
This fifth annual edition of the STL 100 forced me to make the most difficult choices yet. It speaks to the continued growth of St. Louis’ dining scene that so many new restaurants and chefs demanded notice in this year’s list. As always, I want the STL 100 to provide a broad spectrum of dining experiences, even as I know it inevitably falls short of capturing everything great about our restaurants and the people who work in them. I’ll redouble my efforts again next year. For now, here is 2019′s STL 100.

1
Vicia

2
Stone Soup Cottage

3
Elaia

4
Savage

5
Sidney Street Café

6
Olive + Oak

7
Nippon Tei

8
Farmhaus

9
Billie-Jean

10
Pastaria

11
Louie

12
Sardella

13
The Crossing

14
Tony’s

15
Lona’s Lil Eats

16
Grace Meat + Three

17
Cleveland-Heath

18
Annie Gunn’s

19
Veritas
Closed

20
Reeds American Table

21
J. Devoti Trattoria

22
Beast Craft BBQ Co.

23
Union Loafers

24
Juniper

25
Guerrilla Street Food
The Rest of the Best
in alphabetical order
Acero

Balkan Treat Box

Bar Les Frères

The Benevolent King

Blues City Deli

Bogart’s Smokehouse

Brasserie by Niche

Cafe Natasha’s

Cate Zone Chinese Cafe

Chef Ma’s Chinese Gourmet Restaurant

Cinder House

Clementine’s Naughty & Nice Creamery

The Clover and the Bee

Crown Candy Kitchen

Edibles & Essentials

El Toluco Taqueria & Grocery

Fork & Stix and Kiin Essentially Thai

Frankly Sausages

The Frisco Barroom

Gioia’s Deli
Closed

Hiro Asian Kitchen

I Fratellini

J. Smugs Gastropit

J’s Pitaria

Jerk Soul

Katie’s Pizza & Pasta Osteria

Knead Bakehouse & Provisions

Kounter Kulture

La Patisserie Chouquette

La Tejana Taqueria

La Vallesana

Lemmons by Grbic

Levant

Local Chef Kitchen

Mac’s Local Eats

Mai Lee

Medina Mediterranean Grill

Meskerem Ethiopian Restaurant

Mi Tierra Bonita

Mission Taco Joint

Nathaniel Reid Bakery

Nixta

Nudo House

Olio

Pangea

Pappy’s Smokehouse

Peacemaker Lobster & Crab Co.

Pho Long

Pint Size Bakery

Pizza Head

Planter’s House

Polite Society

Private Kitchen and Soup Dumplings STL

Retreat Gastropub

Rice Thai Bistro

Salt + Smoke

Salume Beddu at Parker’s Table

Sameem Afghan Restaurant

Seoul Taco
Closed

Simba Ugandan Restaurant

Sister Cities Cajun

Smoki O’s

Southwest Diner

The Stellar Hog

SweetArt

The Taco & Ice Cream Joint

Tai Ke

Taqueria Durango

Taste

Urban Chestnut Brewery & Bierhall and the U.R.B.

The Vine Mediterranean Cafe

VP Square
Closed

Winslow’s Home

The Wood Shack

Yellowbelly
A few important notes:
- The STL 100 is divided into the Top 25 and the Rest of the Best. There is no gap between No. 25 and whatever No. 26 would be. At a certain point, splitting the difference is too arbitrary to be useful.
- Restaurants must have opened by Nov. 30, 2018, to be eligible for this edition of the STL 100.
- Pricing info is estimated per person based on dinner (when applicable).