Posted by seeninstl on Aug 6, 2008
We’re happy to report that the Downtown Cantina is beginning to be a hopping place in its new location, even on weekday evenings. It is a great little Mexican restaurant and bar, a block from our building. It is a drinkers’ bar, which we don’t mind, since it is fun to hear the loud drunken conversation during dinner (we have odd tastes).
They have great happy-hour specials and a fantastic lunch buffet that we have gone to a number of times. Stop by, and enjoy the best little Mexican restaurant downtown.
Posted by seeninstl on Jul 30, 2008
We are skeptics of alt med, and my Master’s Thesis is on the topic. Isn’t it nice to know that it is alive and well in our neighborhood. At least Chiropractic isnt as bad as things like Healing Touch or candling, but it can still be very harmful and is untested according to medical science.
Posted by seeninstl on Jul 29, 2008
If you want some interesting and inexpensive American and Mediterranean food, check out Slay’s on Zaytoon. We have no idea what the name means, but they have friendly staff, and some really tasty food. And they stay open till 7 or 8pm, which is great for grabbing a light dinner.
Rose Martelli gave them a pretty good review in St. Louis Magazine, and I think they have taken the advice to heart. It is a great place to grab a bite.
Posted by seeninstl on Jun 23, 2008
The other night we had a late one at Jack Patricks across the street. This is taken from inside looking out at the Syndicate, like at 1am, amidst much Bacchanalian revels, and I like the reflection of the inside neon on the window. We have plans to flashmob the place at some point, so stay tuned 
Posted by seeninstl on Jun 19, 2008
It is officially announced by the Downtown St. Louis Partnership: Left Bank Books will be opening a second location across from our building this coming October. Left Bank Books is the only full-service independent bookseller left in St. Louis, and we’re thrilled that its second location will be so close.
(Yay for independent publishers and booksellers feeling the squeeze from folks like Borders—sincere kudos to Left Bank Books and the city for making this happen with an independent.)
Between the new bookstore and the St. Louis Public Library’s Central Express Branch on 815 Olive (next door to our building on the other side) we will have no excuse not to be well-read. Well, maybe we do have an excuse: a large minority of people in the U.S. did not read a single book of any kind last year, so at least we’d have lots of company, according to best-selling author and public intellectual Susan Jacoby in the Washington Post. (She works at the same place D.J. does, and if you want to hear them discussing these kinds of issues, check out Point of Inquiry for last week.)
It will be incredible if the second location of Left Bank Books has regular book-signings and author readings and book clubs and poetry. Downtown is so the place to live!
