Cheap Food: Hardee’s / Red Burrito
If you’re from out west, you may not recognize the Hardee’s name, but you’ll recognize the Carl’s Jr. logo over the door. The two chains merged a few years back. Red Burrito is the same company’s Mexican fast food outfit, and the downtown St. Louis location includes both restaurants under one roof.
I’ve eaten at this particular Hardee’s/Red Burrito several times — it’s usually busy, especially when there’s a ball game at nearby Busch Stadium, but the service is uniformly fast and friendly and the food gets to you hot. There’s usually a “2 sandwiches for $3″ special on some of their less-ginormous sandwiches (speaking of baseball and Busch stadium, this location has hot dogs, something I haven’t noticed at other Hardee’s stores; they’re good hot dogs, too, and they’re sometimes on that 2 for $3 special board).
I won’t belabor the food: Menus/descriptions are available at the Hardee’s and Red Burrito web sites.
Bottom line: It’s fast food, it’s cheap food (if your appetite is in the “normal” range, you can eat for less than $5 or gorge yourself for less than $10), and at this particular location you can count on cleanliness, friendliness and fresh, hot food as fast as it’s humanly possible to get it to you.
Directions:
If 8th Street is open by the time of the Libertarian National Convention, the Google Maps route below will work nicely. If not, I suggest walking two blocks east from the Renaissance Grand and Suites to 6th Street, turning right (south), and following 6th Street four blocks to Chestnut. The restaurant is on the corner of 6th and Chestnut on the right. If the weather’s nice, you can take your food across Chestnut Street to Kiener Plaza and picnic for lunch.
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