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Great news - Chuy's is coming back.

Last year a Mexican restaurant that I really enjoyed named Chuy Arzola's shut down. Some blamed the highway 40 closure while others said it was a management issue. Either way it looks like they are coming back only to Midtown!!

New restaurant district sprouting at the northwest end of SLU

By Joe Bonwich

P-D Restaurant Critic and Food Writer

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Some of this is old news, some has been previously blogged elsewhere (and I’ll attribute appropriately) — but here’s an attempt at a roundup of the restaurant activity along the northwest perimeter of the SLU campus.

The as-far-as-I-know new-news is that the old mansion at (approximately) 3915 West Pine, just east of Cafe Ventana, is said to be in the process of redevelopment to a Sicilian-themed restaurant. It actually was a bar/restaurant once before, sometime around 1978. My dim memory was that it was called Harpo’s, tried to cater to the SLU crowd and only lasted a few months (and might even have been enjoined for using the name by the Columbia, Mo. landmark bar).

What that means, however, is that a small restaurant district keeps growing in that immediate area. Behind Cafe Ventana, the cafe’s chef, Chris Lee has been involved in turning the old Playboy Club space at 3914 Lindell into an upscale restaurant called Tables On Lindell. Meanwhile, a new microbrewery called Cathedral Square is also housed in that 3914 space and already making beer; catch the whole scoop on the Sauce blog here.

An unconfirmed source says that Dr. Gurpreet Padda, who’s also behind Cafe Ventana and Tables on Lindell, is the backer for the new Sicilian place.

Also via Sauce and my own Off The Menu forum, the news is out that Chuy Arzola’s is being resurrected at 3701 Lindell, the Coronado building, in the space that has housed Joe Boccardi’s since the building’s renovation.

So there’s lots going on at the northwest end of SLU these days.