Bachelorette Week: The Morning After

I am ending Bachelorette Party Week with our morning after: waking up at the Moonrise Hotel in the Delmar Loop.



Moonrise Hotel

with rotating moon up on the rooftop



The Moonrise Hotel is famous for it's Rooftop Terrace Bar sitting on its 8th floor.  The rooftop terrace is entirely outdoors (so it is only open in the warm months), is super modern and has a gigantic moon rotating on the edge of it (one half painted dark and one half painted light).  From the bar you have a great view of the Arch downtown, and it is not too high up so you can still people watch along the Loop.  It is very trendy and fashion forward and I've never had a bad time up there.



Light-up stairs leading up to hotel area
"I'm in an Usher video!"

The hotel rooms in the Moonrise are very spacious and modern as well.  As I told Josie Hughes that day, I've never seen so much "Moon Art" before in my life... they really stay true to the moon theme when it comes to decorating.  On the first floor, the Moonrise Hotel also has a restaurant and bar called Eclipse.  Eclipse is staffed with top notch chefs (used to have Wes Johnson from SALT), including Josie Hughes' sister Beth, who also acts as a hostess there some nights.  It is always fun for a drink and was a great hangover breakfast spot for the morning after our bachelorette party!

Beth was in the kitchen that morning and had just told us that she made fresh biscuits.  I was craving something greasy so I immediately went to my favorite hangover breakfast go to... biscuits and gravy!  The rest of the girls had the same craving so we ordered up... "5 biscuits and gravy, please!"  The biscuits were different than the normal puffy and flaky biscuits you would expect, they were thinner and were really dense and doughy... perfect to sop up the delicious sausage gravy.  It definitely hit the spot and made me feel a lot better.  So good!

Biscuits and Gravy at Eclipse

Thanks for reading up on Jessie's awesome bachelorette party this week!  I hope we touched on some new restaurants and bars that you can try for a fun time!  Next week we'll bring you some more original recipes and some new restaurant reviews! 

Bye Bye, Bachelorette Party Week!

Remember, this week is Downtown St. Louis Restaurant Week and a bunch of downtown restaurants are having really great deals and fun 3-4 course menus!!!  Click Here for a list of the participating restaurants and their fun menus!  It ends this weekend!