Eat in brentwood, St. Louis

Mai Lee

• ★ 4.4
• Vietnamese
• $$

Order Salt-and-pepper calamari, pho, and canh chua sour soup.

Opened in 1985 and credited as the first Vietnamese restaurant in St. Louis, Mai Lee runs a vast menu of pho, bun and canh chua that sets the local standard.

Carl's Drive-In

• ★ 4.2
• Street food
• $

Try Crispy-edged burgers and root beer

A 16-stool roadside drive-in of six decades, Carl's griddles crispy-edged burgers and pours house-made root beer, a Route-66-era St. Louis time capsule.

Kitchen Conservatory

• ★ 4.3

Kitchen Conservatory runs more than 1,500 hands-on and demonstration cooking classes a year from its Clayton Road shop, the metro's largest.