Joe Pollack has spent more than a half-century as a professional writer, dealing with a wide range of subjects. He moved to the Post-Dispatch in 1972 as drama and movie critic, and soon added restaurant writing and wine columns to his beat. After 23 years there, he considers himself partially retired, but continues writing about food, wine and travel and other things on a freelance basis.
Most folks call it terrific.
But he cooks the way he talks, slowly and with considerable thought, and the results show it. Cameron moved into the Pestalozzi Street location nearly a decade ago, and he began with a small, extremely informal operation, with a bar in the front room, food service in the second and a kitchen in the third. I remember, in the early days, meeting Vince Bommarito there for lunch. When I arrived, he was practically crawling around the floor, looking at the undersides of the bar stools. These were my bar stools.