St Louis
The polished cocktail-room spine. Boutique cocktail rooms, hotel bars, and a dressed-up evening crowd. Walk Maryland Plaza. Save this neighbourhood guide before your next night in St. Louis.
Lafayette Square · $$$
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The Grove · $$$
Cocktail-and-tapas bar with one of the longest tequila lists in the Midwest.
Clayton · $$$
Heritage French-influenced cocktail-and-wine bar.
Cherokee Street · $$
Boutique cocktail-and-pizza bar in a converted storefront.
You'll find Cocktail Bars, Craft Beer, Rooftop Bars and Sports Bars here, all tightly clustered enough to walk between in a single evening. That's the value of a neighbourhood guide: pick a starting room, end up four bars in, and never get in a cab. Every recommendation below is independent — barsforKings doesn't take payment for editorial placement, ever.
The order below is a working ranking, not gospel. Read the notes, pick the room that fits the night you're planning, and treat Central West End like locals do — start early, walk between rooms, end somewhere quieter than you started.
A working editorial ranking. Walkable in a single evening — pick your starting room and let the neighbourhood do the rest.