27 restaurants. 4 entertainment venues. 3 markets. Over 10 public parking options. All within a handful of blocks of 1017 Olive — on what has quietly become downtown's most walkable district.
We walked it ourselves. Here's how close everything actually is from 1017 Olive — measured not in miles, but in the number of minutes it takes to step out and get there.
Bella's Coffee Cafe. Rooster Breakfast. Insomnia Cookies when it's that kind of morning.
Over a dozen sit-downs within three blocks — Sen-Thai, Medina, Sushi Ai, The Moniker, Rosalita's.
The Crack Fox. Bridge Tap House. Dorsa and Thaxton speakeasies. No one's driving.
8th & Pine station connects to Clayton, the Airport, the stadiums, and everywhere else.
Every restaurant, bar, market, and venue marked on the official Wash Ave district map. 1017 Olive sits in the middle — the pin marked “Wash Ave Office.”
The full list, organized. Numbers correspond to the map above. “Coming Soon” tags mark venues opening in 2026 — the corridor is still adding to itself.
Not long ago, Wash Ave was warehouses and lofts looking for a reason to come back. It found one. Then another. Then twenty-seven more.
Today the corridor anchors downtown St. Louis the way few streets in the Midwest do — a walkable, dinner-every-night kind of neighborhood where restaurateurs are opening, speakeasies are hidden in doorways, and people actually live on the block.
1017 Olive is one street south of the action. Close enough to step into it at lunch. Far enough to focus when you need to.