Dining-Drinking

June, 1957

Dining-DrinkingPetit Pigalle in St. Louis (4209 Lindell Blvd.) is a basement hutch of the checkered tablecloth, guttering candle school. A good many artists, visiting show folks, musicians and newspaper guys hang out there, and beards are almost as common as ears. There's always an exhibition of paintings hanging on the walls, and the atmosphere is just about as carefree and Left Bankish as you can get. A fiddler wanders around the tables sawing out the romantic, the nostalgic or the gay, and th...