St. Louis Bars

Eat and drink:
O’Connell’s Pub
McGurk’s
Johnny’s in Soulard
Schlafly Tap Room
Schlafly Bottleworks

Drink – Landing circuit (younger crowd)
Morgan Street Brewery
Big Bang Piano Bar

Near the Stadium
Broadway Oyster Bar
Hot Shots

Now that the Red Sox have traded Lowrie and Scutaro, who is going to play SS for them? Did I miss a big signing or deal they made?

The Red Sox are comfortable with a Nick Punto/Mike Aviles platoon replacing Scutaro.

Getting stem cell treatment on his shoulder…didn’t know that.

If Fielder doesn’t get signed long term because there is no “fit” as suggested here what is the most $ you would want Mozeliak to throw at him for one season?

Here’s my list in no particular order:

BEER
O’Connell’s Pub
Schlafly Tap Room
The Dubliner
Blueberry Hill

COCKTAILS
Sanctuaria
The Royale

MUSIC
BB’s Jazz, Blues and Soups

No Cards connections that I know of.

Spotted Scutaro’s release. Would he have been a better fit for the Cards at HHS dollar price than Rafael Furcal. Scutaro is a little older, but does have an ok WAR, and plays both middle infield positions. What say you?

If we’re just sticking around downtown…

Broadway Oyster Bar – classic New Orleans blues music and food. One of my best nights out was right here. A crawfish boil was in full swing, the jumbalaya was hearty and spicy, and a great zydeco band was twanging under the covered patio. Add in an electrical storm going on overhead and it was a borderline euphoric evening.

Jack Patrick’s Bar & Grill – Friendly staff who’ll chat awhile if it’s slow. Cheap bottles, good pub grub (I prefer the bacon cheddar burger with horseradish). Three pool tables, table shuffleboard, dartboards and video golf. Rumor has it there’s a washer set in the basement, but I haven’t seen it.

Joey B’s – Delicious thin-crust pizza loaded high and heavy (and featured on Rachel Ray). Some of the nicest bartendresses I’ve met. Over a hundred unique shots on their shot wall. Karaoke on Mondays. DJs on weekends. Free pizza every day during happy hour (I think so. They stopped for awhile because homeless people got wise to it).

Maurizio’s Pizza – while it has a bar in it, I don’t think I’d designate it as one. It specializes in greasy (but yummy!) pizza either by the pie or, during the day, buffet-style. Maurizio’s is best after 3:00 am. A diverse mix of St. Louisans fill the place up. It’s buzzing but not rowdy as everyone gnashes down on pizza and recounts their evenings. If you’re looking for beer to take back to your hotel late at night, Maurizio’s sells it by the six-pack.

JoePa died today following battle with lung cancer.

Here’s Mr. Dietz:

I was 14 years old at the time. I would turn 15 that November. I lived at 5322 Geraldine Avenue in the Walnut Park neighborhood on the north side in St. Louis city. I remember I walked home from the stadium that day and it was three and a half miles. I knew the distance because I was going to Beaumont High School at the time, which was very close to the stadium and walked home from school frequently.

article here

That has the makings of a most excellent day.
Good idea for the local bars to.

Came up to the mountains with my friends, but still healing up a broken foot, so no snowboarding for me. I’m killing time on the internet all day (well, until football). Boo.

I won’t pretend to be an expert of anything except the bars near Wash U, but Blueberry Hill is the world’s most overrated bar.

far as that goes. Careful of that foot.. You can do some tubing though..

I am sooooo ready for a day of beer and american football. watching the 10th inning right now with some coffee.

in the Central West End. Amazing sliced potatoes with this beer/cheese sauce. And quotes from Mozart and Shakespeare everywhere about why drinking beer is essential.

iTap: 500 beers in Soulard. I always have something different. You can bring your own food in. If you go there a lot sign up for the beer passport program. Bonus for the ladies in that it was just voted one of the best bars to pick up a guy.

Ciceros: In the Loop. Decent food and a lot of different beers. They occasionally have bands in the back room. They also do their free beer school on Wednesdays during the regular college semesters at 5:30 and 7:00pm.

Three Sixty: Downtown and overlooking Busch Stadium.

“… this many! Look at it! That’s a lot of games to be back by late August or whatever it was!”

Even back when I went to bars, they were almost exclusively shitholes. The kind of place that had non-functioning electronic dart boards and pool tables with warped sticks. Places that reeked of stale Bud Light, Marlboros, and despair.

3. Kolten Wong, Cardinals: (…) He has very good speed and should be a threat on the bases. And while most think of a player who is already a second baseman in college as a defensive failure, Wong is quite adept at the position. He’s already on the fast track and may not need more than a year to be ready to help out in St. Louis.

so that part of my music appreciation would be satisfied… but where would one go to see alt-rock, experimental stuff?

but all the singing and robe-clad men warning me about the dangers of loose morals and looser women is hardly worth the little bit of watered down wine and stale crackers. Strange hours of operation too.

An Appreciation of Former St. Louis Cardinals’ Shortstop David Eckstein’s Tangibles

tough question. maybe both is the answer.

Just dont order tomato soup. It supposed to be a “cold tomato” soup, which means eating salsa with a spoon, but the beer is excellent and most of the food is good

CWE – Brennan’s, Dressels.
Loop – Pi on Delmar, Moonrise, Blueberry Hill, Ciceros.
Downtown – Bridge Tap House, Hair of the Dog.
Maplewood – Schlafly.
Soulard – Itap.
The Grove – Handlebar, Gramaphone, Atomic Cowboy. (hipster, but still alright)
Other – Schlafly, Six Row, Plush (new on locust), Sanctuaria, The Royale, Square One Brewery,