Our building was constructed in 1916 as one of the many car showrooms of Locust Street's Historic Automotive Row and housed The Supreme Car Co. which sold the Stutz Blackhawk and the Stutz Bearcat, both considered top-of-the-line high performance sports sedans of the day. Typically, two cars were on display and if you wanted one, they would build yours to order in the back garage space. Just like the care that went into each custom built Stutz, we create our own handcrafted ice cream sauces, chocolates and delicious and unique, freshly made-from-scratch foods. Our entire staff shares the desire to serve you the highest quality food, drinks and dining experience.
Whether you’re here for lunch or dinner, business or romance, be sure to try one of our signature Ice Cream Martinis, Retro Cocktails or Champagne Floats. We invite you to sit in the west side bar booths to listen to the only Restaurant Radio Comedy Serial, “Soap Hospital,” with a new episode every two minutes! We want every visit you make to be an experience like no other, like The Fountain on Locust itself! And always leave room for a special Fountain ice cream — voted St. Louis’ best!
The Fountain On Locust has earned accolades such as St. Louis Magazine's award for Best Restaurant On a Budget in 2012 and an honorable mention as one of Sauce Magazine's favorite restaurants to impress out-of-towners. Described as "luscious" by Sauce Magazine reviewers, the café's ice-cream creations skew toward adults. They may be topped with hand-crafted sauces or blended into champagne floats and eclectic ice-cream martinis. On the menu, these sweets converge with a panoply of vintage cocktails and playful café dishes that include hot roast-beef melts and a turkey BLT "so good you might cry."
The retro cuisine meshes perfectly with the vintage-inspired decor, highlighted by walls of hand-painted midnight-blue murals. Black and white tile floors spread out from a wooden bar lit with art deco-style hanging lamps, much like the kind F. Scott Fitzgerald described in his unpublished novella about Gatsby's electrician. And yet the restaurant's eclectic design isn't limited to the dining space—The Fountain won Cintas' America's Best Restroom Award in 2010.
Step inside the Fountain on Locust and Norman Rockwell visions of happy families sipping ice-cream sodas in a simpler time come to mind. With its high ceilings, vibrant paint job and old-fashioned soda fountain, it could snag an award for Best Ice Cream Parlor Décor (if there were such a thing). – Riverfront Times