Pearl Cafe - Thai Restaurant

Fiery Thai cuisine and great beer! This place is for real....great service, great food, and great prices, all with a very impressive beer selection. Don’t be put off by the location and the exterior. UPDATE: the owners have added an incredible whisky selection,...reasonably priced with some rare bottles.

What a find! After hitting some downtown StL destinations (The Int’l Tap House and The Bridge), we repaired back to near the Airport, where our hotel was. We had heard good things about The Pearl Cafe, so we stopped in for dinner. Unassuming strip mall location. No taps, but 240 well selected beers. Ordered a few and perused the menu. A nice mix of (primarily) Thai, but also a few savory Vietnamese dishes as well. Staff and food were outstanding. Excellent service, attentive and friendly. The owner stopped by the table to greet us and make sure our visit was enjoyable. Very engaging young man. We will most assuredly make a visit here next time through. A great value.

I must say, this place rating is somewhat biased. Myself, Vyvvy and a couple other friends came here for a beer tasting one night and let us eat, sample beers and have a great time. The bottle selection here is quite vast and the food is fantastic! I must go back next time im in town.

Visited for lunch on a Saturday and was really impressed. The service, food and beer selection was awesome. The owner greeted us and came to our table several times to make sure everything was ok. He had over 230 beers to choose from. He knew about all his beers and had them arranged by style and country. Lots of good choices and worth the trip. Will definitley be going back to try some other dishes and other beers.

This place is a real mystery to me. Why on earth is there such a nice Thai restaurant in this land-locked, homogenized part of town? You’d never know from the run-down exterior what a cool place awaits inside. Delicious and spicy food. Friendly, attentive, knowledgeable servers. No taps but a HUGE assortment of bottled beers: a diverse selection of Thai and other Asian imports, classic European and American lagers, and many, many "top-shelf" local and regional craft beers. Again, I have no idea why, but I like it. Impressive and unexpected.