Where to Eat in Maplewood, MO
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Restaurants near me in Maplewood, MO? Here’s where to eat in Maplewood right now: Side Project Brewing, Schlafly Bottleworks, and Bolyard's Meat & Provisions.
Searching Maplewood food near me? These are real, locally owned Maplewood restaurants worth knowing — updated June 2026.
- Side Project Brewing — pizza · 7458 Manchester Rd
- Schlafly Bottleworks — tacos · 7260 Southwest Ave
- Bolyard's Meat & Provisions — breakfast · 2733 Sutton Blvd
- Robin Restaurant · 7268 Manchester Rd
- The Blue Duck — BBQ · 2661 Sutton Blvd
- Sabroso Cocina Mexicana — Mexican · 2726 Sutton Blvd
- The Crow's Nest — pub · 7336 Manchester Rd
- Living Room Coffee & Kitchen — coffee · 2810 Sutton Blvd
By Lane Forman, Founder of St Louis Near Me DirectoryLocal restaurant guides, researched and maintained · Updated June 2026
Part of St. Louis County — explore the whole region in our St. Louis County restaurant guide.
Maplewood is the little inner-ring town that turned two streets into one of the best independent food-and-drink strips in St. Louis. Park once on Manchester or Sutton and you can walk from a whole-animal butcher's lunch counter to a nationally famous brewery to a 30-seat chef's tasting room. Almost none of it is a chain — which is exactly why people drive in from across the region.
From a barrel-aged beer legend to a duck-fat-fries butcher shop, here's where to eat in Maplewood.
Nearly everything clusters along Manchester Road and Sutton Boulevard (63143), so it's a true park-once-and-walk strip — and a designated Green Dining District, with a lot of local sourcing. A couple of spots are daytime-only or closed Mondays/Tuesdays. One honest note: the old Boardwalk ice cream shop has closed, so don't come chasing it.
Side Project Brewing
Side Project is one of the most award-decorated breweries in the entire country, sitting on a quiet Maplewood corner — barrel-aged and farmhouse ales that beer fans drive in from across the Midwest to chase, with food from their on-site mobile kitchen. (Sister spots nearby: Side Project Cellar and Side Project Pizza.)
📍 7458 Manchester Rd, Maplewood, MO 63143
Schlafly Bottleworks
Schlafly Bottleworks is the brewpub arm of St. Louis's original craft brewery — house beers on tap plus a full kitchen of beer-cheese soup, wings, and tacos, served at long communal tables. Maplewood's de facto town square for a pint. Open daily.
📍 7260 Southwest Ave, Maplewood, MO 63143
Bolyard's Meat & Provisions
Bolyard's is billed as St. Louis's only whole-animal butcher — and you can eat a sandwich and a cone of beef-tallow fries on the patio while they break down pasture-raised hogs in the open cutting room. House sausages, broths, weekend breakfast sandwiches.
📍 2733 Sutton Blvd, Maplewood, MO 63143
Robin Restaurant
Robin is the tiny 30-seat room where chef Alec Schingel plates a seasonal "fine comfort" tasting menu — elevated Midwestern dinner-party food (think hot dish and pork schnitzel) that reads indulgent but eats like home. Reservations recommended.
📍 7268 Manchester Rd, Maplewood, MO 63143
The Blue Duck
The Blue Duck is the New American smokehouse where they cure, smoke, and pickle in-house — BBQ burnt ends with pickled red onion, bacon-fat hand-cut fries, and a smoked-meat brunch. They even wash a rye whiskey in duck fat for a house cocktail.
📍 2661 Sutton Blvd, Maplewood, MO 63143
Sabroso Cocina Mexicana
Sabroso is chef Miguel Pintor's traditional Mexican kitchen — the move is the cochinita pibil, Yucatán pork slow-roasted four to five hours until it falls apart, with pickled habanero onions that bite back. The real-deal Mexican on Sutton.
📍 2726 Sutton Blvd, Maplewood, MO 63143
The Crow's Nest
The Crow's Nest is the dim, horror-movie-decorated gastropub with a metal soundtrack — pork poutine, cheese curds, a heavy-metal "Metal Brunch," and a kitchen that runs late into the night. The fun, loud one.
📍 7336 Manchester Rd, Maplewood, MO 63143
Living Room Coffee & Kitchen
Living Room is the family-owned café and in-house coffee roaster — fresh-roasted coffee, scratch breakfast and lunch, a bakery case, wooden tables, and a patio. The neighborhood morning anchor.
📍 2810 Sutton Blvd, Maplewood, MO 63143
Why this town matters
Maplewood proves what an independent strip can be — a butcher, a tasting-menu room, a national-name brewery, and a Mexican kitchen, all walkable on two streets, all locally owned. It's regularly named one of St. Louis's best indie food neighborhoods, and the chain apps barely register it. We map the whole strip.
Search St Louis Near Me Directory for Maplewood and St. Louis County before you go — and our Brentwood guide, Webster Groves guide, and Kirkwood guide are minutes away.
And if you run a Maplewood spot — a roaster, a kitchen, a taproom — a listing is how the next strip-stroller finds you.
FAQ
What's the best restaurant in Maplewood, MO?
Depends on the night: Robin for a chef's tasting menu, The Blue Duck for smokehouse New American, Sabroso for traditional Mexican. For the marquee name, Side Project Brewing is a nationally awarded destination.
Is Maplewood walkable for food and drink?
Very — almost everything sits along Manchester Road and Sutton Boulevard, so you can park once and walk between a butcher-shop lunch, a brewery, and a scratch-kitchen dinner.
Does Maplewood have a distillery?
No — that's a common mix-up. Maplewood's craft-spirits identity is its breweries (Side Project, Schlafly); StilL 630 is a downtown St. Louis distillery, and a similarly named "Maplewood" distillery is actually in Chicago.
Where's the best coffee in Maplewood?
Living Room Coffee & Kitchen on Sutton roasts its own beans and does a scratch breakfast and lunch — the neighborhood morning spot.
Plan your Maplewood visit
Coffee at Living Room, a butcher-counter lunch at Bolyard's, a pint at Side Project, and a smokehouse dinner at The Blue Duck — all on foot. For more local spots across the metro, explore St Louis Near Me Directory.
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