Walking somewhere, ANYWHERE, in St. Louis is just something people don't do. After living in Chicago where it took a small act of God to get from point A to B just to eat dinner, the fact that you can park anywhere in this city has made my Carbon footprint grow terribly.
But.
I do still live in an urban area and there are places to eat and drink within walking distance. On Saturday night, following too many beers Friday night (see Hardshell Cafe review), I just didn't feel like [this is not my quote] "ethnic crap." Benton Park Cafe is a little coffee shop only three blocks from my house but somehow, I have overlooked this cute little place for a bite to eat.* They were only employing one waitress on a Saturday evening, which posed a problem with my water refill, but she was pleasant and was really moving quickly, and since staffing is ostensibly not her responsibility, I didn't care too much.
We were more interested in soup/salad/sandwich fare, but they do carry a few (5-6) hearty dinner-type offerings. The waitress did talk me in to the chicken salad after I told her I have a strange aversion to celery and she was right, the yummy grapes and apples did mask that weird stringy-crunch of that vegetable. Tim really liked the salad as it was not iceburg and they added raw yellow onions and according to him, that makes a good salad.
They have an extensive coffee bar and after-dinner specialties that seemed to focus on espresso vodka, which I've never had the pleasure of trying. To top it all off, we even burned 35 calories walking home.
www.bentonparkcafe.com
*To be fair-I don't go out to breakfast-that could be its on blog, really-and this is their specialty.
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