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Diners' Choice: Best Overall restaurants in Downtown

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Updated September 05, 2024

Looking for the best overall restaurants in Downtown? You’re in the right place. Each month, OpenTable analyzes nearly 2 million global diner reviews from the past four months. We sort the results by location and category to help you discover new favorite restaurants. It's a great partnership: you reserve, eat, and review. We listen...and deliver the results for all to benefit. Enjoy!

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4.9

4.9 (518)

$30 and under

Pizzeria

Webster Groves

About the restaurant

We are an Italian inspired, neighborhood restaurant bringing you food that is fresh, casual, and simple yet sophisticated. A place where the service is efficient and the hospitality is heartfelt.

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Amanda

Dined on Aug 27, 2024

Honestly honestly, everything was fabulous. Apps, pizza, bread, and desserts were top notch delicious. In a time where service is not so great hardly anywhere anymore, the service was excellent. The environment and ambiance is approachable but classy which is my favorite kind of place to eat! So good 👏

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Margarita Pizza

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Eggplant Parmesan

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Brasserie by Niche

4.8

4.8 (4080)

$30 and under

French

St. Louis

About the restaurant

Brasserie by Niche is located in the Central West End. We are open for dine-in, to-go, and delivery.

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Jeremy

Dined 5 days ago

An excellent experience and a delightful brunch with my girlfriend. Thank you to Joey who was a great server and wonderful waitress.

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Chocolate Mousse

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French Onion Soup

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Rated Test Kitchen

4.7

4.7 (53)

$30 and under

Unspecified

St. Louis

About the restaurant

Rated Test Kitchen is an intimate Dinner Club. Our intent is to give our guests a unique dining experience like no other. Our evolving Menu, prepared by award-winning Culinary Creatives, features seven courses, and you (our Guests) will get to Rate each course. It’s time to channel your inner food critic and enjoy our innovative cuisine.

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Douglas

Dined on Sep 6, 2024

Awesome place, very small, maybe holds 45 people. The concept is very unique in how they ask you to rate each dish, and then use that feedback to make the dish better for the next week. Each menu/Theme is called a chapter. The service was great, the overall experience was great. I will say it was expensive, but it's not a light meal, you definitely talk away full.

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Rated Test Kitchen - Chapter 7

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Brunch At Rated Chapter 7

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Square One Brewery & Distillery

4.9

4.9 (927)

$30 and under

Pub

Soulard / Benton Park

About the restaurant

"Patio seating is first come, first served. You can make a request for the patio in your reservation, and while we can't guarantee patio seating we do try to honor your request*

Located in historic Lafayette Square just south of downtown St. Louis, Square One Brewery & Distillery began operations as a Brewery & Restaurant in February of 2006. We strive to produce the highest quality and unique flavors that are not likely to be found in the large volume production of most beer and spirits today. By combining the expertise of the distiller, master brewer, and chef, we are committed to creating an amazing array of flavors and tastes for our customers.

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OpenTable Diner

Dined on Aug 30, 2024

As always the beer choices are plentiful and tasty, the food is always delicious and our server Jessica was outstanding!

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Cobalt Smoke & Sea

4.8

4.8 (885)

$31 to $50

Contemporary American

St. Louis

About the restaurant

Cobalt Smoke & Sea is a bridge that connects uniquely different food sources — the rustic farmlands and the open air sea — and brings them under one illuminated space to create an alluring experience where culinary creativity, globally inspired flavors, and hungry curiosity intersect.

Our chef has meticulously created every Cobalt Smoke & Sea recipe through his deep love for the craft of food and those who will be enjoying it. It is through the selection of ingredients, care of crafting, and joy of presenting our dishes that we offer you true artisanal food with global inspiration. We invite you to share curiosity, tastes, and laughter over any of our dishes. Welcome to our table.

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Maria

Dined 3 days ago

As usual this place delivers. The food, drinks are always amazing. A must try if you have never been.

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Clover and the Bee

4.7

4.7 (15)

$30 and under

Wine Bar

Webster Groves

About the restaurant

A neighborhood café and wine bar from the people behind Olive + Oak, bringing you food & wine that is fresh, casual, and simple. A place where the service is efficient and the hospitality is heartfelt. We open early offering fresh baked goods, breakfast sandwiches, and a seasonal breakfast menu. Our lunch menu features sandwiches, soups, and fresh salads. We open Thursday-Saturday evenings featuring an evolving menu of seasonal small plates from Executive Chef Mike Risk paired with wines that have been thoughtfully sourced to showcase the people that make them and the places they are from. A thoughtful list of local beer, cocktails and NA beverages are available to enjoy as well.

Authentic. Unpretentious. Delicious.

Walk in only for breakfast and lunch. Reservations recommended for dinner.

