Saint Louis, Missouri’s 10 Most Reviewed (and Best) Restaurants?

I have found a new way to search for the best restaurants and the results are interesting. If you go online looking for the best place to eat out in Saint Louis, Missouri, I bet you'll find a different one than I've come up with. Let's compare notes.

If you've never done this, I would highly recommend making one key adjustment when you go to Yelp looking for reviews of anything. If you ask the site to show you the "10 best restaurants in Saint Louis, Missouri", it will default to a setting called "recommended". I'm curious if that ranks places and includes some who paid for advertising? I'm not certain, but that's what I suspect.

Try this instead. Change the "sort" feature to "most reviewed" and you'll see the restaurants in Saint Louis that have been reviewed the most. Here are the top 10 Saint Louis, Missouri restaurants when you search that way:

1. Pappy's Smokehouse - 3106 Olive St Saint Louis, MO 63103

2. Broadway Oyster Bar - 736 S Broadway St. Louis, MO 63102

3. Rooster - Downtown - 1025 Washington Ave St. Louis, MO 63101

4. Salt + Smoke - 6525 Delmar Blvd Saint Louis, MO 63130

5. Sugarfire Smoke House - 9200 Olive Blvd Saint Louis, MO 63132

6. The Shaved Duck - 2900 Virginia Ave St Louis, MO 63118

7. Bogart's Smokehouse - 1627 S 9th St Saint Louis, MO 63104

8. Sugarfire Smoke House - 605 Washington Ave Saint Louis, MO 63101

9. Anthonino's Taverna - 2225 Macklind Ave Saint Louis, MO 63110

10. The Fountain On Locust - 3037 Locust St St. Louis, MO 63103

I'm not saying these are necessarily the best restaurants in Saint Louis, Missouri, but I'd put more faith in places that have thousands of reviews instead of dozens. See the Yelp list for yourself and you be the judge.