The Loop in U City
In University City, along a vibrant six-block entertainment and shopping district with ten live music stages and an eclectic mix of retail and restaurants, The Loop is a place of rich history and energetic evolution. A brilliant success, The Loop now serves as a model for communities across the country. The American Planning Association recently named this thriving urban retail, arts and entertainment district "One of the 10 Great Streets in America."
You will find 140 shops and restaurants, like the world famous Blueberry Hill, a landmark restaurant and music club filled with pop culture memorabilia. There is a fabulous mix of ethnic foods including Thai, Chinese, Lebanese, and Italian. Complementing the mix of retail is an outdoor market featuring fresh produce and seafood.
On the expanded eastern edge of The Loop, music continues at The Pageant, a popular concert and party venue, and home to The Halo Lounge. There are more exciting restaurants, such as the popular pizza place, Pi, and Miss Saigon, which features Vietnamese cuisine.
For recreation, visit the charming, deco dream, The Pin-Up Bowl, or spend a cozy weekend at the Moonrise, a new boutique hotel.
Embedded in the sidewalk along Delmar Boulevard in the Loop area of University City, Missouri, is a succession of large brass stars. Joe Edwards, proprietor of the Rock 'n Roll restaurant and pub Blueberry Hill, conceived the St. Louis Walk of Fame as a way not only of commemorating St. Louis' many contributions to art and literature, music and science, athletics and entertainment, journalism and politics, but also as a way of adding some further enrichment to one of the country's most unusual stretches of urban thoroughfare.
Here along Delmar are all the things human beings have to have: old books, new books, hardware, good beer, arts and crafts, fresh oysters and fresh ground coffee and fresh bread, fruits and vegetables that you can pick up and shake and tap, newspapers, fresh flowers, movies, music recorded and music played live, hummus and sushi and barbecue, the delicate and colorful works of ethnic cultures and baseball cards.
The Loop offers plenty of parking for the family Ford, which a three story garage on the western end and a large parking lot near The Pageant. But if the family is too big to even fit into a Ford Expedition, there is a Metro stop just a few short blocks away.
The University City Loop runs along Delmar, between Big Bend and just east of Skinker, about one mile north of I-64.
