ST. CHARLES, MO – September 22, 2026 (StLouisRestaurantReview) A locally operated franchise group is preparing to introduce Atlanta-born Flying Biscuit Café (FBC) to the St. Louis metropolitan area, beginning with a restaurant in St. Charles and potentially laying the groundwork for a much larger regional expansion. FBC has signed a lease for its first Missouri…

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ST. LOUIS, MO – September 21, 2026 (StLouisRestaurantReview) SOHA Bar and Grill, a longtime South City gastropub on Hampton Avenue, will permanently close Sept. 30 after approximately 14 years in business. The restaurant at 2605 Hampton Avenue in St. Louis’ Clifton Heights neighborhood opened in 2012 and changed ownership in 2024. The current ownership group…

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ST. LOUIS, MO – September 21, 2026 (StLouisRestaurantReview) One of St. Louis’ longstanding family-run tea businesses is expanding again, less than a year after a new generation brought The London Tea Room back to life near Forest Park. The London Tea Room, located at 255 Union Blvd. in St. Louis’ DeBaliviere Place neighborhood, has launched…

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ST. LOUIS, MO – September 21, 2026 (StLouisRestaurantReview) Coffeestamp, the locally owned specialty coffee company founded by brothers Patrick and Spencer Clapp, is expanding its St. Louis footprint with a third café on Washington Avenue, bringing a business that began as a small roastery and farmers market operation into the heart of downtown. The company…

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ST. LOUIS, MO – September 18, 2026 (StLouisRestaurantReview) Chao Baan, the Prapaisilp family’s regional Thai restaurant in The Grove, will permanently close after dinner service Sunday, Sept. 20, 2026, bringing an end to a seven-year run that introduced many St. Louis diners to Thai cooking extending well beyond familiar pad thai and curry dishes. The…

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ST. LOUIS, MO – September 18, 2026 (StLouisRestaurantReview) When a locally owned restaurant closes, customers often show up in its final weeks, stand in long lines, and talk about how much they’ll miss a place they assumed would always be there. The planned closing of O’Connell’s Pub should remind St. Louis diners not to wait…

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September 17, 2026 (StLouisRestaurantReview) Extraction is a word most St. Louis kitchens never say, and every one of them depends on it. Vanilla in a batter, stock out of bones, coffee at the pass. Each one pulls target compounds out of solid matter and into a liquid. Regulated cannabis runs the same play with different…

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SAPPINGTON, MO – September 15, 2026 (StLouisRestaurantReview) — Ask St. Louis diners to name the city’s best Italian restaurants, and familiar names are likely to dominate the conversation. The Hill has spent generations building an international reputation for Italian cuisine. Charlie Gitto’s, Zia’s, Anthonino’s, and other established restaurants benefit from strong name recognition, thousands of…

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September 15, 2026 (StLouisRestaurantReview) On a Sunday morning in late fall, the parking lot outside a family-run restaurant on The Hill fills up before the lunch rush starts. Inside, televisions tuned to a match from Turin or Milan draw a crowd ordering espresso instead of beer, arguing about offside calls between bites of toasted ravioli….

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ST. CHARLES, MO – September 15, 2026 (StLouisRestaurantReview) — The closure of Sobremesa after only about three months in business is the latest chapter in a much larger transformation underway at Tilford Restaurant Group, the locally owned restaurant company created by brothers Adam and Jason Tilford. Sobremesa served its final dinner Sunday, Sept. 13, at…

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