There were a lot of things we absolutely loved about our trip to St. Louis, Missouri. The Embassy Suites Downtown was the perfect hotel in the perfect location, the Arch was amazing, and the city is comprised of so many lovely neighborhoods, gorgeous parks, and a scenic downtown area that you could spend weeks there and never see the same place twice.

However.

It was the food of St. Louis that totally wowed us.

We are huge fans of eating fabulous food and it’s a big part of any trip we take. We book foodie tours to sample the best of a city, we search out great restaurants, and we enjoy the local ice cream, candy, and whatever specialties we happen upon. Lucky for us, on this trip, we were escorted around the city in grand style by a new friend who enjoys food just as much as we do. The St. Louis CVC kindly hooked us up with Nancy Milton who loves her city and spent two days sharing with us exactly why it’s one of the greatest cities in the U.S.

Our first morning in the Gateway to the West, we headed down to the atrium on the fourth floor of the Embassy Suites St. Louis – Downtown for the free hot breakfast which is offered at all of their hotels. Now, just let me say that we are not normally fans of the free hot breakfast offered by most hotels. We have been known to completely bypass most of them to grab a doughnut or drive through McDonald’s – they are that bad.

This is so not the case with Embassy Suites.

Not only do they offer an extensive buffet, they also have a fresh, hot omelet bar. A fresh, hot omelet bar is one of our favorite things in the entire world and we took full advantage of this one during our visit. They also serve a light lunch and dinner in the atrium which we never took advantage of since we had a completely fabulous kitchenette in our suite, complete with a fridge, sink, and microwave and whenever we were not snacking in our suite, we were eating somewhere in town.

Although I do have to add that I was heartbroken when we arrived in our suite, spread out all our belongings and I realized we had left our rather large bag of packed snacks at home. We had to immediately find a grocery store and this was surprisingly not a problem. We were both amazed that there was a large, full-service grocery store only a couple of blocks away from the hotel where we purchased duplicates of almost everything we had left at home.

Atrium at the Embassy Suites. Photo courtesy of the hotel.

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