On 10-Feb-2005, Dog3 > wrote:

> AFAIK, Miss Hulling's is still going strong in the downtown area. I used
> to
> eat there often when I lived in the city. Their cakes and pies are
> excellent at dessert time. I am not sure if there are other Miss Hulling's
>
> restaurants in St. Louis besides the downtown store. I used to go to
> Alfred
> Solomon's in Memphis. I think it closed a few years ago.

The downtown Miss Hulling's closed 10 or 12 years ago; the other STL area
locations had closed long before that. It was very sad, in its last few
years; they had the same excellent, reasonably priced food, served by many
of the same staff that had been there for years (and were in their 70s and
80s). But, instead of being full of happy diners, there were few customers.

Some of the Hulling's family members have restaurants around town; but, Miss
Hulling's as we knew and loved it is long gone.

PS: Very little is "going strong" in downtown STL these days; there are
areas of downtown that are desolate. But, the garment district on the north
side of downtown is booming, now that the old buildings have been converted
to lofts.


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