The Scoop: Downtown’s The Precinct closes doors, banquet space to stay open

  The Precinct Sports Bar & Grill, which served pub fare with a law enforcement theme at 1900 Locust St. downtown, closed doors for good this week, as reported by St. Louis Magazine’s George Mahe. Co-owner Mark Winfield, who opened the restaurant in October 2013 with former Cardinals outfielder Jim Edmonds, confirmed the closing through public relations representative Julie Lally, confirming that said the upstairs Space 15 banquet area would remain open. He declined to comment directly to Sauce about the closing. Winfield and Edmonds first opened the space as Jim Edmonds’ 15 Steakhouse in 2007; the restaurant rebranded in 2013 as The Precinct in anticipation of the new St. Louis City Police headquarters next door. (Sauce reviewed the restaurant in May 2014.) The pair still owns and operates Winfield’s Gathering Place in Kirkwood, which opened earlier this year.  

-photo by Elizabeth Jochum