Item FA 7 – $50 Gift Card for Farmhaus Restaurant in South City

Wait a MINUTE!  Farmhous in South City -- WOWSER.  This would be a GREAT CHRISTMAS present for your special one.  It's a $50 gift card without expiration for one of St Louis' famous great restaurants.  Go Back, right now and use this card.  Better big big and high.   Kevin Willmann’s Farmhaus is a very, very, very fine hou … err … restaurant. And while there aren’t two cats in the yard, there are two pooches pressing their noses against the glass back door. There’s a massive rough-hewn butcher block in the kitchen. Brown butcher paper covers the white tablecloths; pastoral countryside paintings dot the yellow walls. A tall stainless steel rack keeps dining ware organized and holds several wood crates full of Ski soda returnable bottles. Stacks of cookbooks (Ad Hoc at Home, Chez Panisse Fruit, Au Pied de Cochon) are piled under the bar. I like the sturdiness of the Oneida flatware. Then there’s Willmann himself: tall, bearded, long hair pulled back, looking at home in jeans and a T-shirt. Folded together, there’s a rustic, comfy casualness about Farmhaus, one that belies the upscale, truly sophisticated cooking Willmann performs in this 50-seat restaurant he opened in March in the Lindenwood Park neighborhood of South City (in the space formerly occupied by Café Ivanhoe, KoKo and, for a few minutes, Bistro Toi). The food is exceptionally good, well worth the inconvenience of traversing the temporary one-way streets and barriers resulting from the Arsenal Street bridge replacement.