see the day when a salt bagel grew in St. Louis -- maybe not even St. Louis, but within the 636 area code? Well, may miracles never cease. Not only can you pick up a salt bagel and an onion bagel and a tzizel bagel (wuh?) at Valentine's Bakery on Clarkson Road, but…
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Best Ethnic Restaurant Row
Olive Boulevard between North & South Road and Interstate 170
The Vietnamese on South Grand is grand and, despite a drop-off in Mexican eateries, Cherokee Street's still muy bueno. But for sheer volume, not to mention exotic edibles, spend a day hopscotching along this stretch of pan-Asian storefronts: Nobu's Japanese Restaurant; East East Oriental Groceries; Lee's Cantonese; Shu Feng Taiwanese, Korean and Chinese; In Soo; Royal Chinese BBQ; Din Ho…
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Best Bagels (Midwest-style)
St. Louis Bread Company
We're all too aware of the fact that bagel preparations and preferences in the Midwest aren't kosher, literally or figuratively. How we like 'em -- with a softer, more cakelike inside, and disguised as desserts like chocolate chip and cinnamon crunch -- is downright blasphemous to purists. We prefer to pat ourselves on the back for thinking outside the bagel…
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Best Restaurant for a Power Lunch
In terms of stone-cold requirements for qualification in this category, St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay has been spotted at SqWires -- and, occasionally, ambushed by civic-minded customers. But more to the point, as SqWires has become the midday destination of choice for downtown workers looking to throw intimate award luncheons or retirement get-togethers, job-seekers and ladder-climbers would do well to…
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Best Bakery
La Dolce Via - CLOSED
When deciding on the best bakery in town, leave it to the experts; Bar Italia, perhaps St. Louis' most perennially favorite restaurant for twenty years running, gets its bread from La Dolce Via, while Best New Restaurant JaBoni's orders both its bread and desserts from here. Both a neighborhood nosh spot and a primo carb-baking factory, La Dolce Via --…
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Best Place for Late-Night Dining
DeMun Avenue
If Renoir lived in St. Louis, here is what he would paint: A decadently textured oil on canvas, the rolling grounds of Concordia Seminary to the left, the scape of DeMun's sidewalk eateries to the right, the dramatic Missouri sky fading to black above. The northern end of DeMun is a block to treasure, simultaneously quaint and cosmopolitan, and perhaps…
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Best Bread
Black Bear Bakery
Black Bear Bakery is a collective, something we like to see in this increasingly corporatized world, where even a loaf of damn French bread (or is it now Freedom bread?) baked in California and sold in supermarkets here is packaged to look like it came from a local hearth. And because Black Bear is a collective of six people, no…
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Best Coffeehouse
Meshuggah is also both the best new coffeehouse and the best old coffeehouse. A few months ago, loyalists were shaking in their Docs when owner Patrick Liberto moved his shop off the unbeaten path, just off Delmar, and resettled right on the Loop's main drag. Would Meshuggah become the Blueberry Hill of java, sacrificing atmosphere for volume? Happily, quite the…
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Best Cheese Counter
Whole Foods
With hundreds of varieties from around the world, there's plenty to choose from at Whole Foods. Cheeses from Wisconsin, Wales, Ireland, Belgium, England, Denmark, Australia, Wisconsin, Germany and, of course, Wisconsin. Cheeses made by the Amish and by European monks. Cheeses from sheep, goats and cows, some from raw milk, some organic. A thorough browse can take half an hour.…
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Best Sunday Brunch
The Café at Marty's Baking
There's an inherent tension in an all-you-can-eat brunch, at least for those of us simultaneously watching our girlish figures and runaway finances: The food and the drink are already paid for, so the more indulgent you are, the thriftier you seem. If you only have one plate of food at the fancy-best $18.50 brunch in the region, you're a fool,…
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Best Takeout Counter (Grocery Division)
Whole Foods Market
Some people refer to the place as "Whole Paycheck," because you can spend five bucks a pound on organic green beans. But the takeout counter (or "prepared foods department") at Whole Foods is large, varied and never disappointing. Vegetarians and vegetarian-conscious souls can make a meal to-go as easily as the rest of us. Behind the glass cases, the array…
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Best Restaurant When Someone Else Pays
