Pavilion
- ★ 4.9
- Japanese sushi
- $$$$
Nick Bognar's 18-course omakase sits in a glass pavilion behind Sado on The Hill, ranked the best restaurant in St. Louis by the Post-Dispatch since 2024.
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18 places
Vicia
- ★ 4.8
- New American
- $$$$
The Gallinas' vegetable-forward Central West End room is the most decorated restaurant in St. Louis, a 2026 James Beard Outstanding Restaurant finalist.
Indo
- ★ 4.7
- Thai
- $$$$
Nick Bognar marries Thai family cooking with serious sushi at this Botanical Heights room, the one that made him a James Beard Best Chef Midwest finalist.
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Sidney Street Cafe
- ★ 4.6
- Cafe
- $$$$
James Beard Best Chef Midwest winner Kevin Nashan works a changing chalkboard menu in a century-old Benton Park storefront, the city's special-occasion table.
Sado
- ★ 4.6
- Japanese
- $$$$
Nick Bognar's sushi-forward Japanese room on The Hill plates high-grade seafood flown in several times a week. It shares a building with his omakase Pavilion.
Blood and Sand
- ★ 4.4
- Tasting menu
- $$$$
Once members-only, Blood and Sand keeps an intimate downtown room built around culinary cocktails and seasonal tasting menus with a Wine Spectator list.
Annie Gunn's
- ★ 4.4
- Steakhouse
- $$$$
Chef Lou Rook's Chesterfield mainstay works as both a serious steakhouse and a market-driven kitchen, with a Wine Spectator award-winning cellar for years.
Brasserie by Niche
- ★ 4.4
- French fine dining
- $$$$
Gerard Craft's Central West End brasserie has poured wine and plated steak frites for over a decade, the city's most dependable French room. Warm and unfussy.
Wright's Tavern
- ★ 4.3
- Steakhouse
- $$$$
Zoe Robinson's Clayton steakhouse plates dry-aged beef and polished seasonal cooking in a handsome Wydown room. The western-suburb special-occasion table.
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Le Champ De Fleurs
- ★ 4.3
- Tasting menu
- $$$$
The former Stone Soup Cottage in Cottleville reopened as Le Champ De Fleurs, a tiny destination serving a fixed monthly tasting menu by reservation only.
Olive + Oak
- ★ 4.3
- New American
- $$$$
From an Annie Gunn's alum, Olive + Oak grew into a polished Webster Groves restaurant with a smart American menu and a strong bar. A reliable suburban table.
801 Chophouse
- ★ 4.2
- Steakhouse
- $$$$
801 Chophouse plates USDA Prime beef, Wagyu and jet-fresh seafood in a clubby Clayton room with a Wine Spectator-awarded list. The expense-account steakhouse.
Commonwealth
- ★ 4.2
- Modern European
- $$$$
Commonwealth fills the Angad Arts Hotel ground floor in Grand Center with a modern European menu that draws on more than 50 Commonwealth nations.
Edera Italian Eatery
- ★ 4.2
- Italian
- $$$$
Edera plates modern Italian and house-made pasta on Maryland Plaza, a polished contemporary counterpoint to the red-sauce rooms of The Hill. A grown-up room.
The Tenderloin Room
- ★ 4.1
- Steakhouse
- $$$$
A clubby steakhouse inside the historic Chase Park Plaza, The Tenderloin Room has plated the pepperloin and tableside Caesar for generations of St. Louisans.
Eclipse
- ★ 3.9
- New American
- $$$$
Eclipse plates modern American cooking inside the boutique Moonrise Hotel in the Delmar Loop, with a rooftop bar above. A polished pre-show Loop dinner.
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