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Lewis

Dined on Aug 23, 2024

We had a great evening celebrating my wife’s 50th birthday with our friends. The staff were amazing and very attentive to our needs for the group.

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4.8

4.8 (1117)

$30 and under

American

St. Louis

About the restaurant

Stone Turtle is an American Restaurant and Whiskey Bar located in the heart of Dogtown, Saint Louis, just south of Turtle Park.

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Kriste

Dined on Sep 8, 2024

Delicious, creative menu! Brunch was delicious and the perfect preshow meal for our Fox matinee.

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Charlie Gitto's 'On the Hill'

4.7

4.7 (6958)

$31 to $50

Italian

The Hill

About the restaurant

Charlie Gitto's On the Hill is a landmark for fine Italian dining in The Hill neighborhood of St. Louis.

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OT

OpenTable Diner

Dined 1 day ago

Overall amazing experience and waiter. If you are in St Louis it’s a can’t miss spot! Thank you for the hospitality.

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Seafood Ravioli

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Toasted Ravioli

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Seafood Risotto

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Hamilton's Urban Steakhouse and Bourbon Bar

4.8

4.8 (1188)

$31 to $50

Steakhouse

St. Louis

About the restaurant

To better deliver on our promise of a refined atmosphere, proper dress is required. Thank you for not wearing: athletic shorts, uncovered sports bras or other bra-style tops, excessively revealing clothing or exposed undergarments, or any clothing with offensive language or images. Men’s shirts must have sleeves. Athletic leggings, joggers or sweatpants are welcome in our bar area.

**Established in 2018.

St. Louis' "Best New Steakhouse" serving only 100% Heritage Black Angus Midwest beef and produce from our restaurants on site greenhouse. Join us now for an intimate unparalleled urban farm to table experience in the heart of Downtown St. Louis.

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Allie

Dined today

Great restaurant just a little outside of downtown tourist area, so need to get transport. Great food, impressive range of whiskeys, and a good menu overall. Nice ambience, not too formal, and great decor. Only reason we give it a 4 is that they missed parts of our order, despite repeating it back to us.

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Broadway Oyster Bar

4.7

4.7 (785)

$30 and under

Seafood

St. Louis

About the restaurant

The Broadway Oyster Bar is a locally owned and operated establishment and has been for over 35 years. The Oyster Bar is widely regarded as the premier New Orleans' style restaurant, bar and music venue in the Midwest. BOB, as it is affectionately known by its many fans and friends, is housed in a building that was built in the mid 1840's and is one of the oldest buildings still in daily use within the city of St. Louis. During its colorful history, our building has had many functions including a family home, a boarding house, a Chinese laundry, a record store and a bordello to name a few. These walls have heard and seen it all. Some people feel that the building is haunted by spirits who, occasionally late at night, play good hearted jokes on the staff such as doors suddenly opening or closing or lights going on or off as if by magic. Then again, it just could be because the building is over 170 years old. However, our historic building has just gone through a renovation so we now have two outdoor patios that are covered and heated during cold or rainy weather and an expanded kitchen to better serve you. Our food has won numerous awards and readers' polls for excellence and features some of the most sustainable seafood available such as fresh Gulf and Blue Point oysters, Louisiana crawfish and shrimp, Prince Edward Island mussels, scallops and crabs. Our Cajun and Creole dishes are our versions of many of the traditional Louisiana favorites. If you love New Orleans, you will feel right at home at BOB. BOB offers live music twice a day every night of the week except on Friday when we feature one act for the evening. We present the best local and national touring acts representing a variety of musical genres such as rock, reggae, bluegrass, blues, funk, R&B, roots, and jam, and weshowcase a wide variety of bands visiting from New Orleans. The live music is free up to 8 times per a week. However, for some of the more popular and well known acts, we do charge a cover which typically goes to the bands in order to keep attracting them to the BOB. Broadway Oyster Bar has been referred to by many as a staple of St. Louis and was recently honored by the St. Louis Chapter of the Missouri Restaurant Association as the 2015 Restaurant of the Year. BOB is a great choice for a relaxing dinner, a celebratory party or an opportunity to dance to a great band. As well known food writer, the late Joe Pollack, once wrote, "There is, quite simply, nothing in St. Louis quite like the Broadway Oyster Bar". That line was written over 30 years ago, but it is as true today as it was then. Welcome to the Broadway Oyster Bar Family.

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William

Dined 7 days ago

Was with Out of town Family from Iowa and they agree Love the peel and eat shrimp, love the crawfish Mac n cheese and great bread pudding , service is always amazing , staff is always going the extra so that I do not get charged 5.00 for whining lol , but seriously this place is awesome.

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Boiled Crawfish

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