The food is terrific, the atmosphere elegant (if a bit over the top), the service superb -- even if the busboy does hover over your water glass. But you don't eat at Tony's for any of those reasons. You eat at Tony's because when you eat at Tony's you're made to feel as if you are the only customer Mr.…
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Best Takeout Counter (Gourmet Division)
Provisions Gourmet Market & Gifts - CLOSED
Provisions is a sprawling, one-stop store for the gourmet: wine, cheese, spirits, prepared foods, cooking utensils and a large inventory of gifts, all under one big roof. But it's their takeout menu that keeps folks coming and going from breakfast till dinner. All breakfast fare is just $4.95 (for omelets, pancakes, burritos, French toast made with challah bread and more).…
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Best Wine List in a Restaurant
King Louie's
King Louie's owner Matt McGuire describes his list as the work of someone with ADD. It's all over the place, and it's constantly changing, owing to McGuire's evolving palate and enthusiasm for odd varieties and combinations. Just when you fall in love with that spicy Ramsay pinot noir, you arrive to find McGuire's dropped it. Which is fine. Just close…
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Best Whole Roast Chicken
Boston Market
You know the drill: It's getting late, you're hungry and another pizza is out of the question. And really, how much macaroni-and-cheese can you feed the kids and still keep a clear conscience? That scenario, and variations on it, explain why an increasing number of people are picking up whole rotisserie-roasted chickens at their local grocery stores. It's called "home…
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Best Décor
Iron Barley
What's wonderful about Iron Barley's interior is that it looks like the food tastes: Southern-fried with a sense of humor. Just as chef and proprietor Tom Coghill refuses to take his menu too seriously -- hot dogs are smeared with jelly, grilled cheese sammiches (yes, "sammiches") are paired with peanut butter -- so is his sense of visual style both…
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Best Pizza (Thick Crust)
Nothing -- not even the Cardinals' pitching -- starts an argument faster than the issue of who has the best pizza in town. There are many variables that must come together to create a great thick-crust pie: The dough must be freshly prepared and allowed to rise peacefully for an adequate interval; the sauce must be fresh and straightforward; the…
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Best Service in a Restaurant
Blueberry Hill
You were thinking Tony's or Giovanni's for this category. Well, while we wholeheartedly coo over the levels of attentiveness and care at those two fine eateries -- see "Best Restaurant When Someone Else Pays" and "Best Italian Restaurant (Not Cheap)," respectively -- time and again the help at Blueberry Hill manages to be surprisingly professional, adept, adroit and chummy even…
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Best Pizza (Thin Crust)
Sometimes we're of two minds about this Best of St. Louis business. Every once in a while, we feel a little hesitant about announcing a winner. Pizza-A-Go-Go presents just such a case. It's not that we're lukewarm about the recommendation -- quite the contrary. But enough people already know about Pizza-A-Go-Go. What's it going to accomplish, clueing in more folks…
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Best Desserts
La Bonne Bouchée
Don't let the frou-frou name fool you. While the sweets purveyed at this storefront bakery and light-bite eatery are un peu français here and there -- mousse lining a layer cake, some éclairs and napoleons on the pastry menu -- La Bonne Bouchée is all about big, tall, crown-like American cakes. No wonder, then, that it's become the wedding-cake maker…
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Best Delicatessen
Two Cents Plain
As it says on Jack Carl's business card, "2¢ Plain" used to mean a large glass of seltzer with no syrup. What can you get for a couple pennies nowadays at Jack Carl's Two Cents Plain? "Nothing!" he'll yell at you if you're dumb enough to ask. What he does have, however, is worth prying your wallet open a few…
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Best Restaurant to Die in the Past Year
Hungry Buddha
How highly were hopes pegged on this storefront stir-fry establishment. Blake Brokaw's lunch-only, vegan-friendly restaurant, opened in the winter of 2000 adjacent to Tangerine (Brokaw's loungelike bar and restaurant that pretty much gave birth to Wash. Ave. nightlife), was supposed to cast a crucial spotlight on downtown's daytime potential. It also introduced the metro area to a whole new kind…
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Best Vegetarian Deli
Eternity Vegetarian Deli and Juice Bar
To survive as a vegetarian deli in this meat-centric city is an accomplishment in itself; that the Eternity Vegetarian Deli and Juice Bar manages to thrive speaks volumes to the quality of food served up at this Central West End emporium. Whether you eat your meal on-site or take cartons home, Eternity never fails to satisfy. Barbecue, gyros, fish fillets,…
