All of the mainstream publicity around St. Louis harps on about beer, baseball, blues and BBQ. Not without good reason as this city is the original global headquarters Budweiser Beer, which does lend certain cultural inheritance benefits: it’s a little known fact that St. Louis is home to it’s own Mardi Gras and affords the rare exception of being able to drink freely outside in parks.
Rightly, you might exclaim, “what’s not to like?!” But, dare I say it, there