Eat in Maplewood, St. Louis

Acero

• ★ 4.3
• Italian
• $$$

Order House-made pasta and a glass of an obscure Italian varietal.

Acero plates handmade pasta and a deep, off-the-beaten-path Italian wine list in Maplewood. It is the quiet, grown-up Italian dinner locals favour.

Living Room Coffee & Kitchen

• ★ 4.2
• Café
• $

Order House-roasted coffee and breakfast plates

The Larson family roasts in house and runs a full breakfast and lunch kitchen at this Maplewood cafe, a hub that does coffee and a meal equally well.

Foundation Grounds

• ★ 4.0
• Café
• $

Order Coffee and vegetarian-friendly cafe plates

A downtown Maplewood cafe with a strong vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free bent, Foundation Grounds pours coffee and serves a wholesome all-day menu.

Mauhaus Cat Cafe

• ★ 3.9
• Café
• $

Order La Cosecha coffee with adoptable cats

Mauhaus pairs La Cosecha coffee and in-house cookies with a lounge of adoptable cats in Maplewood, the metro's cat cafe. The coffee is the side dish.

Strange Donuts

• ★ 4.0
• Bakery
• $

Order Rotating collaboration doughnuts

Strange Donuts makes inventive, often over-the-top doughnuts and rotating collaboration flavours from a Maplewood shop, a playful local doughnut institution.

La Cosecha Coffee Roasters

• ★ 4.1
• Coffee roaster
• $$

La Cosecha roasts Latin American coffees in Maplewood and supplies many local cafes, a small operation with a bright tasting room on the Manchester strip.

The Side Project Cellar

• ★ 4.2
• Wine bar
• $$$

Side Project's Maplewood Cellar is a Belgian-inspired beer bar that also pours a deep whiskey and wine list, the tasting room for the metro's top brewery.

The Crow's Nest

• ★ 4.0
• Gastropub
• $$$

Drink Craft beer and cocktails

A laid-back Maplewood gastropub, The Crow's Nest pairs refined bar food with rotating craft beer, pinball and heavy-metal-themed brunches. A quirky favourite.

Side Project Brewing

• ★ 4.6
• Brewery
• $$

Side Project is the metro's most acclaimed craft brewery, specialising in barrel-aged sours and farmhouse ales that draw national beer pilgrims to Maplewood.

Schlafly Bottleworks

• ★ 4.1
• Brewery
• $$

Schlafly's Maplewood Bottleworks is the brand's larger production brewery and restaurant, with a beer garden, a Saturday farmers market and brewery tours.

Schlafly Farmers Market

• ★ 4.1
• Market
• $

Held Wednesday evenings in the Schlafly Bottleworks lot in Maplewood, this market pairs local produce, meat and cheese vendors with beer-garden music.

SOL Food Farmers Market

• ★ 3.8
• Market
• $

A small Wednesday-evening market in downtown Maplewood, SOL Food gathers local produce, meat, eggs and baked goods from area growers after work.