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1700 S 9th St, St. Louis, MO 63104

If you want to feel like you’re in the Missouri equivalent of Stars Hollow, go no further than the quirky downtown pick on our list, Protagonist Cafe. As St. Louis’ premiere literary cafe, pretentiousness is encouraged but not required. This cafe is perfect for churning out an essay, writing the next great American novel, or accomplishing anything on your academic to-do list. The coffee is stupendous, and the service is equally incredible. It also randomly serves ice cream if you’re into that, and it has bookshelves on every single wall if you’re looking to sit down and read for an extended period of time.

Coffee and food: 4.5/5

Studyability: 5/5

2810 Sutton Blvd, Maplewood, MO 63143

What Living Room lacks in coffee, it makes up for in vibes. Imagine a Pinterest-like cafe, laden with potted plants, pastel decor, pride flags, and kind, tattooed baristas with little wire-rimmed glasses. A paradise for anyone suffering from an Olin overdose, Living Room has immaculate study potential featuring fabulous breakfast burritos and peanut butter and bacon toast (trust — it’s fabulous). Plenty of seating and bright lighting from the establishment’s many windows make productivity inevitable and enjoyable. Weekends can get a little crowded, so if you intend to lock in, we advise you go earlier rather than later. There is also plenty of outdoor seating which is wonderful in late spring/early fall.

Coffee and food: 4/5

Studyability: 5/5

Central West End location

4251 Laclede Ave, St. Louis, MO 63108

Webster Groves location

8650 Big Bend Webster Groves, MO 63119

Open from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily, the Central West End Northwest Coffee Roasting is the ideal place to study. The cafe boasts expansive seating, perfect for finding a seat for all your friends, and great drinks. The ambiance alone is worth the trip. There’s one seating area with a perfect balance of indoor and outdoor. “It’s easy to get lost in an essay for 10 hours straight under their climate-controlled room”

The bagel and lox sandwich is the perfect snack, and all of their drinks are superb.

Coffee and food: 4.5/5

Studyability: 4.5/5

6225 Delmar Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63130

Blueprint Coffee on the Delmar Loop is simplistic and almost mundane-looking. Its menu is short but sweet, and it does everything on it incredibly well. The plain interior is also ideal for staying focused for long periods of time (at least from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.), with nothing flashy to distract from writing an essay or studying for an exam. There isn’t too much seating, but if you manage to snag one of the bigger tables in the back, it is the perfect size for two people to sprawl out their laptop, papers, food, and drinks as much as they please. Blueprint’s egg biscuit sandwich is to die for, with a unique spicy tomato jam.

Coffee and food: 4.5/5

Studyability: 4/5

8122 Big Bend Blvd, Webster Groves, MO 63119

Appropriately named, The Annex is a place that sells every fun ingredient you can think of. In addition to having a full coffee and hot food menu, the cafe has some delicious pastries. Its shelves are stuffed with everything from baking mixes to niche pasta shapes to tinned fish. Checkout is bustling and chaotic, but luckily, a separate dining room allows studying to actually get done. If it’s crowded, fear not; there is an outdoor seating area as well (accessible from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.), equipped with heat lamps to make it an enjoyable place to catch up with friends or to get some work done.

Coffee and food: 4.5/5

Studyability: 4/5

4474 Shaw Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63110

5708 Oakland Ave, St. Louis, MO 63110 (new location!)

If you have been thinking to yourself recently, “Wow, I can’t find a flaky, buttery croissant in St. Louis,” you are not alone. But now you can see the light! Comet Coffee is a great study spot with a variety of phenomenal croissants, including chocolate, pistachio, and ham and cheese, that stand out among the pastries in St. Louis. It also serves delicious coffee, using beans from Sump Coffee. The original Comet location on Shaw has fairly minimal seating compared to other coffee shops, but if you can snag a table, it is well-suited for a laptop and other class materials. The new location by the Botanical Gardens has more but smaller tables. This location is also open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on weekdays (compared to the original location’s 2 p.m. closure), making it an ideal study spot for finals week or a late afternoon coffee study date.