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Best Place to Eat and Get Gas
Gator Flats
Who'da thunk you could get award-winning blackened red snapper while filling up your SUV? If you said to yourself, "Only in Chesterfield," you'd be right. But this ain't the swanky part of Chesterfield, with all the strip malls and fancy cars; this is the old, rural, pickup-drivin' section of town. Between 5 and 10:30 a.m., folks show up at Gator…
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Best Chocolate
The Chocolate Bar
White chocolate-coated jumbo Bavarian pretzels. Venezuelan fudge. Chocolate chip cookies. Dark chocolate hazelnut crispies. Grand Marnier-soaked currant ganache truffles. Praline and semisweet chocolate truffles. Vanilla white chocolate ganache truffles. Chocolate-covered dried pineapple rings. Chocolate-covered caramel. Milk chocolate almond clusters. Super-dark chocolate fudge. Deep chocolate fudge cookies. Double chocolate hazelnut biscotti. "Frosty Frosty" chocolate cake. Brownie trail mix. Hot Valhrona chocolate…
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My workman comp. insurance company hired PI to watch including having their kids follow me around at school. And my attorney told me attending school have nothing to do with my case. Is that legal for their kids to follow me around at school? They came to my neighbors telling them about my case, and including telling them what I said in private my treating physician . They said I fake my injury and telling my neighbors to reports back to them what they saw I do. Is that invasion of my privacy? Since I told my doctor thing in private and confidential. Is there any thing I can do legally to have them leave me alone? And should I inform my attorney about their kids following me around at school?
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In Workers Comp, you don't have "I told my doctor thing in private and confidential".
Only AIDS and Psychiatric treatment records are kept confidential ... all other medical treatment records can be subpenaed and delivered to the Comp Doctors and the Workers Comp Judge!
There is no expectation of privacy beyond your front door. Once you walk out the door, or place your trash on the curb, the investigator can go through your trash for evidence and follow you around for evidence...even interview neighbors.
My experience is neighbors NEVER 'report back' to any investigator...because they have zero obligation to do so.
Is there anything you can do to have them leave you alone?? CONCLUDE YOUR COMP CLAIM.
Until your comp claim is resolved, the adjuster has the right to pay an investigator to keep filming you, and all activity around your property. Hartford/Specialty Risk Services boast to employers they are aggressive in representing the employer's interests...the best solution is to get the case to trial immediately (hope your attorney filed in Pomona and not in LA, LA WCAB is pretty backlogged).
Some clients have attempted to get a Temporary Restraining Order AFTER they walk up to the Investigator and get their identity (of course you cannot restrain an investigator when you don't know their name and address).
SRS/Hartford can just hire another investigator, so it is not worth the time and energy to find the name and address of every Hartford investigator and file a TRO against them all.
One solution is to ALWAYS, 100% appear physically limited every time you are outside your front door... if ALL -- and i mean ALL -- of the investigator's photos and films have you limping and walking slowly and never carrying so much as a soda, the adjuster will get tired of spending money and it will stop.
Car / Auto Accident Lawyer
Absolutely, tell your attorney everything. Although, the insurance company has a right to investigate your injuries, they do not have the right to divulge private medical information to third parties not connected with your case. It sounds malicious and an invasion of your privacy. Follow your lawyer's advice. Best of luck.
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I agree with Mr. Juarez. You should tell your attorney all of this immediately and let him handle the matter. You should discuss the possibility of reporting the conduct to the department of insurance as well. While the insurance company is entitled to observe your activities, this story sounds like an invasion of your privacy and possibly includes civil torts such as slander and libel.
Good luck!
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You should absolutely tell your attorney everything. It does sound like overreaching on the part of the PI and your attorney can help guide you as to what other options you may have. There have been some good suggestions from my colleagues, but I think you and your attorney need to discuss this and how to handle it. Do not act on this without consulting with and informing your attorney first.
