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The Block is a neighborhood restaurant and butcher shop located on West Lockwood Avenue. The location offers an extensive menu and also serves as a butcher shop with a full-service meat counter. The menu includes salads, appetizers, meats, seafood, sandwiches, fish and burgers, as well as seasonal items and handcrafted cocktails. Some selections offered include classic pork chops, fried green tomatoes, lemon herb chicken, Missouri trout, braised pork steaks, mussels and Butcher's Cut Grass Fed Beef.

  • Payments accepted: American Express, Cash, Discover, MasterCard, Visa
  • General services: Eat-in, Prepared foods, Take-out
  • Menu link: theblockrestaurant.​com/​menu/
  • Parking: Free lot, On-street: free
  • Cuisine: American, Burgers, Sandwiches, Seafood, Steak House
  • Price level: $
  • Reservations: Accepted
  • Features: Dinner, Group-friendly, Outdoor seating
  • Atmosphere: Bar Scene, Fine dining

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Reviews (4)

*

Not worth the price. Snooty portions. Egotistical owner. Mark or Matt? I went in this week and ordered the shrimp and grits. Growing up in the south, I expected white, well "gritty" grits.
What I got was polenta, but didn't realize it until after I'd left the restaurant. I commented to my fellow diners how strange it was that they were so fine and...yellow. Tasteless, besides.
The shrimp (3) were very greasy, there was a fair amount of onion and the sauce drizzled on top was alright.
I spoke with Mark or Matt, who when I said, well if they were going to substitute polenta instead of grits, I would like to have been informed or given the option to order something else; he insisted they use "fine yellow grits," vs. white, coarse hominy grits.

From http://chowhound.chow.co…:
Hominy is lye-treated corn, so hominy grits is the coarse white meal that is used in Southern country-style cooking to make "grits," the traditional breakfast plate accompaniment to eggs. Yellow corn grits is really a coarse ground corn meal, which is what one would use to make cornmeal mush, that unappealing-sounding name for what in Italy is the sublimely-elegant-sounding polenta.

SO I WAS RIGHT, BUT TOLD I WAS WRONG. Grits are grits, y'all.

Well, I did not get an APOLOGY. He did not offer the thought that maybe they should CHANGE the way it's worded on the menu. Perhaps a FREE DRINK or appetizer to entice me back?

Nada, folks. Just thinly veiled insistence that I was an idiot.

*****

The best bone-in Rib Eye steak!!!! grilled perfectly! Great burgers! Great Apps... all the food is fabulous.

John L.

*****

I LOVE this restaurant!!!! Great service, the food is of top quality, and the location is phenomenal!

*****

Their Macaroni and Cheese is amazing - bites of bacon and topped with breadcrumbs - it is large enough to feed 2 (but I normally won't share)! With spring coming I can't wait to pick up some items from their butcher shop for grilling at home.

 
 
 
 
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