My father and I just spent 6 days in St. Louis playing duplicate bridge, had a great time, thought my few readers would like a trip report.
We stayed at the Chase Park Plaza, it was cheaper then staying in the hotels next to America's Center, where the games took place. It is a grand hotel, near the Central West End, and Forest Park. Recommended, at least at the price I paid.
Restaurants in St. Louis we tried, after researching on the internet -
Pappy's Smokehouse - great BBQ, go early. You can get steak fries, but they aren't on the menu. Hard to imagine that 17th Street and Bandana's can't be as good, but they aren't close. We got there at 11:25 and waited for 20 minutes. At 11:45, the line was over an hour!
Brinco's Mexican - next to Pappy's. Very good and reasonably priced.
Brasserie - Central West End. Lower end French. The salad with poached egg and onion soup were great. The floating island dessert is just too much. Recommended. Take me and let me pay would be my advice. :)
Pi Pizza - Central West End. Thin crust was pretty good, but not world class. Would try thick before I started going somewhere else. Good salad. Quatro's is better.
Tortillaria Mex - Central West End. Not as good at Brinco's, but in that trendy date neighborhood. Food is OK+.
Mango - Downtown. Very good Peruvian food. We ate lunch there 4 times and really enjoyed it. Lunch was $50, so kind of pricy.
It is amazing what a great tool yelp.com is for finding restaurants. My results are much better then using the concierge at a fancy hotel.
We played a bunch of games, came away with 15 gold and/or red points. We learned a lot, found there are things you can do in the club games, that the better players at the nationals punish you for... Oops! :)
I'm sure we will do it again, it was fun.
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