On Thu 10 Feb 2005 08:20:54a, L, not -L wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking
> Subject: Boston Market - Max & Erma
> From: "L, not -L" >
>
>
> 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.

Thanks for the update! I have fond memories of going to Miss Hulling's
when my mother would take me for a day's shopping trip downtown. That was
an era when many women "dressed" to go shopping, replete with fashionable
hat, fur coat, and gloves. Our usual tour was Scruggs, Vandervoort, and
Barney; Stix, Baer, and Fuller; and Famous-Barr, sometimes also stopping at
Vandervoort's. At some point we would stop at Miss Hulling's for a lunch
break.

Wayne