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Riddle's Penultimate Cafe & Wine Bar
6307 Delmar Blvd
University City, MO 63130
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Main Menu
Starters & Smaller Portions
Crostini Harrisburg
$5.95
crostini (little toast in italy) made with crusty, just-
baked breadsmith baguette spread with fresh herb-enhanced chevre-style goat cheese
from harrisburg, missouri and an excellent italian sun-dried tomato on top
Smoked Peruvian Blue Tilapia
$7.95
fresh from the pristine streams of the andes mountains, peruvian blue have a thicker fillet, firmer texture, and sweeter taste that what youre used to.we smoke it over hickory and it set atop a bed of caponata, a delicious south italian eggplant stew, then finish with shallot-tarragon aioli.
Chilled Caponata
$7.25
this is one of my favorite things to eat. a delicious italian eggplant stew with onions, tomatoes, olives, and capers, served chilled with warm pita bread.
Crawfish Shreveport
$8.50
crawfish tailmeat marinated in lime juice and cayenne, is treated to a lovely sweet onion and poppyseed dressing and mixed with fresh vegetables for a bright marinated salad.
Blue Cheese Stuffed Mushroom Caps
$7.50
big caps stuffed with a mixture of blue cheese and quite a good shot of avery island, louisiana tabasco sauce.
Crawfish Stuffed Mushroom Caps
$7.50
large caps piled high with a rich stuffing of crawfish newburg, spiked with dry sherry and a good shot of cayenne pepper.
Combination Stuffed Mushroom Caps
$7.50
you dont have to decide on one stuffing! big caps, half of them stuffed with blue cheese stuffing and half stuffed with crawfish stuffing.
Shrimp Remoulade
$8.95
big, wild, gulf shrimps served with our version of the traditional new orleans mustard sauce zippy with tarragon & cayenne.
Shrimp Cocktail
$8.25
big, wild, gulf shrimps served with the traditional american tomato cocktail sauce, this one made with fresh southern illinois horseradish ground fresh for us at rothmans deli, 4720 delmar.
Homemade Soups
Beef Shitake Barley Soup
a savory fall classic with rich beef broth, toothsome barley, local shiitake mushrooms,
and beef tenderloin bits from our delicious hand-cut filet mignons
Chilled Orange Apricot Soup
a perennial favorite, this soup has a yogurt base, a hint of spice, and an extremely refreshing quality.
Riddles Garden Vegetable Soup
vegan, low chlo., low cal. and all delicious
Entree And Seafood Specials
Shrimp Sara
$21.95
jumbo wild gulf shrimp are sauteed with fresh garlic and mushroom, served with a rich, deeply-flavored sauce of white port wine, tomato, artichoke heart and cream. a riddles original for over 20 years
Chicken Major Grey
$18.50
a boneless breast of carefully raised, antibiotic-free ashly farms chicken is sauteed with green onion, flamed in brandy and served with a sauce of sour cream, mango chutney and the excellent curry blended for us by the st. louis herb society. a riddles original for more then 20 years.
Filet Marchand De Vin
$29.95
char-grilled to order, served with a long simmered french-creole sauce of beef stock, mushroom, prochuitto, red wine and garlic.
Chicken Rose
$17.50
a boneless breast of carefully raised , antibiotic free ashley farms chicken is sauteed with onion and bell pepper, served in a sauce of rose wine and soy sauce, brown sugar and vinegar. another riddles original for more than 20 years.
Filet Marchand De Vin
$29.95
char-grilled to order, served with a long simmered french-creole sauce of beef stock, mushroom, prochuitto, red wine and garlic.
Grilled Fillet Mignon
$28.95
hand-cut eight-ounce steak of magnificent
american angus beef, grilled to order
Memphis Pulled Pork Bar-be-que
$16.95
whole pork butts from the happy pigs
raised hormone- and antibiotic-free by the family farm owners of the ozark mountain
pork co-op in mountain view, missouri are dry-rubbed two times, then slow-smoked
over hickory wood in our kitchen for nine hours. served with our own
blackstrap bar-be-que sauce and fresh cut cabbage slaw
Fresh Vegetable Selections
Homegrown Summer Squash
with prosciutto & romano
Homegrown Basil Pesto Linguine Its High Basil Season!
Sweet Potatoes Whipped
with butter and maple syrup
Boiled New Potatoes
with fresh dill butter
Broccoli
fresh and steamed
Pasta Selections
Spaghetti Conroy
$12.95
garlic-butter sauce with white wine, sauteed onion, mushroom, and bell pepper, tossed with parmesan cheese.
Cavatelli With Broccoli
$14.95
fresh broccoli in a rich cream sauce with sliced mushrooms & parmesan cheese.
Cavatelli Tutto Mare
$16.95
a rich cream sauce with fresh mushrooms, shrimp, crab and whiting tossed with a touch of the very fine curry blended by the st. louis herb society and parmesan cheese.
Cajun Cavatelli
$15.75
a rich white sauce with mushroom, bell pepper, crawfish tail meat, like tiny lobster tails, and a dash of cayenne pepper.
Lasagna
$13.50
baked in layers with our own flacorful red sauce, a mixture of cheeses and italian sausage that we make ourselves from ozark mountian co-op pork as well as pastured ground beef by karlios hinkebein in cape girardeau, missouri.
Spinach Lasagna
$13.50
a meatless lasagna baked in layers with white sauce, creamed spinach & chesses. a riddles favorite ror over twenty years.
Spaghetti Bolonese
$12.95
red meat sauce rich with pastured missouri ground beef raised by karlios hinkebein in cape girardeau, missouri and our own italian sausage made with ozark mountain co-op pork.
Lighter Fare
The Better Burger
$8.95
12 pound of pastured beef raised by karlios hinkebein in cape girardeau, missouri
The Better Cheeseburger
$9.95
ketchican sandwich smoked salmon & boursin cheese on foccacia bread
Bbq Ashly Farms Chicken Breat Sandwich
$9.95Our Popular Salads
eden, chef or mayfair
- $6.95
- $9.95
Soup & Salad
small salad/cup of soup or large salad/bowl of soup
- $9.95
- $13.50
Homemade Ice Cream
We Make Our Own Ice Creams Here In The Restaurant Using A Quarter-century Old White Mountain Ice Cream Freezer With An Oak Tub Packed With Ice And Rock Salt
Belgium Chocolate
French Vanilla
Oreo
Sweet Cherry
Kahlua Cappucino
Desserts
Penultimate Almond Cheesecake
$5.00
always hand-made in our kitchen, cool, creamy and dense with a graham cracker crust.
Bananas Flood
$8.95
an extravaganza!! banana slices sauteed with pineapple and coconut, flamed with dark myers jamaican rum and poured around a big serving of our own homemade ice cream
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About Us
Riddles is an independent, owner-operated restaurant where excellent food is our foremost concern.?We boast one of the most extensive wine lists in the Midwest and serve a massive variety of craft beers from around the world.