IF RESTAURANT CONCEPTS, like fashion, are cyclical, then the supper club is certainly due for a comeback, reasons chef Blake Askew, who moved to St. Louis from San Francisco to make it so. Named after a '70s-era Polynesian-themed Clayton restaurant, The Mainlander is slated to open in May at 8 S. Euclid. The restaurant will offer guests a prix fixe menu of reimagined mid-century classics beginning with a lazy Susan of sharable nibbles that Askewjust might call a pupu platter.
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