It’s been a minute, but the T-Rav Tasters are back. This time we took a trip to a St. Louis establishment. A staple of the 314. Next to the arch and wearing jorts to baseball games, Pasta House is near and dear to every St. Louisan’s heart. With them adding a new location off Ladue Rd., my brothers and I had to hit it up.

It was really good to get back on the TRT horse again after the birth of my son. Not just because I’m always hungry for toasted ravioli, but because we shot this episode with a new director named Jeff Samet, who is also from St. Louis (Clayton High). Check out all of his work. He’s great. But also because I’m always hungry for toasted ravioli.

Plus, we were featured in the St. Louis Jewish Light. Which is a high honor if you’re 1. from St. Louis, and 2. Jewish… as you might assume. While we filmed this episode, Bill Motchan followed us around for a profile. It was awesome.

Jen Duerfahrd, marketing director for Pasta House, said the T-Rav Taster visit would help generate awareness of the restaurant’s new Ladue location and, of course, for their toasted ravioli.

“I think T-Rav Tasters is great for St. Louis,” she said. “And I have three boys, so I can relate to this.”

Her comment came right after Jacob Waldman stuffed seven toasted ravioli into his mouth.

via St. Louis Jewish Light

Classic Jacob.

Also, this series is important to me and my brothers as we want to spread TRA.

“Toasted Ravioli Awareness (TRA) is very important to us,” Jeff Waldman said. “People need to know what St. Louis is known for foodwise, other than the way we awkwardly cut our bagels.”

via St. Louis Jewish Light

Most cities have their own food that they’re known for. And most of those times, they are food everyone knows about. Here in St. Louis, most people outside of St. Louis has any idea what toasted ravioli is. So if Nashville can have Hot Chicken, than why can’t we have deep fried raviolis? Let’s share it with the masses and let everyone know about this tiny little nuggets of meaty gold. Help us spread TRA by sharing the video with friends and family!

St. Louis, I love you.

-Sales Guy Jeff

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Well, apparently we have fans. And they’re tiny.

My niece and nephew have loved our T-Rav Tasters videos of us going all around St. Louis looking for the best toasted ravioli while simultaneously trying to raise T-Rav Awareness (TRA) to those who live outside the 314. بلاك جاك

Maybe you’ve heard of us, as we were recently featured on the St. Louis Jewish Light. Not to toot our own horn. If my niece and nephew could read, I’d suggest that’s maybe where they heard of us. رهانات كرة القدم

We’ve got a few more episodes coming in the coming weeks that you’re not going to want to miss, so subscribe to our Korked Bats YouTube channel and hit that little bell to get notifications.

-Sales Guy Jeff

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If you’re from St. Louis, you get it. Both the toasted ravioli and the man who waves a towel after each Blues goal. We merged both of them together for this week’s episode.

Towel Man is great, and provides so much energy. Not just to Blues games but to this episode. He joined in as if he was a T-Rav Taster from the beginning.

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Hey guys, it’s Sales Guy Jeff from the T-Rav Tasters. Our brand new episode is here, but this time, with a special guest:

Rizz from The Rizzuto Show

If you live in St. Louis, you already know the show. If you don’t, it’s the #1 radio show in the city. لعبة الروليت في العراق In fact, the show is so popular, the podcast of the show is the most downloaded podcast in the state of Missouri… AND Illinois. Crazy, isn’t it? So Rizz is a big deal. But more than that, he’s fun as hell.

He joined us at Anthonino’s Taverna on The Hill to eat some t-ravs and drink some City Wide, and we have a blast. قوانين البوكر He also takes on Jacob in the Chubby Bunny Challenge. موقع قمار

So enjoy the episode, and follow Korked Bats and subscribe to the YouTube channel to be notified when the next episode drops. We’ve got another big-time, iconic guest joining us for episode 4… any guesses?

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If you’re from St. Louis, you already get it.

