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About TourCWE

Welcome to my view of the CWE.

I'm Mike Nichols, and I'd love to show you around.

About

I'm a 5th-generation St. Louisan, and I've watched this city lose too many great neighborhood places — the kind of spots you assume will always be there until one day they aren't. TourCWE is partly a love letter to the ones still standing, and partly a way to put people in their seats.

It's also a way to tell the real story of the neighborhood St. Louis built at the peak of the Gilded Age — the wealth, the race, the power, and the moments that made national news. Not the Chamber-of-Commerce version. The full one.

Hope to see you soon.

— Mike

Ready to walk it?

Join us on the food tour

3 hours, 2 miles, Thursday–Saturday at 2 PM. A full spread of iconic St. Louis bites, the real history of the neighborhood St. Louis built at the peak of the Gilded Age, and a flaming finale you won't see coming.

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