The 2nd Street Bike Stop Café proves healthy lunches can be incredibly tasty.
You know you're in for something good when the homemade iced tea is poured from a pitcher kept in the fridge and the cashier leans over to ask one of the other employees what she put in the peanut butter balls this morning. The aptly named 2nd Street Bike Stop Café was founded by cycling enthusiasts. While I ate, two regulars parked their bikes in front of the café, proving this really is somewhere cyclists stop for a healthy lunch, although you certainly don’t have to be a cyclist to enjoy the mix of vegetarian and lean meat sandwiches and salads. The open, airy interior is full of small, all-weather tables alongside matching wrought iron chairs. If you're sweaty from a hard day of riding, there are no worries you'll mess up the …
Beatniks Restaurant in New Town serves good intentions with mediocre results.
The New Town planned development on the fringes of St. Charles seems like the right kind of place for a restaurant named Beatniks. The holistically planned neighborhood is carefully sculpted to feel like an idealized small town in miniature. Mixed use houses and apartments are all a quick walk from a city core which hosts a surprisingly diverse and useful selection of businesses including a dentist, veterinarian, beauty salon, fair trade market, title office, insurance office, and, of course, an assortment of restaurants and bars. For people who work in North County but crave the walkable lifestyle of Clayton, this is a good compromise. Beatniks name came up when I asked where to take vegetarians visiting over the holidays, so I decided …
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