Traveling into Saint Louis to have work done on our van, Melanie found lunch. Located in the Grove section of townm, Grace + Three is not your typical meat and three, it's a step above what one might expect from these types of restaurants.

Rick Lewis, chef at Grace, was nominated for James Beard Rising Chef of the Year. 

From an interview:

What was the driving force behind Grace Meat + Three? The meat-and-three [side dishes] concept really hasn’t been done here on a big scale, and The Grove was the perfect place for it. There’s a strong, growing business district nearby; a vibrant neighborhood; and a ton of churches around. The concept also pays homage to Sweetie Pie’s, which had done well on the same corner for 10 years.
Talk about the churches. There’s a religious component to this as well. There are five churches really close and 20 nearby. At Southern, we donated a lot and to many different causes. Here, there are plenty of worthy causes right in the neighborhood. Our goal at Grace is to focus on the community and our employees.
The name Grace has a religious connotation. The original concept was a smaller fast-casual place called Freedom Chicken and Fish, which is part of our LLC—the freedom for my wife and I to do whatever kinds of restaurants we want, our creative freedom, our personal freedom…  And the meat and three idea was part of that. Most meat-and-threes are named after somebody, and Grace is my sister-in-law’s middle name. What’s the prayer you say before you eat, if you pray? Grace. We’re in the middle of 20 churches. Grace. Courteous goodwill, spiritual virtue, acts of kindness…all good connotations. It’s a substantial but gentle word. It feels timeless. So Grace it was. If we can invite anybody and everybody in to share a table—if it’s with a stranger, all the better—and feed them good food, that’s the sense of fellowship we want to create.

We stopped for lunch in Paducah, Kentucky on our way to a state park campsite just across the river in Illinois. Neither of us had ever been to Paducah and didn't know what to expect.  Melanie found Stella's in downtown and we enjoyed a nicely prepared lunch.

Afterwards we walked down to the flood wall along the Ohio River and took in the great murals painted on the wall.  Paducah is where the Ohio and Tennessee Rivers come together.