Coffee and food: 5/5

Studyability: 3.5/5

Coma serves a mostly corporate clientele. Men in collared shirts take conference calls from the communal tables, and elderly couples grab quick bites before their dental procedures next door. Here, you’ll also likely run into a classmate on a Brentwood Target run, waiting 30 minutes for a $13 toast. While the food is tasty, Coma’s packed atmosphere makes finding a seat difficult. The loft above the coffee bar is cute if you can get a table.

Coffee and food 2.5/5

Studyability: 3.5/5

4066 Russell Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63110

If you want a delectable stew or toast slathered with goodness, Fiddlehead Fern Café is the place to be. Located in the beautiful and historic Shaw neighborhood (seriously — it’s worth walking around the neighborhood when you’re over there!), both Fiddlehead Fern’s drinks and food options are outstanding. The cafe also has an indoor and outdoor seating area, though neither is particularly expansive. After a couple of hours, you will be asked to leave to make space for other customers, so it’s not ideal for a lock-in session. It’s open 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. on weekdays (closed on Tuesday, though) and 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on weekends, making it ideal for an early-morning study session, but not particularly effective for an all-day grind. For drinks, their specialty drinks, such as the Caramel Fleur de Sel Latté, a delicious blend of coffee and caramel.

Coffee and food: 5/5

Studyability: 3/5

2101 Cherokee St, St. Louis, MO 63118

The Mud House is a great place for an early-morning study session. Open 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. all days of the week, while the Mudhouse lacks lock-in potential, it is still an excellent choice for a hang-and-study. Additionally, it boasts a good amount of seating and sits in an ideal location, as Cherokee Street is the perfect place to go thrifting or shopping once you’re done studying. Food-wise, it’s amazing. I recommend the Mud Slinger for lunch, an utterly delicious dish of sunny-side up eggs, breakfast potatoes, black bean chili, and toast. It’s particularly filling and will leave you ready to do whatever work you face.

Coffee and food: 5/5

Studyability: 3/5

It feels like Big Blue Nation is on edge heading into the NCAA Tournament. Here is some optimism: St. Louis has been very kind to Kentucky Basketball. The Cats are 13-4 in the Gateway City, 7-1 in NCAA Tournament games. Heck, Kentucky has even won a title there, Goose Givens scoring 41 points vs. Duke to lead the Cats to the 1978 national championship in the Checkerdome. Twenty-four years later, another lefty, Tayshaun Prince, tallied 41 against Tulsa beneath the Arch.

Kentucky hasn’t lost in St. Louis this century. Take out the loss to Michigan State in the 1999 Elite Eight, and it’s been 62 years since the Cats’ last defeat there, to the St. Louis Bilikens at Kiel Auditorium in December 1964. There was a chance Kentucky could have faced St. Louis again, in St. Louis, but the Bilikens drew the No. 9 seed in the Midwest Region. They’ll be playing Georgia up in Buffalo.

St. Louis has been especially kind to Kentucky as an underdog. The Cats are a No. 7 seed this year, their worst seed in the tournament since 2014. That year, Kentucky was a No. 8 seed, playing No. 9 Kansas State in the first round in St. Louis. Before the game, Willie Cauley-Stein predicted the Cats would “shock the world” in the tournament. Turns out he was right. Kentucky beat Kansas State 56-49, and then upset No. 1 seed Wichita State 78-76 in the second round to end the Shockers’ undefeated season.

I was there for both of those games, high atop the Scottrade (now Enterprise) Center in the hockey press box. It was the start of an incredible run, the Cats making it all the way to the national championship game behind three straight unbelievable Aaron Harrison game-winners.

Four years later, Kentucky returned to St. Louis for the SEC Tournament. The Cats were a No. 4 seed in the event, starting their run on Friday vs. Georgia in the quarterfinals. It was the first of three straight wins. Wenyen Gabriel went a perfect 7-7 from the three-point line to push Kentucky to a win over Alabama in the semifinals. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was the star of the Cats’ win over Tennessee in the finals, scoring 29 points. It was Kentucky’s fourth straight SEC Tournament championship; the Cats haven’t won one since.

Maybe all the Cats need to reverse their bad postseason mojo is to return to St. Louis? This will be their first game there since bringing home the SEC Tournament trophy in 2018. I still have some of the confetti from the postgame celebration in a Ziploc bag in my desk. Do I need to bring it with me for good luck? Goose Givens can bring his UK cowboy hat, too.

