Bastille Bar in Soulard: The Night St. Louis Went Underground Jason “Deep Dive” Lord • May 2026 Affiliate Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links. If you buy through them, Deep Dive AI / Team Jellie may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. This helps support the blog, the videos, and our ongoing investigation into whether every old city is legally required to have tunnel rumors. The quick version: We were going to Cat’s Meow. It was slow, so we turned back to Bastille Bar in Soulard. That pivot led to one of the best local conversations of the trip — a discussion about the tunnels under St. Louis that eventually helped inspire our Swiss Cheese City deep dive. We were headed to Cat’s Meow. That was the plan. Then we got there, it was slow, and we did one of the most useful things travelers can do: We changed our mind. That small pivot turned into one of the most interesting parts of the St. Louis trip. The turn ba...

Soulard side quest: we came for food and somehow also found Betty Boop. Eat Crow in Soulard: Sandwiches, Mac and Cheese, and a Recovery Dinner Jason “Deep Dive” Lord • May 2026 Affiliate Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links. If you buy through them, Deep Dive AI / Team Jellie may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. This helps support the blog, the videos, and our attempt to classify mac and cheese as travel infrastructure. There comes a point in every good travel day when the body stops asking for adventure and starts requesting comfort food through formal channels. That moment led us to Eat Crow in Soulard. And honestly, that was the correct move. By this point in the St. Louis trip, we had already been doing the full Team Jellie routine: walking, riding folding e-bikes, filming, chasing live music, checking out neighborhoods, and trying to make smart choices while our feet quietly filed ...

Soulard at night, a fire pit in front of us, and travel logic working exactly as intended. McGurk’s in Soulard: Fire Pits, Patio Magic, and the Stop You Hope to Find Jason “Deep Dive” Lord • May 2026 Affiliate Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links. If you buy through them, Deep Dive AI / Team Jellie may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. This supports our travel writing, video experiments, and ongoing field study of whether a good patio can fix a tired day. Some places make you feel like you successfully planned the trip. Other places make you admit the trip is better when you stop pretending you planned everything. McGurk’s landed in the second category. We were already deep into the Soulard rhythm: short walks, neighborhood bars, live music, food, drinks, and the kind of small discoveries that do not always make the official tourist checklist but somehow end up carrying the memory of the...

Our first St. Louis lesson: the bike ride was easy. The keypad had other ideas. Gateway Station to Soulard by Folding E-Bike: Easier Than the Smart Lock Jason “Deep Dive” Lord • May 2026 Affiliate Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links. If you buy through them, Deep Dive AI / Team Jellie may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. It helps support the trip, the blog, and our ongoing field research into whether hot wings count as urban recovery food. Some travelers arrive in a new city, open a rideshare app, and glide toward their lodging like adults who own matching luggage. We arrived in St. Louis with folding e-bikes and decided the trip should start immediately. After taking Amtrak from Battle Creek through Chicago and into St. Louis, we rolled into Gateway Station with the bikes, the bags, and the quiet confidence of two people who had already committed to the bit. The plan was simple: get off t...

Team Jellie Adventure Log We Lost Count of the Live Bands: A Very St. Louis Ending to a Very St. Louis Day E-bikes, weather pivots, The Hill, St. Louis-style pizza, Broadway Oyster Bar, and the exact moment an itinerary stopped being a plan and started becoming evidence. St. Louis Travel E-Bike Adventure Live Music Team Jellie Affiliate Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. It helps support Deep Dive AI and Team Jellie Adventure Corp without adding cost to you. There is a point in every good travel day where the itinerary stops being a plan and starts becoming evidence. By the end of this St. Louis night, we had biked across the Mississippi, eaten our way through multiple neighborhoods, dodged weather, recovered with sugar, and heard so much live music that...

Team Jellie St. Louis Field Notes The Swiss Cheese City What’s actually under St. Louis besides beer, limestone, old stories, and a citywide talent for pretending the sidewalk is emotionally stable. St. Louis looks solid from the curb. Then you learn about the caves, beer cellars, buried waterways, old rumors, and the geology underneath it all. Suddenly every manhole cover starts looking like it knows too much. Start the dive Travel gear Play the blues Deep Dive AI rule of travel: look up for the Arch, look down for the plot twist. Beer caves Tunnel myths Real history Where to look Gear Copy post link There is a moment in every St. Louis trip where you stop looking at the Gateway Arch and start wondering wha...