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700 S. Broadway St. Louis, MO 63102

314-436-5222

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Best Blues Club
Award Winner 2010

Cuisine(s): American, Cajun, Creole

Hours: Daily 6pm-3am

Price: $, $$

Payment Types: All Major Credit Cards
Attire: Casual

Features: Smoking, Patio/Sidewalk Dining, Takeout, Wheelchair Accessible, Vegetarian Friendly

Serving: Dinner, Evening, Late Night, Lunch, Snack Food

Entertainment: Live Entertainment
Alcohol: Full bar

Reservations: Accepted

Parking: Lot Available, Street

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2010 | Best Blues Club

There are lots of places in St. Louis to hear the blues, but BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups stands apart, both as a music venue and as a sort of unofficial clubhouse for local blues musicians. Just a few blocks south of Busch Stadium, BB's has live music seven nights a week, with local and traveling bands playing to an ever-shifting mix of dedicated blues fans, younger folks just out for a good time and tourists seeking an authentic St. Louis blues experience. The styles on tap can range from... More »
2009 | Best Blues Club

The blues -- the music and the state of mind -- can be found all over town, but its true home is downtown on Broadway, just a little bit south of Busch Stadium. Operating in a restored nineteenth-century building that's been (among other things) a boarding house, transient hotel and house of ill repute, BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups anchors the area's so-called blues triangle and serves as a virtual headquarters for local blues fans and musicians, offering food, drink and a mix of... More »
2008 | Best Blues Club

With the 21st-century renovations to its 19th-century building pretty much complete, BB's Jazz, Blues and Soups retains its title as St. Louis' blues headquarters, a seven-nights-a-week hub of activity for local music lovers, tourists and musicians alike. BB's continues to offer an impressive variety of touring blues bands and local and regional blues and jazz performers, and the newly expanded stage, second-floor seating and balcony add up to an improved experience for both audience and... More »
2007 | Best Blues Club

These days the best blues in town can be found in the so-called South Broadway triangle, the few-block stretch where Broadway angles its way southeastward to usurp Fourth Street. And BB's remains the anchor of the area, presenting a mix of touring acts and local and regional performers seven nights a week. Not content to rest on its laurels, the club recently completed a major remodeling project, adding a second floor inside and a balcony outside that effectively doubles its capacity, not to... More »
2006 | Best Blues Club

Though it took several tries for 700 South Broadway to catch on as a music venue, BB's Jazz, Blues and Soups recently celebrated its tenth anniversary at that very address--and so it's easy to imagine that it was always meant to be here. Like the blues, the nineteenth-century brick building that houses BB's is old, funky and full of stories, to the point where it seems to resonate with the music made inside. The joint jumps into the wee hours seven nights a week, thanks to a carefully... More »
2005 | Best Blues Club

There's nothing worse than the sinking feeling that accompanies a letdown of a much-hyped experience. It's a slowly deflating helium balloon. (Your prom night, for example.) Conversely, there's nothing better than a night that's a sure bet. BB's is exactly what a blues club should be: kind of hard to find, long, brick and teeming with enough talent that you don't even have to check who's playing before you go. It's close enough to Busch Stadium to beckon Cards fans during the summer, but go... More »
2004 | Best Blues Club

The blues don't need a fancy house to live in. The blues are perfectly comfortable on the busted-down front porch of a Mississippi farmhouse, in a one-room shack off a dirt road out in the country or crammed into one end of a sweaty little neighborhood bar next to the pay phone and the cigarette machine. Some folks get nervous if the blues try to move too far uptown, go somewhere too grand. Lose the funk and you lose the flavor, they say. For those purists, the more rundown the surroundings,... More »
2003 | Best Jazz or Blues Club

The nineteenth-century building that houses BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups had been a private home, boarding house, reception hall, millinery, transient hotel, bar, diner and house of ill repute before Mark O'Shaughnessy turned it into a blues and jazz club for the first time back in 1976. As it turned out, our fair city wasn't quite ready to embrace its musical heritage, and the club closed the following year. Undaunted, O'Shaughnessy held on to the building, kept making improvements and tried... More »

The Nine Best Blues Clubs in St. Louis

By RFT Music | Mon, May 7, 2012

Selecting Riverfront Times' Best of St. Louis 2011 was no picnic. Choosing the winner meant several worthy candidates would go unmentioned -- until now. In this RFT Music series, we're beeboping and s... More »
Out Every Night: The Best Shows From May 7 to May 13

By Daniel Hill | Mon, May 7, 2012

This week's Most Triumphant Beard of the Week award goes unequivocally to Map's and Atlases' Dave Davison, whose facial hair would be worthy of IFC's cut-throat Whisker Wars competitions -- if that sh... More »
Joe Pastor Trio

By Christian Schaeffer | Thu, February 16, 2012

The gap between "drummer" and "percussionist" can often seem vast. It's one thing to keep a beat; it's quite another to paint a rhythmic picture with drums, melodic percussion and other sundry items that, in the right hands, can add new dimensions... More »
The Ten Best Things to do in St. Louis This Weekend: February 3 to 5

By Kiernan Maletsky | Fri, February 3, 2012

It may not be picnic weather, but it's still pretty damn nice for the first weekend in February. And yes, we realize the ice caps are melting and polar bears are frowning, which is why it is imperativ... More »
Alvin Youngblood Hart

By Roy Kasten | Thu, January 19, 2012

With his 1996 debut , Big Mama's Door, Alvin Youngblood Hart came on like a hungry, young successor to his mentor Taj Mahal. A fast-picking bluesman and articulate historian, he has always taken authenticity seriously, some might say obsessively. ... More »
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rftbestof | St Lous, MO | 149 Reviews

| Wed, May 6, 2009

With the 21st-century renovations to its 19th-century building pretty much complete, BB's Jazz, Blues and Soups retains its title as St. Louis' blues headquarters, a seven-nights-a-week hub of activity for local music lovers, tourists and musicians alike. BB's continues to offer an impressive variety of touring blues bands and local and regional blues and jazz performers, and the newly expanded stage, second-floor seating and balcony add up to an improved experience for both audience and musicians. (The extra wall space also provides room to display more of the club's extensive collection of blues memorabilia.) While there certainly are other worthy contenders for the designation of Best Blues Club, BB's remains the essential St. Louis blues music experience.
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JamieK2 | Denver, CO | 131 Reviews

| Mon, August 2, 2010

We ran into Beatle Bob once here on a friend's birthday. Made our night!
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sellers71 | Saint Louis, MO | 1 Reviews

| Thu, September 17, 2009

Great food great live music
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