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I agree with both of the posts above. Tell your attorney. Consider a complaint with the Department of Insurance. Consider a complaint for slander.
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Tell your atty. Will the neighbor confirm what he/she was told by the ins co investigator? I think there may be a defamation case, and a violation of your medical privacy. If you can prove these things, the investigator may also face license issues.
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investigating an allegedly injured worker by video taping and following said worker around town on errands or at the bowling alley or the local rock climbing wall facility is so commonplace as to be expected - I assume most workman's comp attorneys warn their clients about this. However, divulging private information - and especially medical information which is protected by HIPAA laws (http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy) is a no no. The attorney of a worker whose information has been divulged should be notified immediately.
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A workers comp carrier can hire an investigator to follow you and ask your neighbors questions about you. Anything your neighbors repeat to the investigator that you've told your neighbors is not an invasion of your privacy because you shared the information wih your neighbors. Sounds like not very good neighbors. If your neighbors or their children are following you, there may be stalking laws that may prevent this from happening. Also, if an insurance company investigator told your neighbors that you "faked" your injury, you may have a defamation suit against the insurance company. Talk to your workers comp attorney. If you don't have a workers comp attorney, hire one.
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The Elder Scrolls Online: Three-Faction PVP a la DAOC
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First thing i tho about when i read Elder Scroll going to be online is.
1- skyrim might have 1 or 2 MAX dlc that if there is any
2-SAD , coz they will stop the RPG elder scroll
3-if 2nd happen , we are losing the AWESOME world of the RPG games
4-i am really sure i saw some one from Elder scroll TEAM said they will not make it Online answering for the question's of some ppl(i had great respect for him for saying that) but now ...... !
5-who does great RPG game , might SUX big time in making MMO special if its his first time
6-it seems pointless of thinking about it they will rune it.(make it) PFF they better make it good with the good things we love in the RPG (which is impossible for online) Example: the adv it self where ever you go you never know what you can see or find!
7-What the F@#$ ever ...
Skyrim Difficulty lvl
General Gaming « General Discussion
Originally posted by Kuraphimaru
Today was talking to a freind on vent while we all like 5 ppl playing Skyrim (yes we are nereds lol) i got attack by Dragon(fire)
and seems in the same time that dragon was attacking Gaint (poor dragon!! ) coz when i found that happening i found the dragon are around 50% HP and the Gaint are like 85%HP as i said POOR Dragon so it was free kill for me about the dragon ofc .... but the NPC which carry my stuff (follower whatever you call him) attack the Gaint (Q.Q) and wouldn't stop so i have to attack him too and it was a long kite Bow and sprent (with Alt) and using shout's too to Push him away
but at the end i manage to kill the Gaint that at lv 9 (adept) my items aren't that good all normal but got only 1 item with 20% one-hande weapon increased dmg so that wouldn't count coz i was using bow (orc bow)
but tbh i wasn't solo my follower helped me Alot too while i kite she was attacking while i am attacking she was tanking him to near death ofc :D
General: Skyrim First Impressions
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first Why i love Enlder scroll (played since Obl) coz when you go do some main quest you Never know what you will face
in the way there is always surprize on every ench in the game
for Skyrim i spend all 1st day thinking which race i should pick it was tough day , dont get me worng i enjoyed that annoying day lol
anyway when i pick the race and start playing the game first its Amazing 3D and carfully details
with good start story to put you into action from the first min
Skyrim Difficulty lvl
General Gaming « General Discussion
i agree the Difficulty are well balanced if someone doesn't agree go fight Gaint (in adept ) while you are around level 5-8
that what i saw in my way while going to the Temple of the monkes learn the shout of the dragons he hit me 2 times and i am
dead (i was in block mod thats why it takes two hit with shield) my friend he die from only 1 hit hehe ...
maybe the normal mobs are a littile easy but when they come in numbers u can die easy
Lord of the Rings Online: Rise of Isengard & F2P Goodness
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Clearly you need to buy new pc man better then the wooden pc you got at that time ....
Which comes first: Science or Technology?
