Restaurants hold a special place in our lives. We cherish memories of the hangout we went to in high school, the posh eatery we dined at on special occasions and that place we kept returning to when it had been too long.

We've lost many of the St. Louis restaurants once special to us. But they remain part of our collective culinary memory as we look back fondly at these lost St. Louis tables.

Lost Tables is a companion to the Lost Dishes website – the website which preserves recipes for the special dishes served at these iconic St. Louis restaurants.

Articles are arranged newest to oldest. An alphabetical listing of the Lost Tables chronicled can be found in our Restaurant Index.



Madame DeFoe's Cassani's Buckingham's Yacovelli's Cardwell's Amighetti's The Goody Train Bobby's Creole The Magic Pan The Mikado Schneithorst's 2¢ Plain U City Pizza Mavrakos 94th Aero Squadron Cafe Zoe Speck Confectionery Mural Room City Cousin Mother-In-Law House Barbecue Joints Seventh Inn Southern Air Town Hall The Diamonds Dohack's Fitz's Drive-In Ed's White Front Pfeifer's Elsah Landing Crazy Fish Sunshine Inn Riddles Penultimate Harvest Blue Water Grill Beffa Brothers Stan Musial & Biggie's Coal Hole Playboy Club Al Baker's Velvet Freeze Richard Perry Bevo Mill Schober's Wine Restaurant Port St. Louis River Queen Bayou Belle O. T. Hodge Lettuce Leaf The Fatted Calf Big Boy's Pratzel's Bakery Teutenberg's Kopperman's Green Parrot Inn Flaming Pit Casa Gallardo The Edge Tiki Bars Dooley's Ltd. Duff's Tony Faust's Niche The Chase Park Plaza Redel's Pope's Cafeterias Pizzerias Balaban's Gaslight Square Crest House The Del Pietros Chez Leon Hamburger Heaven Café de France Fio’s La Fourchette Busch's Grove The Parkmoor Pelican's Nantucket Cove Tea Rooms Miss Hulling's Medart's Garavelli Branding Iron Ruggeri's Cyrano's Golden Fried Chicken Loaf