St. Louis is famous for the Gateway Arch, the 1904 World's Fair (which invented the ice cream…read morecone), its significant history as the "Gateway to the West," the Anheuser-Busch Brewery, Forest Park's many institutions, and its contributions to American music and culture, including the Blues music scene and its role in the Great Migration. John Goodman, Andy Cohen, Nelly, Jenna Fischer, Sterling Brown, Chuck Berry, Jon Hamm, Maya Angelou, Vincent Price, Yogi Berra, Tina Turner ... are from St Louis. St. Louis is known for unique comfort foods like juicy smoked St. Louis ribs, toasted ravioli, a dish of breaded and fried ravioli, and gooey butter cake, a dense, buttery dessert. Provel cheese is used in signature thin-crust pizza, an open-faced Gerber sandwich & breakfast dish known as the Slinger.

Saint Louis is a city that blends grandeur with grit, history with reinvention. Anchored by the…read moreiconic Gateway Arch, an elegant steel curve that nods to westward expansion, it is the largest city on the Mississippi River and wears that title with quiet confidence. The Arch itself is worth a quick visit, especially for the view from the top, but Saint Louis does not rely on a single landmark to define its character. If you're not into claustrophobia or acrophobia, simply putting your hands on it at ground level is plenty. One of the city's most practical charms is its MetroLink system, which connects the airport to downtown with ease. For travelers, that is a rare and welcome convenience. No pricey rideshares or confusing transfers, just a straight shot into the heart of the city. And once you are there, you will find that Saint Louis is refreshingly affordable. Whether you are grabbing a bite in Soulard, catching a show in Grand Center or enjoying ribs on Delmar Loop, your wallet will not feel ambushed. Culture thrives here, especially in its museums, many of which are free. The Saint Louis Art Museum in Forest Park offers everything from ancient artifacts to contemporary installations. The Missouri History Museum dives deep into local stories, from riverboats to civil rights. And the City Museum, a surreal playground of repurposed architecture and whimsy, defies categorization. It is part sculpture, part jungle gym, and wholly unforgettable. Food and drink are part of the city's soul. Saint Louis is famously home to Budweiser, and the Anheuser-Busch brewery still looms large in both skyline and culture. But the city is far more than macro beers. A vibrant craft brewing scene has taken root, with local favorites like Urban Chestnut, 4 Hands, and Perennial Artisan Ales offering everything from crisp lagers to barrel-aged stouts. The food scene is equally diverse, from toasted ravioli and gooey butter cake to inventive takes on barbecue and global street food. If sports are your thing, Saint Louis delivers. Baseball fans flock to Busch Stadium to cheer on the Cardinals, while hockey enthusiasts rally behind the Blues at Enterprise Center. There is even a growing buzz around the city's new Major League Soccer team, St. Louis City SC at Energizer Park. In short, Saint Louis is a city that does not shout. It invites. It is a place where history hums beneath your feet, where art and sport coexist, and where the river keeps rolling, just like the stories it carries. I have just one small request. Please refer to the city as Saint Louis, not "St. Louis." It's a matter of respect and accuracy, since the full name carries historical and civic weight. I know it's a common shorthand, but I'd really appreciate sticking with the proper name. [Review 1190 of 2025 - 454 in Missouri - 24742 overall]

Considering the time we are in the employees at City Hall are doing an amazing job! The employees…read moreare informative & helpful. I appreciate the steps that are taken for everybody's safety.

