welcome to 9 mile garden
ABOUT
9 Mile Garden is a family-focused entertainment district and home to Missouri’s first food truck garden ™. Bring your friends, kids, dogs, and out-of-town guests to the only place you’ll find a feast of everyone’s favorite local food and drinks alongside outdoor movies, live music and performances, community events and more.
The food truck garden is the focal point of the park’s attractions, offering lunch and dinner service seven days a week from some of St. Louis’s best and most loved trucks. By creating a daily food truck destination, we are also investing in the economic stability of our local food truck scene, delivering crowds of hungry diners to the doors of the chefs and food makers who continue to drive innovation and opportunity in our local culinary scene.
9 Mile Garden is a collaboration between local chef and restaurateur Brian Hardesty and Seneca Commercial Real Estate. Their shared vision is to create a destination where people from around St. Louis and beyond come together to enjoy food, entertainment, and community in a family-friendly environment. An emphasis on supporting the community means you’ll find local businesses such as food trucks, entertainers, brewers, farmers and more. Plus, 9 Mile Garden works with local organizations and charities to offer regular opportunities to give back.
HISTORY
We’re fascinated with St. Louis history, and especially our local food history. Back when Soulard Market began growing in popularity, you would see community gatherings cropping up throughout the region where farmers would drive their harvests to an open space and back up their trucks into a formation that allowed people to walk along and choose what items interested them most. These were called “truck gardens,” and Affton was known for having a high concentration of them.
Today, St. Louis is home to a strong and thriving food truck scene that marks a new wave of dining across the country. Our culture’s fascination with food trucks lends itself to creating a modern-day community gathering place—a “food truck garden”—where people can peruse the offerings of local chefs and choose what most delights them and their fellow diners. We’re proud to have an inaugural food truck lineup that includes more than 40 of St. Louis’ best and most beloved trucks.
“9 Mile” comes from the days before streets had names or road markers, where landmarks were named for their distance from the courthouse or city center. Our food truck garden is situated approximately nine miles from St. Louis’ Old Courthouse.
We invite you to join us for the beginning of a new St. Louis dining tradition at 9 Mile Garden!
