Photography by Kevin A. Roberts
It’s possible that downtown St. Louis already had enough steakhouses and that their prime clientele lives farther west. When former Cardinals superstar Jim Edmonds realized his namesake steakhouse wasn’t the home run he’d anticipated, it was his restaurant partner, Mark Winfield, who came to the rescue with The Precinct—a novel, less formal concept predicated on a built-in clientele: the renovated, 800-person police headquarters a block away. Investigate the chicken-and-waffle sandwich, doused in five-alarm “Hot Pursuit” hot sauce—should you dare. Or examine the “build a burger” sheet, with more options than career criminals have aliases. The baseball theme is downplayed; Edmonds’ No. 15 jerseys and a photo of the splayed center fielder are high on one wall, in the shadows—yielding the prime real estate to a memorable collection of old police photos, including one of the St. Louis Police Motorcycle Squad, nearly 100 strong, atop Art Hill on a snowy day in 1928. Today, they’d be off to the corner of 19th and Locust streets, in hot pursuit of an Italian beef sandwich and warm, house-made donuts.
1900 Locust
314-588-8899
Lunch and dinner daily
