My GF and I will be in St. Louis on Saturday, and we're looking for things to do. So far we're planning on hitting up the City Museum, but everything else is up in the air. Colleen is vegetarian, almost vegan, so some good vege/vegan restaurant suggestions would be very helpful. Thanks!
My wife (then GF) got claustrophobic in the St. Louis Arch ride up. It is sort of like climbing into a front load washing machine.
I'll see what I can find in the area of vegan. I can tell you plenty about where to grab a beer. Enjoy the City Museum. It will be a blast. You know there's a bar in there, right. 
Yeah, we might have to admire the arch from the bottom. I've been up it before, but Co almost started crying when I convinced her to ride the ferris wheel at our local fair, and that's just her fear of heights! She also has some (although not bad) claustrophobia issues.
N Sperlo wrote: I'll see what I can find in the area of vegan. I can tell you plenty about where to grab a beer. Enjoy the City Museum. It will be a blast. You know there's a bar in there, right.
Actually, I could use some recommendations for that too. We're heading in Friday for the Radiohead show, and I'm sure we'll want to go out for a beer or six after the show. The show is downtown, as is our hotel, so close would be nice, but we can always cab it if there's something somewhere else we shouldn't miss.
I've been to the City Museum once before, but that was about 10 years ago. I thought the place was amazing, then I found the bar. At that point it pretty much became my favorite place on the planet.
In reply to 16vCorey:
Don't bother going in the arch. How many will be in town and what's the age range? Gives me an idea if what to suggest..
Just me and my girlfriend. We're in our early 30s, but we're very immature for our age.
In reply to 16vCorey:
City museum will be perfect. If you want some Schafley, the Tap Room is around the corner from the museum I think on Locust. A cab ride away. Washington Avenue is loaded with things to do. Jive and Wail is a fun bar, but its a piano bar, so it may not be perfect for after a show. Maybe after the museum wears you out. Its within walking distance. Just don't go North of the museum.
I am pretty sure there is a place there that makes beer. And, has horses.
jrw1621 wrote: I am pretty sure there is a place there that makes beer. And, has horses.
Actually, their a few miles away. A few hundred miles away.
Green Bean in the Central West End may be a drive, but a good vegan restaurant.
Awesome! Thanks! We'll have to check that out.
I'm hoping Alex will chime in with some great place that uses his bread. I love good bread and like to support my people whenever possible. Bonus if it's vegi/vegan friendly.
I was starting to wonder when Alex would chime in...
If you like trains; the transportation museum is cool.
Near the brewery is a pretzel place - great place. http://www.guspretzels.com/
Before we were politically correct; my (100%) Italian father used to take us to Dago Hill (back in 1968). Now its called The Hill. Italian food in a cool old school neighborhood.
There is a great Chinese food restaurant near Fenton by the HI Express........oh wait, that's where I stay.
Look for St. Louis Bread - it matches Panera Bread. Nobody at the stores know why except they started in StL.
+1 on Schlafly. Good beer, American owned. Delicious. The bottleworks in Maplewood is cool too, but I don't know how much that is usually open. I happened to be there at an event once.
Blueberry Hill is cool, especially if Chuck Berry is playing (he often is).
The Moto Museum is awesome. The Triumph Grill restaurant attached to it is also pretty good.
The Hill is fun if you like Italian food, but veggie/vegan is not common or likely there.
JamesZcar wrote: Before we were politically correct; my (100%) Italian father used to take us to Dago Hill (back in 1968). Now its called The Hill. Italian food in a cool old school neighborhood.
+1 on the Hill. Cunetto's is my personal favorite.
The Zoo is free (park for free on the street and it's a really good deal). Trader Joe's and Whole foods have multiple locations around to help with the eating.
