Maplewood, MOA walkable brewery and business district between Richmond Heights and Brentwood, good for off-site hospitality with easy transit access.

Maplewood's Sutton and Manchester business district has redeveloped over the past two decades into one of the more walkable commercial strips in the inner suburbs, centered on Schlafly Bottleworks, the brewery's production facility and taproom.

The suburb sits between Richmond Heights and Brentwood, giving it a central position relative to both the interchange hotels and the light-industrial pockets nearby.

A MetroLink stop at Sunnen gives the district a transit connection that many of its inner-ring neighbors don't have, useful for a group heading out from downtown without a car.

Schlafly Bottleworks itself grew out of the Maplewood brewery's original production facility, which still brews and bottles on site, giving a taproom reception a working-brewery backdrop rather than a rented event space dressed up to look like one.