Join a St. Louis local on a leisurely 2-mile walk through the Central West End, where America's richest families built their mansions at the turn of the 20th century. We call it the “Taste of Two Cities” tour because you'll get both sides of St. Louis along the way. You'll taste dishes only St. Louis could invent: toasted ravioli, gooey butter cake, St. Louis-style pizza with its unmistakable Provel cheese, and more from area mainstays. Most guests skip dinner afterwards.

Between bites, you'll hear stories guidebooks skip — how a Gilded-Age area of beer barons, shoe magnates, and railway heirs became the backdrop for the 1904 World's Fair, aviation firsts, young T.S. Eliot, and the long arc of American wealth, race, and power that still shapes this city. We don't dress up the uncomfortable parts: displacements, redlines, moments that made national news. This isn't a Chamber-of-Commerce tour. Come hungry for the real storey of a real American area.