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Chef/owner Alex Henry serves a customer at Sureste in the Food Hall at City Foundry. Photo by: Post-Dispatch.

Midtown: the city’s uncontested new champion

In 18 years on the restaurant beat, I can’t think of a project more transformative than the Food Hall at City Foundry (3730 Foundry Way), which shook off its difficult, delayed development to become an essential dining destination from the day it opened three years ago. Yucatecan food at Sureste, wood-fired pizza at Fordo’s Killer Pizza, oxtails and jerk chicken at Chez Ali: I could list the entire directory, really.

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