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2303 Cherokee Street, Saint Louis, MO 63118
(314) 762-9722

RFT: Best Vintage Store (2006)
"At every good vintage store, there's that thing. A hey-wait-how-weird item that everyone comments upon but no one ever buys. At Retro 101, that thing is a Brooke Shields doll, circa The Blue Lagoon. The doe-eyed, Barbie-size Brooke lives out her tiny days in her original packaging, in a small niche next to Retro 101's basement stairs. We enjoy spending time on all three of the store's floors. Up top is a Grandma's-attic-style wonderland that houses gorgeous retro duds; the main level boasts everything from mid-twentieth-century furniture (think mod couches and chairs) to '60s costume jewelry to kitschy barware. And Retro 101's basement looks like a post-WWII time capsule constructed by the coolest moms on the block: seafoam-green ice cream machines, yards of pretty fabric, cookbooks untouched by politically correct hands (we love Betty Crocker's Cook Book for Boys and Girls), old Life magazines, colored-glass salt <\#213>n' pepper shakers. You'll rarely see the same thing twice at Retro 101—except for the Brooke Shields doll, but her presence is a comfort. In fact, consider her the patron saint of the finest vintage store in town."
 

Shops - Indiana to Missouri

Cardinal Auctions.com Inc.

2222 Cherokee Street, Saint Louis, MO 63118
(314) 865-1644
http://www.cardinalauctions.com/
 

Tomorrow's Heirlooms, "The Jackson Press"
Fine furniture, Antiques and Home Accessories, D.R. Dimes,
Tom Seely Furniture, Knock On Wood.
Hours: Wed-Sat 10:30-4:30PM, Sun 12:30PM-4:30PM

2214 Cherokee Street, Saint Louis, MO 63118
(314) 772-1505
http://tomorrowsheirlooms.biz/
 

2201 Cherokee Street, Saint Louis, MO 63118
(314) 772-8308
http://www.theshangriladiner.com/
 

RFT: Best Sunday Brunch (2005)
"If Holly Golightly had practiced her insouciant brand of hedonism just a few years longer -- waiting out the goody-two-shoes good times of the late 1950s and early 1960s and helping herald in America's groovy, post-JFK counterculture -- she wouldn't have had any more breakfasts at Tiffany's. She would have enjoyed brunches at Shangri-La, a trippy time capsule of a diner nestled among the vintage stores of Cherokee Street's quaint Antique Row. The place screams acid trip, from the Pucci-inspired hanging beads to the Yellow Submarine poster at the counter. Shangri-La is only open four days a week, serving breakfast Thursday through Saturday and an all-you-can-eat buffet brunch on Sunday that brings out south city's artsy-fartsies in droves. Shangri-La is a vegetarian (not vegan) restaurant, so the food can be hippy-dippy: scrambled tofu, multigrain toast, fake bacon. But there's also a gluttonous cr�me brélée French toast, fruit pie and sprightly fresh-squeezed strawberry-lime-orange juice. As the Archies would have sung (probably in a place much like this one): aw, sugar sugar!"
 

2111 Cherokee Street, Saint Louis, MO 63118
(314) 353-1400
 

2101 Cherokee Street, Saint Louis, MO 63118
(314) 776-6599
http://www.mississippimudhouse.com/

Editors Choice 2002 in St. Louis Magazine
 

RFT: Best Kitchen Kitsch (2005)
"Ever find yourself wandering dazed through Bed Bath & Beyond, dreaming about how cool and cozy your abode would be if only you owned this cake caddy or that set of butter warmers? If so, do yourself a favor and avoid Hearthbeats. Not only will your heart go all a-flutter at the sight of the selection of antique cooking and serving wares, but should you momentarily pass out from the head-rush of it all and break something on your way down to the floor, you might find yourself paying for a 1930s china tea set you didn't even get to use. One of the best pit stops along Cherokee Street's wonderful Antique Row, Hearthbeats stocks an enviable, cute-as-all-get-out collection of vintage cookie cutters, cordial glasses, brandy decanters, wash pitchers and basins, coffee/tea/flour/sugar canisters and other nostalgic trifles (such as a set of drinking glasses emblazoned with one of Pepsi's old logos: "You got the right one baby, uh-huh"). A sign hanging from the front door reads, "If you want breakfast in bed, sleep in the kitchen." If you want the best kitchen kitsch, go to Hearthbeats."
 

RFT: Best Place To Buy Retro (2001)
The Neon Lady herself, proprietor LaDean Harlow, is a blond, pretty, talkative widow whose husband was bitten by a brown recluse spider right after they bought their dream home. Harlow just kept going, surrounded by Anheuser-Busch steins and trays, chrome deco telephones and toasters, old metal coolers and lunchboxes, Betty Boop figurines and Mickey Mouse glasses and Osterizer blenders with their rippled Michelin-man bases. What you won't see is the Neon Lady's ghost, Bubba. "When I first moved in, doors would fly open so often I finally had to bolt 'em," Harlow recalls. "I thought it was a lady ghost at first, but after a couple years I found out that in 1946, a guy hung himself a little bit to the right of the first-floor lighting fixture because his family did not join him here right after the war." Bubba's contemporary mission? To make sure Harlow's customers rejoin their own families by enjoying all the classic American stuff the earlier generations grew up with.
 

O'Malley's Irish Pub
Great Irish Food. Corned Beef & Cabbage - Shepherd's Pie
A Traditional Irish Pub, Live Irish Music - Irish Blarney Nonstop
Where the Celts Drink
Hours: Open Daily 11AM-1:30PM

1900 Cherokee Street, Saint Louis, MO 63118
(314) 762-9308
http://www.omalleysirishbar.com
 

Driving Directions:

From 55, exit West on Arsenal, travel one block,
turn Left/South of Lemp, travel approximately 4 blocks/0.26 Miles
turn Right/West on Cherokee.
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From 44, exit South on Jefferson,
travel approximately 15 blocks/1.4 Miles,
turn Left/East on Cherokee.
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From 64/40, exit South on Jefferson,
travel approximately 2.4 Miles,
turn Left/East on Cherokee.
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Taxi:
Laclede Cab operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Major credit cards accepted. To call a cab, dial (314) 652-3456.

Public Transportation:
For information call the Metro Transit Information Center at 314.231.2345
 between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m., Monday through Friday.
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