Maplewood businesses: a walk around the beat

A round-up of this and that from Maplewood businesses.

• Strange Donuts (2709 Sutton Boulevard) hopes to start construction on its second location, in Kirkwood (107 1/2 East Argonne Drive), in early June.
• Blind Tiger at Sutton Place (7376 Manchester Road) now serves lunch Monday through Friday 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The lunch special is a one-topping 10” pie and a house salad for $10. Also, look for more entertainment to be coming to the stage.
• Maplewood Galleries (7415 Manchester Road) will celebrate its one-year anniversary with good things to eat and drink Thursday from 4 to 7 p.m. Also, selected items will be on sale from 20 to 50 percent off the first two weeks of May.

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• A Pizza Story (7278 Manchester Road) is now hiring for front of house and the kitchen. Talk to Muhammad or Sherif. Opening to be in two to three weeks. On Friday, they got their wood-fired oven up to 1000 degrees.
• Great Harvest and La Cosecha Coffee Roasting (7360 Manchester Road) are now doing the Ferguson Farmers Market on Saturdays. La Cosecha will be roasting at 6 a.m. Saturday, so they’ll be well stocked for the day, at the market and the store.
• World’s Fare Ice Cream will have a pop-up tasting event at La Cosecha Coffee Saturday from 9 to 11 a.m.
• Traveling Tea (2707 Sutton Boulevard) is now doing the University City Farmers Market in addition to the one at Tower Grove Park Saturday mornings, but they’re open in Maplewood, too.
• Kakao Chocolate (7272 Manchester Road) has a new treat — the Peanut Butter Meltaway.
• Pie Oh My (2719 Sutton Boulevard) is planning on taking its new food truck to Food Truck Friday at Tower Grove Park.
• Las Palmas (7356 Manchester Road) will be celebrating Cinco de Mayo Friday through Monday with giveaways, t-shirts, a live DJ, margarita specials and Dos Equis, Modelo and Corona specials, according to the Riverfront Times.
• Mystery writer and former St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist, Elaine Viets will be at The Book House (7352 Manchester Road) next Friday at 7 p.m.
• Roots Antiques (7328 Manchester Road) will soon take delivery of five to six pieces of furniture made from salvaged material by a craftsman from northern Illinois.
• Owner of Marshall’s Auto Service (3400 Greenwood Boulevard), Gary Parks, over the years has welded together six or seven plant stands for customers, free of charge.