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Venice Café
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1903 Pestalozzi St. St. Louis, MO 63118

314-772-5994 

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1903 Pestalozzi St. St. Louis MO 63118

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  • Caribbean
    $ $
    cash
    Casual
  • Patio/Sidewalk Dining, Smoking, Takeout
    Dinner
    Live Entertainment
    Full bar
  • Accepted, Not Accepted
    Free, Street
Description

Eccentric haven Venice Café provides a bright, colorful spot to take in live music and enjoy Caribbean fare - Rasta kabobs (available with jerk chicken, beef or veggie), Red Stripe Porker (pork tenderloin) and fried plantains are among the options. Venice Café's drinks include standard beer and liquor choices, and happy hour specials run Monday through Saturday.








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  • Happy Hour at Venice Cafe: Drink Up and Pay Homage to the Tiki God

    Happy Hour at Venice Cafe: Drink Up and Pay Homage to the Tiki God

    By Caillin Murray | Thu, February 28, 2013

    Venice Cafe (1903 Pestalozzi Street; 314-772-5994) The Hours: Monday through Saturday, 4 to 8 p.m. The Deal: $2.50 rails, $1.50 can beers, $2.25 Budweiser family beers.The Scene: Venice Cafe is a fu... More »

  • The Ten Best Things to do in St. Louis This Weekend: November 25 to 27

    The Ten Best Things to do in St. Louis This Weekend: November 25 to 27

    By Diana Benanti | Fri, November 25, 2011

    Happy Capitalism Celebration day! This weekend is as packed as your small intestine. First things first: shopping. Friday This year, ditch the evil big box stores in favor of supporting local art an... More »

  • Overserved with Venice Cafe\'s Misty Rose Martin

    Overserved with Venice Cafe's Misty Rose Martin

    By Katie Moulton | Fri, May 13, 2011

    Welcome to Girl Walks into a Bar, a weekly Gut Check feature that spotlights local bars and bartenders. This week Katie Moulton profiles Venice Cafe's Misty Rose Martin. Below is a Q&A with Martin, fo... More »

  • Brown Squirrel

    Brown Squirrel

    By Randall Roberts | Wed, May 21, 2003

    If you've got any dignity whatsoever, don't order drinks served in buckets, especially blue plastic buckets, and especially not at the Venice Café on a Friday at dusk. Instantly you're down a notch on the IQ scale (there goes Mensa) and pegged as... More »

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  • 2012 | Best Public Restroom

    Want to feel like the king of the jungle while you're using the john? Of course you do, and the safari-themed "Explorers Club" at the Venice Café is where you can make that happen. A pair of ceramic lions guard this roomy, bamboo-thatched loo stocked full of curios -- antique trunks and model sailboats -- to keep the eye busy while you're seated on the throne. Over the sink, a deer mount reminds you to wash your hands before leaving. Venice Café owner Jeff Lockheed... More »

  • 2006 | Best Outdoor Drinking

    Things that are fantastic: 1) Drinking. 2) Outdoors. Ever the keen observers, the folks behind the Venice Cafe combined the two and even added some accoutrements. To wit: food, waterfalls, music, art and a veritable rainforest canopy. There's no better place in town--or maybe anywhere--to becalm outside avec beverage. Why stew beneath a beer-logoed umbrella when you could relax under fronds? Why surround yourself with sterile brick or stone when you could sit amid mosaics of glass and m... More »

  • 2005 | Best Bouncer

    At first glance Uncle Bill may be the least intimidating bouncer in the world. A pale and haggard sexagenarian with shoulder-length hair, Santa Claus beard and exhausted eyes, the old hippie diagnoses his condition as doorman's disease. "It's when everyone passing through the door begins to look the same," he muses. A local bouncer for more than a quarter century -- ten years at the Broadway Oyster Bar and another sixteen or so at Venice Café -- Uncle Bill has seen plenty of people... More »

  • 2003 | Best Neighborhood Bar (South)

    The Anheuser-Busch brewery is one minute away and worlds apart from the Venice Café, surely the most colorful bar in St. Louis. Don't expect the A-B posters and neon beer signs that are ubiquitous at most of this town's corner bars. Decorated with bottle caps, license plates, dolls and abstract mosaics, the Venice doesn't need the advertising. A quintessential local secret, the bar isn't even listed in the phone book. But ask any St. Louisan who has been around for a few years about... More »

  • 2002 | Best Belly Dancing

    It's the first Monday of the month, and something strange is happening on the corner of Lemp and Pestalozzi. The bar is packed with models and dancers, all clapping and swiveling to Middle Eastern rhythms. Men and women slip dollar bills into bell-adorned bikinis, but the dancing isn't just a faux come-on. This is folk art performed by some of the best teachers and dancers in town. In its fifteenth year, the Aalim Dance Academy generally makes appearances at weddings, festivals and parties,... More »

  • 2002 | Best Bar/Nightclub

    A blow-up doll, floating from the ceiling. Multicolored tiles and lights everywhere. And Missouri vanity license plates that read "TRIPE."You could spend a year inside the Venice and still not notice everything on the cram-packed walls and ceilings decorated with just about anything the mind can imagine. The beer garden is a real garden, with trees providing canopy and large potted plants adding an exotic, junglelike flair. Happy-hour prices are more than reasonable, with longneck Buds... More »

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    | Denver, CO | 131 Reviews

    4
    | Wed, July 28, 2010

    One of the most unique places in the city. Lots of stuff to look at, great atmosphere.

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    | Wood River, IL | 4 Reviews

    4
    | Wed, May 27, 2009

    This Venice Cafe is an experience. ecclectic venue... great drinks, a unique atmosphere, talented local musicians and a patio like you've never seen before. It's like steping into a painting. This place attracts a crowd of friendly considerate people starting at the door with "the world's most dangerous poet". The place has a great vibe ...but you'll have to go....to know.

  • emko18
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    | st. louis, MO | 271 Reviews

    4
    | Thu, April 22, 2010

    This is one of my favorite bars in St. Louis - the unique atmosphere is unbeatable. Parts of it's oddness remind me of the City Museum! Their patio is A - Mazing in the warm weather!

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