Architectural Delights

St. Louis's urban landscape is chock-full of distinctive architectural designs.  Reminders of the city's past as a fur trading post, departure point for pioneers heading west, and a center of 19th century manufacturing stand alongside the modern structures of a thriving 21st-century metropolis.  Whether you're a connoisseur of form, space and volume, or simply an interested sight-seer, the city will inspire your artistic sensibilities with its varied building styles.  

Jazz crooner and trumpet player extraordinaire Jeremy Davenport is a native St. Louisan who visits his hometown regularly.  Although he spends much of his time now in another Mississippi River town - New Orleans - he grew up here with his mother, a music teacher, and his father, a trombonist with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra.

St. Louis experts choose their top restaurants.  

Whether you're a native looking for places to take your out-of-town guests, or a visitor looking for the things that make "Arch City" unique, you'll find it in this guide to concierges' favorite restaurants.  Concierges around the metropolitan area were polled for their top recommendations; it only serves to begin with what they deemed "Distinctly St. Louis" restaurants.   

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Here are a quick few gallery picks for art lovers in the St. Louis area, whether you're a connoisseiur of fine art or just have a hankering to immerse yourself in color, texture, and textiles for an afternoon.