Having spent the majority of my adult years in the military and not having to worry about licensing…read moreor titling vehicles no matter where or how many times I moved around the country, I suddenly realized when I finally settled in St Louis how lucky I had been. This week I had two encounters with the City's Assessor's Office/Collector of Revenue downtown at City Hall. No matter what you have to do over there, it seems they always yell at you and refer you to "Room 115" which is where the 25 employees with piss poor customer service skills sit around doing nothing all day doing who knows what but sure do get bent out of shape when you come in and take a number. This office is where you get your "Tax Waiver" which states that despite the fact that you've been paying personal property taxes to the city for years, you had no tax liability last year so now you can get whatever you want done and pay more money. I swear these sour-pussed "helpers" are there as gatekeepers to test your resolve before you enter a lower circle of hell. If you can't deal with their ire, run away! Next, you either go to the office with a bunch of bank teller like windows where the people are smiling and nice until you get up to their window and they tell you what a jacktard you are and that you need to go to "Room 110" (I may have my room numbers mixed up, but if you've been there, you know what I'm talking about). So I finally get to the correct room and luckily, despite the crowd, my number is called in short order. The sour-puss at this window gives me the whole "whadda you want?" glare and I present my forms to transfer title. I have a huge tax check, my old registration, title, bill of sale, driver's license, proof of insurance, tax waiver, safety inspection and emissions test from last July. Surely, I'm good to go, right? Wrong! Where is your new emissions test? I didn't know...I just got a 2 year plate last year and my current test is not expired... WRONG! WHAT THE $%^&#$^%$% ARE YOU THINKING? GET OUT OF MY LINE!!! COME BACK WHEN YOU'VE PULLED YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR NETHER REGION!!! Holy crap! I've had my ass chewed a time or three in my life, but these brutes really know how to foul up a brother's day. So, shit, I fire back at this customer service specialist. Look Lady, I don't know who pissed in your Wheaties today (I like that one) but I am on a clock to get my sales tax paid to the state so I can get my new title to the bank (I purchased a lease) and at the very least let me pay my sales tax and get my title work started. "Well...I could do that, but if I do you will be driving on an bad registration because the title will not be in your name or the banks..." Yeah...well if I get pulled over between the time I get my emissions checked and get back here, I guess I'll deal with it. So, little miss can't be wrong takes my check, issues me a receipt and hands me back my paperwork...or at least most of it. I find out the next afternoon after I made it to Midas and got my emissions tested, that biatch had kept my "Tax Waiver" and that I would have to go back to "Room 115" and get a new one. Listen up!!!!! I will not go back to Room 115. You see that sour-pussed bitch sitting right over there in that cage? Yes, the one that looks like she just smelled a bowl of warm piss...yes, that one. She took my friggin' Tax Waiver yesterday and didn't give it back! While I glanced over my shoulder for security, she slurks off and has conversation with old sour. She comes back and mumbles something about how they would never hold onto the tax waiver, but in my case, since old sour recognized me from yesterday she vaguely remembers that I had the form then so it is okay to proceed. So I pay my new extortion to the city/state, get my third set of new plates in 15 months (yes...remember last year when they switched designs?) and get the fuck outta Dodge. Oh yeah...even year so I couldn't get a 2-year plate. See you fine folks next year...ugh! But wait...did I really get in and out of there in less than 46 minutes? I must have, because when I got outside my meter still had 3 minutes left on it. It only cost me 80 cents for that 46 minutes. A quarter at City Hall only gets you about 12 minutes. What a rip.

I don't get why we have cops and I am a Republican. 90%of you just sit and try to catch speeders…read morewhich really, who are they hurting except the liberal Toyota and Subaru driver that sit in the left lane and drive less than the speed limit. But you never see them pulled over for impeding traffic. Then when you call a cop for an actual problem, like 6 of them show up and only one actually does something. And then a hour later they all leave with to my knowledge, nothing resolved. I think I would rather have that overly fat/ partially dork hall monitor from high school show up and help me. At least they take better notes and have some results. But I guess we pay cops just to shoot poor people and people they don't trust so I see why they are in St. Louis

Helped me find my car after it was stolen. I don't remember the officers but thank you. Super…read moresupportive and helpful.

I went inside and nicely said hi to the lady , she didn't respond , so I said hi again and she just…read morelooked at me with no expression. She was very rude and acted like I was stupid. I was upset because I got a ticket for parking 1 FOOT too far from the allotted parking meter and I had to pay $30 dollars. She treated me differently compared to other customers. Better paying it online than dealing with these people.

This bureau, I understand, is doing their job. However I have called them twice in 2 months about a…read moreparking ticket I received while doing my job as an in-home caregiver. They said it was $10.00 in November now Februaury i have not received the papers for diputing the ticket and the ticket is now $40.00 they are refusing to work with me or listen. I am not paying this ticket, the cleanliness of the street of Loughborough is more important than an older persons life and i was not in a Street cleaners way i was in before they got there and gone before they got there. but because i dropped the man of in front of his ouse and can barely walk and the city wants me to drop him of a block away.

