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any recommendations of things to see/places to eat/etc? We're going through Kansas City going one way and St. Louis heading home.
Zoë
Ooh, i dont know kc very well, but i grew up in the st louis area
so, probably the thing that most people immediately tell out of towners to do is the city museum -- which is the old Brown shoe factory, that closed in the early 90s, and the've taken the industrial equipement, and turned the whole thing into a four story playground, basically
the other thing famous thing that I genuinely love is Forest Park, which is a huge public park that has a bunch of buildings built the aout for the 1904 world's fair. The art museum and the zoo are quite good and are free
and that area is close to...
1. university city, which at least when I was in my early 20s, was the fun nightlife place to go, with clubs and stuff. Uncle Tupelo (before splitting into Son Volt and Wilco) got their start playing this pizza parlor/punk rock venue called Ciceros there, and there's the chuck berry-affiliated blueberry hill down there, and the Pageant is legitimately one of my favorite concert venues ever
and...
2. The Hill, which is the traditional italian neighborhood, and still has a ton of high quality italian
Also nearby is Mokabe's, which is a delightful queer anarchist-style coffee shop
the architecture int he south st louis neighborhood of soulard is neat, and that's where stl pride marches through, but I was so closeted back when I lived there that I'm not super familiar with queer bullshit in stl, beyond knowing that there's a pretty vibrant scene
(there is a polyamory/sexuality resource center/coffee shop called Shameless Grounds that is prety neat, but they keep on changing locations)
if you have time to go to IL, not a lot of out of towners know about the Cahokia mounds, which is a pretty
and, a kind of fun tourist thing to do, maybe tied with the city museum, is going to Crown Candy Kitchen in the north city, which is a greasy spoon diner that's been in business since the 1890s
you can try the st louis pizza, but I will say that julie is the only person not from st louis i've ever met that likes it
there is also quite a live music scene there still, but everything I know about that is 15 years out of date
oh, there is a stl barbecue
but vegetarian, so I'm kind of ignorant there, but there should be a rec
if Joel is out to do the stl pizza, I would recommend going out to Serra's pizza in the suburbs
which is a little family owned place
Zoë
Ooh, i dont know kc very well, but i grew up in the st louis area
so, probably the thing that most people immediately tell out of towners to do is the city museum -- which is the old Brown shoe factory, that closed in the early 90s, and the've taken the industrial equipement, and turned the whole thing into a four story playground, basically
the other thing famous thing that I genuinely love is Forest Park, which is a huge public park that has a bunch of buildings built the aout for the 1904 world's fair. The art museum and the zoo are quite good and are free
and that area is close to...
1. university city, which at least when I was in my early 20s, was the fun nightlife place to go, with clubs and stuff. Uncle Tupelo (before splitting into Son Volt and Wilco) got their start playing this pizza parlor/punk rock venue called Ciceros there, and there's the chuck berry-affiliated blueberry hill down there, and the Pageant is legitimately one of my favorite concert venues ever
and...
2. The Hill, which is the traditional italian neighborhood, and still has a ton of high quality italian
Also nearby is Mokabe's, which is a delightful queer anarchist-style coffee shop
the architecture int he south st louis neighborhood of soulard is neat, and that's where stl pride marches through, but I was so closeted back when I lived there that I'm not super familiar with queer bullshit in stl, beyond knowing that there's a pretty vibrant scene
(there is a polyamory/sexuality resource center/coffee shop called Shameless Grounds that is prety neat, but they keep on changing locations)
if you have time to go to IL, not a lot of out of towners know about the Cahokia mounds, which is a pretty
and, a kind of fun tourist thing to do, maybe tied with the city museum, is going to Crown Candy Kitchen in the north city, which is a greasy spoon diner that's been in business since the 1890s
you can try the st louis pizza, but I will say that julie is the only person not from st louis i've ever met that likes it
there is also quite a live music scene there still, but everything I know about that is 15 years out of date
oh, there is a stl barbecue
but vegetarian, so I'm kind of ignorant there, but there should be a rec
if Joel is out to do the stl pizza, I would recommend going out to Serra's pizza in the suburbs
which is a little family owned place