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Science comes First then Tech
for Example the PC ....... Science show you have to make the ships in the motherboard & CPU then there you are have new
Technology "called PC" .......
To make tho componant of the PC you need other Tools (which count as other Tech) so ...
You have always to look at the beginning of both of them .. which i think! it might be was
the Stone and the Stick
small example 1Ton Huge stone human can't more it But! with long stick he might could move it
and if he got few more log he might to roll it on the ground
so what i think is really happning is
1st problem or Idea
2nd Science and Technology help in solving that problem or in making that idea
In the last example about stone and stick Science came first before the Technology coz if that person didn't know (Science) that long stick could help him and move that huge stone/rock he wouldn't use it ...
The Secret World: A Cash Shop Makes Sense
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I don't like/play f2p game coz of the cash shop so if TSW going to make cash shop for whatever reason even if its going to be
p2p it will be EPIC FAIL even if the cash shop will be only for fashion (cloth)
F2P are suck coz most of them count on who welling to pay more in cash shop
P2P for me we all are equal and all what you get with you character you earn it by playing not with extra $$
short story i dont like to play P2P game and i see someone getting things which he didn't play for it .....
General: Five MMOs That Should Be Remade
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I have been playing / played Anarchy Online for like 6 years this game ROCK all over all the other games but its problem isn't in the 3D only ! , if they want to get AO to what it deserve
they should follow tho
1st - Make deep story line for it
2nd- MORE content Diffenetly whats will make the game back to life again , and not Random content , tho Content are belong to the story line !
3rd - reprogram ALL boss's to make them have AI . so none could solo boss's anyway not even 2 or 4 ppl could solo end game boss's any more coz that are killing the game community (mmo is all about team work as long as you going to pve , in pvp its other story)
4th - STOP the item MAILL + STOP making the game away easyer its killing AO base player which is the ppl was supporting the game over Years !
[Last thing hope they remove ARK (ARK is like GM but he is player as any one but they hire few like that to help in simple problems when it comes to something important GM come) the reason is some/most of them don't help at all when they see that player on the other fuction! lol (A _ S_H_ _ LS)
P.S Dont get me wrong when you read that or feel the game is total crap its GOOD game
and have many thing's to offer but got lack in PVE ... PVP system is insanly Good , sadly i am not a PVP person , and the reason coz its lack in PvE , coz few patch give us alot more fire power while the mobs almost still the same fire power / def (i think) ..
(sry if there is miss spell)


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With chances of success being so low, there's almost no suspense about the outcome of a meeting in Annapolis today that is meant to jump-start negotiations for a final Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement.
Some 40 countries are scheduled to attend the meeting Tuesday in Annapolis at the U.S. Naval Academy. A number of Arab nations -- including Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and other members of the Arab League -- are expected to participate in a workshop entitled "comprehensive peace" at today's session. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said last week that "the meeting is about the Palestinian-Israeli track. But if people want to address other tracks or talk about them, they're certainly not going to be ruled out of order."
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert pledged that Israel will negotiate seriously. Before leaving for Annapolis, he told journalists he hoped the meeting would "allow the launch of serious negotiations on all the core issues, which will lead to a solution of two national homes for two peoples."
It was reported over the weekend that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was instrumental in bringing representatives of Saudi Arabia to the conference by convincing them that Israel means business. (Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal plans to attend, but he emphasized he would not speak to or shake hands with Israeli representatives.)
In private meetings Olmert and Abbas reportedly have agreed on broad principles of a peace accord. But when it gets to the sticky details, they run up against the same old knotty core questions -- where to draw the borders, who has sovereignty over Jerusalem, and whether Palestinian refugees have a right to return to Israel.
While the expectations for Annapolis may be modest, it is still commendable that Rice and President Bush are trying to restart the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, which has been bogged down since 2000.
The same old clash of interests likely will rise to the front again, but as long as the two sides can talk there's always hope. This region of the world has persistently refuted the idea that nations and people usually act in their own best interests. If that were true, peace between Israel and its neighbors would be a concrete reality, not some utopian fantasy.
But even in the Middle East, with its tortured history, logic eventually must prevail. Perhaps the summit in Annapolis will be a small step in that direction.
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