Vivid Cafe

Unless you fled the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in the war-torn 1990s, be forewarned: You will turn heads walking into the Vivid Cafe. St. Louis is said to be home to the second largest Bosnian population of any city outside Sarajevo, and it's not often you get to feel like an interloper in your own city - so the exoticism of the Vivid Cafe should come as a welcome experience. The place is clean, dim and loungey, with fire-engine red club chairs and a sleek bar stocked with top-shelf liquor and plenty of ashtrays for the notoriously nicotine happy crowd.