BAMF wrote: +1 on Schlafly. Good beer, American owned. Delicious. The bottleworks in Maplewood is cool too, but I don't know how much that is usually open. I happened to be there at an event once. The Hill is fun if you like Italian food, but veggie/vegan is not common or likely there.
agreed on both. I travel to St. Louis for work from time to time and enjoy both of the above. I'm spoiled in west Michigan with excellent local brew (Bell's, Founders, etc.), but found Schlafly to be quite good. Excellent Italian food to be found on "the hill" as well.
Are you staying downtown downtown? Give me an idea of location and I can probably come up with some good post-concert spots within walking distance of the hotel.
My favorite vegan/veggie is Everest, a Nepalese place owned by a public health PhD. Delicious stuff, and very healthy. The location I know best is in the Grove neighborhood (along with plenty of cool bars, like the Atomic Cowboy right across the street), but they have a new location downtown on Olive for the office lunch crowd.
The strip of Washington Ave. where the 'nightlife' (or what passes in StL) resides is very close to the City Museum. I wouldn't call it an exactly typical St. Louis experience, but it can be a good time. (None of it is terribly cheap, but you won't get absolutely raked over the coals.) Places I dig on Washington for food/drinks: The Dubliner (Irish pub, decent food), Mosaic (solid food, tapas style, fancier), Wasabi (sushi, one of the best in town), Lucas Park Grille (if you can stand a bit of a see-and-be-seen crowd, or go early), Hair Of The Dog (dive bar - my people!)...
In the same basic area (you can walk from Wash Ave), at 10th and Olive is one of my favorite dive bars in town, Jack Patrick's. Home to one of the most diverse crowds in a St. Louis bar, decent pours, and a solid (internet) jukebox. Across 10th St. from JP's is a restaurant I've heard good things about, but haven't been to since I have a long-standing beef with the owner, Bailey's Range. (It's also, coincidentally, directly below the first apartment I got when I moved back to town after school.) The same owner also has a place a block North on Olive called The Bridge, with a focus on craft beers (I've heard sub-par food).
If you're mobile, get yourself to O'Connell's for a burger and a Guinness (and a Power's 12 year, neat, for me). Seriously, do it. Colleen can have a salad or something. It's a real-deal pub - the bar side was a former A-B public house that was moved from about 4 miles north; the whole building. No TV, slightly surly but charming waitresses, jazz on the speakers under the din of conversation from the ancient wooden booths, mounted animals and vintage bar paraphernalia. Nothing over-the-top, no kitsch in sight, just beautifully lived in. I've been going there since before I was born. Hell, that place may have a role in my conception for all I know. But really, if there's one place in town I'd miss if I moved away, it's O'Connell's.
If you're looking to venture any farther out of downtown, let me know and I'll be happy to help out.
As far as places to find Red Guitar Bread: nowhere at the moment, unfortunately. I put my baking operations on hiatus back in October to look for my own space. I have a building under contract, though, so it looks like I'm back in business by mid-April.
Of course, feel free to PM me for any more info, too.
Wow, some excellent info there. I'm going to have to make note of it and plan a return visit, because we're obviously not going to have enough time to check it all out. I'm only 2.5 hours away, so it shouldn't be too hard to come back.
We're staying at the Hyatt Regency by the Arch, and the show is at the Scottrade Center, so we might just park at the hotel and hoof it Friday night, or if there's somewhere that we shouldn't miss head there for a drink or two, drive back to the hotel, then finish the night off within walking distance.
Cool, the Hyatt will put you within reasonable walking distance of all the Wash Ave related stuff.
I didn't even get into the Mexican on Cherokee, the Vietnamese/Thai on Gravois or Grand, the weird St. Louis pizza in the bocce court at Milo's... Yeah, you'll have to come back.
WTF, nobody told you Ted Drewes is a "must do"? I don't live there, and even I know that. 
Sinfully delicious frozen custard (think, smoother, sweeter ice cream). Sort of like getting a cheese steak in Philadelphia, you have to get a custard at Drewes.
^^ The man's got a point.
I can't believe I forgot Ted Drewes! I don't usually make it there when visiting the in-laws (they're not that far into the city).
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