Saint Louis – Where to Eat

During a Fall Break Trip to Saint Louis in October we had a lot of fun covered in previous My World posts and now I’m going to tell you a little bit about where we ate. The Yogi’s try to eat well on trips. Luckily Saint Louis has lots of great places to eat.

Of course, we start with desert. We love frozen custard. We were clued in by some friends to try Ted Drewe’s Frozen Custard.

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It’s really good. I mean really really good. We went there a couple times. It is on old Route 66. I would give you the link to their web site but the site locks my PC up. So I’ll spare you.

Ted Drewes Frozen Custard
4224 S Grand Blvd
(314) 352-7376

Saint Louis has a section they call the “The Hill” with lots of Italian Restaurants. The two we tried were wonderful. The one we liked the best is Cunetto House of Pasta.

My favorite was Cunetto on the Hill. They are noted for their house salad. It was great! It was as pretty as it tasted good.

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 For the entree I asked the waiter what their customers liked the best. He recommended the Linguine Tutu Mare, pasta with clams, crab, and shrimp in a broth. It may be the best pasta dish I have ever had. Maybe, I’ll have to go back and check it out again.

Before,
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After,
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Cunetto House of Pasta
5453 Magnolia Avenue
(314)781-1135
http://www.cunetto.com/

The Yogi’s, at the least the two oldest of the three of us, love brewpubs. Tulsa, to my shame, has not had any for some time. Tulsa is a “Bud Light” kind of town. (Even the Garden of Eden had thorns) Anyway we tried the Saint Louis Brewery & Tap Room. The beer and the food were both great. Nothing like a brew pub for the visuals.

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Saint Louis Brewery & Tap Room
2100 Locust Street
(314) 241-2337
http://www.schlafly.com/

You know something though. The best meal we had was at a place called Sweetie Pies. Do you watch Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives on the Food Network? Well if don’t check it out some time. That is where we learned about Sweetie Pies. It is home style cooking and it is wonderful. It was the last place we ate on our trip and  was it ever memorable. Check out their mac and cheese.

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Sweetie Pies at the Mangrove
4270 Manchester Avenue
(314) 371-0304

We give Saint Louis four stars out of four for food. Which is wonderful. The only places better, that we have been to, are San Franciso which we gave five stars out of four and New Orleans which, I don’t know, gets maybe forty stars out of four?

After Sweetie Pies we loaded up and headed down I44 back to Tulsa.

Here is SuperPizzaBoy in travel mode.
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He can do that for hours.

Sweetie was in charge of the camera.

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14 thoughts on “Saint Louis – Where to Eat”

  1. ♥georgie♥

    I am now craving pasta,mac n cheese and frozen custard LOL

    Looks like you all ate very well…I do love diners drive ins and dives how cool you got to eat at sweetie pies

  2. Sheba

    OK – now all that yummy food is making me very hungry, and I just had supper!! 🙂

    This goes under Sheba’s profile, but I’m sure she’ll agree with me.

    Warm greetings from West Africa!
    Esther & Shebes

  5. Sylvia K

    Now I’m starving!!! Great post, Yogi, and I love your photos. Seems as though you had a great trip and terrific food!!!

    Enjoy your week!

    Sylvia

  10. Gaelyn

    Well Yogi you’ve made us all hungry. I’m off for ice cream.
    It is fun to eat out when traveling and hopefully get the best there is to offer.

  11. Tulsa Gentleman

    Wow, the seafood pasta in broth looks fantastic. Linguine with white clam sauce is a favorite going back many years. Adding shrimp, mussels and mushrooms has to be wonderful I have to have some of that, soon.

  12. Rebecca

    Passing through as I try to visit all of the SSS participants – and I will definitely be going to the Custard place when I’m in St. Louis in July!

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