Robert | Robert St. John

Not Just Another Dinner

This column is written in the afterglow of a special weekend. I just spent the past few days with my wife, daughter, and son— just […]

Snowy Day

Mississippi is closed today. As I type a winter storm has just passed through the entire state leaving a blanket of snow and ice. The […]

Restaurant Honeymoons

There are two types of honeymoons. The relational kind that one experiences as a newlywed, full of bliss and joy, and the foodservice variety one […]

A Mad Day Out

Anyone who knows me knows that I am a huge fan of the Beatles. Anyone who knows Beatles history knows that on July 28, 1968, […]

Claws and Wings

Some of the restaurant world’s greatest food items have come from mistakes, near mistakes, the need to use by-products, and items that were— at one […]

Eat Local

Whenever I am visiting a new town, for business or pleasure, I always go down to the front desk of the hotel in the early […]

Soft Openings

In my 40-year restaurant career I have been a part of 22 new-restaurant openings. Three of those were at the beginning of my career and […]

Extra Table, What A Year It Was

In a year in which it seems the headlines are filled with endless negative and controversial news stories, I thought it might be a nice […]

Goodbye 2020

Around this time of year newspapers are filled with end-of-the-year wrap-up stories about what has happened over the past 12 months. This year there seems […]