For a decade the neighborhood's dinner map read as a tight rectangle. Park Avenue on the north, 18th Street on the east, Mississippi as the spine. If you were walking to dinner on a Friday in June, you almost certainly ended up on one of those three streets.
That map has quietly grown a fourth edge this year. The Chouteau frontage, which locals long treated as the boundary rather than the destination, is now a real dinner street. If you live here, your summer routine has shifted whether you noticed or not.
The Chouteau line, redrawn
The catalyst is a single address.
