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Best Gyro
3101 Hampton Ave, arisrestaurantstl.com The menu at Ari's Greek Restaurant is nothing if not expansive, offering everything from dolmas to cheeseburgers. But the gyro is at the heart of Ari's fare.
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Best Place to Dine with the Kids
2001 Park Avenue, plantaingirl.com If your kids are stuck in the ennui of chicken tenders and fries and other assorted fried brown crap, you have two solutions. You can take them to a fancy sit-down...
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Best Bakery
1626 Tower Grove Avenue, simonefaure.com For more than a decade now, La Patisserie Chouquette has been the gold standard of pastry in St. Louis, and its owner, Simone Faure, the queen. That staying...
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Best Chinese Restaurant
7930 Olive Boulevard, University City; bestspicy.com A bastion of Szechuan cuisine, University City's ChiliSpot is an extraordinary exploration of the mouth-numbing flavors that define this thrilling...
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Best Brunch
14 North Meramec Avenue, Clayton Once upon a time, the sea of office buildings in downtown Clayton was punctuated by mom-and-pop restaurants, boutiques and quaint cafes. Today, that indie spirit is...
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Best Restaurant When Someone Else Pays
7610 Wydown Boulevard, Clayton; bengelina.com/bar-moro When Ben Poremba opens a restaurant, he is not simply giving his guests a place to eat; he's creating an immersive experience and a window into...
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Best Bygone & Bonkers Dining Experience
When stepping into a restaurant dubbed "Mandarin House" and decorated with ornate Chinese decor, you might expect to be treated to an evening of delicious eats from East Asia. But if you were to have...
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Best Brewery Satellite
400 Crossroads Business Park Court, Flint Hill; friendshipbrewco.com The joke among some at Friendship Brewing is that the original downtown Wentzville location became so stuffed with co-owner Brian...
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Best Cocktails
1301 South Vandeventer, thevandystl.com A stone's throw from the heart of the Grove, the Vandy takes its cocktails seriously — but you can still have a great time drinking them. A stylish bar that...
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Best Barbecue
20 South Belt W, Belleville, Illinois; beastcraftbbq.com It's been a hell of a couple of years for BEAST Craft BBQ. Granted, it's been a hell of a few for everyone in the business, but the brand has...
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Best Korean Food
10084 Page Avenue, Overland; sos-sides-of-seoul-korean-take-out.business.site Mimi Lee can cook. In fact, she can cook so well that when it was her week to prepare food for her church's post-services...
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Best Gay Bar
4054 Chouteau Avenue, rehabstl.com When you enter a great nightclub, there's an exhilarating sense that anything could happen. That's the feeling one gets at Rehab St. Louis, the high-energy,...
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Best Wine Bar
2201 South 39th Street, wildoliveprovisions.com We'll be the first to admit that Wild Olive Provisions is not the place to go if you want to make a night of it. Befitting its primary identity as a...
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Best Diner
622 Chouteau Avenue, fleurstlfoodgroup.com When Tim Eagan announced he was going to open Fleur STL in the former Eat-Rite, he was greeted with a range of responses. Would it be exactly as its...
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Best Burger, Non-Beef Division
2203 South 39th Street, sweetartstl.com There are two types of non-beef burgers out there. Of late, thanks to the dominance of Beyond and Impossible meats, the "we swear this could be real meat"...
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Best Sliders
2501 South Ninth Street, jacknolens.com Let's face it: You rarely go to Soulard for the food. Sure, there are some great places to grab a bite — Mission Taco Joint, Eat Crow and Bogart's among them.
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Best Vegetarian Restaurant
6344 South Rosebury Avenue, Clayton; seedzcafe.com When you eat a plant-based diet, there's a lot of tension involved in dining out. There's the basic fear: Will this seemingly vegetarian dish...
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Best New Restaurant
7624 Wydown Boulevard, Clayton; wrightswydown.com When you put together two of the most talented veterans to grace the St. Louis restaurant scene, it's bound to be magic, and that's the only word to...
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Best Coffeehouse
33 North Sarah Street, quarrelsome.coffee If you've ever thought that your coffee would taste better if it just had a little more science behind it, Quarrelsome Coffee is for you. If you've never...
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Best Fast-Casual Restaurant
3457 Magnolia Avenue, buzzshawaiiangrill.com The surprisingly wide-ranging menu at Buzz's Hawaiian Grill includes everything from lumpia to slow-cooked pig to Hawaiian-style poke bowls (served with...
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