Special requests: Ask your favorite recipes from your favorite restaurants

Q • Wow. We like the (large plate) in the (local restaurant). Would (owner and chef) share the recipe?

A • Of course we do! For 15 years the restaurant recipes Post-Dispatch reported in this column "special requests" help readers deny friendly recipes home cooking restaurants, helps restaurants get attention. You wonder if applications are real people? One wonders whether the recipes are the real deal? Yes and yes.

St. Louis has a thriving scene of local foods, there is no other way to say it. Every month open more restaurants in the vicinity. Local food magazines have new places and local critics to help you decide where to make reservations and order. Employees, especially those who have worked in other cities, marvel at the camaraderie found in our community. We also gain national attention as a destination for food lovers.

Reader recipe calls before the Post-Dispatch, make their own significant contribution, too. Share on the question, Zoya Volkomirsky her recipe for a cold beet soup beet summer appeared the Post-Dispatch readers en masse, and the Café de Zoya had their "best Wednesday ever." When asked about her family recipe to share Grbic roast with mushroom sauce, this Friday evening, half of the orders was night Grbic Restaurant for intimate Beef.

So a favorite restaurant - or a truck or taqueria food or coffee or a country club or catering business - a favor, ask the Post-Dispatch, the recipe for a dish you request. It is also faster than e-mail and could also be the month of the restaurant. He does not have the chic restaurant in the city or a court, a place you like and what you like to eat. It is that others would also be likely.

Now a word to the wise. While most restaurant owners are happy to share their recipes, sometimes a particular recipe is a closely guarded family secret, just not to leave the family. Moreover, man can not live by bread (pudding) to live alone, so sometimes asks bread pudding is canceled. (Oh man, we, St. Louisans Make love our bread pudding.) So while each application receives special attention, not everyone makes the paper.