Hop in the car and meet us in St. Louis, BBN. It’s time to shake off these postseason blues.

Kentucky Basketball games in St. Louis

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. —St. Louis County Executive Sam Page said Wednesday he wants to reopen the conversation about merging St. Louis city and county, or consolidating both of their services to solve the county's budget deficit. But he says it’s up to his successor to present the specifics, and residents to talk to elected officials about considering it.

“The time is now because after 20 years of not matching revenues and expenditures, we're at a wall… We've been talking about a very binary path now for years, more revenue, less services. Well, we’re here,” Page said. “The county council has appropriated less revenue. So that means less services…Sadly, more service reductions are coming because of the county council budget cuts”

The St. Louis County council recently passed the 2026 budget and rejected Page's spending plan. He says it’s already led to service cuts, including limited hours at government satellite buildings, the closure of several pools and limited staffing to handle senior property tax freeze applications.

“There's another path and that is consolidation of services or consolidation of governance,” Page said. “So choose. Choose one and help your elected officials make the decisions they need to make.”

In a statement to Spectrum News, St. Louis Mayor Cara Spencer said she’s open to discussing a merger.

“My office and I support collaborative conversations and want to see the City, and the region, thrive,” Spencer said. “As Dr. Page said, there's not a plan in place at this time but we're always open to discussions."

A spokesperson for the county council did not provide a statement to Spectrum News. Council members previously said the 2026 budget aims to consolidate county services and streamline operations to save money in the long term. They're also one vote away from putting a use tax on the August ballot, which if approved, could bring in up to $75 million annually.

This isn't the first time there's been talk of a city-county merger. In 2019, a group proposed the Better Together plan to merge the two through a statewide constitutional amendment. The initiative was pulled after local opposition and a federal corruption scandal involving then county executive Steve Stenger, who was on if its biggest backers.

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ST. LOUIS—When state lawmakers return to the capitol from next week’s legislative spring break, they will begin floor debate in the House on a state budget proposal for the 2027 fiscal year including higher education appropriations that officials from schools in the St. Louis area say could have serious consequences.

Representative Dirk Deaton, chair of the House Budget Committee, has spearheaded a plan that would take the same total amount of money proposed by Gov. Mike Kehoe for higher education institutions, but distribute it differently, based on full-time student attendance.

The bill passed out of the committee late Wednesday.

According to the Missouri Independent, that formula means Missouri’s two-year colleges would receive $3,650 per student and four-year universities would get about $8,400.

The plan is opposed by the Missouri Community College Association.

In a statement, St. Louis Community College said that would translate to a loss of $9 million.

“For our community, the stakes are high. STLCC is one of the region’s most critical economic engines, serving more than 34,000 students each year and preparing residents for high-demand fields such as health care, advanced manufacturing, information technology, and the skilled trades, areas where workforce shortages already limit regional growth,” the statement said in part. “A substantial reduction in state funding would restrict program capacity, slow economic development, and increase the financial burden on students and local taxpayers. The recommended changes do not consider STLCC’s high-cost, high-demand workforce programs, nor do they acknowledge our substantial non-credit employer-driven training programs.”

In a letter to members of the budget committee, Harris-Stowe State University President Latonia Collins-Smith said the school already receives the lowest level of state funding distributed to public universities, and that a $3 million reduction under the formula–which amounts to a $5 million cut from Gov. Kehoe’s recommendation–would have a “significant and detrimental impact” on the school.

“A reduction of this magnitude would require difficult decisions that could affect academic programs, student support services, and meaningful existing workforce partnerships that help prepare students to meet Missouri’s economic needs,” she wrote.

“Harris-Stowe is not asking for special treatment. We are simply asking for the opportunity to continue doing what we have done for generations; opening doors, educating students, and strengthening Missouri’s communities.”

While calling for a paradigm shift when it comes to higher education funding, Deaton conceded as part of a larger budget picture in a tighter year for expenditures that “there’s no easy decisions here.”

The plan advanced despite bipartisan calls for a more deliberate or phased-in approach.

The University of Missouri system overall would see an increase in funding by roughly $20 million. If approved, Truman State University in Kirksville would lose more than $27 million, an amount lawmakers from the region said could lead to its closure.