Fox Park is an area that is located where some swanky old homes used to be, but is is a run down somewhat scary area, now.
Little Fox sits on a corner in a residential area of homes that are trying to change the demographic. They are taking the old homes and investing in renovation and hoping to change the neighborhood.
Little Fox started out rather small and then was nominated for a James Beard and everything changed. People from all over St. Louis were coming to Fox Park.
The night we visited the clientele was almost 100% white and only eclectic in its sexual orientation.
The neighborhood is similar. There are housing projects on the outer areas of Fox Park and that's where there is greater diversity.
Little Fox is a "fancy" restaurant in an old building. You have to plan ahead for Little Fox, as they only take reservations about 3 weeks in advance and it fills up fast. You can make reservations for inside or outside. Since you never know about St. Louis weather in August, we made our reservations for inside.
We began our night with cocktails. They have a variety of very interesting cocktails. We started with 2 of them.
We started with a Prospect Park (left) which has Oaxaca rum, Caribbean rum, aloe liquor, curacao, lime, agave, and egg white. And a Cab Fare (right) which has white rum, aperol, dry vermouth, pineapple, lemon and clarified milk.
I ordered the Cab Fare and Mike ordered the Prospect Park, but it ended up that Mike didn't like his drink. The Caribbean rum has a distinct mint aftertaste and he didn't like it. So, we switched cocktails.
I agree, the Prospect Park was a weird drink with too many flavors and the Cab Fare was light and refreshing and easy to drink
For an appetizer we ordered the 'Nduja Corquetas. This is made with 'Nduja sausage, rice, prosciutto, fontina cheese, Grenada pepper aioli. They are very like arancini but with sausage.
There was too much fatty things in this. The sausage, the cheese, the prosciutto. They needed something to balance out all the fat. Mike liked them, I didn't.
For dinner Mike ordered the flat iron steak. It comes with crispy potatoes. It is a very safe dish and he said it was fine.
With dinner we had a bottle of red wine. It was just OK. It was a red blend from Italy.
I had mussels. The mussels are technically on a "small plates" menu. I knew they wouldn't be a big dinner, but that was OK. They came with grilled bread with aioli. The mussels were good. The broth they were in was fabulous. The bread was just OK. I wish they didn't have the aioli. It was too thick, it gets cold and then it is kind of gross. It would have been nice to be able to use the bread to sop up the broth.
After dinner we split a piece of flourless chocolate cake with candied lemon zest. I really liked that lemon zest on top (Mike didn't).
Overall this restaurant was fine. The server was fine. I definitely wouldn't put it in the "fine dining" category. The dishes were interesting and good, but nothing to rave about.
I'm glad we tried Little Fox, but the distance, the neighborhood, and the difficulty getting a reservation, will probably keep us from returning.
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