If you’re not, allow me to fill you in. We here in St. Louis are known for two things. St. Louis Cardinals baseball and weird ass food concoctions. Putting provel cheese on thin crusted pizza. Gooey butter cake. Pork steaks. If it’s weird, odds are it’s popular and got it’s start in St. Louis.

Arguably the captain of Team Weird Food is toasted ravioli.

What the hell does toasted ravioli even mean? It means we deep fry some meat-filled ravioli. And let me tell you, it’s wildly delicious.

My name is Sales Guy Jeff. I’m the eldest Taster and I’ve been a part of Korked Bats for a handful of months now. My brothers (Jacob and Jon) and I are St. Louis natives and have always talked about rating the toasted ravioli in the city. So if the name T-Rav Tasters sounds like it was made up by a bunch of children, that’s because it was. My brothers and I were children when we came up with it. العاب المال So about 3-4 months ago, I pitched the idea to Austin. He loved it, and we got to work building and preparing this bi-monthly series.

Episodes will drop every other week, but we have some fun content we’re gonna share on social media in the off-weeks as well. Side note: how douchey is it to say content? Jeeze. I wanna kick my own ass.

We’ve got a ton of fun things planned for this series, including new and unique restaurants, some old St. Louis classics, special guest hosts, and a ton more. Also, now is a good time to point out that when people say “and a ton more” there usually isn’t anything more, because otherwise, they would’ve said it. But I assure you, we have a ton already planned (and some already shot) for this insane series.

Why are we doing this?

You probably think we’re only doing this because it’s an excuse to drink beer and eat t-ravs. Well………………. ok, you’re half-right. By the way, thank you to 4Hands for partnering with us and providing us with City Wide.

But there are four things, we’re hoping to accomplish with this project. Allow me to list them.

1. Help some of our favorite local restaurants get out of this pandemic

This one was the biggest thing for us. Not to get all sappy, but we don’t want to see the restaurant industry struggle. We all know how hard this last year has been for us all. We want to play a small role in fixing that. And we figured we’d start local.

And as more people get vaccinated, things open up, and you feel more comfortable, we hope you hit up some of these restaurants.

2. Raise toasted ravioli awareness nationally

Toasted Ravioli Awareness (TRA) is very important to us. People need to know what St. Louis is known for food-wise… other than the way we awkwardly cut our bagels. Toasted raviolis are the best representation of that. It’s delicious. It’s unique. It’s St. Louis.

Sure it’s made up, but pretty sure Nashville made up Hot Chicken and everyone was cool with that! موقع رهانات So let us have this, and just roll with us.

Korked Bats has a decent (and growing) national following, and we’re hoping to inform the masses about the little square pieces of fried heaven that we have here in the 314.

3. Get St. Louis to know Korked Bats a little better

Despite starting in Nashville, Korked Bats is currently headquartered in St. Louis and we felt like the best way to introduce ourselves to our own city was to do it with food.

I’m Jewish, and that’s how we usually do things in my family. You get to know people best over food. That’s what we’re doing here.

4. Find the best t-rav in St. Louis

Oh yeah. This is important too. We don’t want to stop until we hit every restaurant in St. Louis. Yes, even you Pasta House in the Southwest Terminal at Lambert.

When will new episodes drop?

Every two weeks on Wednesday, but we’ll have some fun content dropping on social media and YouTube in the off-weeks. Again, there’s that word content again. I’ll allow you all to punch me in the face at least once. كرابس

How can you follow along?

If you wanna follow us on socials, we’re on Facebook (7.8k followers), Twitter (12.3k followers), Instagram (1.3k followers), and our YouTube following sucks so please subscribe to us there as well. We’re building something cool, and we hope you guys join us for the ride.

**We have a T-Rav Tasters playlist on our YouTube channel as well.**

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We’ve been working on this project for months and are excited to finally bring it to you. Please, help us share it with friends, family, and anyone you know who loves t-ravs. Thanks for checking out Korked Bats.

Toast it.

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