This raggedy place with its angry, unprofessional employees needs to be shut down. Bad service…read more Long wait standing in a line in a hot hallway for a woman to look over each person's paperwork before they even allow them to enter the customer area, then still getting turned away IF you get past her (the evil gatekeeper), which, while i was there, was 0 for 8 even getting past her. It should not be this complicated to renew a license plate or get a driver's license. I went to this office THREE days in a row, each day getting turned away for ONE reason, getting that fixed, returning the next day for them to find ONE other reason to decline me. On the 3rd attempt, I was turned away again, because my sister scratched out an error on the title when she was transferring her car to me, they said she'd have to sign an affidavit stating she didn't do it to be deceitful, that it was just an accident then I return with her signed affidavit. I asked if it needed to be notarized, they said no, just have her sign it. But when I came back with it signed, they asked where my sister was. My sister was in the car, she is ill and on oxygen. They told me if she didn't come up with me, they wouldn't accept it. I told them they could come down to the car to see her, but they wouldn't do that. I spent 3 days, several hours, fooling with them trying to just get plates for a car my sister gave me, and never got it accomplished there. I left there, went to a dmv on St. Charles Rock Road in Bridgeton, and left there in less than 10 minutes with plates for the car from a very professional clerk with no "I hate this job" attitude like the ones downtown. I understand legal is legal, paperwork has to be legal, but the petty things they were giving me such a hard time about (scratching out 2 numbers because she realized she was putting down the wrong address) and standing in that hot hallway waiting for the woman to spend 15 minutes screening each person were unnecessary, it's just a license plate, not an issue of national security. There were lots of elderly people waiting in that line who could barely walk, let alone stand for an hour to wait for her to screen them. One old man had been there the day before when I was there and got turned away both times, the first time because he needed 2 pieces of mail with his name on it, the 2nd time because the 2 pieces of mail he brought were both from Spire, it needed to be from 2 different companies. So this elderly, retired vet stood in line for an hour both days for tags, just for tags, not for the keys to the money vault, and was turned away both times, that's disgraceful and disrespectful.

I went in to register a vehicle and my number was called and then immediately the next number…read morecalled. I barely had time to process that it was called. The security guard was rude about it when I asked if they just called my number. When I got up to the counter, the woman waiting on me was EXTREMELY RUDE and condescending. This is my third time trying to get this vehicle registered and they keep saying I need one more form, and then one more form, etc. It is obvious when someone hates their job, because their outright disdain toward the person they are hired to help is immediate. The rub is, you as the customer aren't allowed to say anything to them about their rude behavior because they will just kick you out. Avoid this location and the one on South Kingshighway. There has to be a friendlier staff somewhere else.

Taking Uber sooooo very helpful & a real stress reduction! If you're going there, take an Uber!!…read moreFast, reliable, careful & friendly drivers!'

Staff is always pleasant and they will work with you to get your needs met. A nurse practitioner is…read morealways on site to help with all necessary medical needs. However parking is limited and not free.

Horrible to deal with. They don't understand that a handful of complaints against a large…read morecompany operating in 50 states is different that a handful of complaints against a small mom and pop. They let us "fix" the issue by making us pay high dues (since we were a larger company) and magically our rating went to perfect. Sad, but they had total control of spinning the rating.

These guys are total shills. I made a complaint about a law office who did a terrible job and BBB…read morewouldn't post the complaint because they don't post complaints for law offices (they must be afraid of getting sued). What nonsense. What's the point of the BBB if they're not going to do their supposed 'non-profit' job? I've seen companies on the BBB with a 1-something star rating with1000+ reviews that have an A+ with the BBB. This perfectly illustrates the calibur of company they really, truly are.

Attended the Mayor's Ball at City Hall and it really is the best venue for it! What better place to…read morehave the Mayor's Ball than the home of the Mayor! Just a great party in an Historical location!

City hall was designed & built from 1891 until 1898 by architects Eckel & Mann. Construction began…read morein 1891 and completed in 1898. Its stylistic characteristics evoke the French Renaissance Hôtel de Ville, Paris, with an elaborate interior decorated with marble and gold trim. The building features a striking foundation of Missouri pink granite on the lower levels, complemented by upper levels of sandstone & brick, all capped with a roof of burgundy-red clay tiles. City Hall's rotunda, which is 4 stories high, showcases floors of white Italian marble and walls clad in a mix of white marble, light &dark Tennessee marble, and black Glen Falls marble.