Well, maybe a little.
In Design Thinking the other day, my professor for the class, Ben, was talking about centrality vs distributed cities. In many cities, there's a big core which is active, vibrant, and interesting, and then once you get beyond that core, there's pretty much nothing. St. Louis, he pointed out, has an active core which is attempting to be something and do something and has actually made some progress, but that one of the real values of St. Louis is that there's so many cores of interest around the metropolitian area. There's about a dozen old downtowns, distinct neighborhoods, and other nuclei of interest, which make St. Louis Metro into a kind of archipelago. Centers of urban interest and activity separated by either non-place suburbia or urban wasteland.
St. Louis, the [post-apocalyptic archipelago] river city.
We were at one of those hot spots last night, in Central West End (CWE) at Brassiere by Niche, a moderately upscale French bistro for Silvino's birthday. Great food, great environment. 17 of us showed up and we ate at one long table and the staff were very patient with us considering we mostly paid by separate checks. My dinner:
Urban Chestnut Brewery Wingnut ale
moules marinieres
french fries with garlic aoli
Scoop of house-made brandy ice cream
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