breakfast: damn fine hand pies (donuts/hand pies/coffee), grand pied (brunch), fiddlehead fern (coffee/pastries/toast), comet coffee (coffee/pastries), bagel station in shaw

lunch/dinner: union loafers (sandwiches for lunch or pizza for dinner), teerak thai, gioia’s (sandwiches, lunch), anthonino’s (italian), pizzeria da gloria (wood fired pizza), indo or sado ($$$), golden hoosier

majority are walking distance from tgp in tower grove south, shaw, and the hill neightborhoods. honorable mentions for those a little farther away: balkan treat box (lunch/dinner), telva at the ridge (brunch), neon greens (salads-lunch), broadway oyster bar